Showrunner Ron D. Moore has explained how Outlander season 3 keeps Jamie and Claire separate and how pivotal it is for their much-anticipated reunion.
Readers of the Gabaldon novels know that when Jamie and Claire finally reunite, things are somewhat complicated for the two to just immediately get back together.
At that time, Jamie is already fathering another child from another woman because he believed that Claire would never come back again.
“We decided on that parallel structure for the first half of the season and we never really vary from that.