I’ve had some time this week to check out the 5 disc edition of Blade Runner: Final Cut. It’s worthy of mention here as it’s packed with more high quality special features than I have ever seen in a DVD before. Every conceivable version of the movie is here, the documentary Dangerous Days is outstanding and the features disc goes into even more detail. The “Final Cut” of the movie is fantastic and feels like the Blade Runner that Scott had always intended to make.
I thought Lord of the Rings had milked as much as possible with their 4 disc release per film but this just blows that away.
I was discussing the potential of the Star Wars live action TV show the other day and wondered where George Lucas would be drawing his inspiration for how it should be structured and presented. I’d hoped Battlestar obviously but was pleasantly surprised to see this on Slashfilm this morning,
“Some of the characters from the features find their way in there, so it’s not completely divorced. It’s as if we just went down the street and told a different story. You know, we were doing, I don’t know, 24, and now we’re going to move down the street here and do The Wire. Same thing, it’s just different people doing the same thing in the same city.”
Yes he said THE WIRE, everybody’s favourite Baltimore based drug busting masterpiece. My expectations have significantly increased in the hopes they can pull off a character driven tightly nit story. I’m just glad he is aware of some of the best contemporary TV out there, we don’t need another Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
The 90 minute season finale of BSG was everything we could have hoped for and more. I have never seen a show jump a year ahead and then continue the story line without batting an eye lid. Many shows such as Star Trek would jump about in the timeline but that was for one off episodes and they’d be right back in the present the next week.
It’s a testament to the quality of the writing and the characters that we have seen develop over the past few years that Ron Moore was able to accomplish such a feat successfully. Everything was in place, Baltar’s colonisation plans were doomed to fail and all the character’s relationships were in lined up and holding firm.
It certainly has huge implications for the next season which may or may not wind up on NBC proper in October. It’s going to be a totally different show and I can see it having more of a secret rebelious feel to it rather than the huge space battles we are used to. There’s only a skeleton crew manning the fleet so it will be a while before we see that sort of thing again.
As for the potential move to NBC there are arguements for and against. On the plus side more people are going to see the show and with NBC comes HD, rather than the god awful quality that is being used in the first runs at the moment. On the flip side the season is going to start much later and there will be more ratings pressure making it more likely to fail and get canceled on that network.
Personally I believe it should be moved to NBC as the iTunes downloads and DVD sales can more than make up for any lost revenue from ratings. The gains of HD and an increase in the budget would allow the already epic series to ascend to new heights.
Roll on October.
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