Somebody Save Me

The Smallville season one set came out this past week and I, naturally being a fan of the show, rushed out and plucked one from the sales person's hands shelving them Tuesday morning... Okay, I only got it on Thursday, and haven't really had the chance to sit down and watch any of it yet, but I did want to put forth a warning to all my fellow Canadians. If you picked up the Canadian-only release of the Pilot and Metamorphosis, you're going to be a bit disappointed with the set's extras. Bottom line: they're almost exactly the same thing. The trailer, the audio commentaries, the interactive map, the deleted scenes; they're all the same as on the single two-ep disc. Kind of crappy that they couldn't do something new aside from the DVD-link "enhanced" feature. Maybe shell out for an audio commentary on one of the other episodes, or something.

...and for those of you who already have flipped through all of the set so far, or are among the weird ones who view the extras first, I'm well aware of the "Something New" section of the sixth disc. That "something new" is just a bloody commercial for the WB's new Tarzan series. I don't care about their rip-off of George R.R. Martin's Beauty and the Beast series.

I know that Americans reading this won't care unless you paid to import the Canadian released disc from last year, but I can say I was disappointed on that front. It's still good to have the entire season in pristine format, though, although I'm also slightly disappointed that it's not structured the same as WB's excellent Babylon 5 sets with the episode adverts coupled with the episodes. I mean, before it aired, Smallville had an extensive, impressive ad campaign accompanied by Perry Farrell's "Song Yet to be Sung" that I would love to have seen again.