But that makes the footage recycle crime even worse, because Chang does the exact same thing in VI, while quoting "To be, or not to be..."!!
Best & Worse Uses of Stock Footage
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But that makes the footage recycle crime even worse, because Chang does the exact same thing in VI, while quoting "To be, or not to be..."!!
The thing I have against the "whole chunks" of recycled footage for the final big battle in "What You Leave Behind" is that after all those years of space combat footage involving Starfleet vessels and Cardassian vessels in TNG & DS9 plus other small snippets of battle footage involving Jem'hadar vessels it would be staggeringly easy to edit together a major battle that looked nothing like a stock footage segment. You can see dozens of such videos on youtube all the time.
Beyond the budgetary aspects of it I've never understood television producers affinity for "clip shows". Hell, the Seinfeld series finale, probably the most anticipated series finale since MASH was a damned clip show.
No it wasn't. It was preceded by a clip episode that aired before it on the same night.
Yes, the Seinfeld finale was a "clip show". It revolved around the main characters being on trial and characters who had appeared in the past were called to testify. Their "testimony" about their interactions with Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine in the past were represented by "clips" from their appearances in previous episodes.
The MASH series finale included a large chunk of the episode "Bug Out" from several years previously to represent the MASH 4077 having to move due to a massive fire bearing down on them. This was because the outdoor set for MASH was in fact burned down by a brush fire while the finale was being shot.
