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The show, Battlestar Galactica, will go down in history as an incredible phenomenon that inspired a new generation to love science fiction and the word "frak". I can say nothing bad about the series, I LOVED Battlestar Galactica and I cannot wait to watch the episodes over and over.
****Note: I purchased "Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series" from FYE.com, but it is the same product. I did have one issue with my FYE order- the fourth season was missing one of the discs. I hope that was a one-time occurrence and would not be an issue to anyone who buys this. I returned the product and decided to purchase the seasons separately here on Amazon, instead.
My one issue resides with the packaging. It is poorly designed, so you will have problems finding proper placement in your media area for it. The package would appear to have a lid, but it is not really a lid. You cannot actually remove it; you can only slide it up, just enough to extract one of the season packages. The individual seasons are exactly that. The seasons are in poorly made cardboard cases, which house the dvds and nothing else. There are no episode guides (which was VERY FOOLISH, considering most people probably do not know which disk will have which of their favorite episodes, etc.), and like I've already said, the packaging is poorly designed. The Complete Series does come with one interesting item: the Centurion Cylon figurine (which, I must say, is difficult to remove from the plastic packaging on the top of the box) which didn't seem worth the purchase, but was interesting to look at.
I hope that those who love Battlestar Galactica or want to watch the show, having never seen it, will buy the dvds, but I would not recommend this product.
***Note: Although the Complete Series is cheaper than buying each season individually, the end result is worth it! I want my Battlestar Galactica dvds to last a long time (and not fall apart after a short time)!
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I bought Battlestar for my husband's birthday. He was very disappointed that it doesn't have closed captioning as he enjoys watching videos while exercising.
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Hands down one of the best series I've watched sci-fi or other. That said, the idiots who designed and approved this packaging need to be fired.
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I've been a fan of this series since the beginning. I've bought the series DVD's as they were released (except for Season 4, waiting for the Blu-rays), and I was very excited to finally get the Blu-rays. This is a series that is shot in HD, and needs to be viewed in HD. The color is incredible, and the action scenes/effects shots look amazing! I was fortunate enough to watch all of Season 4 in Digital HD, but the practical effects shots (i.e. when humans are shooting guns, strobe lighting, etc) were very pixelated. I'm thrilled to finally see the "clean" HD presentation of this series. The writing, acting, directing and music scoring on this show are second to none, and this show has set the bar extremely high for modern sci-fi programming.
The transfers of the episodes look great, and the lengthy extras are also cool. I've seen a lot of it on the DVD's, but some of the season 4/finale stuff was nice (I especially like the two features on scoring/recording the music for the show). I mainly bought this for the HD episodes.
By only real complaint (and it's fairly minor) is the packaging. I don't mind the large box, but I don't like how the discs are stored in the box. I'm picky about the care of the discs, and I would've preferred better inserts for the discs to be stored. But that's a minor complaint, and certainly not a deal breaker.
For any fan of the show with an HD TV and Blu-ray player, this is a must own: this series deserves to be seen in HD!
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Es una magnífica serie de ciencia-ficción, la trama es interesante con una narración cautivadora. Tiene buenas actuaciones y muy aceptables efectos especiales. Los cambios que presenta respecto a la serie original son muchos pero en general resultan altamente positivos para la historia. En este combo vienen las cuatro temporadas completas junto con abundante material extra incluyendo escenas borradas (no todo el material extra está subtitulado pero en su mayoría sí). También incluye una figura de Cylon de regular calidad.
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