‘Outlander’ season 2 finale reaction: Series boss on key Claire – Dougal decision

While for the most part the story of “Outlander” does have a tendency to adhere to the source material of Diana Gabaldon’s book series, there was a notable change when it comes to one scene in particular from Saturday’s season finale. While Jamie Fraser does still serve as the main responsible party for killing Dougal MacKenzie, Claire here has a role in what happens to him. It fits the depiction of her on the show, and she would not leave him to the task alone.

We assumed that there would be some sort of explanation for the change out there in the postmortems that are present for the finale, and we found just that courtesy of what executive producer Ronald D. Moore told The Hollywood Reporter:

“The one thing we did change is that we had Claire participate a little bit more. The scene reads fine on the page, but when we came to dramatize it, we quickly realized that in the books, it literally just looks like Claire is standing and watching throughout the entire fight and Dougal’s death. That didn’t feel right, dramatically for our characters. We wanted to see Claire take part in it more and be more active in that scene. And also, seeing Claire and Jamie work as a team one more time before they split up, this was the perfect opportunity for that.”

In regards to season 3, Moore confirms that there are some scripts already written. Not only that, but he would like to get into the depiction of some ships as a part of the story. (Starz knows ships very well — just look at what they air in January!)

Also, we imagine that there will be some fun creative challenges ahead courtesy of aging Jamie.

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