EARTH 2 (Street Date 7/19/05) (contains spoilers) (1 Viewer)

[JohnAP]

This is great news. I think this series is due a second look on dvd.

 

[Eric F]

Sweet! Can't believe I missed this thread.

 

[George Cifrancis]

Hmmm... They are releasing "Earth 2" on 3 double sided DVDs? I hope both sides are dual layer.

 

[Michael Reuben]

It's 4 discs, and yes they appear to be dual-layer. There are three episodes per side, except for side 1 which contains the double-episode pilot. Side 8 holds the final episode, plus the extras (which I haven't gotten to yet).

M.

 

[Gord Lacey]

Michael, did you notice some audio glitches in EP 2? The audio cut out and was only audible from the left speaker in two spots in the episode.

I also noticed a very odd yellow pattern in the clouds at the end of the pilot (basically the last shot). They both seem like small glitches, but a bit distracting.

Gord

 

[Michael Reuben]

Haven't played ep. 2 yet, but I'll pay attention when I do.

I saw that too, and it was interesting. It was confined to a specific area in the sky, almost as if it was intended as a special effect (but obviously it couldn't be). I wish I had a tape of an old broadcast for comparison, but maybe someone else will.

M.

 

[Scott-S]

I just noticed that Netflix has this series listed a 8 discs. How did they get the single discs? I would rather have 8 single sided discs that 3 dual sided.

 

[Gord Lacey]

Scott, any double-sided set is produced in a "rental-ready" format for rental stores. It's not available for consumers to purchase though.

Gord

 

[TroyMM]

I just ordered this from amazon.ca yesterday. It's a blind buy for me, hope it's as good as people say it is.

 

[Tom gre]

Hi
does anyone know if there where 22 or 21 eps of Earth 2?
i have just got the Earth 2 dvd set it just has 21 eps on it


thank you

 

[Michael Reuben]

It depends on how you count them. The DVD set treats the 2-hour pilot as one episode, which is why there are 21 episodes on the set.

Other listings treat the pilot as 2 episodes, which would give you a total of 22. E.g.:

http://www.epguides.com/Earth2/

M.

 

[Deb Walsh]

When the series was originally aired, the pilot was shown as a film. I think in repeat, and then in syndication (SciFI), it's been shown as two separate parts. But as originally shown, Earth 2 had 21 episodes.

I don't suppose they included the promo reel for the second season that never happened? My set's on order - one of my favorite shows. And to think I discovered it because it aired immediately before seaQuest DSV, and I'd tune in to make sure my recorder started off at the right time. :>

 

[Jeff Willis]

Hi, Troy

We're probably "biased" on this thread but it should be a sure-thing blind buy for you. I found it to be a refreshingly original idea for a SciFi series when I watched it during its original airing. I also have the DVD set coming this week.

 

[David_Blackwell]

I'm not really thrilled about how they packed the discs in this set (and the Sliders S3 one).

 

[Scott Kimball]

I would gladly pay another $5 for single-sided discs in double thinpacks. I've spoken out against 2-up packaging enough before... it is truly awful. It is user UNfriendly, and disc UNfriendly.

This type of packaging is so bad that I have avoided buying some DVDs that come packaged this way - including some other Universal product (Universal, are you listening?). I wanted Earth2 bad enough that I couldn't resist.

Picked up the set today... haven't had a chance to pop it in my player, though.

-Scott

 

[Scott-S]

Yes, I was going to buy this set but now that I see it is 2 sided, I'll just rent it from Netflix.

 

[David_Blackwell]

The disc case design isn't the best, but at least you can get the discs out easy compared to some other DVD case designs. I do wish they went with two double thinkpak cases though. I noticed the yellow patterning at the end of the first episode. I also noticed an episode (Promises, Promises) on side b of disc one had a small part that was darker and grainer than it should have been.

 

[Gord Lacey]

David, I think there's some horrible yellow "stuff" in one of the disc 2, side a episodes as well. I was watching it on my portable player, so I have to rewatch that scene on my regular TV to make sure.

Gord

 

[Douglas M]

The yellow sky was in the original broadcast. I don't know if this was done in post-production or if it's some anomoly of the New Mexico sky. You can tell it's not a DVD error because it can also be seen in the "Previously..." for episode 2.

 

[David_Blackwell]

Gord, I'll look for the yellow stuff when I watch disc two. I have just been watching three different DVDs at the moment (two TV on DVD sets and THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY).