Has there ever been a love as true, wild and literally epic as that of “Outlander’s” Claire Beauchamp (Caitríona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan)?

Made possible by a circle of standing stones (and the imagination of Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the novels on which the series is based), the all-but-instant passion of a British time-traveling former WWII nurse and a young Scottish Highlander has survived war, torture, rape, shipwreck and innumerable other perils encountered separately and together on four continents.

So it’s not surprising that, as “Outlander” approaches its eighth and final season, there would be interest in the forces that shaped such a love. (Especially when it involves expanding what has been Starz’s signature show for more than a decade.)

This is just what “Outland

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