God I hate the SciFi Channel

[Atrocities]

Imperator Fyron said:
Most of the boxed sets I have seen are 70-80 dollars a season...

Man your really over paying if that is the case. I paid $44.00 for Season 1 of BSG, and about $45.00 apeace for all seven seasons of SG1 that I have. The same for B5, Crusader, 24, and the Saprano's.

Firefly was only $25.00, as was Space Above and Beyond.

The only series that know of that cost near or over a $100.00 are the Star Trek ones..... trying to bilk the fan ala Paramount style.

[Will]

Atrocities said:
The only series that know of that cost near or over a $100.00 are the Star Trek ones..... trying to bilk the fan ala Paramount style.

Farscape. Although to be fair, the production budget for Farscape was huge, bigger than the standard TV production by far, and a good deal bigger than a standard scifi TV production. It got cancelled for a combination of competition and cost, and they need to try to get their investment back.

I don't really watch TV, and haven't for four years now (since I started university), so I guess I have a little different view on the length of "seasons". As far as I'm concerned, a "season" is good in a scifi show if it has some sort of story arc that it follows, if it's multi-episode subplots have some sort of relation to the overall story (single-episode subplots are exempt, since they are usually comic relief), and if the conclusion of the "season" ties up the arc, but leaves more questions. Length, to me, is irrelevant.

I think part of the problem AT's got here is a mistake in marketing for the DVDs. If SciFi decided to call the two parts of a "season" Series A and Series B, and sold it that way, then there wouldn't be a problem, because they avoid the association everyone has with "season". I think they tried to do that by calling it "Battlestar Gallactica Season 2.0", with the second half presumably being called "Season 2.1", but that's not obvious from the start, and a lot of people probably think it's a computer software reference ("Hey, Cylons are robots, computers! Get it?!"), and the marketing team probably thought that too, but didn't think of the reaction to half of a "season" as everyone else sees it.