Millennium DVD question.

Karl Hungus

I was looking at the Millennium DVDs on play.com and I was wondering about the extras on the Season 1, 2 & 3 box set and whether it will be the same as on the regular sets, like Season 1, as there doesn't seem to be any extras on the big 3 season box set or at least none announced yet.

Don't suppose anyone knows what the story is? Is it better nabbing the individual Season DVDs, or waiting for the Box Set? There's a difference of £18 in the price.

ixoy

I can't answer that, but I can give you a little heads up on R1 vs R2. The R1 packaging is a lot nicer (nicest TV boxed set I have yet) and I think the features are the same. There's also a niggling little thing that I've heard about the R2 release - namely that a copyright notice comes up before every episode rather than just at the beginning of the disc, as in the R1 release....
On the other hand I may just ignore that because there's no release date yet for the R1 Season 2 & 3 sets and I need my Frank Black to cheer me up and Lucy Butler to just do her thing...

doh.ie

ixoy wrote:

I can't answer that, but I can give you a little heads up on R1 vs R2. The R1 packaging is a lot nicer (nicest TV boxed set I have yet) and I think the features are the same. There's also a niggling little thing that I've heard about the R2 release - namely that a copyright notice comes up before every episode rather than just at the beginning of the disc, as in the R1 release....
On the other hand I may just ignore that because there's no release date yet for the R1 Season 2 & 3 sets and I need my Frank Black to cheer me up and Lucy Butler to just do her thing...

Gah! I'll be so p*ssed off if this mega box-set turns out to have additional extras. It'll be like Family Guy all over again.

I'm also starting to feel miffed I bought the R2 version - I only bought that because the extras WERE the same. Now you're telling me there is nicer packaging?!! And there I was thinking the R2 packaging was quite cool. Nooo! What folds of cardboard or fancy press-it holders am I missing out on?! Slick embossed ouroborus on the cover? It's enough to make me kidnap a bunch of teens and make them listen to the same soothing tune over and over again.

Can't wait for season two now - by far my favourite - not long to go.

And if you're missing the mysterious religious and crime mix, NBC's new Revelations should provide something of the same. I quite enjoyed the pilot at any rate, even if I dubbed it Father Dowling meets X-Files to someone at work!

ixoy

doh.ie wrote:

Gah! I'll be so p*ssed off if this mega box-set turns out to have additional extras. It'll be like Family Guy all over again.

Gah! Don't get me started either! Is this our reward? No no they wouldn't do that...

Now you're telling me there is nicer packaging?!! And there I was thinking the R2 packaging was quite cool. Nooo! What folds of cardboard or fancy press-it holders am I missing out on?! Slick embossed ouroborus on the cover?

OK the R1 package is nice and lush. The cover, I think you'll agree, is nicer.

However, what I liked was that each of the six DVDs is contained in its own slim-line DVD case. Each has its own seperate piece of art work/photograph on the cover. It's much nicer than the usual fold-out booklet form where all the discs fall over the place. It's almost making we want to hold out but seriously can I wait?

doh.ie

ixoy wrote:

Gah! Don't get me started either! Is this our reward? No no they wouldn't do that...

OK the R1 package is nice and lush. The cover, I think you'll agree, is nicer.
However, what I liked was that each of the six DVDs is contained in its own slim-line DVD case. Each has its own seperate piece of art work/photograph on the cover. It's much nicer than the usual fold-out booklet form where all the discs fall over the place. It's almost making we want to hold out but seriously can I wait?

OK, you win. The cover is way cooler. By comparison, mine is quite frankly the artistic equivalent of a finger painting.

I got a booklet in mine, though, with details of all the episodes/chapters and wot-nots - did you get that in the R1 set?

The slim-line cases sounds like what my Dead Like Me set was in. Ironically, then, imagine my surprise on opening Millennium to find two of the discs out of their holders and my freak-attack at thinking they might have scratched themselves off the plastic centre bit! (Thank God they were all OK.)

Can you hold out? Lucy is too all-powerful for that. Consider the R1 S2 set the biblical millennium and the R2 one the secular. Now, are you an Owl or a Rooster?!

Karl Hungus

Damn... Still seems to be the safest course of action is to wait and see.

I'm still itching for the show tbh! Still, late October isn't that far off.

Karl Hungus

Ok, I'm bumping this back up, because I think I've some something close to conclusive...

Look here, and they actually give you some scant details on the extras, as such:

'Millennium' episode from The X-Files Season 7. Cast and crew commentaries on selected episodes. Making-of featurettes for each season. TV ads.

It doesn't say whether it has the other featurettes, like "Chasing The Dragon" from the Season 1 set and the like, but I'm pretty interested that they have the episode from The X-Files! Should be cool indeed.

I'm looking through a few different sites atm to see if there's anything more definite about the DVD extras, but so far things look good indeed. I'll be posting more details if I find them.

TinCool

I bough the S1 and S2 R2 of Millenium, half way through S1 and have to say I'm well impressed. I only saw a handful of episodes when it was airing on TV. I love the way it's all dark and morbid, refreshing change from the happy go lucky stuff that was on TV at that time, apart may be from X Files.

2 niggling things. The copyright notice comes up for each episode and it's a pain in the ass and there's no option to watch all episodes on each disc so you have to go back to the menu to watch the next one. These aside though, it shouldn't take away from what was an excellent series.

doh.ie

Karl Hungus wrote:

It doesn't say whether it has the other featurettes, like "Chasing The Dragon" from the Season 1 set and the like, but I'm pretty interested that they have the episode from The X-Files! Should be cool indeed.

Unfortunately, the X-Files episode "Millennium" was absolutely dreadful and IMO ruined any attempt to bring the series to a decent conclusion. How Chris Carter allowed that to be produced, I'll never, ever understand.

Though, I agree for the sake of completeness, it's nice to have it - I just wish it was a lot better.

That said, there are weak episodes in season three too. For me, the series was always at its best in season two.

ixoy

TinCool wrote:

2 niggling things. The copyright notice comes up for each episode and it's a pain in the ass and there's no option to watch all episodes on each disc so you have to go back to the menu to watch the next one. These aside though, it shouldn't take away from what was an excellent series.

That's one of the reasons I'm going with the R1 releases. The copyright notice only appears once per DVD, not with each episode. That and the box actually looks a lot nicer...

On the other hand, I have to wait until January now just to get Season 2 and there's no announcement date for the third season..

doh.ie wrote:

Unfortunately, the X-Files episode "Millennium" was absolutely dreadful and IMO ruined any attempt to bring the series to a decent conclusion. How Chris Carter allowed that to be produced, I'll never, ever understand.

Agreed. What angered me was that they pretty much mocked Frank Black by having him treated as half insane. He deserved a lot more respect. Never mind the fact that it turned into a cheap "Resident Evil" rip-off or did nothing to tackle the larger Good vs. Evil fight that Frank Black was involved in, most prominently against Lucy Butler. And then to end it with a stupid cheesy kiss... GRRR....

doh.ie

ixoy wrote:

Agreed. What angered me was that they pretty much mocked Frank Black by having him treated as half insane. He deserved a lot more respect. Never mind the fact that it turned into a cheap "Resident Evil" rip-off or did nothing to tackle the larger Good vs. Evil fight that Frank Black was involved in, most prominently against Lucy Butler. And then to end it with a stupid cheesy kiss... GRRR....

Now that would have been an ending. If the show had had to go the way it had, and the opportunity for an X-Files resolution had been presented, it should have been a two (or multi) -parter, which would have had Mulder and Scully alongside Frank looking at the true nature of Lucy Butler. Would have been amazing. If handled well, it wouldn't even have been confusing or inaccessible to regular X-F viewers.

You're spot on - the 'Resident Evil' plot, completely with not-scary zombies was just a kick in the face to the show as we knew it (even season 3 style)
and remains to me the most unfathomable piece of executive producing I have ever seen in my life.

So, no word on a s3 release...? Hmm. I was hoping to have it for Christmas. I may have to buy season two R2 anyway (and yet, the cases... think of the individual cases!) simply because I like to watch "Midnight of the Century" at Christmas, and I don't want to resort to my Network 2 recording...! (I really should be thankful this is the height of my dilemmas at the moment, but eh...)

Karl Hungus

Ok, the box set has arrived, and it's got all the extras identical to the individual ones. Though a few people might like to know.