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It has to come to a conclusion of some sort and come with an underlying theme.' 'It has to start with its own conflict and have its own resolution, whether that's continuing a clause or a cliffhanger.

'Each episode has to have its own little dramatic arc,' she says. But you know, it's changes dictated by the form.'Д«asically, for an hour-long episode of TV, you cannot just take an hour of book and put it on screen. Not the right structure, for one thing, as well as being way too long. 'You cannot film one of those books straight through. 'They've done such a good job remaining faithful to the book but rearranging it slightly,' she tells us. While fans have had their occasional gripes about changes from the book to the show, Gabaldon is pretty pleased so far. The 30 minutes Moore wanted to give to the 1900s in the first episode was not nearly enough time to convey all the information that the audience would have needed in order to have any idea what was going on. That's a pretty big piece of information just on its own, but let's see how the story begins.'ДЄside from the fact that jumping ahead so far would be shocking, it was also just not practical. Let's still tell them that Culloden is a failure. Let's still tell the audience that she leaves Jamie. I said, let's start back at the beginning of the 20thВ century part. There's a little overload of trying to put a lot of pieces together. It's a lot,' Moore says of where the book starts. The book starts so far past the end that what we saw on screen-Claire's sudden reentry into the 20th century-is barely remembered. Season two's premiereВ seemed to start at the end of the story and go backwards. It's a big enough change just to go to the 20thВ century at all.' 'Then, everyone fully expects France at the beginning. 'For people that don't know the book, you're leaving the audience on the note of we're going to France,' he tells E! News. Moore agreed with the structure changes, mostly for the audience's sake. The framing story is still in there, but it's not going to be where you expect to see it.' So that's why it starts at a different point. I don't know what you're going to do when you hit season three, assuming you get one, but you can wait on that. 'If I were you, I would just cut off the framing story and you go straight from the middle of the book.

#SEASON TWO OUTLANDER EPISODES HOW TO#

'I said, I have no idea how to film that,' Gabaldon says of the extreme jump, which sheВ rewrote seven times. It's easy to spend a hundred or so pages wondering if you've somehow missed a whole other novel because of how far it skips ahead. What I did with Dragonfly in Amber, to take care of what you might call the segue to the backstory, to sort of explain what was going on without losing people, was to use this framing story, and then we dropped back into Claire's point of view and told the story linearly from there.'Д®ven Gabaldon's description of her own novel sounds confusing, and the book really is a shock. 'I don't like to do things that I've done before, so I experiment with the structure. 'The book was a son of a bitch to write,' Gabaldon tells E! News, referring mostly to the complicated structure she decided to use.

MooreВ and the rest of the great minds behind the Starz hit obviously knew what fans were expecting, but there were more than a few reasons that the show could not follow the same path that is taken in the books-partly because Gabaldon told them so. ItВ would have involved some age makeup and the introduction of two characters book fans have been absolutely dying to meet, and it would have probably been more confusing to watch than it was to read for the first time.Д®xecutive producer Ronald D. It also does not begin with Jamie and Claire in Paris. If you haven't read the books, all we'll say is that the second book, Dragonfly in Amber, does not begin with Frank in the 1940s. If you're a fan of Diana Gabaldon's OutlanderВ novels, you may have been a little shocked just moments into this weekend's premiere.

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