OT: The butchering of Bargaining Pt 1on Aust TV

["Leanne" <leanne.deplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to know what's been cut from other eps, check the
transcripts, at http://www.studiesinwords.de/ or
http://www.buffyworld.com and you can see what you've been missing.


Hey Dan..

I did that the other nite. Had a copy of the transcript. Read it thru while
watching the ep.
They cut Xnander's sceneS at the airport (inside & outside shots. It's like
he wasn't even there.
The WHOLE Spike/Dawn scene at the end of the ep was just not there.. In
total 3 pages were cut out of our version. 5-6 minutes of the episode gone.

Not only did they omit scenes, the ones they decided to let us see were cut
and hacked. Lines missing - there was no rhyme nor reason as far as I could
tell.

I did ring the station yesterday, they put me thru to programming, the woman
I spoke to said I should talk to their resident Buffy fan (why? - god
knows), but she was in a meeting. I will be ringing again today. But I don't
really like my chances of getting a decent answer. The woman I spoke said it
was possible that they received the tape that way. She was surprised when I
told her I had seen the UPN version.

What really pisses me off is not knowing how many other eps they have or
will hack. It will be intersting to see what they do with OMWF


Still pissed off but deciding to count to 10 now and think happy thoughts...

Leanne