The magic of DVD collections

posted by Jeff | Sunday, December 28, 2003, 11:33 AM | comments: 2
We got a couple of great DVD collections this Christmas. Stephanie bought me the Indiana Jones box set. It's amazing how good it looks and sounds since being remastered. The Indy movies are probably some of my favorites of all time. Indy always seemed so bad ass to me in more of a genuine way than any of the other heroes out there at the time. Hell, I even used "Jones" as my radio name.

The special features are neat because they dug up all kinds of old crap and combined it with current interviews of the actors, as well as Lucas and Spielberg. Raiders of The Lost Ark was in particular a pretty serious technical achievement for the time.

I bought Steph the Alias first season. It's interesting how I got drawn into that show. Prior to the airing of the pilot, ABC did heavy advertising for the show, especially billboards, that had little more than the title and Jennifer Garner in the bright red hair that she used to get out of the country in that episode. I thought that was pretty hot, so I watched the show.

As it turns out, she's pretty hot all of the time, which is weird because I'm not usually into the athletic types. But she kicks ass and you really can't help but feel for her character. She plays it in such a way that her soul is obviously a good one, but she's surrounded by all of this darkness and evil at all times.

What amazes me about the show, now in its third season, is that the writing is obviously fleshed out in a general sense at least a season in advance. They haven't yet written themselves into a corner in the way that other shows have (Dark Angel and La Femme Nikita come to mind). There's always a bigger picture, and when you see that picture, it absolutely blows you away. I hope the show continues a few more seasons.

Personally, I'd like to get the first two seasons of 24 as well. That's the other show I'm hooked on, but God only knows when I'd have time to watch all of that. We have all of the released Futurama episodes, and we have the first Family Guy set. We have the entire Robotech series, but haven't cracked open any of the episodes beyond the Macross saga (it's hard to watch a lot of Japanese anime in short periods of time).


Comments

Stephanie

December 29, 2003, 12:49 AM # Damn, we need to buckle down and watch some Robotech.

And buy more stuff. Yeah, stuff.

gregleg

December 29, 2003, 5:09 PM # Ah yes, Family Guy. Excellent little show. I've heard that the DVDs are selling far better than expected, to the point where there's talk of bringing the show back. I find that humorous somehow -- Fox didn't know what to do with it (a show that was offensive even for Fox?!?) and now it's a success AFTER cancellation...

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