Benjamin Shatliff Posted December 17, 2020 Report Posted December 17, 2020 Hello All, I have been watching the first season on Amazon Prime over the last few days and a question has arisen again which has often puzzled me. Why were Celia, Roo, Donald, Lance, Martin and Matt not included in the opening credits immediately rather than a few months in? They must have been classed as regulars as their names appeared at the end even when they didn’t appear in the episodes. There was also the gap in the openings between Pippa and the shot of Steven and Frank.
Red Ranger 1 Posted December 18, 2020 Report Posted December 18, 2020 Well, it'll probably be impossible to know for sure, but one possibility that springs to mind is that the title sequence was filmed at the same time as the pilot (complete with the alternate shot of Bobby) and they didn't have enough money to film new shots for characters who were either introduced later or not intended to be as prominent as they became until after it became clear the show was going to carry on.
adam436 Posted December 18, 2020 Report Posted December 18, 2020 On 18/12/2020 at 06:26, Benjamin Shatliff said: Why were Celia, Roo, Donald, Lance, Martin and Matt not included in the opening credits immediately rather than a few months in? Matt Wilson never really appeared regularly from the beginning. His appearances were quite sporadic for the first 100ish episodes, then he was added to the opening credits and then left a few weeks later. That is the big mystery that makes no sense to me On 18/12/2020 at 06:26, Benjamin Shatliff said: There was also the gap in the openings between Pippa and the shot of Steven and Frank. In the early days, Tom and Pippa were the central characters so they probably wanted to separate them from the rest of the cast. 2 hours ago, Red Ranger 1 said: Well, it'll probably be impossible to know for sure, but one possibility that springs to mind is that the title sequence was filmed at the same time as the pilot (complete with the alternate shot of Bobby) and they didn't have enough money to film new shots for characters who were either introduced later or not intended to be as prominent as they became until after it became clear the show was going to carry on. That makes sense. All except Matt Wilson appeared in the official original cast photo too and Lance, Martin, Roo and and Don were probably more prominent than Neville and Floss in the early days. In the pilot, Donald was the antagonist, Bobby was not part of the Fletcher family and Lance and Martin were only minor characters in the pilot (though again, I wouldn't have said Neville, Floss, Alf and Ailsa were major characters in the pilot), so they probably just found it easier to continue with the pilot opening titles for a while.
CaptainHulk Posted January 5, 2021 Report Posted January 5, 2021 Alf's importance took a few eps to really shine through
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