General Grievance:

Ok, so finally George Lucas gave in and released the un-messed-with Star Wars Trilogy on DVD.

Now, that's not pleased me as much as one thing about it: The widescreen versions have gold lettering on the side, so now they match the prequels whilst sitting on a DVD shelf. You see, the Original Trilogy Widescreen versions had silver print, and did not match the prequels (though it could be a good thing to set apart the originals' greatness).

Much to my anal retentive nature, I HATED THIS.

You see, I'm a huge stickler for DVD sets to have matching covers. Take for example the Seinfeld DVDs. They are different colors....but they have the same general design.

The one company that does not take any consideration in this is the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim lines. Sealab 2021 (which had an awesome first season package) did not follow suit. Out of all 4 volumes, they are all different. What makes it worse is that volume 4 is in a standard snap case so it totally doesn't work on a whole other level. [I don't own the Brak show or Aqua Teen...but they are different as well.]

Even The A-Team screwed things up. Season one was in a fold-out case.....and the other seasons were put in four slim cases tucked inside a box.

Arrested Development Season 3 (even though there were only 12 or so episodes) came in a standard snap case instead of two slim cases that they could have made match the first 2 seasons. (kind of like the Adventures of Pete & Pete DVDs.)

Dead Like Me is horrible.......the 2nd season cover looks like it's some kind of teen drama...and the font is TOTALLY different from first season (CHILLER compared to TIMES NEW ROMAN......what the fuck?!)

Now, films are a bit different.......sometimes. A notable example is Lord Of The Rings. Since it's basically all one movie.....the extended editions are boxed nicely, just with different colors to differentiate the 3 films. Another notable example is Wayne's World 1&2. Let's just hope the next Narnia film follows suit with it's special edition.

So PLEASE..if we are ever to function as a society again........please continue to make DVD sets as they were from volume one. Otherwise.....we'll be forced to boycott corporations.