This Week in Geek (18-24/08/14)

Buys

DVDs on the cheap: I Heart Huckabees, The Jacket, Under the Skin, and because I'm assembling a more complete time travel movie collection, Peggy Sue Got Married and Somewhere in Time. Also got a couple books: José Saramago's Cain and Canadian best-seller Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes.

"Accomplishments"

DVDs: The only thing I flipped this week is Babylon 5's Season 2 DVD set (The Coming of Shadows), and the content has already been sufficiently reviewed this past month. So let's talk DVD package and extras. As for the rest of the B5 DVD sets, there are important widescreen issues, but it adds to its crimes against the series some truly monstrous character morphs in the menus. Commentary tracks were recorded for three episodes, two by JMS and one by the cast (it's pretty fun). The featurettes include an introduction to the season, a "from script to screen" making of, and a "how to manipulate fans into getting you a Hugo Award" (not actual title, but it's a JMS ego-fest). Through these, we get to hear from a great many people from the cast and crew, but I must warn against spoilers about future seasons. Minimal and broad, but still there. As with the previous boxed set, there are video files on people, concepts and technology of dubious value, though I like the addition of a Babylon 5 universe timeline (still, might it not have been better at the very end?). And of course, all of the hilariously misleading trailers for each episode are included as before.

So what did I do with the rest of my week? Well, work stuff, mostly, and rewatched all of Veronica Mars, which the film inspired me to do. What's the point of owning all these DVDs if I never rewatch anything, right?

Hyperion to a Satyr posts this week:
V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - Fodor (2007)