Customer Reviews

The Outer Limits - The New Series (Aliens Among Us/Death & Beyond/Fantastic Androids & Robots/Mutation and Transformation/Sex & Science Fiction/Time Travel & Infinity Collections)

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

I do not believe in reviewing something that has not yet been released, but I have to express my dismay that the release of these Outer Limits episodes is a strong indication that we devoted fans of the series will be deprived of full season releases, at least for the foreseeable future.

We are truly between a rock and a hard place. If these episodes sell well, then we are endorsing this method of releasing episodes by theme. If they do not sell well, then the danger is no more Outer Limits releases.

I can only submit this with the slight and vague hope that someone with some influence may read this and reconsider.

Not everyone is a fan of the new Outer Limits series, but I believe it was generally well done, at least when it was on Showtime. In a perverse way, the move to the Sci-Fi channel parallels the original series season two, where a new production team compromised the show, yet still produced some episodes of quality.

May someone please take "Control" of MGM DVD production and give us full seasons. I'll be glad to stand by.

According to the MGM site, this will be a 6 discs set that includes the previously released Sex & SciFi and Time Travel discs, along with 4 new themed DVDs also available seperately:

Aliens Among Us Collection
"Quality of Mercy," "Afterlife," "The Grell," "Relativity Theory," "Alien Shop," "Beyond the Veil"

Fantastic Androids & Robots Collection
"I, Robot," "The Hunt," "Resurrection," "The Camp," "Glitch," "Small Friends"

Mutation & Transformation Collection
"The New Breed," "Descent," "The Joining," "Double Helix," "The Gun," "The Inheritors"

Death & Beyond Collection
"The Second Soul," "The Other Side," "New Lease," "Essence of Life," "Human Trials," "Black Box"

I give it a 3 stars mostly because I glad they're releasing some, but not a big fan of this "piecemeal" thing. There's a huge number of great episodes they're skipping over entirely.

MGM again shows their total lack of respect for the outer limits fans . as for me i will not buy this crap or any other MGM movies/shows until a true box set comes out . wish i recorded them all when i had chance. maybe its time we boycotted MGM sense money over fans seems to be the way they would have it. when they get poor FOX a outstanding example of how good things can be when u consider fans over profit, will buy them out and give us what we all want for some seven years now.

The Outer Limits-The New Series is one of the greatest science fiction/horror television shows that I've seen, and I've been patiently waiting for MGM to produce this show in DVD season sets as they have done for the original series. I am extremely disappointed in the decisions they have been making regarding the release of this series. I will NOT buy this 6 disc set. I reiterate the words of a previous reviewer when I say that people do enjoy this series and would probably buy this, but not when it's produced with such incompetent negligence and disrepect for the fanbase. I hope people will boycott this edition lest it be a subtle marketing ploy (often done by George Lucas with his orginal Star Wars movies) to hook devoted customers into buying this edition, and then to release a set in season format with additional episodes among those that have already been released. Get your act together, MGM.

I so titled my review because I recently had a plumber out who asked what I wanted and then did it. He didn't do part of the job or any old job he wanted to and charge me the same. What he did was what I needed. He actually did more than I asked for the same price. We in the DVD purchasing public call such things "extras."
MGM decision makers, however, cannot seem to get up to the intellect of my plumber. What they are pumping our way is a diluted version of what we want. It makes as much sense - to put it in terms studio executives understand - as paying for 24 produced episodes a year and only broadcasting ten.
I'm not buying these. Though I love the series and have gone to great pains just to watch every episode and, in general, am a television DVD enthusiast having even purchased the "Land of the Lost" offerings, I'm not spending money to condone lobotomized thinking.
The only thing more disturbing would be if they were offering the censored versions.
Just in case MGM is reading this, you're screwing up. These will sell, but you've lost a huge chunk of marketing potential. Trust me, I know of what I speak. DVD packages of serialized television are a vein just beginning to be tapped. But loyal fans will not be toyed with. Doing so will dissolve your base like Alka-Seltzer in water. But, hey, why listen to me. I'm just a fan. With money. And once you lose your job, I can put you in touch with my plumber. I'm sure he could use an assistant with your ideas of how to pump out waste.

I absolutely agree with reviewers who have criticized MGM for releasing "The Outer Limits" in thematic chunks. What's the point? When Showtime first aired this SF anthology series I was awed (of course, then the Sci-FiChannel purchased the franchize and drove it into the ground). So why this lame maketing device? Once the themes are exhaused, then what?

"The Outer Limits" was a remarkable anthology series, but what will happen to the many episodes that aren't thematically related to others? Or (unlikely as it seems), will all 100 episodes somehow be pigeonholed into thematic units? It makes no sense.

Until this outstanding and unique series is released in the chronological order of their original airing and we can see this series as it was meant to be seen, I'd avoid these DVD releases.

I LOVE Outer Limits, but I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT buy any DVD's until they release them season by season! Get smart MGM... Stop alienating your potential customers!

Having DVD's released in themes sucks. I will probably wait to buy it till it comes out season by season so that I can know I'll get every episode.

Someone tell the movie company to change the way they are doing this.

I have been waiting patiently for a very long time for the Outer Limit Series. I remember it was 1997, and I would stay up really late to catch it on TV because when I set the VCR up I would find the next day they had changed the time slot even though the TV guide said it would be on a certain time. No worries... I thought, I will be patient. Everything is coming out on DVD, I will just wait.

I really did not expect to be waiting 8 years, and I still do not get to see all the episodes. I also do not see the episodes that I really enjoyed. This is so frustrating. I am really excited since, what it has been 1-2 years since they released the last two sets, and now there are new ones. Honestly!!!!! What the heck?!? This is just plain ANNOYING, and I am BUMMED!!!

Why do I not get to see ALL of them? WHY? WHY? WHY?

I will buy these DVD's when they are released, because any DVD is better than nothing. However, I also believe that MGM has made a huge mistake releasing the episodes in this fashion.

MGM released two DVD's in 2002 and we thought they learned their lesson after all the fans complained about the way that release was done!

In an attempt to make more money by "piece-mealing" episodes, MGM opened the door for Canadian company Koch International to release a "Best of" seasons 1 and 2 and the entire season 3. However, the quality could have been much better and these DVD's had to be purchased from Canada.

By June 21, seven episodes will have been duplicated; three in season 1 and four in season 2, by MGM! Doh! I wish some MGM Executive would put a foot in the a*s of whatever idiot is in-charge of this project at MGM!

And they wonder why people download stuff off the Internet...