As I said the other day, when I was getting the screen capture for Ep #500's quote I discovered another edit on the DVDs. It occurs in the scene just before the one that includes the quoted line. As the scene was playing I noticed what definitely looked like an edit had been made to the scene. Of course, that didn't necessarily mean that it was an edit specific to the DVDs because as we know on rare occasions the Master Tape for an ep was edited if, for example, the ep ran long. So I pulled out my syndication copy of the ep and lo and behold there was indeed more. And something that's different from the situation with Ep #582, the Sc-Fi Channel's version of the ep does include footage that isn't on the DVD, but it's also missing footage that is on the DVD. So, with all that in mind, first up here's a clip from the DVD of the edit in question -
- and note that Maggie's line that her father has gone blind is in that version - however, note that it doesn't appear in the version shown on the Sci-Fi Channel -
- though note that what it does include that the DVD doesn't is Julia saying, "We'll go with you, both of us." - but those bits from Maggie and Julia are only a part of what should be in the scene, as you'll see when you watch the following clip made from my tape of the syndication version of the ep -
Interestingly enough, the Robservations summary of that scene from Ep #500 makes reference to both Sam having gone blind and that both Julia and Barnabas will go -
From "Robservations 5/29/02 #499/500 - Sam Caught in the Middle"
Julia sits upstairs at the Old House, reading a book. She answers Maggie's knock at the door. The young woman relates what happened to Sam--he wants to see Barnabas, but he needs Julia more--he's gone blind. Julia rushes off to get Barnabas--they'll both go.
- and again that's because I recall Robin saying that she was using the MPI VHS tapes to do her summaries. So that means that anyone who's kept their copy of Volume 54/#3 has the complete version of Ep #500 that seemingly no fans who only own disc 1 of Collection 8 of the DVDs do have. Or, of course, if you're like me, you kept your syndication tapes. Though that won't save me in all instances if there are edits on the DVDs for any of the eps between Eps #210 and #338 because I didn't start recording and keeping my syndication tapes until I recorded Ep #339 in syndication...