The story certainly is firmly situated in time travel. Claire, a newly married nurse in Britain in 1945, somehow slips through time and finds herself in the tumultuous Scotland of 1747. But, so far, in the first three episodes at least, there's little more than a dash of time travel in this excellent historical narrative.
Indeed, we actually get a double historical narrative in Outlander, because 1945 is after all history to us, too. But almost all the action after the first episode has been in 1747, where we meet a bow-legged Laird, and all kinds of colorful characters. Claire's being a nurse makes her a good character for a time travel scenario, given that she brings to 1747 the greatly evolved medical knowledge of 1945. But the main time travel in the story so far, other than her falling through time, is her interior monologues, interestingly consisting of her musing about how she can apply her future medical knowledge without arousing too much suspicion.
I'll keep watching Outlander, but more for the historical romance than the time travel, which at this point is more of a hope than a reality.
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