Post by nl197 on Oct 12, 2010 12:05:49 GMT -5
If some of you North American (U.S. / Canada) viewers never saw the show on television, either when it originally aired on The WB or later in reruns - basically if you've only seen it on DVD - then you might not be aware that there is an entire sequence missing from the opening of this episode, thanks to the fact that the "Previously on Angel" recap segments were cut off the North American (Region 1) DVDs.
This episode fared the worst:
The recap ended with Cordelia getting sucked into the portal and off to Pylea, but it actually led directly into the episode's opening, rather than there being a fade out / cut.
The DVD version of this episode opens with Cordelia wandering around, calling out the other's names before the hell beast finds her.
What you don't see is that when the recap showed Cordelia being sucked into the portal, it cuts back to Angel, Wesley and Lorne back at Caritas, where they realize she's not there with them so they frantically start looking for her, Angel looking under tables and so on. Wesley says "She's gone...Cordy's been sucked into the portal she's in the Host's dimension now!"
Angel then says to Lorne (the Host) "Where's Cordelia?"
It then closes in on Lorne, looking nervous and taking big gulps, THEN it cuts to the scene you see opening the episode on DVD of Cordelia wandering around.
If you never saw this episode originally or on TV, you never would have known this whole scene was missing, but I've put it up here for you to see:
www.4shared.com/video/U3Mh0Pbx/ANGEL_-_Over_The_Rainbow__Miss.html
The video is only stretched vertically because of the limitations of that site (YouTube was not an option because this was hit with content restriction warnings) but if you download it it will be in 16:9.
This is the full "previously on Angel" recap, plus the above-mentioned scene, and ends just before the opening credit sequence. I originally included the credits, but I thought that was one of the reasons why the YouTube restrictions were blocking the video so I removed them, only to have it hit anyway.
I'll be doing the same with the opening of "That Old Gang of Mine" as well, as the opening of that episode, while unrelated to the story of Gunn and his friends, is a very funny misdirection / joke that was completely ruined on DVD for the same reason of the recaps being cut.
European and Australian viewers were more fortunate, since their DVDs do have the recaps (that's where this clip came from) so they never missed out on these.
This episode fared the worst:
The recap ended with Cordelia getting sucked into the portal and off to Pylea, but it actually led directly into the episode's opening, rather than there being a fade out / cut.
The DVD version of this episode opens with Cordelia wandering around, calling out the other's names before the hell beast finds her.
What you don't see is that when the recap showed Cordelia being sucked into the portal, it cuts back to Angel, Wesley and Lorne back at Caritas, where they realize she's not there with them so they frantically start looking for her, Angel looking under tables and so on. Wesley says "She's gone...Cordy's been sucked into the portal she's in the Host's dimension now!"
Angel then says to Lorne (the Host) "Where's Cordelia?"
It then closes in on Lorne, looking nervous and taking big gulps, THEN it cuts to the scene you see opening the episode on DVD of Cordelia wandering around.
If you never saw this episode originally or on TV, you never would have known this whole scene was missing, but I've put it up here for you to see:
www.4shared.com/video/U3Mh0Pbx/ANGEL_-_Over_The_Rainbow__Miss.html
The video is only stretched vertically because of the limitations of that site (YouTube was not an option because this was hit with content restriction warnings) but if you download it it will be in 16:9.
This is the full "previously on Angel" recap, plus the above-mentioned scene, and ends just before the opening credit sequence. I originally included the credits, but I thought that was one of the reasons why the YouTube restrictions were blocking the video so I removed them, only to have it hit anyway.
I'll be doing the same with the opening of "That Old Gang of Mine" as well, as the opening of that episode, while unrelated to the story of Gunn and his friends, is a very funny misdirection / joke that was completely ruined on DVD for the same reason of the recaps being cut.
European and Australian viewers were more fortunate, since their DVDs do have the recaps (that's where this clip came from) so they never missed out on these.