Outlander Book Club: The Fiery Cross Chapter 66 breakdown

Foreshadowing in the Outlander chapter

This chapter doesn’t foreshadow all that much. Instead, it focuses on plot development. We get to understand how Roger is mistaken for a Regulator in the coming chapters. It’s all about leading to the big moment when Jamie, Claire, and Brianna find him, and we get that sense danger is coming before it even happens.

I guess there is an element of foreshadowing in how Roger and Buck’s story isn’t over. These two men will cross paths again. But then, isn’t that the case for a lot of characters in these books? All their souls seem to be drawn to each other.

Adapting The Fiery Cross chapter

This chapter wasn’t used in Outlander Season 5, Episode 7. There wasn’t the need for it. Not when you really think about it.

Instead of having Roger wake up bound and watch an altercation in front of him, he’s knocked out and then we find out what’s happened to him. For those who read the book, people already knew what was going to happen. Those who hadn’t read the books and had avoided spoilers would just sense there was a problem. There was the constant question of where Roger was.

A TV show needs to work through things quickly. The quiet moment of the altercation would have likely ended up on the cutting room floor if it had been filmed. It would have been viewed as filler, setting up Roger’s story but not adding too much to it. Seeing Roger hanging after being knocked out was certainly much more shocking. We could feel everything Jamie, Claire, and Brianna felt seeing it for the first time.

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