Moderators: Scott Sebring, Ben Bentley
And now we know the pink stuff that Robin takes a nose-dive into - almost getting de-masked - is supposed to be salt-water taffy!
The only note I'd add is that someone in the production department wisely thought to add the business about painting the batpoles, to prevent Joker from literally reading the writing on the wall to figure out what what was at the bottom of that mysterious descent. It's unfortunate that Sherman didn't have a cast list or a description of Baby Jane in this version. I assume he wrote her as a spoiled, airhead rich girl who's never had to think for herself because daddy's money has shielded her. That would be different than how Diana Ivarson played her, as a brain-dead goober only a few decibels lower than Ma Parker.
My guess is that because this was the second-last episode of the season, the production had reached a "Let's just get this done with" mentality. They had started production for S2 back in June, which was a month after spending six weeks shooting the movie--which was roughly a month after they finished S1 in about 3-4 months.Ben Bentley wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:46 am Admittedly i'm only half-way through reading the script as of writing this, but looking at the date of this draft in relation to the shooting date of these episodes - the lack of any huge edits/re-writes is noticeable when compared with an equivalent first draft for a S1 script. A perfect example that springs to mind would be the extensive notes that Lorenzo wrote to Max Hodge after reading his first pass at "Instant Freeze".
According to an Art Department document I have screen-shot and shared below, the final shooting version of the script that they were working to was in place by 10th Feb 1967, literally eight days on from the date of the first draft that Tim scanned at Laremie.
