and, and or are used to support the producer against the writer. Um, I suppose an ideal script editor will, will just kind of hold a, a wonderfully delicate diplomatic position between everybody and, and, well really like Suzie has done um, throughout this one er, just kind of remind each of us how wonderful the other one is and what interesting points of view they all have and then when she sees an opportunity to say by the way I've got a point of view aswell and it's better than all of yours um, which it often is.

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