Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series  

After reading through the news report over at TV Shows on DVD, I was very disappointed at Universal for what is simply just a failed attempt to quickly produce a complete series set. IN the event that nobody knows what I'm talking about, the only thing Universal is doing is simply repackaging or bundling the Season 1, Season 2.0, Season 2.4, Season 3, Season 4.0 and Season 4.5 sets into a bundled collection.

For a company who went the extra length and providing fans with Knight Rider, Northern Explosure, The Incredible Hulk and Miami Vice and offered something different than just repackaging the previous releases, it shows there are no original ideas coming out of the entertainment industry,

Knight Rider, Miami Vice and Northern Exposure offered fans single sided disks in their complete collection sets where the original releases were released as double sided disks. The Incredible Hulk was simply, also, a beautiful collection.

Battlestar Galactica? All Universal did was take the current sets and just bundled them together, collected in a hard plastic container with a Cylon toy. You can see an image of the set right here:

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I'm just disappointed in Universal in this cheap attempt to pawn off a cheaply made complete series set. I half expected universal design, similar to either Miami Vice or maybe even the INcredible Hulk or Knight Rider collections.

Great job, Universal, at trashing another complete series set. Maybe they should be concentrating on an A-Team or Magnum P.I. Complete Series sets.

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I don't consider this a complete series set. All Universal did was just bundle the individual sets together. Just like what they did with Frasier, 7th Heaven, Jag, NCIS, and so on.

With Northern Exposure, Miami Vice, Incredible Hulk, Flintstones and every other complete series set, fans got something a little different. With Northern Exposure, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, fans got single sided disks. With Incredible Hulk and Knight, the CS sets were unique, just like Northern Exposure, where every disk was placed in a slimpack DVD case with special packaging to hold it in.

With Battlestar Galactica? Universal is just bundling all of the individual sets together, and slapping it together with a pretty case. It's not a complete series set and nobody should buy this set. Most of these sets simply discarded the original factory packaging and created a special case to house it in. Look at the BG set, throw in a special toy and call it a complete series set?

Sorry, but I'm not buying. I half expected some originality, possibly in the shape of the Galactica, with the DVD's similar packaged like Northern Exposure, Knight Rider and so on. I expected something a little more original.

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Apparently, everyone is confused. The set that TV Shows reported on is not a complete series set, it's merely the bundled package of all of the sets released for the series.

Also, I never said that NCIS, Jag, etc, had complete series sets. If you notice, those studios have released bundled sets of previous releases into an affordable package.

Also, I classify an actual complete series set in the same fashion as Miami Vice, Flintstones, Knight Rider, King of Queens, Seinfeld, etc.

Simply just bundling previous sets (Season 1, 2.0, 2.5, 3, 4.0 and 4.5) into a bundled package and tossing in a free toy does not make it a complete series set. It is, and I repeat, a bundled DVD package, that happens to include every factory released set for this series.

Apparently, nobody has figured out the problem I have with this. It's a bundled package, not a complete series set, despite containing every individual set release.

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Thanks, Michael. It's not my attempt to create an argument, I'm just trying to provide some ground for why I think this set is being poorly put together by Universal.

Actually, the term "Complete Series" has become synonymous in the home video industry as a 'complete collection' of an entire series that includes original packaging.

As in the case of shows like Frasier, where Paramount took all 11 seasons and bundled them together and like other shows like Star Trek Enterprise and the like. In this case, they are bundled collections, and I emphasize the word "collections."

Battlestar Galactica, the upcoming release, is merely that, a collection, it's not a complete series despite the fact that it contains every episode. You can't bundle previous releases (Season 1, 2.0, etc) together and call it a brand new release.

Universal's release of this set is like GM taking the exterior shell of a 2009 Chevy and placing it on a 2003 Chevy and calling it a brand new vehicle.

This is what Universal has done.

And, for the record, I'm not debating the term "Complete Series," I'm debating the fact that Universal is simply bundling previous season sets together, factory sealed sets of Seasons 1-4 and just repackaging them together in a fancy box and calling it a complete series set.

While it's true that, in the technical sense, that this release contains every episode, it's not, by definition of the complete series sets that have come before, a "complete series set" as defined by what has come before. Just look at the Charmed, I Love Lucy, Sanford and Son, Northern Exposure ....

I'm merely saying that while these complete series sets have mostly contained the original manufacturing DVD's, the complete series sets that have housed these DVD's had been completely redesigned, not simply re-bundled, slapped together, and calling it a complete series set.

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Corey, that's not my definition. The entertainment industry set that definition just by how complete series sets have been released before. And I have examples of this:

The Flintstones, Gilmore Girls, Little House on the Prarie, Seinfeld, Knight Rider, Northern Exposure, King of Queens, I Dream of Jeannie, Angel, Roswell, MacGyver, X-Files, Stargate SG-1 ...

Just one simple examination of the packaging shows just how the sets were put together. These sets were not bundled sets of previous releases but rather an all new packaging using just the DVD's that were manufacturered before.

I'm simply saying that the Battlestar Galactica is not that. All Universal did was just bundle the previous releases together. Come up with every explanation or excuse you want, but in the end, the Battlestar Galactica set is just that, a re-bundled collection ...