Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 203,

Useful Occupations and Deceptions.

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

and I'm joined today by Anne Kinney, my fellow executive producer and the writer of this episode.

Hello, Ann.

Hello, Ron. How are you?

Good.

All right, well, this is an interesting show.

This one went through a lot of changes.

There's something about the third episode of the season that sort of compels us to work it over and over again in multiple ways.

Yes, and I wrote the third episode of the first season, too. Yes, this is true. You did do that. Oh, well, the first thing you might notice is that we've changed the main title here quite a bit. We decided to incorporate a lot more sort of pieces of French imagery into the main title

and then transition into a French language version of the song.

I just thought this was an interesting idea to sort of acknowledge that the series was changing and evolving

and move the audience more clearly into the French part of the story and sort of dropped some of the Scottish only imagery that define the main title since season one.

But rest assured, some of the Scots imagery will return and there will be more things as the title evolves over the course of season two.

I believe the main title card was shot by Matt. I think Matt did this. We spend a lot of time mulling over and talking about what those main title cards are going to be, they take up a fair amount of time.

Yes, much to the chagrin of the entire production teams.

Like, oh my God, then we still have to do these fucking main title cards.

And honestly, yeah, they're hard for me to think of too, so I'm always happy when somebody else comes up with a good idea.

Now this opening, as I recall, this is one of the things that so I'm always happy when somebody else comes up with a good idea.

Now this opening, as I recall, this is one of the things that kind of stayed throughout all the different drafts, right? Didn't we always sort of have this idea of Jamie coming home and then this was to sort of establish that, oh, this is his new life with Prince Charles?

And that, and to kind of

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