Entry #134: Matthew B. Roberts - Outlander and Blood of my Blood Showrunner and Executive Producer

Yeah.

So.

Okay, so [laughs] a consequence that many fans are struggling with is that her being alive, you know, Faith being alive means that William and Jane are related, so they did have relations.

Yep.

So that made, you know, sort of an incestuous relationship.

Uh, was that implication discussed while developing the storyline and, or did you anticipate how strongly viewers would react to that?

Um, yes, we talked about it in that, um, God, there was another show.

I can't remember the name.

It wasn't very popular.

I think it was Game of Thrones, and they did-

Yeah

... something like that, too.

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it.

Mm-mm.

And, and I mean, became the biggest show in the world at some point.

Um-

Yeah

...

I think that was in the very first episode.

So you know what I mean? Like, they didn't even know each other.

You know what I mean? They didn't know they were related.

[laughs]

They had no clue.

And the royals marry-