"Outlander" wraps up its 2014 run this Saturday night with a big mid-season finale on Starz.
This weekend's episode, titled "Both Sides Now," follows the high of last Saturday's wedding, which delighted fans who were glued to their TV sets as Claire (Caitriona Balfe) married Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). And the show's Executive Producer, Ronald D. Moore, enjoyed reading the Tweets people posted about the romantic episode.
"I sort of scanned through some of the responses online. After an episode airs, I always sort of do a quick overview to kind of get a sampling, and I was very pleased. People seem really excited, really moved. There was a lot of just happy fans, and happy viewers and it was great," he said.
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Ron and his wife, "Outlander" Costume Designer Terry Dresbach (who designed the elegant and stunning dress Caitriona wore as her character became Claire Fraser), were awake in Scotland during the wee hours as the episode rolled out on Starz.
"It was great. Terry and I stayed up – we were here in Scotland and I think it was on air at like 2 AM our time and we stayed up to watch it live and sort of see people react live. It was a great moment. It was one of the high points of the first year," he said.
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Season 1 of "Outlander" has now wrapped production. When Access spoke to Ron, shortly before the final cut, he was enjoying being so close to that moment.
"It's amazing to feel like we're actually going to complete this season," he said. "It will be day 202 of the shoot, which is just an astonishing number, so we're tired, proud, but definitely ready to wrap."
As the episodes of the show wrap up airing for 2014, fans can expect "Outlander" to go out with a bang. Access has seen the mid-season finale, and it is one thrilling hour of television.
Fans can expect a new side of Frank on display in the episode.
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"They have Frank come back in 8, so there's a whole chunk in 8 of seeing what's been happening with Frank," Tobias Menzies (Frank Randall/Black Jack Randall), previously told Access. "And it's a nice episode, actually, because you sort of see kind of Frank trying to come to terms with what's happened and a little bit of he kind of despairs and has a moment of sort of violence, where you see, in a way, a little bit of Jack in Frank."
Sam (James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser) told Access that fans can expect a cliffhanger.
"It's gone so fast and we were just talking about this just now. That's sort of six months' work that we've done and it's just gone. The viewers have all seen it in a matter of [several] weeks, but it's amazing. We've got some great episodes coming up, and I think the cliffhanger is – it's just the beginning, really, like almost these first [several] episodes are just setting up the whole dynamic between the Black Jack/Claire/Jamie relationship, but also, all the other politics going on and the Highlanders and between them and the British army, time travel. So by the time we come back for the second half of the season, the show just gets sort of darker. The stakes just are raised again," he said. "Everyone's got a lot more to lose, so the story really starts to motor along, I think."
"Outlander" airs Saturday night at 9 PM ET/PT on Starz.
-- Jolie Lash
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