Flight Path Editing Errors Still Intact!

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Flight Path Editing Errors Still Intact!

Marc Martin
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Hi all,

Just finished watching FLIGHT PATH on the new Carlton UFO DVDs.
Each time I watch this episode, I wish that someone would have
discovered that there are editing errors in this episode, and
would have corrected them.

What's wrong? There are a few scenes in the middle of the
episode which are definitely out of order:

#1 Straker tells Freeman that they discovered an error
in Roper's figures. A few minutes later you can
see that SID has just figured this out, and the
Moonbase gals are trying to make some sense of
it. How can Straker know the sequence is wrong
before SID and the people working on it do?

(in the original script, this is ordered correctly -- SID
figures it out in scene 60, then Straker tells Freeman
about it in scene 109)

#2 Straker tells Freeman to send some SHADO guards
over to Ropers house to protect Carol Roper
from Dawson. However, the guards that are
racing towards his house were already seen
racing towards something BEFORE Straker gives
the order!

(again, the script is correct -- Straker gives the
order in scene 109, then the guards are first
seen in scene 113)

Oh well, I suspect that if Carlton had fixed these errors
and reorder these scenes to make sense, the fans would be
complaining left and right!

Marc