HIGHLA-L Digest - 6 Oct 2004 to 7 Oct 2004 (#2004-187)
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1. CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question (2)
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:20:59 -0400
From: Heidi <heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question
From: kageorge <kageorge@erols.com>
They have frequently missed the boat on commentary on the dvds.
How do you mean? While some have been sparce (like Jim B's one for
Archangel) most of the ones I remember were decent. Some better then
others, but most tended to have information you wouldn't know just
by watching the episode itself. Or am I forgetting things because I
haven't watched them for awhile? I do vaguely remember one from a
different season, which I think was also a Donna Letow one, that had
almost no information but I don't remember offhand which it was.
From: Ashton7@AOL.COM
Obviously, the great majority of people buying DVDs would have never
attended a convention so they wouldn't have heard any commentary about
*any* of the episodes.
I agree. I could see them maybe not wanting to duplicate things said
in the interviews on the `Best Of' set, but there's alot more that
could be said about the episodes.
And the 100th episodes and such pivotal ones certainly should have
had special commentaries on them.
Even regular ones, rather then `special' would have been fine. If
they wanted to waste an episode commentary by kidding around and
putting it down, it would have been better to do it on a comedy
episode rather then waste two important ones. As for `special'
they did have what they called an "Alternate Cut" of CAH/Rev 6:8.
(which is where the audio commentary is.) It's actually just a
rough cut of the episodes without music and effects. I think there
were only two scenes in it that weren't in the complete episode.
And some of the scenes seem like they may have been a different
take then was used in the complete one, but the scene itself was
the same.
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(heidi@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:39:27 -0400
From: kageorge <kageorge@erols.com>
Subject: Re: CAH/Rev6:8 DVD commentary question
Heidi wrote:
> From: kageorge <kageorge@erols.com>
> They have frequently missed the boat on commentary on the dvds.
>
>How do you mean? While some have been sparce (like Jim B's one for
>Archangel) most of the ones I remember were decent. Some better then
>others, but most tended to have information you wouldn't know just
>by watching the episode itself. Or am I forgetting things because I
>haven't watched them for awhile? I do vaguely remember one from a
>different season, which I think was also a Donna Letow one, that had
>almost no information but I don't remember offhand which it was.
>
>
I have been posting written commentary on each episode as I view them,
and there have been several episodes where I felt major issues were
ignored. For instance, I recall that the director of "Courage" did the
majority of the commentary for that episode, and talked about it being
an anti-drug episode, when that wasn't the core message at all. It was
about how the stress of being an Immortal ate away at the soul, and how
different people deal with it differently. That's just one example of
many times substantive issues that would have been fascinating to
explore from the series' creators/writers/producers, but were not
touched upon.
What they should have done for the Horsemen episodes was something
similar to what they did for "Something Wicked/"Deliverance", where they
had a whole section of outtakes and commentary at the end of that
season's disks.
MacG
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