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Sorry if this has already been mentioned.
The first time I watched A Call To Arms on DVD (region 2) it was a mates. Recently I bought a copy (again, region 2) and I noticed that there where very deliberate changes made to the film. By that I donÆt just mean missing little clips but changes to the content, through editing, etc. They where both stand alone movies (not box set) and the packaging is identical.
There a few differences but it was most noticeable around the whole Lyta and Kosh thing.
In the second version when she is going into the isolation chamber to read his mind, her voice is dubbed over (while wearing a breather) so she can explain that she will see things through his eyeÆs but it will be her body she sees. ThatÆs not in the original.
When Kosh (now Lyta) extend the hand to shake the false Sinclairs, itÆs all fuzy and glowing so you canÆt make out any detail û again this is different from the original where you can clearly see a male human like hand being extended.
Other changes included the editing out of all the weird aliens (never again seen) in the middle of when Sinclair is giving Lyta a tour of the Alien section, And GÆKar ôinvoking privacyö that weird light, when talking to Lyta about telepath genetics, although the conversation itself is still there.
I know it was the pilot, and therefore it would contain elements that might not be picked up for the subsequent series, but why the deliberate ôtidying upö and editing of the content, weird.!!
The first time I watched A Call To Arms on DVD (region 2) it was a mates. Recently I bought a copy (again, region 2) and I noticed that there where very deliberate changes made to the film. By that I donÆt just mean missing little clips but changes to the content, through editing, etc. They where both stand alone movies (not box set) and the packaging is identical.
There a few differences but it was most noticeable around the whole Lyta and Kosh thing.
In the second version when she is going into the isolation chamber to read his mind, her voice is dubbed over (while wearing a breather) so she can explain that she will see things through his eyeÆs but it will be her body she sees. ThatÆs not in the original.
When Kosh (now Lyta) extend the hand to shake the false Sinclairs, itÆs all fuzy and glowing so you canÆt make out any detail û again this is different from the original where you can clearly see a male human like hand being extended.
Other changes included the editing out of all the weird aliens (never again seen) in the middle of when Sinclair is giving Lyta a tour of the Alien section, And GÆKar ôinvoking privacyö that weird light, when talking to Lyta about telepath genetics, although the conversation itself is still there.
I know it was the pilot, and therefore it would contain elements that might not be picked up for the subsequent series, but why the deliberate ôtidying upö and editing of the content, weird.!!
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