A Few Words About A few words about...™ South Park: The Complete Seventeenth Season -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

The guys on South Park should hire RAH to join their writing staff...

RAH forgot the nuanced performance of Richard Barthelmess in Broken Blossoms.
South Park and DW Griffith...who would have ever made the connection...

Interesting, never saw comments like this about the SP BDs before. Of all the TV series I watch on disc (quite a few...), SP is the only one available on BD that I still buy on DVD, didn't think there would be much diff. [I have up to S15 so far on DVD, been waffling on the S16/17 BDs.]

OT and FWIW and IMO/E, there are so many current (or just ended) TV series that are just barely superior on BD compared to on DVD. I know...I'm one of the suckers who "upgraded" and has both. "Poor" BDs vs good DVDs... To be honest, I don't expect "good" of either format from the barrel-bottom Comedy Central so perhaps I previously read others' comments on the BDs with a distinct negative bias (or more pointedly, the other reviewers share my bias).

Kevin EK said:

The guys on South Park should hire RAH to join their writing staff...

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In terms of quality South Park is by far the most inconsistent show that I have ever seen. They will have an all time great episode and follow up with one that feels like it's intentionally unfunny.They obviously know more about making a successful show than I do, but bringing in a staff of full time writers seems like a better plan than winging it one week at a time.

Carl Johnson said:

In terms of quality South Park is by far the most inconsistent show that I have ever seen. They will have an all time great episode and follow up with one that feels like it's intentionally unfunny.They obviously know more about making a successful show than I do, but bringing in a staff of full time writers seems like a better plan than winging it one week at a time.

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Yeah, I love the show but there's definitely times when I think if they had spent more than a week working on an idea, it would have resulted in a better episode. I guess that's the price you have to pay when the show gets made week to week and can be very current when they choose to be.

I have to agree. I hate to be one of "those" people, but the new episodes are really way too current, and I shudder to think of how many will be completely incomprehensible twenty years from now. By 2050, i could see video and text companions meant to help contextualize every reference, sort of like reading a James Joyce novel, but much less rewarding.

South Park was and is at its best when Matt and Trey are not ripping from the headlines, and instead focusing on the quirky and lovable characters they created. And yes, I know that sounds like a paid quote, but it's definitely true.

I also didn't care for the Six Days to Air special, which to me, implied that these guys work so hard and suffer for their show, when in reality, the show is only made that way because they choose to make it that way. They don't have to rush each episode in less than a week, and they don't have to rush 18 (or heaven forbid, 10) episodes in so many weeks. Hell, it's pretty obvious Comedy Central would give them a year (and probably more) to deliver a season of so many episodes, but instead, Matt and Trey choose to cram, and force their colleagues to cram, so they can focus on whatever for 40-45 weeks a year.

Since starting South Park, Matt and Trey have largely done: Four movies, a short-lived live-action sitcom, and after 2004, one musical (they also wrote the plot for the new South Park video game). Sure, they've worked, and their product otherwise is generally top quality, but it certainly seems like they have had copious free time on their hands every year for several years, and I've often wondered what they do with it. Personally, I'd like to see more of it put into creating more, and better, episodes of South Park.