FARSCAPE: Levitation turns me on.

[campylobacter]

My Farscape: The Complete Series DVDs arrived a day early yesterday (of course while I was out) but it sure was nice that they were home waiting for me!

Oh, how I love them! I thought they'd be in those thin-packs, but it's even BETTER! Each SEASON is stored in one standard-thickness plastic case with 2 hinged double-sided "leaves" inside (I dunno the industry packaging term), accommodating up to 6 discs each when the sides are used for storage, for a total of 5 cases (1 for each season plus the bonus features).

There's no mini-episode-guide booklet (as with the Stargate: SG-1 Complete Series) because THEY PRINTED THE TITLE OF EACH EPISODE ON ITS DISC! Genius. Well, an obvious user-friendly feature that the dorks who did the packaging for the Stargate set didn't do.

Another nicety? The menu interface doesn't have THOSE DAMNED ANNOYING ANIMATED EXPLOSIONS every time you make a menu selection. OMG, on the old Farscape DVDs I rented at my local video store, the animated menu drove me batshit. It was... interesting... the first time I used it, then became a frustrating delay when I wanted space porn ASAP. So YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY to the new minimalistic menu and its ease of selection both on a TV screen and on a computer with a mouse.

Now, levitation:

Whenever Rygel appears onscreen FLOATING, I squee. There's just something about a levitating pain-in-the-ass that makes my day.


Could be that when I first saw the De Laurentis movie "Dune" and the swollen, dissolute Baron Harkonnen appeared, solving his mobility problems with a hydraulic suit that levitated him around, I fell in love. Only in speculative fiction do you get LEVITATING characters.


So when The Cigarette-Smoking-Prior levitated Cam in the Stargate SG-1 ep "The Fourth Horseman Part 2", I officially fell in love with Colonel Cameron "Camshaft" Mitchell.

Comments

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee! The episode titles on the discs sounds BRILLIANT to me. Absolutely brilliant.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Yes! If you own the official Stargate SG-1 DVDs, you know my pain. I can't tell you how many times I've started watching the wrong disk because their numbering system is WhACk. There's a prominent Volume number (left over from Season packaging) that makes NO SENSE with the Complete Series packaging.

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

Yes, the episode title thing is GENIUS.

[moaningminnie.livejournal.com]

Man, I want the box set so badly. I'm nagging my bf into making it a xmas pressie. He agreed strongly till he saw the price! LOL

What's the making of the peacekeeper wars like?

[mslogica.livejournal.com]

Ok I need to get Farscape on DVD. Thanks for that!

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Not sure what the exchange rate & international shipping charges will do to the price, but it can be found for lower than MSRP:

Google shopping comparison:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=farscape+%22complete+series%22&hl=en&cid=17602185841984695702&sa=title#p

$74.38
http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=84737713&utm_source=ChannelIntelligence&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Google&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=ANE169430

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do!

I still have all my X-Files episodes on homemade VHS Because 'm such a hard-core fan, I really need to hear those commentaries.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

PS: I haven't seen the "Making of the PK Wars" yet. Haven't seen PK Wars itself, actually! Don't wanna be spoiled, although I'm generally a spoiler whore.

[moaningminnie.livejournal.com]

Oh so you're watching it for the first time as well??? I'm on episode 20 of season 1, and I am a spolier fanatic also =D
John/Aeryn are just too nice together, Rygel (sp?) is hilarious and I love seeing how the crew interact with one another. I love wee documentaries like the making of... I imagine the one with this boxset would be immense.

Those prices are good. I'll need to act fast as I can't get access to lots of the eppy's I wanna watch ):