Groening appears on just two commentaries, and barely says anything on one of them. Sound like they were recorded earlier than usual. Even fewer cast appearances on the commentaries than usual. Few special features. Extremely weak season, with lame attempts at defending the worst episodes/sequences. Stupid, stupid packaging.
This is my last Simpsons DVD purchase.
Trevor Smithson wrote:
The commentaries were recorded in September, 2007 (somebody mentions that it's right before the Emmys, and somebody else mentions the "upcoming" film "WALL-E"). It's possible that they were in a rush to get as much done as possible before the writers' strike started two months later, and commentaries were not exactly a high priority.
-- Don
I'm sorry, but anyone who paid full price for the S11 DVD set is a fucking moron.
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 at 20:46:27, Trevor Smithson wrote in alt.tv.simpsons :
Which season are you referring to, BTW?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:11:27 GMT, Paul Hyett wrote:
I assume it could only be 11. Personally, I wasn't as upset as this guy with it (the commentaries on S10 were worse, IMO), but it *is* kind of a weirdly slapped-together set: commentaries recorded nearly a year before release, a relative lack of extras such as no "a bit from the animators" pieces, terrible packaging that seems to have won all sorts of "worst dvd packaging ever" awards... (Something tells me *that* gets changed again before S12.)
But...even though it's not quite what I would have hoped for (especially considering how long we had to wait for it), I still think the Simpsons sets are consistently among the best TV-on-DVD releases in the business (hell, with most TV sets you're lucky to get a commentary on even one episode).
-lugnut
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 at 13:59:14, lugnut wrote in alt.tv.simpsons :
I only got S11 very recently (simply because no-one mentioned it was out in the UK yet) - and I didn't think much of the packaging either. The only worse packaging I can think of was Buffy S2.
"Trevor Smithson" wrote in message news:[email]...
Reached their peak with season 8, I think. 9 was poor 10 worse.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 at 10:34:30, [email] wrote in alt.tv.simpsons :
Well, there'll be at least another 9 DVD sets to come...
Trevor Smithson wrote:
I lied when I said the tenth was going to be my last. Now I plan to stop at 12.
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