DVD Diffs *spoiler alert* S3.2 "May"
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Originally posted by thefrey:
What in the heck is their problem?!? They are crazy.
Oh yeah, we were all pretty peeved ’round these parts. I forgot to mention that not only was it just 38 pages long, it was 38 *tiny* pages long. Not your standard trade paperback size. It was essentially a slightly thicker DVD insert. Would have fit easily into the slipcase. Small. Meaning that there wasn’t a lot of room for words. One argument was that doing an episode guide for all 4 seasons was too “definitive,” and that if we were going to do a guide for this box set, that we should just limit ourselves to S2 episodes. Which, of course, made all the sense in the world, considering that we’d be then providing a guide to episodes on DVDs that the customer would have already had — you could just read the descriptions on the backs of the DVD cases and get about as much information as I was allowed to convey, so what good would it have done? Oh, and let me not forget that it really would have been only 36 actual pages of episode guide stuff, as 2 pages were devoted to an introduction by Paul Donovan. Plus, there were the pictures (tiny pictures, but still) and the 4 pages of season overviews, so we’re really looking at roughly 30 pages of episode synopses. 30 pages to discuss 61 episodes (65 if you count the movies as 2 eps worth). And they were concerned that it would be construed as merchandise that had worth on its own. I mean, really, I’m surprised that the trading cards have happened in as quick and efficient manner as they have (note: “quick and efficient” is, of course, a relative term).
–Aleck
[ 14-08-2002: Message edited by: Aleck ]