"Colster" wrote:-
> I seem to recall something being said on this list some time ago, that ten
> minutes was cut from 'there are crocodiles' (yes, I'm avoiding the use of
> acronyms !) But when I watch the episode, I just wonder where another 10
> minutes could possibly have fitted in.
>
> To me, the episode seems pretty complete. And Ten Minutes is a long time.
> Does anyone know what was cut ? Would it have been more of the post
> football matches scenes ? More of the "David talk" scenes ?? Or was it just
> a totally different scene ? Lynda telling Colin that she'd risen from Hell ?
Okay, first the good news - at the second PG convention I spent
copious quantities of my meagre student grant on a copy of the script
for "There Are Crocodiles." Now the bad news, it's somewhere at home
(ie, my parents' place), I'm somewhere in London (ie, university),
and I'm not 100% sure where my series 5 tape is (knowing what I do
with videos, it's probably propping up a table or keeping open a
door). When I can get all three items together in the same room at
the same time, I'll try to work out a decent answer to the question
(unless anyone with similar script access fancies trying to beat me
to it?), but for the record I think most of the cuts are pretty
cosmetic (which is even assuming that everything in the script was
filmed) - it's all just character stuff, Lynda/Julie bitch scenes,
Lynda/Spike stuff, Frazz/football material, nothing that really
crucially affects the story. Which is somewhat surprising, as in the
PG Prog Guide, Sandra Hastie is quoted as saying that there's no flab
in the full length version, nothing irrelevant. I don't think I
could in all honesty bring myself to agree with that statement. But
it'd be nice to see the full length version. Apparently all the
material that waa ever filmed for PG still exists, so why don't we,
the fans, club together and *persuade* some nice video company to
release extended versions? If "Star Wars" and "Red Dwarf" can get
away with it, I think PG should be allowed to. Just think, they
could CGI Sarah so that she has exactly the same haircut in every
episode, and not that horrible spiky thing from series 3 and 4! they
could even touch up the newsroom corridor so that nobody is seen
walking down it into a blank wall, and the doors open the same waay
and have the sign on the same side every time. The possibilities are
endless, and I'm waffling so I'll just push off.
Love from the land of cycling goldfish,
David.
PS:- All that crap about CGI stuff is *deliberate rubbish*! Got
that? But as for extended versions of the episodes - well, okay, PG
doesn't quite have the same market as RD & SW, but how about it?
PPS:- Sorry, acronym city, right?
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