Comments | ivy03: And the award for dumbest packaging goes to...

ivy03

And the award for dumbest packaging goes to...

Jan 05, 2006 00:12

And the award for dumbest packaging goes to ... Alliance Atlantis ( Read more... )

due south

Comments 9

edgehopper January 5 2006, 05:34:42 UTC

Oh, it definitely does. But good luck finding a lawyer to take your case :)

chuckro January 5 2006, 13:56:12 UTC

Obviously, you'd have to find a lawyer who likes Due South.

ivy03 January 5 2006, 15:14:15 UTC

I really feel like starting a petition of due South fans to Alliance protesting the lack of CKR on the box. After all, he's the reason most of the fans I know would buy the set.

trinityvixen January 5 2006, 06:13:27 UTC

I couldn't follow, but RAH RAH RAH on your behalf.

ivy03 January 5 2006, 15:13:05 UTC

I also find it ridiculous that if the box advertises season 1 and it's season 3 inside I can't return it. Dumb copyright laws.

trinityvixen January 5 2006, 15:21:31 UTC

Well, there's always piracy as an option--sometimes, the only one.

Caveat emptor! ecmyers January 5 2006, 06:22:13 UTC

If you check your DVDs you'll see that the Canadian and US DVDs were released by different companies. In Canada, the last season was broken into 3 and 4, but in the US, they aired as one complete season 3, thus the difference between DVD boxsets. The US releases from Alliance include the pilot in the first season set (imagine that) instead of in season 3, as they do in the Canadian release (where I think they had licensing issues ( ... )

Re: Caveat emptor! ivy03 January 5 2006, 15:12:24 UTC

In Canada, the last season was broken into 3 and 4, but in the US, they aired as one complete season 3

That's what I figured, which is why I bought it. It makes sense to be aired as one season, with "Mounty on the Bounty" as the sweeps week two-parter, especially since Vecchio says in "Call of the Wild" that he's been gone a year. That explains why the set was labeled season 3, but it still doesn't explain the shocking lack of CKR on the packaging.

I'm not a fan of the Canadian sets either, really, with their double-sided discs in overlapping packaging. One of my season 1 discs started to crack from the force needed to remove it from the packaging (I've now transfered them to other cases). I'm enough of a videophile that I'd like to get the Canadian season 4 at some point, but it wasn't in the budget and I wanted to watch CotW, so I stooped to the American set.

Why can't they package these things better? due South was one of the first shows I remember going to DVD, but it's always had the worst packaging.

dotsomething January 11 2006, 01:41:53 UTC

Wow, that is messed up.