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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Even Yet Another New Slideshow
« on: March 24, 2014, 05:44:00 PM »
Given what I've read about TV scripts in general and what we know about the production of the pilot, I'm pretty sure the script we're working from was always intended to only be an hour ep. Apparently two hour TV scripts tend to be between 95 to 125 pages, depending on how much direction is added with the dialogue - and by example, the script for the two hour pilot for the '91 DS is 119 pages. One hour TV scripts tend to be between 50 to 60 pages, depending on the same criteria - and the script for the '04 pilot is 59 pages.
It's not unusual for changes to be made during production. Almost any good commentary/featurette on a DVD/Blu-ray boxed set of a TV show will probably talk about that. And it's also not unusual for bits of dialogue from scenes to be trimmed or for entire scenes to be shot but not included in the final edit of an ep because the ep ran long. That's why so many boxed sets of TV shows include deleted/alternate scenes.
It's not unusual for changes to be made during production. Almost any good commentary/featurette on a DVD/Blu-ray boxed set of a TV show will probably talk about that. And it's also not unusual for bits of dialogue from scenes to be trimmed or for entire scenes to be shot but not included in the final edit of an ep because the ep ran long. That's why so many boxed sets of TV shows include deleted/alternate scenes.