born again phannie

Here are the leaked runtimes:

The Volume 1 runtimes matched the official runtimes perfectly.

But the Volume 2 leaked runtimes are completely different from what we ended up getting.

We were robbed of four movie-length episodes.

Another thing:

Ross posted the official Volume 2 runtimes just TWO DAYS before release. Compare that to Volume 1, where the runtimes were shared over a month and a half in advance.

That timing difference is huge, and it’s hard to believe it’s a coincidence. Something clearly changed at the last minute.

Please spread the word and sign the petition.

this theory is insane. we have to call a spade a spade. claiming that this show had an entirely different course of narrative that got cut substantially, and subsequently ruined everyone’s credibility, IS insane.

the implications of this being true are very big. it means this show was tanked on purpose. it means some serious homophobia was going down behind the scenes. it means they were scrambling to save this show.

it’s not realistic. you can’t cut THAT many scenes, that many major plot points, and still have it be cohesive and coherent like it was (albeit poorly done).

and yes, promo for this show straight up lied about what content we would be getting. but a lot of this promo, and many of these promises, were given to us around the time of the premiere—weeks before season 5 aired. them cutting this much content a week or even a month in advance of the premiere is simply not possible. it’s just not.

scripts need to be approved before filming. they need to be reviewed and go through multiple rounds of revisions. do some scenes get cut after they’ve already been filmed and edited? absolutely. in fact, that’s common. we know they cut mike biking home after they find wills body in season 1. we also know they add scenes mid-filming, like with the will and jonathan heart to heart in season 4. but these are scenes that don’t change the narrative arc and structure of the show. major scenes, major plots, and this many of them getting cut? no.

a variation of “cutgate” likely happened. in the writing room when they were brainstorming. on the editing floor after filming. but not to this extent. if netflix really didn’t want certain plots to be happening, it would have gotten addressed way before it made it to the final editing stage.

I am a pretty avid imdb user, and as someone who enjoyed volume 1 and was really looking forward to volume 2, weeks before the volume was released i looked at the run times on imdb and i SWEAR one of the episodes was close to two hours long with all three of them being around an hour and a half long at least.

Also considering volume 1 was 4 episodes long and volume 2 was only 3, i added up the total amount of minutes for volume 1 and (because i’m insane) compared it to the total run time of the three episodes of volume 2. Volume 1’s run time is 283 minutes or approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes. LAST WEEK WHEN I COMPARED IT TO THE RUN TIME OF VOLUME 2, i VIVIDLY remember volume 2 being significantly longer than volume 1; it was well over 300 minutes of content. The total run time for the three episodes added up to over 5 hours. I am not making up remembering being excited for technically having more content in this volume.

Now imagine how I felt when I on Christmas Eve (again because I’m insane and this is just how my brain works) went on imdb and noticed the run times suddenly changed drastically. Adding up the new run times, Volume 2 is now 209 minutes long, or about 3 hours long.