<nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:36:59 +0100, "Gandalf"
> <gandalf_thegrey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>The "Previously on..." is another throwback to the States. Over here,
>>we're
>>used to the concept that once a series starts, it will be shown each
week
>>until it has finished, whereupon we eagerly await the showing of the
next
>>season some time later.
> [snip...]
>>
>>So you see, whilst not needed on a DVD, they were most certainly needed
on
>>the master from which the DVD was cut so Fox couldn't easily take them
>>off,
>>even if they wanted to.
>
> The us transmission sequence is weird; why do they do that?
>
> I think "previously on.." is chapter 1 on the dvd. The pre-title scene
> is chapter 2, the titles chapter 3 (or perhaps the end of chapter 2),
> and the episode starts properly at chapter 4. So you can skip forward
> over them. I think there is also a fade to black between previously
> and the pre-title scene (whatever that is properly called), so Fox
> could easily have edited them out of the dvd.
>
> My other criticism is that it is actually "Reviously on" they have cut
> the first "P", which is just sloppy editing.
You expect the usans to finish anything they started?
Grim
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