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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Dark Shadows: Special Edition DVID
« on: August 01, 2002, 07:54:34 AM »Quote
And the choosing to ignore Ford as THE Sam Evans in the DVD would be pretty public too. I can only surmise that there was a lot of animosity after the marriage broke up, which isn't surprising, what surprises me is that it would apparently continue for so very long.
To surmise is to assume - and you know what they say about assuming something.
Anyone who's been around fandom for more than five minutes knows that when it comes to choosing clips for the MPI videos/DVDs, Jim Pierson is the person who's in complete control of those choices. Nancy may have taped her portions of that segment without any clue whatsoever as to what clips might have been incorporated into it later on. So to read dark motives into a clip choice which might have been included simply because it's one of Pierson's favorites or because he wanted to include Mark Allen simply for the heck of it, actually seems more than just an assumption to me - it's a giant leap, with little or no substantial evidence to back it up.
A good way to possibly find out the reason that clip was chosen would be to go up to Pierson at a Fest or some other DS event and simply ask him why he chose it - not to speculate on the state of either the Barrett/Ford marriage or divorce. :-/