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« on: May 19, 2017, 01:06:28 AM »
Also quite interestingly, I just noticed that Scene 108A doesn't appear in the novelization at all. Apparently the March 11th revision didn't simply revise what may have been original scenes, it revised a newer scene that wasn't even in the version of the script that was used for the novelization (most probably the scene in which Stokes speaks about being watched by eyes they cannot see). Which brings me to the speculation about how Jeff and Barnabas might have met prior to Maggie asking them if they had. Perhaps rather than scripted Scene 108A, there was a scripted or improvised/ad libbed scene, one similar to Scene 108A that might have involved not only Barnabas, Liz and Stokes, but also Jeff? There is that still that I posted in reply 276 of Jeff with Liz and Stokes:
It could simply be a publicity shot that has no bearing as a scene in the film - but it's just as possible that it was meant to be a scene in the film - and it's possible that at some point Barnabas joined them to thank Liz or whatever and that scene was meant o appear in the film prior to Maggie asking Jeff if they had met each other. But who knows? Especially given that in the novelization of Scene 106, Jeff and Barnabas also indicate that they have met but just as in the film there's no hint in the novelization of where or how they did. Maybe we were simply never meant to know where and how they'd met previously, only to accept it. It certainly comes across as something DC would expect the audience to accept rather than "waste time" (to his mind) actually depicting it for them...