Ranger REG
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So how different will the standard BSG S1 DVDs (to be released storewide) be from the Best Buy version?Dark Psion said:
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wingsandsword
Legend
1. The standard version will have the miniseries (The Best Buy version didn't)Ranger REG said:
2. The standard version will have episode commentaries (I think the podcast commentaries, maybe a new one).
3. You don't have to go to Best Buy to get it
Lazybones
Adventurer
Here, here. Ever since they screwed me on a defective game (no CD in the box, and they wouldn't let me return it by mail or the local store 5 miles away, I had to drive 90 miles to the one where I bought it), I've refused to shop there.wingsandsword said:3. You don't have to go to Best Buy to get it
Seems like a lot of cool Sci-Fi series coming out on DVD over the current season. I enjoyed SAaB, but it's not on my current "must buy" list, like BSG.
Ranger REG
Explorer
Ooh. My kind of business.Lazybones said:
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Dark Psion
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Lazybones said:
When I cancelled my BSG DVD I had to call them and tell them why I am cancelling, but I got the feeling it wasn't the first BSG cancellation.
I will give any company one chance to impress me, Best Buy failed the test.
wingsandsword
Legend
I was going to get the Sci-Fi BSG set, until I heard of an ever better main release coming out later, and decided that patience was a virtue.
I have several friends who want to watch BSG, after hearing great buzz about it, but didn't want to jump midway into a series without catching up, so they're all waiting for the DVD release to watch the first season and miniseries before watching the new Sci-Fi releases.
As for S:AAB, I watched it regularly back in High School, it was certainly interesting, although even at the time I had trouble swallowing some of the basic conceits of the setting (space-opera starships & starfighters by the 2060's?) and the plots of some of the episodes (for ace starfighter pilots, they sure spend a lot of time as grunts on routine infantry missions, I know the USMC is all about the "every marine is a rifleman", but I'm pretty sure that entire squadrons of ace pilots aren't regularly pulled off the flight line to march alongside other marines instead of flying), or the plots of some episodes ("The Angriest Angel", where an alien superfighter defeats entire squadrons singlehandedly, the latest in human technology can't stop it, so their CO goes back to flying despite severe disorientation which lost him his flight status in the first place, and with vastly inferior technology and severe disorientation singlehandedly defeats this super-ace where entire wings failed before).
Cool series, but it had it's problems.
Interesting that S:AAB and BSG get mentioned in the same thread, since the lore as I understand it is that S:AAB only existed because a failed BSG revival in the 90's.
There was a movement to get FOX to pick up BSG in the mid 90's as a revival, and while FOX execs were warm to the idea of a space action type show with starfighters and such, they didn't know if BSG had enough of a fan base to make it worth the licensing and baggage it would bring along. The BSG movement invited FOX Execs to the 15 Yahren Reunion in 1993, to show them the size of BSG fandom. The turnout was lower than expected (although there were accusations that the hotel intentionally interfered with the convention by turning away congoers and cancelling reservations, since an executive from the hotel chain was having a wedding reception at the hotel and may not have wanted a bunch of geeks around). FOX decided not to buy BSG because of the low turnout, and instead developed their own space opera series: Space: Above and Beyond.
I have several friends who want to watch BSG, after hearing great buzz about it, but didn't want to jump midway into a series without catching up, so they're all waiting for the DVD release to watch the first season and miniseries before watching the new Sci-Fi releases.
As for S:AAB, I watched it regularly back in High School, it was certainly interesting, although even at the time I had trouble swallowing some of the basic conceits of the setting (space-opera starships & starfighters by the 2060's?) and the plots of some of the episodes (for ace starfighter pilots, they sure spend a lot of time as grunts on routine infantry missions, I know the USMC is all about the "every marine is a rifleman", but I'm pretty sure that entire squadrons of ace pilots aren't regularly pulled off the flight line to march alongside other marines instead of flying), or the plots of some episodes ("The Angriest Angel", where an alien superfighter defeats entire squadrons singlehandedly, the latest in human technology can't stop it, so their CO goes back to flying despite severe disorientation which lost him his flight status in the first place, and with vastly inferior technology and severe disorientation singlehandedly defeats this super-ace where entire wings failed before).
Cool series, but it had it's problems.
Interesting that S:AAB and BSG get mentioned in the same thread, since the lore as I understand it is that S:AAB only existed because a failed BSG revival in the 90's.
There was a movement to get FOX to pick up BSG in the mid 90's as a revival, and while FOX execs were warm to the idea of a space action type show with starfighters and such, they didn't know if BSG had enough of a fan base to make it worth the licensing and baggage it would bring along. The BSG movement invited FOX Execs to the 15 Yahren Reunion in 1993, to show them the size of BSG fandom. The turnout was lower than expected (although there were accusations that the hotel intentionally interfered with the convention by turning away congoers and cancelling reservations, since an executive from the hotel chain was having a wedding reception at the hotel and may not have wanted a bunch of geeks around). FOX decided not to buy BSG because of the low turnout, and instead developed their own space opera series: Space: Above and Beyond.
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