LIVE Blog: From Scotland to Paris Event

[8:19 pm] Cait stays warm on set (and Claire too, in character) by making use of a kilt too! Don’t get carried away shippers . . . she didn’t say WHOSE.

[8:22 pm] It’s Production Designer Jon Gary Steele’s turn to be in focus! He’s worked with Ron and Maril on previous shows, and is Terry’s best friend.

[8:24 pm] If there’s any truth to Terry’s ability to play rain maker to get all the key folks on board to make her favorite book come to life, #TerryForPresident

[8:26 pm] Jon reveals that 115 people all worked together to build these elaborately beautiful (and functional!) sets.  Pieces of the sets are interchangeable to work for various rooms. Incredible.

[8:28 pm] All of the lighting is natural to keep the authenticity alive – candles, chandelier, fires in the fireplace.

[8:29 pm] Murtagh in a daybed.  It’s like your favorite childhood teddy, just waiting for you all soft and snuggly.

[8:31 pm] “We make a movie every episode.” – Maril.   And it shows. The production value of this show is unprecedented.

[8:32 pm] Michelle – “I was in the bedroom set with Jamie. Well, Sam actually.”  Sam – “That’s how rumors get started.” Folks, I’m pretty sure that was a passive aggressive plea to shut the crazy down on relationship pondering.

[8:35 pm] Cait says it’s easier to get into character and focus on the emotion of the scene when you walk into a set that looks as the Outlander ones do.

[8:36 pm] Sam – “Actually Jon, we were wondering if you’d do our houses.” See what I did there with the bolding? Did you see?

***SPOILERS***

[8:37 pm]  Well it’s confirmed – opener of this season is set in 1940s with Claire back with Frank, in a hospital. You can blame Michelle if you didn’t want to know.  Let me get her email for you . . . (I kid, I kid.)

***SPOILER FREE AGAIN FROM HERE ON OUT***

[8:40 pm] I, for one, cannot WAIT to see Tobias shine again in season two.  I know the fandom is divided, but you can’t dismiss the ridiculous talent of Tobias Menzies.

[8:41 pm] Ron is detailing the difference in experience between reading the story versus watching it on TV.  He’s expressed this before, but it’s important we all note it before we dive into season two and wonder how he will bring to life Diana’s storytelling in Dragonfly in Amber.  He has to cut the book into hours, then each hour into highlights of the story, then finalize how to bring that to the screen.  Translation: Breathe, folks – it won’t all be verbatim.

[8:44 pm] Rupert and Angus, Rupert and Angus! More of them. Please and thank you.  (Michelle noted that the fleshing out of these characters was one of Diana’s favorite changes Ron made for screen.)

[8:47 pm] “Well Ron obviously likes strong women.” – Maril, referencing herself, Terry and the strong female characters he’s developed.

[8:48 pm] Who knew!  The makeup sex scene in The Reckoning was the first one Sam and Cait ever shot together.  Yikes, no pressure.  And there were carpet burns. Lots of carpet burns.

[8:50 pm] “I said I was a monk, not a virgin [sic]. If I need help, I’ll ask for it.” was nearly cut from the final version of “The Wedding”.  We have Maril to thank for two of Jamie’s best lines of season one. She fought Ron hard to ensure they were included. And I quote, “Ron, you don’t understand women.” That sealed the deal.

[8:53 pm] Let’s just agree now that we’d all watch a reality show that lets us into Ron and Terry’s home life.  This exchange between them – “I didn’t throw a chair at you, exactly . . . we had to go to work the next day” – locks that up for me.

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[8:55 pm] Bear is talking. It’s important, I’m certain . . . but all I can focus on is how dapper he looks in his suit and man bun. This is a man bun I can get behind. Sam, take note.

[8:56 pm] Michelle speaks for a few of us as she thanks Ron for how he took liberties with the development of Frank’s character from the book to screen, helping us to better understand him.

[8:57 pm] Say it ain’t so! It’s done.  Already? Nooooooooo.  I’m going to keep staring at this screen just in case.

[8:58 pm] Wait, I love that Outlander SoCal folks just made it in at the last moment before the screen shut down thanks to a live mic.  Go SoCal (my former home)!

[9:00 pm] Well that clears that up. They’re really done.  Thanks for joining, friends! Bring on season two . . . speaking of, we’ll be live blogging the episodes every Saturday night at 9:00 pm EST.  Watch with us!