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The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1Rating:
Release Date: 03 September, 2002 Retail Price: $54.96 OUR Price: $48.99 You SAVE: $5.97! |
The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1 Reviews
Disappointed Limits
I can't figure out where all of the glowing reviews are coming from. I love Sci-Fi, and am old enough to have loved the show as a kid. I'm glad I only ordered season one.
Any good fiction makes the story being presented engaging & believable. Good Sci-fi must make the unbelievable believable. With the exception of the "Man Who was Never Born" the first 8 episodes I sat through (or really endured) were barely watchable with holes in the logic that a planet could easily pass through. The stories lost credibility and I started to fast forward through the episodes.
If you're interested in buying this set, rent it or borrow it from the library first. You might discover what you though was engaging at 7-10 years old is not so compelling to an adult.
QUALITY CONTROL /PACKAGING GOOFS
The good and the bad:
GOOD:
You can watch all those great Outer Limits shows that fans have come to love over the years.
Also, each season's packaging contains a helpful guide that describes each episode and the date that it aired.
The audio/video is acceptable (TV series back in the 60's didn't include stereo sound)!
BAD:
Lousy packaging--the disks are hard to remove as they have the "push here" center button with the "lift here" finger indent. But, it takes lots of pushing and lifting to remove them. Probably because of this, Disk 1 in my Season 1 box developed a crack in the disk starting at the spindle hole. It hasn't spread to the media portion of the disk YET! I emailed MGM asking for a replacement disk but they replied that Sony now handles this product. When I asked Sony for assistance, they told me they couldn't help me. At the bottom of their email, they had the nerve to say that they hoped I would buy their product in the future! Yea, right!
No supplemental material is included about the series. An Outer Limits Marathon on TV several years ago included interviews with the producer along with some of the writers and stars. It was most interesting and something like this could have been added to these disks.
Double-sided disks not labeled clearly. If you look (very closely) at each one, there's a volume number followed by several other numbers, then a tiny "A" or "B." The list of titles in each set, however, doesn't tell you which shows are on which side. How about a clearly marked, "Side A" or "Side 1" as my other double-sided disks have? As a result, I sometimes need to check the index, remove the disk, flip to the other side, and reinsert it to see my chosen episode--most irritating.
Despite the drawbacks, I watch these shows often--let's face it, they're great! I just hope the disk with the split stays in one piece!
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