Space Above and Beyond DVD set (Amazon)

POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Sunday, March 25, 2007 23:52
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FREMDFIRMA

Friday, March 16, 2007 4:49 PM

FYI - Apparently the set is available from Amazon now.

Best Buy had an exclusive at one time, but for whatever reason my local Bastard Buy didn't even put them on the shelves and they went straight into the crusher, BB has a well-deserved horrific reputation for delivering the shaft to the customer, much like F*X.

Anyhows, bagged it on Amazon for $39.99 USD including shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Above-Beyond-Charles-Martin /dp/B000BCCAEQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1163652-9970362?ie= UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1174063474&sr=1-1
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Quick impressions of the eps.

#1 Pilot- Classic Space Opera, really pulls you in - R. Lee Ermy is his usual adorably psychotic self.

#2 Furthest Man from Home - A bit weak in storyline (much like Train Job) yet stunning cinematograhy, very emotion inspiring.

#3 Dark Side of the sun - Hell hath no fury, scary self-inflicted bad guys, the guy who plays McQueen gives us an intensity that just BURNS.

#4 Mutiny - What is it to be human ? what's worth dying for ? hard moral questions with no easy answers.

#5 Ray Butts - Very strong exposition on what makes a hardass cranky type tick, and left unspoken is the inevitable end lying in wait for them once they choose to walk that dead end path.

#6 Eyes - McCarthyism, Fear, Politics, and the dread of grunts caught in the middle of things they'd very much prefer to NOT know, or, in some cases, deserve to know and don't.

#7 The Enemy - Fear, in the persona of our very worst enemy.. ourselves.

#8 Hostile Visit - Faith in the impossible, a recurring theme for most Flans too, given our own show's history.

#9 Choice or Chance - Who we are, who THEY are, and just how little we know of these things, McQueen brings his smoldering fire to the fore in the field, dude, he's impressive.

#10 Stay with the Dead - The only episode I caught entire while SAAB was on the air, phenomenal cinematography in the realms of mental anguish, and faith in above all, each other.

#11 The River of Stars - Again, Faith as a recurring theme, and help from the most unexpected of sources, with a wild ride that must be seen to be believed.

#12 Who monitors the Birds - Awesome flashbackie goodness, much like Out of Gas, a world of exposition with very little dialogue, explaining the character of a man developed in lieu of human warmth, yet still capable of it.

#13 Level of Necessity - How much of your destiny do you really control ? a hard question and one deeply explored in this one.

#14 Never No More - Oh the tortures of "what if?".. a soldiers only moment, in any reality, is now - how then can a lasting emotional bond survive, especially in a brooding atmosphere of sudden fear due to a very lethal new threat.

#15 The Angiest Angel - Holy shit..
McQueen again brings the fire, this time on a slow fuse burn to an eventual supernova while the concept of personhood is explored, who ? why ? and what's the point ?
To do the right thing, and still not have the answers, to do the right thing even without them... unanswered questions galore.

That's about as far as I got, kinda still reeling from Episode #15 there, just freakin.. wow.

F*X needs an old school buffy type stake through the heart, for dumping this AND Firefly... wtf is wrong with them ?

-Frem

MAVOURNEEN

Friday, March 16, 2007 5:07 PM

Husband & I loved this show.
Thanks for pointing this out. Now I know what to get him for his birthday!

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STORYMARK

Friday, March 16, 2007 6:41 PM

It was a Best Buy exclusive for like 4 months, then got a general release.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

CAUSAL

Friday, March 16, 2007 6:55 PM

Thanks for the review, Frem. Been waffling on this one a long while now, but you've got me convinced that I need to own the set.

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CAUSAL

Friday, March 16, 2007 6:55 PM

Thanks for the review, Frem. Been waffling on this one a long while now, but you've got me convinced that I need to own the set.

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WILLIAMJAMESW

Friday, March 16, 2007 7:15 PM

I'm gonna have to move this set closer to the top of the pile of unwatched DVD's. I've had the set for nearly a year, but just haven't gotten around to watching them yet.
(I think I got them from BB; so the one in Port Huron, MI must have been one of the ones that displayed them.)

I could stand to hear a little more.

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, March 16, 2007 7:22 PM

Well the one in Ann Arbor sure didn't!
But then what does one expect from a store where not ONE of the NINE rebates on stuff we bought there was ever paid up ?

They have a well-earned bad rep and I won't shop there no more.

And yes, that's a hint, tho we live on the other side of the city, mind you... just south of, ironically... Canton.

*Frem hums "The hero of canton" as he strides off*

-Frem

SAFEAT2ND

Friday, March 16, 2007 7:25 PM

I liked the series too. I did find the acting wooden at times though. Still, it was definitely worth watching.

Ray Butts and Agriest Angel were two of my more favorite episodes as well.

This is definitely a series that would have gotten better as it progressed. But alas, yet another casualty of alarge corporations inability to look ahead.

Try out Starhunter too. The first season is finally going to be released as a box set in May '07 I think. I saw it on Amazon.com as well.

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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, March 16, 2007 7:32 PM

"Easy as pancakes."- Lt. Col. Raymond T. Butts, USMC

Got it last year and watched it in three days. Sits with Firefly in the non ranksble list.

SAFEAT2ND

Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:34 PM

We must have the same shelf then NVG

Along with my Battlestar Galactica TOS and the first season of the New Galactica (That I wanted SO badly not to like).

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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."

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