Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 210, Prestapans.

I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the Outland Television series,

and I'm joined once again by our other producer-writer Matt Roberts.

Hi, everybody.

Matt shot a fair number of sequences in this episode and was there all through prep prep and well into the shoot. So I thought

it would be a good, a good, good co-pilot for this one as well. Well, I'm glad to be here and

what are we drinking? This is Skapa 16. Cheers. Cheers.

Ah. Um, I think we knew pretty early on that we would do

at least one episode that was just a battle, right?

And I think we settled on Prestapans fairly early.

There was mentioned, I think, at one point of possibility doing Falcirk.

Falcourt was the other option.

The idea is rather than split up and do...

You know, three or four little battles to put our efforts into really showing what war was like.

And Prestopans felt like the one we could do as well, the way history presented it to us, so as people

will see.

This title card was kind of a neat idea we had of the pipes battling the drums for the

British.

I believe when we sat around thinking about that one, I think that one was your

idea, Ron?

I think it kind of came out of the idea that that's how they actually dealt with communications

on the battlefield in this era.

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