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What constitutes the "first line[s]" of a TV episode?
Since first/last lines are now accepted for TV episodes as well as films, what exactly constitutes the "first lines" of an episode that opens with a recap? For the purposes of quote submission, I figure it makes sense to ignore the recap, and take the opening lines of the first new scene as the episode's "first lines", yes?
I realize this is an overly-literal question of minutia, and I expect the answer will probably be a simple, "Yes, use your common sense." But I figured I'd ask anyway, since it's not explicitly addressed in the Contributors Guidelines for quotations. Nor was it brought up at first lines/last lines - new quotes project way back when, the only potentially relevant hit that came up in searching for previous discussion of this particular point. (But that makes sense, as the conversation in that 2017 thread was almost entirely focused on film submissions.)




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Bethanny
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2 years ago
Hi @frankrdana -
I would also consider first lines to be after the recap since recap scenes belong to previous episodes. Feel free to submit the correction through our online form.
Cheers!
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FeRDNYC
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2 years ago
(For complete context, I'm looking at an existing quote, submitted by a different user — "Only Murders in the Building" (2021) {I Know Who Did It (#2.10)} — that happens to be the first (post-recap) line of the episode, but isn't tagged "[first lines]". And wondering about submitting a correction to prepend the tag.)
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