Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 101 of Outlander called

Sassenac. I'm Ronald D. Moore, developer and executive producer of the show.

The Scotch today is the Balvini

double wood age 12 years which was given to me by a fan named Carrie at

ComicCon in San Diego. Thank you very much Carrie and the cigarettes are American spirit lights, which means the smoking lamp is lit.

So let's get right to it.

This opening shot is from Glen Co, a very famous, very beautiful location in Scotland.

Originally we had looked at several different places to do the opening shots for.

In fact, we had cut several different pieces into the director's cut

right along, but then we kept looking for one particular shot. I wanted it to be a one

long piece of film that you could look at for a very long period of time while Claire's voiceover was guiding you through the piece.

If you go back and you look at you'll know if there's actually rain coming into the lens and some of those in that early shot.

This whole section is now become kind of known

we call it the prologue within the show. Originally there wasn't really a prologue.

This was sort of the scripted order of events and sequences that we went through, but it kind of bled

straight into the show.

Originally the main title would have opened off the entire show and then you would have gone

straight in.

But during the editing process,

it started to feel like, well, this section

was sort of separate and deserved to be,

to sort of stand alone as almost like a teaser

...