all of them got something they wanted as well as something they didn't.
Everyone has had a measure of a full life: Frank, Claire, Jamie, Laoghaire, Fergus, etc. And as far as I can tell, in this series everyone has had their own share of good and bad endings and beginnings. Maybe they were having out-of-body dreams about each other!Īs for death - everyone has to die, it's how you live that matters. In the 20 year separation he was constantly dreaming about her (like he says in Voyager). I do feel that the 'ghost' of Jamie is just Jamie as a young man having an astral dream about a woman he hasn't met yet (as he tells Claire too in one of the books that he dreamt about her) - it's a simple enough explanation - but how did Frank see him? Maybe Gabaldon will make it into something bigger, more fanciful. So, since she doesn't go wayyyy back, it means anything can happen! Why doesn't Claire 'go back' to 1746 with the knowledge she acquired in 1965 (that Jamie didn't die)? - in 1968 when she goes back in time to be with him, she lands in 1766. Time travel is linear, you cannot keep going back and forward - but apparently people are doing that in Gabaldon's books. Gabaldon has said it's Jamie and that it will be the last thing in the last book - which is very tantalizing so she definitely knows her audience / readers! Though it does create a paradox - in that timeline Jamie was long dead and had never met Claire - it's a paradox that is used in books and movies (somewhere in time, back to the future, frequency) - it's nonsensical but creates great emotional drama and sighs.
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