Well, I can't see anything in 4.19 out of the ordinary, beethoven. I wondered if it was just the typical script format you were talking about in your previous post and it does seem to be.
As Wendy says, this is the way TV scripts are. This kind of repeated text is common. Remember that TV scripts undergo several drafts before they reach the screen. Changes to scenes are constantly being made and are reflected in new script drafts. Each draft has its own colour - can't remember what the sequence is now - so that actors/crew can tell which is the latest and changes continue right up until the eleventh hour sometimes. So it's not surprising really that you get little bits of repeated scenes and sometimes two or three variations within a scene all together, where the previous draft remains after the change has been made.
Remember the production crew have to get an hour of TV show out in a very short space of time. So they don't have time to make sure everything is typed up exactly right in a script. Especially when you have 30 minutes to get a last minute change typed up, copied several times, and get it back to the set so it can be filmed. It's a wonder it's coherent at all, to be honest.
I believe that the scripts we have on the forum aren't always the last draft - some may be early drafts, others later ones. So some will be rougher than others.
But nothing has been done to them at this end, no changes have been made to the text, other than them being formatted. They've simply been uploaded as is, in their original, studio form.
LabRat
