On 8 Apr 2008 12:35:44 -0500, patricia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Patricia Bender) wrote:
>
>At the end of Resolutions on the new DVDs, I was disappointed that it
>didn't include the montage of clips from throughout the series during the
>closing credits that I had remembered from the original airing. So I
>pulled out my 20 year old tape from the original broadcast (and crossed
my
>fingers that it was still viewable) to re-watch that montage. As I was
>fastforwarding through the tape, I caught a glimpce of the ferarri
stopped
>at the military gate. What? I didn't remember seeing that on the DVD.
>Looked over at the DVD and, sure enough, it was missing. It was a very
>short bit of Magnum going through the military gate just before talking
to
>the radio guy - the DVD cuts straight to the radio guy. A real short
bit,
>so not too bad, but I was expecting the DVD to have the original airing.
>So I kept looking at the tape further and found 2 glaring cuts from the
>original that were not on the DVD (all 3 of these cuts were coming out of
>commercials). First big cut: Magnum pulls out papers (guess military
>reinlistment forms) and starts to look at them when Higgins walks in and
>Magnum then hides them while Higgins asks 3 questions (about the tux,
>about the bachlor party, about if Magnum is bringing a date to the
>dinner), Magnum quickly answers and then shoos Higgins out as the phone
>rings, on the phone is the radio guy who says that there is definitely a
>noise but he doesn't know what yet and he'll keep looking into it, then
>Magnum calls his mom - the DVD cuts directly to his mom. Second big cut:
>Magnum and Lt. Page are on the beach talking, Page is complaining about
>how he doesn't look like a Hawaiian even though he's lived there a while
>and eventually he gets to the reason he came to talk to Magnum, to let
him
>know about Linda Lee being attacked in the park and Page explains that
>there is a gap in the security coverage for Linda Lee which is why Magnum
>starts following her to and from work - this whole sequence is completely
>cut from the DVD.
>
>Very disappointing. As I said, I was expecting the original airing on
the
>DVD, but it looks like we got the syndicate/rerun shorten version. The
>hint should have been that Resolutions was divided into Part 1 and Part 2
>while the original airing was a 2 hour CBS special (and the usual opening
>was not used at all in the original).
>
>On the brighter side, I was excited to find that Season 8 DVDs had 3
>commentary tracks. And then disappointed that the 2 tracks with writer
>Jay Huguely contained little insight and lots of errors - I knew more
>about what was going on that he did [and I had a flashback to the classic
>SNL skit where William Shattner address a Star Trek convention and
>tells them to "Get a life"]. But the commentary with Charles Floyd
>Johnson was very good. And I also enjoyed the Rockford Files episode of
>"White on White and Nearly Perfect", which I had never seen.
>
>
>patricia
Loved your letter. Had to go back and dig out my
old tapes. Thanks.
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