Ron Moore on Whether He’ll Return For the End of 'Outlander'

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Ron Moore chats with SheKnows' Reshma Gopaldas about the final season of 'Outlander' and future seasons of 'For All Mankind.' Read more at: https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/videos/2950375/ron-moore-outlander-end-for-all-mankind/  Video credits VP, Video: Reshma Gopaldas Editor: Allie O'Connell Videographer: Isabella Ong

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00:00 Hey guys, I'm here at New York Comic Con with the one and only Ron Moore.

00:03 And we are talking about the new season of For All Mankind.

00:07 So Ron, Battlestar, Outlander, For All Mankind, you're killing it in every region I would say.

00:14 Ten years from now you get to go back to one of these shows for one season.

00:19 Which one would it be?

00:20 Oh, that's hard.

00:21 I'm not saying pick a favorite because they're all amazing.

00:24 Yeah, because they're all my children. It's hard.

00:25 You mean looking back at it?

00:27 No, no, you get to go back.

00:28 You get to go back and do another season?

00:30 It would be great to go back and do another season of Battlestar for sure.

00:33 But you know, it's tricky because I ended the show in a way that was definitive.

00:37 Like this is it.

00:39 But it would have been fun to go back and do something in between seasons

00:43 or just to put that cast together one more time.

00:45 Maybe do like bonus season for every of, like each of them.

00:50 A bonus season for them all would be great.

00:53 Okay, so this season of For All Mankind we jump to the future eight years ahead.

00:58 Bill has aged a lot.

00:59 Of course.

01:00 But is Bill going to live?

01:02 I'm getting really nervous this season.

01:04 Well, you never know.

01:05 Like everyone's on Jeopardy every time on the show.

01:07 That's one of the hallmarks of the series.

01:10 When we set it up, we said this is a generational show

01:12 and characters are going to come and characters are going to go

01:15 and there's always going to be loss,

01:17 but there's always somebody else, you know, coming up behind them.

01:19 So it's just one of those things that I think is part of the fun of the series

01:22 is, you know, worrying about the people that you care about.

01:25 Well, I have to say Karen's death, I think,

01:27 each season there's a jaw-dropping moment.

01:31 I think first with, you know, they were taped up

01:34 and I just like, I was like, oh my gosh.

01:37 So Karen's death, did you guys have any,

01:39 were any of the writers like, oh, we shouldn't do this?

01:41 Was there any division over it?

01:43 There was some debate.

01:44 There's debate over each one of the characters that we've let go or killed,

01:48 you know, for one reason or another.

01:50 And you always sort of argue the pros and cons of it in the writers room.

01:53 But I think we were, we kind of knew that's where that season was going to be

01:57 one way or another kind of early on.

01:59 So when we got to it, it was more, I think, a question of how rather than whether.

02:04 Yeah.

02:05 So each season, I love how you four skump history

02:09 and I have to be honest, I binged all four seasons basically in seven days

02:13 because I'm a new fan.

02:14 Yeah. Oh, really?

02:15 Yeah, yeah. I did that in the last two weeks

02:17 because I was like, I want to be ready.

02:18 Yeah. Huh?

02:19 What's that like?

02:20 It was wild.

02:21 I feel like I lived from when JFK was president till now.

02:24 Like my last week has been insane.

02:27 And I'm here.

02:28 I was like, I live in the future.

02:29 And so, but it's also why I get nervous that all the characters are going to die soon.

02:33 Right.

02:34 What I wanted to ask though about history,

02:36 is there a historical moment that you want to build in maybe to season five

02:39 that you're like some big moment or like how do you guys pick those those moments?

02:43 Well, you know, each season begins with the writer sitting in the room

02:47 and talking about the era.

02:48 What are the things that happened in between like when we ended last season

02:52 where this one is starting

02:54 and what are the pop-cultural moments to sort of tether the audience to this era in history?

02:58 What are the big political moments that happened

03:01 and then how do we navigate between them?

03:04 So there's always like a huge number of events

03:06 and sometimes it's kind of clear, you know, in our heads.

03:09 Well, obviously this is something that we have to incorporate one way or another

03:13 and other times we just decide that that event didn't happen at all.

03:16 Like Clinton's presidency did not happen.

03:19 Did not happen at all, right.

03:21 And sometimes there's historical events that were huge at the time

03:24 that people had kind of forgotten about like with the downing of KAL 007 in season two.

03:30 I brought that up in the room and most of the writers looked at me kind of blankly.

03:33 They hadn't even remembered that and but at the time in the 80s,

03:37 that was like a huge thing, huge thing.

03:39 So it was really interesting to bring that back

03:42 because their reaction told me that the audience was not going to see that coming.

03:46 Yeah, I mean, I don't see anything coming in that show.

03:48 I'm always like, oh no.

03:49 So here's my little game.

03:51 You get to pick one character from all your shows.

03:53 I'm going to give you the characters. So don't worry.

03:55 One character you're stuck on an island with.

03:57 One you get to send to another planet.

04:00 And then one you get to clone so they live forever.

04:02 And one you time travel with. Are you ready?

04:04 Ed Baldwin, Claire, Jamie, Adama, Kara.

04:11 And then I always call him Jamie on Battlestar.

04:15 Okay. All right. So let's say the one you're stuck on an island with.

04:20 Probably Adama. He'd be good company.

04:23 He'd sit, we'd play cards, we'd drink some whiskey,

04:25 you'd tell a lot of stories. He'd be really good company.

04:28 I love how on your island there's whiskey.

04:30 There's whiskey. Oh, yeah, obviously.

04:33 One you get to send to another planet.

04:36 Who are my choices again? Like by themselves?

04:41 Probably Jamie.

04:42 Fraser? Oh, Battlestar.

04:46 Oh, Jamie. Oh, yeah. There's two.

04:48 I like to make up.

04:50 I think just because I think he's the one that would really enjoy the experience of going

04:54 literally where no one has ever been.

04:56 Like he's the one that would really embrace that the most.

04:58 You're right. You're right. Okay. I'm like Fraser.

05:01 And then one you get to clone so they live forever.

05:07 This is a tough test actually.

05:09 So they get to live forever. Kara. Kara's the best.

05:13 I'm still mad at you for the ending. I feel like we can talk about that later.

05:17 But you're not alone. I know.

05:22 And one who you get to time travel with. You can pick two.

05:26 Probably Claire because she's really good at it. She's got some skills.

05:30 And Jamie can't so. Yeah. I feel like he's just floating in the ether.

05:34 You just let him. He'll be fine. He's got, talking about whiskey.

05:36 He's got plenty of whiskey. So you'll get him on your island too.

05:40 Okay. So I do want to ask. Outlander is in its final season or entering it.

05:44 Do you have any plans to make a cameo, write a script, to do anything with season 8?

05:49 I already made my cameo way back in season one. So I checked that box.

05:53 Behind the scenes cameo. And you never know. Maybe it would be fun to write one,

05:56 but I'm not sure if that's in the cards or not because you know,

05:58 I'm not on the staff and but you know, you never say never.

06:01 Never say never guys. Okay. Ron. Great. This season is terrific.

06:06 Please tell me Ed lives. I can't tell you. You never know man.

06:10 They're all in jeopardy. Should we go get whiskey? Yes. Okay.

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