Here’s a problem:
A TV show box set of the first season sells poorly because the first season sucks. Everyone wants to buy the later seasons when the show rocked, but the distributor figures people just aren’t interested in the show. Instead of putting out Season 2, they release a cheapie collection of “favorite” episodes which must have been grabbed at random and one of the episodes is even a repeat from the Season 1 box set. There’s even a cliffhanger shown without the conclusion! The TVShowsOnDVD people say the makers are gauging the response to determine whether to sell the other seasons.
Now: Do you buy this cheapie to support the show, even though it will just be duplicates of episodes you would rather own on the season sets, or do you angrily protest and demand a season set?
Oh, the agony of being a Night Court fan. I want them to get up to those “marathon” episodes where the court would race through a docket of 250 wacky cases by midnight for some contrived reason or another. (The best one had a cameo by, of all people, Wile E. Coyote.)
“What’s your favorite case from Night Court?” is our Question of the Week on the Forum.
2 responses to “To buy or not to buy”
I’m still waiting for the first season of The Smurfs to be released on video, which was one of the best seasons.
Sing it, brother! I am also a huge Night Court fan, I rejoiced when Season 1 came out and bought it immediately. This “best-of” set (which is not even remotely the best of Night Court) pisses me off. I got screwed over with this double-dipping on South Park, and I won’t be burned again. Either they give us full seasons or they don’t, but I’m not putting money in their pockets for this. Either they’ll put out season sets…which means I’ll have the episodes on this disk anyway…or they won’t, which means that my purchase didn’t do squat as far as “gauging the response.” Let them do market research on their dime. If they want me to sign a contract saying that they’re guaranteed my money when they put out more seasons, I’ll happily sign it. But I won’t be their sucker to buy this on the vague non-promise of hopefully more to come.
It’s especially galling that they couldn’t be bothered to make all the episodes on this DVD new-to-DVD ones! No, one of these “TV Favorites” is already on the season 1 DVD set, so it’s already a double dip!