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[yendi]

So, I can either buy two half-seasons of 30 Rock for $18.89 a pop (or $26.98, going by list price), or I can snag the complete Season 1, on the same release date, for $32.49 ($49.98 list)?

I mean, I understand shows breaking things up by season (no one should be forced to own season 5 of Babylon 5, after all), but by half-season? Why?

Comments

[yendi]

Mine's actually at about $15 (although it can go up to $20 under the right circumstances). But I also have a quality/value standard for impulse buying, and I can't imagine grabbing a half-season of anything on impulse.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Guessing here, but ... for the same reason that they still sell Stargate SG-1 in individual five-episode discs and full season sets when the full season set is a fraction of the price.

For me, being able to split up the cost of a purchase into more manageable chunks at only a slight price increase is worth it. I'm more likely to have $20 to spare four times than I am $75 to spare once.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

no one should be forced to own season 5 of Babylon 5, after all

I actually do own season 5 of Bab 5 - somebody gave it me - but I've never watched it; I stalled halfway through season 4, despite my insistence that it's my favourite-ever SF TV series. Do I gather that I was right to do so...?

[digriz.livejournal.com]

The problem with Season 5 is that it shouldn't really exist in the form that it does.

When it appeared that Babylon 5 would be canceled after Season 4, JMS took some shortcuts to wrap up things as best as possible by the end of S4 (instead of stretching it out to a 5th season, like he originally planned). So, when it was renewed for Season 5, he had to stretch the remaining half-season of material to a whole season, making it rather uneven.

Besides, there's no Ivanova. What's B5 without Ivanova?

[yendi]

Actually, if you only watch Day of the Dead and the final episode, you can enjoy it. Likewise, if you just skip the entire first half of the season (everything involving the telepath war), ignore anything done with Lyta or Lennier in the second half, and lower your expectations, it's decently watchable. Almost.

But really. Just stick to DotD and the finale (which was filmed at the end of Season 4, before JMS had mastered the art of sucking).

[yendi]

I see that a lot with sci-fi shows (Farscape comes to mind as well), but this is the first time I've seen it with a network sitcom.

I also have a very serious problem with the pricing structure that the sci-fi shows use (and blame Star Trek and X-Files for setting the trend there).

That said, you do know how cheap the Legendary Heroes site (the official one for Xena/Herc/Highlander/Stargate) has SG-1 for, right?

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i stopped the boxed dvd sets of B5 at Season 4.
The show had pretty much everything wrapped up by then
and i wasn't really interested in the telepath wars almost spin-off
eps of season 5 (which i vaguely remember seeing some of on tv)

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

Family Guy split a season in two (Fox of course)

[poobah103.livejournal.com]

Farscape drives me nuts with that. It's worse that their DVD's are so hard to find. I am gradually collecting the entire series, fifteen bucks at a time. I'm sure I could just order the entire series online somewhere for a fraction of what I will have eventually paid for it, but I'm so far along at this point that there's basically no turning back now.

Welllll,

[hinj.livejournal.com]

...it worked for Battlestar Galactica (new version).