Space: Above & Beyond - On it's way to DVD at last!

Karl Hungus

From www.tvshowsondvd.com

You've heard the rumors that Space: Above and Beyond will be coming to DVD, and... well... it's not here. Good news though; it is coming, and it's coming very soon - this summer.

Space: Above and Beyond is a title that Best Buy will have an exclusive on for a period of time, much like Tru Calling: Season 2 (which has vanished from the BB website for an unknown reason), and some titles from other studios. After this exclusive period ends we'll see it at for sale at other retailers, so if you don't have a Best Buy in your area then don't panic, you'll get the set. Since this title is an exclusive, information may be difficult to obtain until it's announced for sale elsewhere, but we'll do some digging and report whatever we find.

We've been teased by rumors for years, but this is finally happening!

So, it'll still be a while off yet, but oh yes! It is finally on it's way!

FX Meister

Good, I've yet to see the final episode and have never caught it on repeat.

gorm

finally.....maybe...

CiDeRmAn

Mother of God, this show sucked big time, I was unfortunate to watch it the first time around, Pen Densham was one of the movers behind it and has a legacy of rubbish tv in his wake, the likes of The Outer Limits and others, just look at his CV by googling him and see what i mean.
Well if I get a gift of it at least I will have a new set of coasters for my table, yes its true there is always a silver lining!

Lemming

Karl Hungus wrote:

So, it'll still be a while off yet, but oh yes! It is finally on it's way!

In the meantime I have a fan-based DVD set to keep me happy

Karl Hungus

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Mother of God, this show sucked big time, I was unfortunate to watch it the first time around, Pen Densham was one of the movers behind it and has a legacy of rubbish tv in his wake, the likes of The Outer Limits and others, just look at his CV by googling him and see what i mean.
Well if I get a gift of it at least I will have a new set of coasters for my table, yes its true there is always a silver lining!

Jesus...

First of all, Pen Densham had nothing to do with Space Above And Beyond, it was the brainchild of Glen Morgan and James Wong, and second of all, what the hell is wrong with The Outer Limits? That was fantastic!

dudara

I loved this show, it really had watching it religiously. That's a definite must-buy then when the DVDs eventually come out

TonyD79

""Originally Posted by CiDeRmAn
Mother of God, this show sucked big time, I was unfortunate to watch it the first time around""

I wonder what u think of the new BSG??? both are very similar (they took Space above...and the original BSG and you have a hit) i thought it was good scfi certainly better than crap like firefly,farescape,andromena etc

Riamfada

As far as I remember It was a fantastic show. The aliens were original. Unlike Star Trek they did not all speak fluent english. They were realtivly mysterious and looked damn evil. The space battles were also much more realistic. I saw the last episode and what an unpredictable ending. Again contrasted to Star Trek , it wasnt a show with a happy ending where everyone's problems are solved and we all learn a valuable lesson about life at the end of each episode. It was however a desperate stuggle for survival against an powerful foe that didnt end like so many other sci-fi "humanity will prevail" rubbish.

PS it has been about 5-7 years so Im a bit hazy but the chick, with the black hair was a babe!

http://topkool.free.fr/images_seriestv/space2063_05.jpg

http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~bytehead/chiglets.html

Karl Hungus

TonyD79 wrote:

i thought it was good scfi certainly better than crap like firefly,farescape,andromena etc

How ****ing DARE you lump Firefly and Farscape in with Andromeda! You disgust me, sir!

Riamfada

I forgot how much I loved these bad guys. The best in any sci-fi series for these reasons,

Chigs fear their dead. They also appear to fear our dead too. They rip our eyes and our hearts out if they find our dead bodies.

We don't know what they look like outside of their suits. Exposure to our air turns them into a green gelatinous substance.

(Glen Morgan!) that the Chigs have been watching the Humans for some time now.

Chigs don't like the smell of our blood. This has been brought in two episodes Choice or Chance and Who Monitors the Birds. According to the AIs, the Chigs call us Red Stink Creatures

azezil

Karl Hungus wrote:

How ****ing DARE you lump Firefly and Farscape in with Andromeda! You disgust me, sir!

Hear hear, Andromeda's twice the show those other two slop buckets are!!

Shabadu

\o/ i'm going to be playing the theme music in my brain all day.

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mjquinno

Excellent i watched that show Pity it was cancelled..

lemming where did you get your fan DVD box set jobby? download?

ixoy

Lemming wrote:

In the meantime I have a fan-based DVD set to keep me happy

Ah I have that too. Fan-based DVDs for show like "American Gothic" and "Nowhere Man" are useful when they're not in the shops...

Lemming

mjquinno wrote:

lemming where did you get your fan DVD box set jobby? download?

Got it off a bloke in the UK. I'll need to find the url again. very professionally done. Beautiful box artwork for all six DVD cases. Basic menus for selecting episodes, but well worth it

TonyD79

firefly,farscape,andromena give scfi a bad name how they managed to last more than a season is a disgrace when u consider quality shows like american gothic,nowhere man,john doe,space above and beyond ...the list goes on get canceled

ixoy

TonyD79 wrote:

firefly,farscape,andromena give scfi a bad name

Sorry, stop right there. How, please tell me how they gave sci-fi a bad name? Was it the Best Syndicated TV show Saturn award that 'Farscape' won 3 times? Maybe that's the bad name you're referring to?

Or was it the criticall acclaimed 'Firefly' that's actually gotten life in 'Serenity'?

Please explain how these two shows gave sci-fi a bad name and allow me to unclench my puny fists...

TonyD79

cause their crap

Karl Hungus

TonyD79 wrote:

cause their crap

Well who can argue with such a well prosed, intelligent and thought out arguement like that? :rolleyes:

Riamfada

Karl Hungus wrote:

Well who can argue with such a well prosed, intelligent and thought out arguement like that? :rolleyes:

In all fairness they dont deserve a well prosed , intelligent and thought out arguement . They are crap. Sorry.

ixoy

Grimes wrote:

In all fairness they dont deserve a well prosed , intelligent and thought out arguement . They are crap. Sorry.

Were either of you on a debating team? Just curious....

Can you try and pinpoint it down further and why S:AAB was better?
If you say "puppets" I'll probably roll my eyes back until I see my optic nerves.

If you say "characters", I'd ask how you think the characters of 'Firefly' are possibly less interesting than S:AAB, because the former has lots of quirky humour. Or how the oddball grouping of 'Farscape' characters - from deposed king to insane schizophrenic human to leather bound multi-racial maniac - are less developed or creative than a military unit (whom I likd, as it happened).

If you say SFX, I'll assume you've just never seen 'Farscape' and its lush set design and set pieces or the wonderful flight sequences in 'Firefly', both of whom have had years of technology to build on since S:AAB fell by the wayside.

If you say long storylines, I'll grant you 'Firefly' only was just getting ramped up, but I'll then smack you across the face for ignoring 'Farscape' multi-year arcs.

If you say individual storylines, I'll ask how is it one show can have an animated segment episode AND another episode with deeply brooding thoughts on individuality and yet still have both remain true to the show? How can such range be "crap"?

.... So come on, wherein lies the fault?

azezil

Far too much humour in Farscape for my liking, the aliens look ridiculous and implausible.
- A floating mass of fat, how could that survive long enough to obtain sentience.
- Dargo's nose... nuff said.
- Criton can't act, American jock fun boy.
- I liked the plant woman
- That other muppet who has to do a dance when she talks... o_Ó
- The pilot, ok I'll tolerate him
- The ship is booooooring

And i just plane don't like firefly, its like the wild west in space.

ixoy

azezil wrote:

Far too much humour in Farscape for my liking, the aliens look ridiculous and implausible.

See at least you gave reasons, which is fair enough. However, do you not get sick of Trek's policy whereby aliens are all tiresome bipeds that look like humans bar a pronounced forehead or nose or somesuch? There's not much imagination going on there at all. Do you not think it's possible that aliens will look different to us? Always found it incredibly egotistical of humanity to assume our extra-terrestial cousins would resemble us.

azezil

Oh i fully agree aliens, if they exist, will most likely look nothing like us, just didn't like how they look in farscape

As for star trek's aliens, there was an episode that explained that in TNG, there was a parent race who planted their genetic code throughtout the galaxy, the episode featured, human's, romulan's, cardassians and klingon's, and no doubt accounts for many of the other races. So

toiletduck

oh man, i loved s:a&b, it's been many years since i've seen it though...

ixoy

azezil wrote:

As for star trek's aliens, there was an episode that explained that in TNG, there was a parent race who planted their genetic code throughtout the galaxy, the episode featured, human's, romulan's, cardassians and klingon's, and no doubt accounts for many of the other races. So

Yup, there was. It was 6x20 - "The Chase" and I'm aware of it as a very very lame excuse by the Trek writers. If I remember it correctly after making the discovery, a discovery that should shock the core foundations and belief systems of all their civilizations, they just ignore it/forget it and walk home...

Any show you saw where you thought they did a good example of an alien beyond pointy years? I quite liked the imagination of 'Farscape' but it's not for everyone. There must be a few others who did aliens creatively..

Lex_Diamonds

Space: A&B pilot was good, but it went downhill fast after that, with sappy human stories about the arseholes in that unit. Even the grey haired captain dude was a damn pussy.

Starship Troopers: Roughnecks is a far better execution of the same thing

azezil

Species 8472, the xindi, the think tank... They do occasionally throw in some unique aliens.

ixoy

azezil wrote:

Species 8472, the xindi, the think tank... They do occasionally throw in some unique aliens.

Meh not Trek, although the crystalline entity was decent enough. Spieces 8472 got ruined, I felt, by being too easily defeated although they were at least a little different.

Actually, S:AAB did aliens decently enough in the Chigs. I'm not really talking about appearance, but more their attitude. Too often the alien cultures react and think too much like humans, which makes little to no sense: why Klingons would independently develop a variant of opera or poetry, et cetera is a bit puzzling. That and they tend to be one-tone species: e.g. Klingons are warriors whereas humans are warriors, poets, scientists, etc. More diverse in general (yes, I know Torres was an engineer but she wasn't a proper Klingon, nor was Wolf ).

So appearance aside, it's hard to get aliens who think differently. 'Stargate' at least tried it a little there in the episode 'Small Victories' where the advanced race, the Asgard, employ a human because they think completely different and might see a solution the Asgard can't. Mentalities and states of mind are often overlooked or gotten around by shouting "hive mind! gestalt entity!" And then there were the alien mindsets of the Vorlons and Shadows in Babylon 5 who thought very differently to the younger races.

azezil

There was also a Klingon scientist in TNG and Klingon Lawyer in DS9 :P

Karl Hungus

ibanez

Nice sleeve.Also can anyone tell me what is the connection between Star Trek and the SA-43 Hammerheads?

Sidane

Space Above & Beyond was a decent show. Watched the first series and enjoyed it - did it go to a second, third series?

It reminded me of the Wing Commander games story line. Human race exploring space, encounters malevolent alien race and all hell breaks loose. Single pilot fighers, dog fights in space etc etc.

PS - shame on those knocking Firefly, sure the blend of western/sci-fi is a weird one, but if you can see past that, it is a bloody good show. A non-comedy show hasn't made me genuinely laugh out loud so often - great humour.

Mantel

Sidane wrote:

Space Above & Beyond was a decent show. Watched the first series and enjoyed it - did it go to a second, third series?

Nope, it only lasted one series. The ending was annoying

PS - shame on those knocking Firefly, sure the blend of western/sci-fi is a weird one, but if you can see past that, it is a bloody good show. A non-comedy show hasn't made me genuinely laugh out loud so often - great humour.

I tried watching it but the western aspect of it just pissed me off. The flim looks intresting and I'll give it one more chance. As always the trailers look tasty.

CiDeRmAn

More like Dung: Above and Beyond ,what an awful show. Otherwise why, as the previous contributor pointed out, was it cancelled? 'Cos it was rubbish, and I watched it, and it was still rubbish, for decent science fiction, you really can only read a book, nearly all other attempts to reproduce it on tv or film have been very shallow and juvenile in comparison.

madrab

CiDeRmAn wrote:

More like Dung: Above and Beyond ,what an awful show. Otherwise why, as the previous contributor pointed out, was it cancelled? 'Cos it was rubbish, and I watched it, and it was still rubbish, for decent science fiction, you really can only read a book, nearly all other attempts to reproduce it on tv or film have been very shallow and juvenile in comparison.

have you watched any of the new battlestar galactica?

CiDeRmAn

Yup, thats very very good, well rounded characters, doesn't rely on SFX and when it needs to does so with excellence, fanatastic stuff, looking forward to the next season.
Don't get me wrong I love tv and Scifi type shows but Space Above and Beyond was poor.

ixoy

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Don't get me wrong I love tv and Scifi type shows but Space Above and Beyond was poor.

Now I thought it was fun, but I'm fairly sure the science element wasn't really present...

What did you make of "Babylon 5" then? The creator prided himself on being in touch with NASA consultants to get various effects, such as gravity, as scientifically plausible as a story would allow.

And did you catch the movie "Primer"? A fairly interesting look at time travel which kept pace with current quantum theories.

moridin

CiDeRmAn wrote:

More like Dung: Above and Beyond ,what an awful show. Otherwise why, as the previous contributor pointed out, was it cancelled? 'Cos it was rubbish, and I watched it, and it was still rubbish, for decent science fiction, you really can only read a book, nearly all other attempts to reproduce it on tv or film have been very shallow and juvenile in comparison.

Is it just me getting Deja vu of the post that you made about the new series of Dr. Who when it came out?

Above and Beyond was a fantastic series, which was gritty and realistic in that it portrated the hopelessness of war to a very high degree. I've always felt that this was one of the reasons for the show being canned...

User45701

allot of sci- argueing here

SAAB was a great show i love dit sjy 1 sat night at 2am i think wasent it?
and years before that net2 at 12.45 or something i watched it both times it aried every week when i was a kid a freind of mine calls the show cheese above and beyond cause it is such a cheesy show i liked it but wont buy the dvd too many other sci-fi shows are high on the dvd list

Lord Oz

dvdrips are at the usual place...what? It's not like you can buy it in Ireland.

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The show got good ratings apparently, if you do a google you'll find most sources attribute the shows cancellation to network politics.

I really enjoyed the show myself (watched the whole series again over the summer in the space of 2 weeks). It does have the odd overcheesed cringy bit now and then but overall its excellently done.

Also, someone here made the argument that it got cancelled because it was PAP. I could make a decent sized list but all I need is one show...actually hell make it too seeing as the first got put back on the air:

Family Guy.

Futurama.

Fan Site:
http://web-worthy.com/saab/

halenger

Haven't looked at this forum in ages but I'm so glad I did.

This is great news. I've been looking forward to seeing this series again for many many years.

Fidelis

I received a DVD from PlayUSA this morning and just happened to look at the attached sheet of paper listing new releases etc. Low and behold; Space, Above and Beyond, The Complete Series on DVD... finally! It's listed in the Top Sellers list too!

http://www.playusa.com/playusa.asp?page=title&r=R1&title=738881

Only £28 GBP = €41.50, just ordered it now. Never thought they'd release this on DVD!

Oh and thanks for reminding me about Nowhere Man, that was such a good show, never caught the final episodes though.