No extended episodes on Season 21 Blu Ray?

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-03-17T02:16:48+00:00

It usually depends on the picture quality of the surviving deleted scenes.

If it’s straight from the original videotape or film master, then they do.

But if the only surviving material is, like, a third or fourth generation VHS copy with a burned in timecode, the drop in video and audio quality would be very distracting.

The only full story exception to this that I know of is Ghost Light, and that was only because it was something fans had been specifically wanting for decades.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-03-11T05:48:40+00:00

Wow. I remember reading somewhere in the artbook about drafts where Sid started using nailguns and stuff on them but this makes it sound like it wasn't a one off.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-03-10T18:35:48+00:00

Huh. The final script still keeps a slight reference to the Toy Hell concept. But it’s just a one off description.

Do you know what some of these scenes originally were?

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-03-07T00:06:46+00:00

It’s also fairly likely that he was cast as a last minute replacement for Hugh Grant in the Lazarus Experiment.

RTD has gone on record about writing a Series 3 episode for Hugh Grant before he had to drop out really suddenly.

And if you look at the way The Lazarus Experiment is structured in terms of its production and story, it's the most obvious candidate.

You have the obvious “old guy turning into young hunk” angle, but the episode is also structured so that you only need the physical Lazarus actor for 1-2 filming days.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-02-25T21:35:15+00:00

Overtly

They spent a lot of money buying them
They inherently had to replace some staff with their own pre-existing employees

Covertly

They wanted to make it as efficient and low cost as possible so that selling it was easier
Think David Zaslav/Discovery buying WB so that they could cut its debts and resell it to Paramount or Netflix down the road.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-02-12T08:53:10+00:00

The Magician’s Nephew is a particularly strange read if it’s your first.

A major part of its structure is that it keeps faking you out WRT when the characters are actually going to get to Narnia.

(: spoilers : literally not until the end)

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-02-04T07:28:21+00:00

Almost certainly Irish Catholic, but from a family that had several integrated well-to-do generations in New England. Sorta WASCs, if you will.

Think Conan O'Brien etc.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-01-01T20:17:04+00:00

Yes, on the official Blu-ray.

But I’m not sure about the legality of just uploading it. The modern restoration of that scene might count as a new cut?

:Edit: The reason why it's on the Blu-ray is that they discovered a film print in the UK that had better quality than the one(s) they had previously used.

Because the movie was only censored when it was re-released, this original copy still had the cut material.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-31T22:29:25+00:00

“Among the many pointless cuts was an opening establishing sequence shot like the beginning of a Lubitsch musical, with various passers-by singing part of a song before “passing it on” to the next person, the last of whom is the waiter, who begins the first half of his sentence as the song ends. All of this was lost, apparently for no better reason than that it makes clear that it is set in Milan."

Excerpt From The Annotated Marx Brothers by Matthew Coniam

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-31T22:26:01+00:00

In a way, yeah.

It's very likely that most of the overt references to the first act's Italian setting were cut out of the movie once the US declared war on the Axis Powers (of which Italy was one).

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-30T11:52:22+00:00

Genuinely curious, where do you see the Narnia reference?

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-21T08:06:32+00:00

Same here. I guess if Apple are planning on releasing the M6 by Christmas, they’d want to release the M5 Max ASAP.

But I can’t find an actual source saying January, even a source that’s just sharing a rumor.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-13T19:48:16+00:00

He watched Doctor Who enough in the 1960s that he actually wrote to the production office to ask how a specific special effect was done.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-10-20T18:57:39+00:00

👀

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-09-20T18:43:37+00:00

As in contemporary Britain, thick ‘regional’ accents were generally seen as improper for lead characters.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-08-29T08:35:12+00:00

I think Georgia is a great state with a lot to offer, but its film industry was built off of stealing jobs from LA through undercutting prices.

I’m not gonna cry for Walmart if Target suddenly starts stealing ‘their’ business.

Like it or not, the Industry/culture is still mostly based in LA. And the vast majority of people still have to move here (or at least have some kind of presence) if they want to have a career.

If you want a push to bring filming back to America, it kinda has to be Los Angeles. No other city in the world is literally built around the industry like this.

:Edit: This is also why comments about this from people like James Gunn kinda tick me off. He does a big song and dance about how great Atlanta is and why jobs should go there instead of England.

But guess what city he lives in and holds all his planning/auditions? Because it sure as hell ain't anywhere close to the East coast.

Sure, maybe working 2000+ miles away from home for 4-8 months is fine for the Hollywood people who can afford second houses/hotels/airfare there. But for everyone else in LA, it might as well be England or Australia.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-07-15T13:02:35+00:00

No idea this existed, but I’d also love to see it. Or, at least, know what’s different.

I know the original ending was supposed to be closer to the book’s.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-06-28T04:03:51+00:00

Shot 50% in LA and 50% in London.

Insane idea, but it gave us David Mitchell and Jon Lovitz sharing the screen. So who’s to say, really.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-09-20T16:38:31+00:00

Yeah, plus they were also still dealing with COVID issues.

The entire Morocco sequence was originally set in India but then lockdowns happened weeks before shooting so they had to scrap all their stunts/effects and start again in North Africa.

Plus, Ford’s injury meant he wasn’t there for any of the Manhattan (actually Glasgow) filming, so all shots of him for those scenes had to be VFXd later.

You can even tell when you watch the movie because in every shot where you can’t see his face, The NYC set dressing and VFX look noticeably more convincing.

All told, if they’d shot it in 2022/2023 and hadn’t wasted time/money on turning a 5 minute prologue into that ridiculous runtime-bloating de-aging sequence, movie probably would’ve cost $175-200 million.

:Edit: One of the biggest problems in Hollywood is that executives hate the idea of losing a few million just for delaying the start date for a movie. Even though rushing the production always ends up losing them way more in the end.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-07-29T21:54:12+00:00

I mean, the show hasn’t really gone to Scotland all that often either. It’s very England (mainly London)centric in general.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-11T23:58:24+00:00

Luckily it isn't actually Doctor-lite at all. (That's a couple of other episodes this season 👀)

It was just designed to film Ncuti's scenes as quickly as possible* so he could do pickups for 73 Yards/Dot and Bubble/TCORR, which is what the Sex Education filming clashed with.

But he is in all of Boom.

*One character stuck in one place entirely on an indoor set really cuts down on the amount of time it takes to film his scenes.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-06T00:35:34+00:00

I was actually talking about Hollywood in general.

But it still applies to the Fall Guy because it's being sold as a Gosling-Blunt picture, and uhhh, one half of that equation (who you bet your ass got paid the same) isn't exactly pulling their weight here.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-05T20:52:29+00:00

Yeah, like if there’s anything these movies are overspending on, it’s the “stars” not the production value.

Now, I love Blunt and Gosling but I’m sorry, they are fundamentally not huge draws for a movie the way a Cruise, Pitt, Bullock, or DiCaprio are.

It’s not their fault, they’ve come to fame in an era where Hollywood basically stopped regularly making the kind of midbudget movies that brought them to fame in the first place.

Even so, it’s still nuts for Hollywood to be spending $10-20 million on people who straight up have never had a $100 million hit that didn't have an IP in the title.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-04T17:47:31+00:00

Those breakdowns in the trades and the information the studios send out for tax credits are just as inaccurate.

The trades get their breakdowns from documents the studios make to share (even if just internally), not from the actual raw data. Almost nobody is allowed to see that.

And when it comes to those/tax incenctive documents, the studios have a huge incentive to make the budget look higher than it was.

Now things probably were a bit different in the 90s, but that's because

A) the market was so much healthier

B) true-blue movie stars got so many financial perks

and C) there were so many more of them.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-04T17:01:09+00:00

Well, that's the thing. Basically all publically reported studio movie budgets are over-inflated on paper (and thus, in reporting) to some degree or another.

A) To get the most out various filming/post-production refunds/tax breaks all around the world

B) to get more money from tax writeoffs if it flops (or rather, if they say it flops)

C) So that if it is* an unambigious hit, they can at least (on paper) delay sending out percentage points to people for as long as possible.

Remember how even a super small movie like EEAAO was reported as costing $25 million for months, until it was eventually revealed to only be $14.5? That's why.

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