P-o-B is Back!
Joost Nagtegaal
Buffy'? Surprisingly, none of the reviewers mentioned it, although
some harsh things have been said in this ng about Net5 for omitting
this sequence.
Considering the e-mails Mattia got from Net5, this was truly an
unparallelled delight. I just wonder why they first said the
episodes they got were all P-o-B-free, and that the previews were
only to be shown in the US. Perhaps that was just a load of BS, and
Mattia's inquiry made them realise they shouldn't cut the P-o-B
("Because it's wrong!"). Just a shame they showed the Survivor-ad
in top of the screen.
JN
Almost 4/5 of 5x5
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Mattia Valente
>
> Didn't anyone notice that the ep started with a 'Previously on
> Buffy'? Surprisingly, none of the reviewers mentioned it, although
> some harsh things have been said in this ng about Net5 for omitting
> this sequence.
> Considering the e-mails Mattia got from Net5, this was truly an
> unparallelled delight. I just wonder why they first said the
> episodes they got were all P-o-B-free, and that the previews were
> only to be shown in the US. Perhaps that was just a load of BS, and
> Mattia's inquiry made them realise they shouldn't cut the P-o-B
> ("Because it's wrong!"). Just a shame they showed the Survivor-ad
> in top of the screen.
Right. It was actually discussed in ToG[tm] (aka nksf) since there was a
decently sized discussion about it going on there..several people got
the same 2 emails I got, so..
I hope it stays this way, though, since, indeed, cutting that (or any
other part of the show, including the credits, but I'll live..) is wrong
indeed. But we already said all that before ;-)
Mattia
ReplyMeister[tm]
Joost Nagtegaal
<mae.v...@std.vu.nl> wrote:
>Joost Nagtegaal wrote:
>>
>> Didn't anyone notice that the ep started with a 'Previously on
>> Buffy'? Surprisingly, none of the reviewers mentioned it, although
>> some harsh things have been said in this ng about Net5 for omitting
>> this sequence.
>> Considering the e-mails Mattia got from Net5, this was truly an
>> unparallelled delight. I just wonder why they first said the
>> episodes they got were all P-o-B-free, and that the previews were
>> only to be shown in the US. Perhaps that was just a load of BS, and
>> Mattia's inquiry made them realise they shouldn't cut the P-o-B
>> ("Because it's wrong!"). Just a shame they showed the Survivor-ad
>> in top of the screen.
>
>Right. It was actually discussed in ToG[tm] (aka nksf) since there was a
>decently sized discussion about it going on there..several people got
>the same 2 emails I got, so..
Sorry, I don't read ToG[tm], I guess I'm not really a sf/fantasy
kind of person :-).
>I hope it stays this way, though, since, indeed, cutting that (or any
>other part of the show, including the credits, but I'll live..) is wrong
>indeed. But we already said all that before ;-)
If nothing else, it is at least a great in-the mood-getter. Kind of
a warmup before the episode starts. And I've gotten used to credits
being cut on all commercial networks. I am actually surprised
everytime I watch a movie or series where the credits have NOT been
cut (like on the BBC, or on Dutch public networks).
JN
Jonathan Black
> Mattia Valente wrote:
>
> > Right. It was actually discussed in ToG[tm] (aka nksf) since
> > there was a decently sized discussion about it going on
> > there..several people got the same 2 emails I got, so..
>
> Sorry, I don't read ToG[tm], I guess I'm not really a
> sf/fantasy kind of person :-).
But you are a BtVS kind of person? In that case, you should check
the group out just the same. There's a lot of Buffy in it these
days. (There are some who would say it's been a long time since
any "real" science fiction has been discussed there to any
significant degree of percentage of posts, if ever :))
> > I hope it stays this way, though, since, indeed, cutting that
> > (or any other part of the show, including the credits, but
> > I'll live..) is wrong indeed. But we already said all that
> > before ;-)
>
> If nothing else, it is at least a great in-the mood-getter.
> Kind of a warmup before the episode starts.
Yep.
> And I've gotten used to credits being cut on all commercial
> networks. I am actually surprised everytime I watch a movie
> or series where the credits have NOT been cut (like on the
> BBC, or on Dutch public networks).
Well personally it's been several years now since I watched any
movie on TV. There are just too many things wrong with the
presentation to make it worth my while. Wrong aspect ratio,
what's left of the intended picture further obscured by on-screen
logos and subtitles, commercial breaks in crap places (with
movies, there aren't really any right places to put them), end
credits blatanly omitted. It just isn't the movie any more. I
stick to the cinema and DVD (with the occaisional letterboxed VHS
tape for stuff which isn't yet available on disc, e.g. Star
Wars...)
--
J o N a T H a N
"You know, there's this place you can go, right, and you sit in
the dark, and there are these moving pictures, right, and the
pictures tell a story..."
--Buffy, `Halloween'
Buffy the Vampire Slayer