Does Outlander cut Brianna's rape?

There has been speculation online for months about whether Outlander The fourth season will include a somewhat controversial plot topic, which might seem particularly insensitive or gratuitous nowadays.

WarningDo not continue reading if you do not want to be spoiled by the future events of the series.

In Drums of autumn, the fourth book of Diana Gabaldon Outlander After her daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton), Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) travel in time, she meets Stephen Bonnet (Ed Speleers), a hateful man who has stolen his parents. When she sees that Bonnet is in possession of that of his mother wedding sounds to Frank (the man Bree considers his father), Brianna asks him to buy him back. Instead, Bonnet rapes her and gives her the ring as "payment".

The rape not only devastated Brianna at the time, but also continues to have a ripple effect as the book progresses (and in the following ones), while Brianna finds herself pregnant and that there is talk of paternity of the baby. A few years later, they realize because of a birthmark that Roger (Richard Rankin) is the boy's father and Brianna ends up taking revenge on Bonnet for the rape, but not until that does not happen. deeply affects, as well as those who surround it. .

However, based on a few events from the first season of Season 4, "America the Beautiful", we wonder if the rape will be omitted from the show (which would be best for us). Here's why we think it could be.

First of all, it seems that the series makes Bonnet even more inimitable from the beginning. In the book, he looks more like a charming thief when we meet him for the first time. He certainly acts as a little criminal who would kill someone only if his life was threatened. In the show, during the robbery of Jamie and Claire's barge, Bonnet ruthlessly slits Lesley's throat, a friend of Jamie who travels with them and tries to protect Claire de Bonnet. C & # 39; do not in the book.

In fact, in the book, Bonnet sees himself honoring his debt to Jamie for helping him escape the British in Charleston. He steals them, but he will not let his men get their hands on Claire because Jamie helped him out. So until he violates Brianna, Bonnet seems to be a bad guy, but not this bad – a little criminal, rather than a rapist or a murderer.

But the series takes him from zero to 60 in the first episode, which leads us to wonder if the writers are trying to turn him into a full-fledged villain for not having to use rape later.

The second piece of evidence that leads us to question rape is the fact that there is no golden alliance for Brianna to see Bonnet in possession of; therefore, there is no incident prompting her to come to her company for rape.

Yes, Bonnet goes with one of Claire's rings at the end of the episode, but that's the bad ring. The series changes: Claire manages to keep the ring of Frank and Bonnet flies Jamie's ring. Brianna would probably not recognize her mother's silver ring (maybe she'd do it – it depends on how much Claire carried when she raised Brianna). But that makes things unnecessarily complicated when the writers of the series could simply have left things such as the book was written, Bonnet taking Frank's ring.

Without this plot, Brianna may not meet Bonnet at all or maybe it's in a different context. We will have to wait and see. We know one thing: the series has neither confirmed nor denied the inclusion of Brianna's rape in the history of the season.

Talk to The Hollywood journalist, executive producer Ron D. Moore said in March that, since rape was "an important part of history," "it" was not really an option do not to do it. It's no longer a question of how you are going to do it and what it means for this story in the way you have presented it. "

But in a recent interview with us, Starz said the MPs did not really confirm whether the rape was going to happen or not. These may seem contradictory, but the bottom line is that it seems that the plot for rape will be very different from what it was in the book. Hopefully this could mean that the series does not use rape as a dramatic incident in the relationship between Roger and Brianna. I guess we'll all know it together.