7 Tiny Season 7 Premiere Details Only Die-Hard Outlander Fans Would Spot

The seventh season of Outlander premiered on Starz on June 16, and some of the details from Episode 1 are already hinting at how the story will develop and tying up the storylines from the show's previous installments. Did you notice these seven hard-to-spot details from Episode 1?

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1. 'A Life Well Lost'

First of all, true fans of Diana Gabaldon's novel series must have noticed that the title of the season's first episode is a direct quotation from A Breath of Snow and Ashes. In Chapter 98, Jamie says to Claire, 'I would have done the same, and counted my life well lost, if it saved ye,' referring to Tom Christie taking the blame for Malva's murder and thus saving Claire's life.

2. Opening sequence

Outlander has always made extensive use of its opening sequence, and the Season 7 intro also gives us small clues about what we may expect to see in the show's new chapter. Epic battles, Lord John Grey returning Jamie's sapphire to him, and Brianna and Roger traveling on a boat to Ocracoke to return to the 20th century — these are the main giveaways from the new season's opening sequence.

3. Opening song

But the opening sequence is a bit different this time, featuring Sinéad O'Connor's rendition of 'The Skye Boat Song' — the iconic Gaelic song that opened up each of Outlander's previous episodes. O'Connor is a legendary Irish singer known for many hit songs, including 'Nothing Compares 2 U,' originally written and performed by Prince.

4. Claire's injuries are in place

At the beginning of Season 7, Caitríona Balfe's character has the same bruises and cuts on her face she had at the end of Season 6. This means that no time has passed off-screen in the series' timeline, and the story takes up where it left off in the previous season.

5. Allusion to Season 1

The most recent episode recreates the famous hanging scene from Outlander Season 1. As Claire is shown standing at the gallows, she looks very similar to her lover Jamie, who also stood with a noose around his neck in the penultimate episode of the show's first season.

6. Claire's Season 6 guess was right

Back in Season 6, Episode 3, Claire suspected that Tom wasn't Malva's biological father because he had been imprisoned at Ardsmuir when she was conceived. In Episode 1 of Season 7, Tom confessed that he'd killed Malva and revealed that the girl was in fact his brother's daughter.

7. Wendigo Donner is pop culture–savvy

As we know, Claire isn't the only 'outlander' in the story — Wendigo Donner is also one of the characters who travel through time. In 'A Life Well Lost,' Roger quoted Muhammad Ali's famous saying, 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,' and Donner recognized the reference. This means the man must have traveled to the past sometime after 1964, which is when the boxer uttered the phrase.