Outlander's Blood Of My Blood Spinoff Must Avoid A Mistake Even Game Of Thrones Made

Outlander: Blood of My Blood risks falling prey to the same mistakes of other fantasy franchises—even Game of Thrones. The upcoming prequel series will dive into the romances between Jamie and Claire’s parents, thus providing further context regarding how these Outlander characters came to be. With the Starz parent series coming to a close with season 8, this is an exciting prospect, promising audiences that their favorite time-travel fantasy romance isn’t over for good. However, Outlander: Blood of My Blood must avoid a common pitfall.




Prequel TV series have become all the rage within the fantasy genre. There’s immense value in extending a story backward, retroactively establishing a foundation that makes the tale audiences know and love all the stronger. The Lord of the Rings franchise has gotten a prequel with Prime Video’s The Rings of Power, and HBO’s Game of Thrones now has House of the Dragon, both of which dive into important events that made the parent series possible, to begin with. Now, Outlander is getting the same treatment, but the perfect prequel isn’t an easy thing to achieve.


Outlander’s Blood Of My Blood Spinoff Must Avoid A Story Too Similar To The Original Show

Fantasy Prequels Can Get Stuck In The Same Ruts


Outlander: Blood of My Blood has a lot going for it, but there are a great many ways the series could go wrong. House of the Dragon has been a massive success, but even it made the mistake of being a touch too similar to its parent series. Thematically, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon are identical, and it’s clear that HBO is doing all it can to capitalize on the features that made the original TV show successful, even to the point that it doesn’t fit with George R.R. Martin’s books. Luckily for House of the Dragon, this has ultimately worked out for the series in the end, but this wouldn’t be the case for Blood of My Blood.

Outlander is a well-loved series, but the story has been accused of being overly repetitive. Season after season, the characters go through the same types of conflicts, just with different characters and in a different time or place. It’s to the point that Outlander season 8 being the final installment is a bit of a relief. It would be counterintuitive for Outlander: Blood of My Blood to be overly similar to its parent series in this way since it would only continue the general frustration with just how much Outlander has recycled the same ideas.



Outlander: Blood of My Blood
is expected to release in 2025.

A Fresh & Unique Spinoff Could Secure The Future Of The Outlander Franchise

It’s Only Worth Explaning Outlander If Blood Of My Blood Is A New Type Of Story

Jamie Roy as Brian Fraser and Harriet Slater as Ellen MacKenzie touch foreheads in Outlander - Blood of my Blood

Of course, there are some ways that Outlander: Blood of My Blood absolutely should be like its predecessor. Fans will be tuning in for a fantastical and passionate romance, and a magical Scottish setting is an absolute must. What’s more, these characters should have similarities to Jamie and Claire, driving home the fact that they are related and, therefore, connected through time and space.

The series must find unique ways of bringing these characters conflict, and the romances themselves must be rooted in brand new experiences, qualities, and traits.


Still, much of Outlander: Blood of My Blood must be fresh and new. The series must find unique ways of bringing these characters conflict, and the romances themselves must be rooted in brand new experiences, qualities, and traits. The prequel should feel unquestionably like Outlander, but one should be easy to tell apart from the other. So long as this is achieved, Outlander: Blood of My Blood can escape this common prequel pitfall.