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“Is That Incest?” Blood of My Blood Turns a Family Saga Into a Moral Minefield
2025/08/18 Report

A Twist That Rewrites the Family Tree

If you thought Outlander’s prequel would play it safe, Episode 3 (“School of the Moon”) proves otherwise. The hour detonates a reveal with long-term fallout: Claire’s parents, Julia and Henry, didn’t die in a car crash—they traveled through the stones, with Julia already pregnant. Cornered in 1714 at Castle Leathers and out of options, Julia seduces Lord Lovat so he’ll believe the child is his, a maneuver that secures shelter in a brutal system while potentially tangling the Fraser/MacKenzie branches for generations.


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The episode leaves viewers—and even star Hermione Corfield—asking the cheeky but fair question: “Is that incest?” (Answer: not quite—but it is messy.) 

Survival, Not Scandal: Why Julia Makes the Choice

The show frames Julia’s decision as a survival calculus, not a scandal grab. After rejecting an herbal abortion and realizing a servant’s pregnancy could mean expulsion—or worse—Julia reads Lovat’s history: he once acknowledged a housemaid’s child (Brian Fraser), and he keeps favored women close.


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If Lovat thinks the baby is his, mother and child live. Corfield underscores that while Julia initiates the encounter, the power imbalance makes it a coerced act—agency in a trap, taken for the child’s sake. The writing threads in small, human details—hidden letters to Henry, hushed conversations with housekeeper Davina, and the awful arithmetic of 18th-century patriarchy—to ground a twist that could have played as shock for shock’s sake.

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