In “Common Ground,” one more significant change was revealed when Jamie, Claire, and Young Ian were seemingly menaced by a bear on Fraser’s Ridge.
Readers expected the story to culminate with Jamie fighting and killing an actual bear, but Outlander went in a different direction.
Outlander’s fourth season was bound to be packed from beginning to end if it was going to fit in all the key points from the fourth book in Diana Gabaldon’s saga, and it was inevitable that some changes were in store to make everything work.