Talk:Early Edition

Pronoun confusion
"Apparently, he was given the responsibility by Lucius Snow (the man who received the paper before Gary), when he saved his life as a child." - who is who in the phrase "he saved his life"? —AySz88\ ^ - ^ 17:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Lucius Snow saved Gary's life as seen in season 4, episode 20. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.228.105.196 (talk) 23:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Why did it get cancelled?
Anyone know? Love this show.

BTTF refernce
Is the BTTF2 trivia relevant? Both subjects are basic time travel stuff, theres bound to be overlapping.

Infamously
I have removed the word "infamously" from the paragraph describing the narrators, as there is nothing there to back it up. I dare say to those who know all the series very well, it is an appropriate description, but for those (like me) who did not see the latter series, it means absolutely nothing and striles as being a weasel word. By all means, bring it back, but please include back-up in the article to explain why the narration was "infamous" StephenBuxton 07:44, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Airing on Pax/I
One user changed the wording in the cancellation section because it hasn't actually aired on the network. Actually, I remember the series airing on the network for a while. --Jtalledo (talk) 20:23, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Trivia Edit
I removed the following sentence from the trivia bit regarding Hobson's Choice:

Also, the second episode, named "The Choice", forced Gary to choose between stopping an airplane full of people from crashing, or saving one girl on a bicycle from a traffic accident.

The reason for the removal is because, while an interesting and not uncommon ethical dilemma, it is not Hobson's Choice and therefore makes little sense being there.The Mink Ermine Fox 06:39, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series
I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

hoax?
I thought about tagging 's most recent edits with hoax as (a) it's only the user's third edit and seems questionable, and (b) I haven't found this same information available online (even at Variety). However, I haven't make that tag, as the information is cited (after a fashion), and I don't have access to the source material to verify one way or another. If somebody else does have these accesses, or wishes to make the tag, they have my support. —  pd_THOR  undefined | 01:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This information about the "arts & lesisure" spinoff seems very dubious; if true, I would imagine that some mention of this would not only appear on Variety's website, but somewhere (anywhere) else from a semi-reliable website. I support removing the information entirely from the article until it can be properly cited and verified (if ever). Monowi (talk) 07:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Paragraph about "It Happened Tomorrow"
I recently noticed an anonymous user added a paragraph to the "Conception" section that talks about the film It Happened Tomorrow. I feel that its inclusion in the article is questionable, as the paragraph fails to cite any sources, and I also did not encounter the creators of the show mentioning the film as any kind of inspiration for Early Edition (seeing as I complied all of the current sources for the section). Beside that, I also believe it sidetracks the reader from learning more about Early Edition. Instead, I support adding "It Happened Tomorrow" to the "See Also" section, and removing the film's mention from the conception section. Thoughts? Monowi (talk) 05:39, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Seeing as there are no replies, I will proceed. Monowi (talk) 22:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I added that parapgraph and added it back for the simple reason that the section is entitled "conception." The concept of the show originated in 1944. It wasn't a new concept with Early Edition. Whether the creators site the movie as an inspiration or not is irrelevent to the concept of the guy that mysteriously gets tomorrow's paper a day early and acts upon that knowledge. I didn't add it as the first parapgraph in that section (chronologically) as it would put too much emphasis on the movie and make the show look like a rip-off. Added at the end of the section with the sentence that "it is unknown if it was used as a reference" should suffice. McHale (talk) 06:32, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I must respectfully disagree with the inclusion of this paragraph in its current form. However, your argument for the inclusion of this paragraph leads me to believe that other people could have the same misconception about "It Happened Tomorrow" being an influence or inspiration for Early Edition. Because the two properties have similarities, I researched the subject, and found a reference (located here) in which the show's creators claim they did not base Early Edition in any way on the 1944 film. So, I will amend the paragraph to acknowledge the similarities to the 1944 film, and use the reference I found to inform the reader that the show's creators claim it had no influence.


 * In the future, might I suggest reading Wikipedia's policy regrading citation of information at the Verifiability page. It is a helpful reminder that any significant information you add to an article needs to have a reference; in the current paragraph about "It Happened Tomorrow" there is neither a reference that can confirm the plot synopsis of the film, and adding information under the pretense of "it is unknown if it was used as a reference" is an irresponsible action that defies Wikipedia's policy of verifiability, a policy that essential to any encyclopedia. Still, I would like to thank you for calling attention to the 1944 film; this article will be stronger and more useful to readers by addressing this issue. Cheers, Monowi (talk) 00:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Definition of the word Concept - The general idea behind a slogan, pitch, or campaign. The concept of early edition is that someone gets tomorrow's newspaper today and acts based on that knowledge. Other similarities: the paper was "given" by a deceased employee of the newspaper, an old man (Snow vs. Pops). Another similarity is that the hero uses the paper to gamble on a horse race when money is needed. The hero is also jailed for knowing "too much" about a crime. The first example of this concept is the 1944 film.

Early Dues website is not considered a credible source as it does not site where it came to that conclusion. It would have been irresponsible to say that they *DID* use the film as a basis for the show. Stating it is unknown is responsible because we can not find an official quote or source from the creators that they did not. Unless you are the creator of the show, we have no official quote or comment. Can you provide a verifiable source that Early Edition's creators have "always maintained that Early Edition is in no way based on this film" as you have stated? If not, it remains unknown.

I would recommend checking out the film for yourself. If you're a fan of the show you will enjoy the movie. You will notice MANY similarities. As a sidenote, I have updated the It Happened Tomorrow page to include the text from the back of the DVD cover.McHale (talk) 16:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Distributor for syndication
Does Sony Pictures Television own the rights or does CBS Television Distribution Matthew Cantrell (talk) 06:25, 9 May 2010 (UTC)