Digging Deeper

After yesterday's "extended scene" post, in which we see more of Dex's Christmas DVD for Dierdre than I had time to include in the original episode, we got this comment on our MySpace blog:

"Oh my god… I’m beginning to wonder if much of what we’re supposed to know about Dierdre and Dex is lying on the cutting room floor. In this extended cut we get a much more elaborate profile of Dex and what Dierdre apparently doesn’t want to deal with. I understand better now and would not have begrudged the extra minute of content…"

And there's the rub: how much of the story NEEDS to be told in those 10 minutes every week, and how much can be left out without disrupting the flow?

There's a little something left out of almost every episode. Not on purpose; we frequently just shoot more than we end up using, especially when we ad-lib. All of those extra scenes would go a long way toward helping build character, but they rarely do much to advance the actual story.

We have several extra Dean and Caroline scenes, some unused Karl footage, some Tabitha and Liz anecdotes... We even have a scene between Jack and Dierdre from Season One that would have changed the way at least two, if not four, of the lead characters would come to be viewed... All of which has never been aired.

Where will all this footage end up, you ask? If there were a DVD in the works, it might find its way onto there. But we might also find a more immediate use for it as well... stay tuned...

In the meantime: who (or what) would YOU like to see more of?