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The Babylon 5 set I'm skipping.

I had almost forgotten that this week the final Babylon 5 set is being released until I read it on Augie's blog. Originally, I had actually planned to pick this up, as I'm a big B5 fan, and a notorious completist in pretty much everything I own. But when I started cutting back on my expenses (in order to afford the theoretical apartment we're going to buy eventually), this was the first on the chopping block.

I thought about it a bit, and it occurred to me that I already own two of the movies in that set, as I bought the pilot and In the Beginning when they were released as a two-pack well before the season-by-season sets started up. That thought was quickly followed by the realization that the rest of the movies really suck.

It's still tempting to buy this for the commentary tracks, but really, the other movies are so bad (at least when compared to the rest of the show), that I couldn't possibly imagine myself ever wanting to sit through Thirdspace or River of Souls again.

Having said that, the inevitable question is whether or not I'm going to bother picking up the complete Crusade collection when it comes out. Crusade I really did like, although it was cut so short that I'm not sure it's worth the price of admission. Still, there's a better chance of that than the movies collection. Crusade may have been tragically neutered, but at least it's enjoyable. I can't say the same thing for Thirdspace.

Posted by jason at August 19, 2004 11:38 PM | TrackBack | Read more: Sci-Fi , T.V.