Not so frabjous day.
May. 22nd, 2019 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blueI watched the first ep of Leverage on Amazon Video and it had 2 scenes missing.
After the hangar explodes, Nathan wakes up to find he, Elliot, Hardison, and Parker are in hospital, are handcuffed to their gurneys, and the Feds are on the way to collect them. Nathan keeps his head. A spot of pocket-picking, database hacking, impersonating, and a phonecall later, undercover agent Hardison escorts the other three out and they escape with minutes to spare.
Nope. The hangar explodes, Nathan wakes up to find the other three looking down at him, then they stroll into Hardison's pad and work out how they were conned.
Later on, Dubenich is early for a meeting with Sophie and the Nigerian businessmen. Sophie's on one of the upper floors and trying frantically to get into a lift, and Dubenich is about to search the building's business directory and find out they don't have an office in the building. Nathan smashes several car windows to distract Dubenich, and Sophie and Parker get to abseil several floors down the stairwell to the ground floor. Sophie (who screams her way down) comes tottering into the lobby to meet Dubenich.
There's none of that - Dubenich and Sophie simply get into the lift.
So, the first episode was cut. Whhhhhhhyyyyyy? I'm really not impressed.
After the hangar explodes, Nathan wakes up to find he, Elliot, Hardison, and Parker are in hospital, are handcuffed to their gurneys, and the Feds are on the way to collect them. Nathan keeps his head. A spot of pocket-picking, database hacking, impersonating, and a phonecall later, undercover agent Hardison escorts the other three out and they escape with minutes to spare.
Nope. The hangar explodes, Nathan wakes up to find the other three looking down at him, then they stroll into Hardison's pad and work out how they were conned.
Later on, Dubenich is early for a meeting with Sophie and the Nigerian businessmen. Sophie's on one of the upper floors and trying frantically to get into a lift, and Dubenich is about to search the building's business directory and find out they don't have an office in the building. Nathan smashes several car windows to distract Dubenich, and Sophie and Parker get to abseil several floors down the stairwell to the ground floor. Sophie (who screams her way down) comes tottering into the lobby to meet Dubenich.
There's none of that - Dubenich and Sophie simply get into the lift.
So, the first episode was cut. Whhhhhhhyyyyyy? I'm really not impressed.
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Date: 2019-05-22 06:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-05-22 10:07 pm (UTC)(One of the creators really pissed me off, actually. He kept on posting on his blog about things that were happening on the show and saying "...but you'll see on the DVD extras", and complaining about people pirating. Which – no, I won't see on the DVD extras, because the non-American DVDs don't have extras. Which means the only way I could ever see them at all would be if I was pirating. Don't want me to pirate? Give me the chance to buy it legally.)
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Date: 2019-05-23 05:37 pm (UTC)Some scenes go missing from DVDs because they can't get the song rights for the DVDs. It happened to at least one episode of Life on Mars but at least they just replaced it with a different song rather than cutting the whole scene.
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Date: 2019-05-26 05:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-05-26 05:28 pm (UTC)What's weird is that I have the DVDs and the first ep is definitely complete on there. So Amazon cutting the ep down makes even less sense.
(I have muscular dystrophy so I have to ask my carers to change DVDs for me. Streaming only requires me to click a button.)
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Date: 2019-05-26 05:40 pm (UTC)