AMC’s got stinking paws.
There was a scene cut. From Episode 1: 13; the Wheel. Cut!
I remember saying something to Deborah after the original airing about the scene with Trudy and her diaphragm. And Deborah hadn’t seen the scene. I had watched the 10pm airing (the one with no commercials, if we all remember) and Deb had DVR’d the 11, (because she was recording like three shows that night), and so she and I discovered this disconnect between the two showings.
So now I’m working on the full recap (which I will finish someday), basing it off of the recent rerun, and I suddenly remember the scene, and how it’s not in it.
And I feel so dirty.
How many other scenes are already cut and forgotten?
When the hell are the DVDs coming out?
But the point is
What the hell is AMC doing? Why are they not listening to us? They have a brand new perfect show that everyone and their goddamn brother (and sister) is talking about and they’re fucking it up?
Why they gotta show a full day’s worth of Planet of the Apes movies instead of a Mad Men Marathon?
Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!
December 31st, 2007 at 10:54 am
That was beautiful.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I wasn’t sure, but I thought that some of the commercial-taping scene in “The Wheel” was cut, too. When Ken tells Peggy that the best-looking women are the least confident, I remembered him going on at some length explaining why. This time, he just told her and that was it. Does anyone else remember it that way I do?
December 31st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Mel, no, but that doesn’t mean anything. The way my brain ‘functions’, it is a miracle that I even noticed the one missing scene.
Bastids. Fargin corksuckers.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Madder! Madder! MADDER!
Yes Mel, you are correct. This from Television Without Pity:
Ken…opines that a woman who looks like Annie will never sound confident. “It’s God’s gift to bachelors. The juiciest gazelle is the easiest to catch.”
December 31st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Agh! I never heard that quote. It’s brilliant and it gives so much insight.
FARGIN ICEHOLES!
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