I just got this mail from Steven Moffat who asked me to post this to the list.
( I think Steven keeps an eye on us via Matt's Web page ! )
STEVEN MOFFAT writes:
> I dropped in on the mailing list archive and noticed the Kenny and Lynda
> discussion - particularly the debate about when I decided they were old pals
> from way back. Well since you ask ...
>
> The only reference in the first series to their long standing friendship
> comes
> in part one of How To Make A Killing. For various boring production reasons
> this was the very last episode of the first series to be filmed. The week
> before it was due to go into the studio (while we were filming part two, in
> fact) we concluded that the script for part one was short and likely to
> underrun. As a last minute act of desperation I wrote the
> Kenny/Lynda/sportsday scene, establishing for the first time - after the
> whole
> series had been written and very nearly all filmed - that the two of them
> were
> old friends. It's tough to write a five-minute plot stopping scene without
> doing something new or interesting to justify it so this (rather gratutious)
> revelation filled the gap very nicely - and thus the whole Kenny/Lynda
> arc was
> born. Bit disappointing, eh? Incidentally I got the idea because Julia and
> Lee had also known each other since childhood.
>
> If anyone's interested other padding scenes (usually filmed long after the
> rest of the episode was in the can) include the Spike-and-Lynda-nearly-kiss
> scene in Breakfast At Czar's (check out Julia's hairlength - it was three
> weeks and a haircut later), the pre-credits scene between Spike and Lynda in
> In The Picture and the very boring Sullivan/Lynda scene in Sullivan's office
> in Picking Up The Pieces. Oh, and the equally boring Sullivan/Kerr scene in
> the very first (and very, very boring) episode.
>
> Steven
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