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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Yet Another New Slideshow
« on: January 03, 2011, 05:43:52 PM »I have never seen the "extended" redaction of this episode. I was never really clear just how "extended" it was--I thought if it was just a couple of fiddly bits here and there
There are 7 extended/restored sequences on the MPI tape version of the pilot and most are quite significantly long and significantly character oriented. In the grand DC tradition, it's almost always the character oriented stuff that ends up on the cutting room floor. But considering that several snippets from those sequences appeared in many of NBC's promos for the show, I've always presumed that the version MPI released was DC's original cut of the pilot (particularly because they are scored) and then NBC asked for some trims so they could add more commercials to the first night of the miniseries (all the better to award Domino's Pizza with more airtime since they were the major sponsor of the miniseries). But that's purely my own theory.
Other sequences were shot for the pilot but not restored on the tape. My theory there is that DC had never included them in his original cut. However, one of them is included on MPI's DS Resurrected tape.