Hey everyone....no thread so I thought I'd make one...even though I can't participate this year because I work the overnight shift (again)...right now nothing in the dark is finishing up on the east coast. And the Last Rites of Jeff Mrytlebank is just starting. Hope everyone enjoys the marathon this year. Don't forget to post your snacks/meals...I always enjoy reading what everyone eats during it. Cheers! Happy new year!
shareJust finished "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". Particularly apt this year.
Snacks so far have been leftover Christmas cookies and sweets, egg nog and popcorn.
I love watching the marathon. My only complaint is that some of the episodes seem shortened.
shareThey don't seem shortened, they are shortened. In the early 1960s, shows ran a little longer, as less time was cut out for commercial breaks. Today (2021, based on network broadcast model -- internet steaming is changing this) an "hour" long show is actually only 42 minutes; in the early sixties it was a 50 minutes. Likewise, with "half hour" episodes, almost four minutes of each episode are edited out. This isn't SyFy's doing; CBS, which owns the rights to the show, provides the shorted edits to any network that wants to broadcast the show. They've gone through the whole series and cut out a few seconds here, a few seconds there in each episode -- enough to cut those near four minutes out of each ep. without excising any critical plot point, dialog, or bit of exposition. But it's still shortened. I've rewatched the whole show enough times that with all my favorite episodes, I can spot the exact bits that were edited out. The show has been artistically compromised to make way for more advertising. The same thing happens at the end credits. When I was a kid, when a show ended on television -- cable or network -- you saw the credits; these days, the credits are shoved into a corner of the screen while they play more commercials. For me, it makes it a lot more enjoyable to watch the show on my blu ray edition that to catch on any broadcast, even on the New Year's marathon.
shareI appreciate the fact that they seem to be playing the episodes intact.
When they used to show the stripped down versions there was so much important material missing, I couldn't watch.
I always advocated using a 35 minute format, so they could show 6 shows in their entirety in a 7 half hour block. And it
seems they are doing something like that. Of course one of the best parts of the marathon were the running threads at
IMDb and I miss that. They really messed up a good thing removing the message boards.
Happy New Year Zoners.
i binged this two years ago over the new year holiday.
shareCurrently binging it. Timeless classic 🤓
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