Outlander Book Club: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Chapter 127 breakdown

Foreshadowing in the Outlander chapter

For Bree and Roger, this discussion certainly make some sense. Two people who can time travel are going to have these thoughts, especially those with a scientific mind. For us as readers, I don’t think this is all that important unless it’s foreshadowing something to come.

Does it foreshadow a discussion of people moving from the past to the future? After all, we know that those from the past can end up in a future time period and not everyone goes back in time. Just look at Buck MacKenzie.

I get the sense that this chapter is foreshadowing something to come in the next book.

Adapting the Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone chapter

The TV series hasn’t really delved into the details of how and why time travel happens. We just know that it does and gemstones are involved. I think that’s all that’s needed when it comes to explaining how something happens. Too much sci-fi can get bogged down with explaining things like this.

So, with that in mind, I don’t think we’ll really get into this chapter in Outlander. If it ends up being some big important element to the story in the final arc, then sure. However, I don’t see how it could end up being so major that it has to be brought up.

I think back to the saying “keep it simple, stupid.” That applies to this sort of explanation in fiction. It’s not always needed.

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