These are some of the titles due for release on
Tuesday, November 16.
First, the genre releases:
- Andromeda
Season 4 Volume 4.3: Yet another small collection
of individual
episodes. - Aqua
Teen
Hunger Force Volume 3: A two disk set. - Buck
Rogers in
the 25th Century – The Complete Series: A five
disk set of the
sci-fi show. - The
Chronicles
of Riddick: This link is to the unrated
edition. - The
Commish –
Season One: See Michael Chiklis before he becomes
the Thing. - Elf:
Just
in time for Christmas. - The
Iron Giant
– Special Edition: This is an often
underappreciated movie. - Pee-Wee’s
Playhouse #1 – Seasons 1 and 2: I know this was a
highly respected
show, but in my area, it was in the same timeslot as
The Real
Ghostbusters, so I never watched it. - Pee-Wee’s
Playhouse #2 – Seasons 3-5: Another significant
chunk of the
series. As far as I can tell, it only ran for five
seasons. - Riverworld:
The
miniseries based on the novel. - Sir
Arthur
Conan Doyle’s The Lost World Season Three: This
lasted three
seasons (or more) and Firefly couldn’t get one? - Smallville
–
The Complete Third Season: This is one that I
will get around to
picking up at some point. - Space
Ghost
Coast To Coast: Another entry from Adult
Swim.
Now, the non-genre releases:
- The
Andy
Griffith Show – The Complete First Season: This
is one of the few
old sitcoms that still works. - Fanny
and
Alexander: A five disk special edition Criterion
Collection
release of an Ingmar Bergman film. - Frasier
– The
Complete Final Season: See how it ends without
bothering with all
that stuff in the middle. - Kids
in the
Hall – Complete Season Two: I crush your head!
Crush, crush! - The
Office –
Complete First and Second Series Plus Special:
The complete
package of all episodes of the series. - Short
Cuts: A Criterion Collection release.
Finally, my pick of the week is Buffy
the Vampire
Slayer – The Complete Seventh Season: This set
completes the run
of the show. It wasn’t as good as some of the
previous seasons, but
it did have some very good moments. (Spike on the
cross for one, and
the montage of “awakenings” for another.) I will
pick this up
eventually, but I can’t afford it right away. I’m
half way through
watching season five on DVD, so that review should be
coming in the
not-too-distant future.
Gift For Grandma
Finally! I didn’t really want to get her SG1 again (at least not by itself) because after two years of it she could think I’m not doing enough work finding her Christmas gifts (true!). I can remember like it was yesterday her bitter lament about Buck Rogers being cancelled (once they went out on the Asimov, even beting a little kid, I knew it had jumped ye olden shark) and I know she’ll be jazzed to see the series again. The other show I remember her ranting about was Sledge Hammer!, but we’ve already gotten her that one. :)
I’m not entirely a good grandson, though. At the very least, the discs containing the first season of BR25C (hip, huh?) will have been watched once before being wrapped – QC check, eh?
Re: Gift For Grandma
I vote your grandma for Hippest Nerd Grandma Ever.
Re: Gift For Grandma
I second. All those in favour?
Missed one
I missed a release that’s not on Amazon.com’s listings.
Farscape: The Starburst Edition Vol. 1 also ships
this week. It’s a lower cost release of the first seven
episodes. The second Starburst Edition is due on January
18. Owning the series is now financially reasonable.
Get “The Office”
You won’t be disappointed. The Office is one of the best commedies from the last twenty years and the writers should never be short for work. Simply spendid!
Then again, maybe I’m biased as I had David Brent as my manager once and wished I was there when he was fired (I’d left a few weeks earlier) – its just scary how similar this idiot was to Brent, everything down to the mannerisms like twiddling with his tie. Bye-bye Bryan!
Damien