Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 201, the first episode of Season 2 of Allander.

I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the Outlander television series.

And today I'm joined by two very special guests, our post-production co-producers, Michael Halloran and Alicia Beset.

Hello, guys.

Hello.

Obviously, we'll be talking a lot about post in this particular broadcast, but right off the top here, just in terms of story,

fans of the book know that this is not how Book 2 opens.

Dragonfly and Amber actually opens in a very different way in

in 1968, as a matter of fact. And we decided early on in the process that we weren't going to open season 2 that way.

I sort of felt that that was too big of a leap for the audience to take from the sailing away to France and then go all the way to the

1960s and instead opted to go to the 1940s and sort of see Claire's journey as she after she

came back through the stones at Cragna Dunn. Now originally this sequence that you're looking at

Cragna Dunn, having just come from the 18th century back to

the 20th, originally wrote this with an eye towards making it the tag of season one, where you

would have gone from the sailing ship, that last shot of them sailing off towards France,

and then fade out and then fade back in with this sequence of Claire mysteriously waking up at Cragna Dunn coming back to the 20th century and you'd be wondering what the hell happened and oh my God and then it was the idea was to make it sort of a cliffhanger for season one.

Talked about it a lot internally, talked about it the network, ultimately decided that the image of the sailing ship was such a lyrical cinematic way to put a period at the end of

the sentence of season one as it were that we opted to go with that and so this

this this whole Kragna Dunn and Claire meeting the guy on the road we

switched to become the opening of season two.

Now, this stuff was shot later.

I'm trying to remember when we should.

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