rogueslayer452 | Cut, deleted, scrapped.

Have you ever watched the deleted scenes from a movie or television show and wondered why they were cut in the first place, especially if it gave more context for certain things?

I mean, obviously it is to save runtime, or during post-production editing there's nowhere those scenes would've fit for the flow of the storytelling, maybe a scene was filmed awkwardly and they cannot afford reshoots so they scrap it, and sometimes they are forced to cut them by TPTB for one reason or another, some even try to fight tooth and nail for certain scenes to be kept in only to lose that battle. But more often than not, those scenes tend to feature a lot of quiet character moments that would've been majorly beneficial to the story, giving better insight to relationships or motivations later seen in canon. And let's not forget the cut scenes that were filmed but never released, those ones will haunt me forever, even more so when there are set pictures of them instead of just stories told by the cast and creators. I think most people who are curious about them, such as myself, would've loved to have seen them and not really care whether it was unfinished. Interestingly, there have been some fans who have put in a lot of work to splice the deleted scenes into the final product of a movie or show, some which have been quite successful and even mainly preferred by its fanbase.

(This post brought to you by me rewatching the deleted scenes from Girl, Interrupted and from The Craft, seen here and here, leading me to think about all of the other unseen, unused and deleted scenes from the media I enjoy.)

Additionally, a question for you all: do you consider deleted scenes to be part of canon? This has been a lot debate among fandom, and from my observation the answer is more or less: "only the scenes that I liked".