Customer Reviews

Jupiter Moon: Fires of Io

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When I first heard about Jupiter Moon, I thought that it would be similar to Star Trek quality, so I purchased it. It was not. I watched 10 minutes of it and put it away. On another occasion, I asked my daughter if she wanted to see Jupiter Moon to compare the extreme lack of similarities between the two shows. It turned out the second was the charm. It is by no means Star Trek quality but entertaining nonetheless and has a very campy feel to it. We got hook.

This is a fun, though dated series. It is basically a soap dressed in SF clothing. Little to do with SF issues, which are used only as a stimulus (or backdrop) for the human interaction. The characters are, however, easy to get involved with. The acting is a bit stilted, which in many cases, saves the low budget project from being un-watchable.

I enjoyed it. One should start at the start and watch it in order, as with many soaps, one must keep up with the interplay of characters.

I ordered the 4 volumes of this series from 4 different vendors on the Amazon Marketplace. Every single one of them came sealed, but with broken cases and loose discs. I wrote to the customer service email at Image Entertainment - and the email bounced! I then called them, and they told me "Tough Luck - go back to the merchants."That might be reasonable if it had not been ALL FOUR SETS! I have done that anyway. I have gotten partial reimbursements from a couple of them. But that's not fair to them, or me. Look at the number of items that say "sealed, but discs are loose". Image Entertainment needs to be taken to task for these shoddy products, and their attitude. I own hundreds of discs from Image and even explained that to them. These are the only ones I have had a problem with. But you can bet from now on I will think twice before ever buying another one of their products!