u/Alarmed-Drink510

I recently re-watched the epic masterpiece that is The Stand (ABC mini-series from 1994) but part 3 seemed to start off so randomly. And I'm wondering if my digital copy is somehow screwed up, or if this is the way it aired, if this is how the VHS tapes & DVD's are too?

Part 3 "The Betrayal" starts showing them all gathered around an unconscious body about to do surgery, but it hadn't been explained who the person was or how they got there? I even bought the entire series on Amazon (pretty cheap too! all 4 parts as a digital download for like ten bucks) and it was the exact same way. It seems almost like a missing chunk of the movie was cut out, or deleted, or some scenes were out of order.

Has anyone else experienced this confusion? The end of Part 2 has them all peacefully enjoying Boulder, Colorado after ending their travels there, then it fades to black as Mother Abigail is saying "make our STAND". But then the beginning of Part 3 suddenly opens with the group gathered around a dead/injured body, no context or explanation at all. Huh? What did I miss here?

I just got finished watching this music competition show (only 1 season, 10 episodes) which remarkably was still available to buy/rent on Amazon streaming for only a few bucks. I'm a huge Kara fan, so it was great to finally see this reality show Bravo aired back in 2011. It was kind of like a songwriter-version of American Idol, very scripted though (esp. on the judge's comments) and heavily edited too...but then again I guess most reality TV shows are.

Does anyone know whatever became of any of the 10 contestants, if they ever "made it big" in the music industry by doing songwriting for any major artists? Even the contest winner Sonyae Elise I've never heard of (15 years later, here in 2026 today) and it doesn't look like she's written for any major artists. On the off-chance that anyone involved with "Platinum Hit" reads this on reddit, please post any details or memories if you can! Was the show as much fun to shoot as it was to watch? I wonder if most of the competitors are still in the music industry, and did their TV exposure end up helping their careers or not?