Andromeda - Seasons 1 To 5 (Box Set)

Advantages: 4 Episodes on a two DVD set.
Disadvantages: Lack of extra and a bit expensive

...The voyages of Captain Dylan Hunt and the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant are continued as they try to re-energise the Andromeda and find their way out of the Seefra system. As with most of the DVD's in the fifth series this box set contains 4 episodes namely E10 to E13, which are seperated onto 2 DVD's. E10 - The Test. This is a bit of a wierd episode as it is told from start to finish as normal, but the character interaction is dealt with by fade in / out as the story moves along. For example, Trance is at the bar and then dylan would fade in, interact and the fade out. The episode basically tells the story of a Paradine who is 'murdered' and all the crew, apart from Doyle are accused of the murder. As the plot moves along and each crew member is accused and cross examined by 'the stranger' who came from the route of ages... Read review

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Advantages: Box set offering half a season per set
Disadvantages: price

...I've bought 2 Xena box sets and a single DVD of the final episode and I thing they're all great, the advantages of the box sets being that you can get all you favourite episodes in one go and have fun with a Xena marathon. I bought the Season Three Box set one, Season Five box set one and the Final episode directors cut. Both the box sets had my favourite episodes from my favourite seasons, epsiodes such as "The Debt parts 1 & 2" in the S3 set and "Purity", "Back in the Bottle" in the S5 set makes up the entire "Chin" storyline. Plus great S5 eps such as "Chakram", "Lyre, Lyre Hearts Afire" and "Little Problems" make the box sets a great deal. The Season Finale directors cut, is a stand-alone release and features the last two eps as a tv-movie and has great special features such as commentaries from directors and cast, image... Read review

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Advantages: all the seasons are found together and come with a bonus disc
Disadvantages: No New DVD packaging in the UK release

...This set contains all the episodes across the entire 5 seasons of Alias. The packaging itself it quite nice as it does a good job at depicticting the work of Rambaldi, which is an important theme throughout the entire series. The main dissapoint I found with this set is that even though the box itself is well designed the individual seasons inside are exactly the same as the ones you can buy individually and so dont exactly match, unlike the same set in the US which have all the individual seasons repackaged so the entrie set matches. The quality of the actual DVDs are what you would expect for the format. Season 5 has a very good transfer, probably helped by the fact that season 5 was filmed in HD format. Season 5 does have its problems though in the fact that it is only 17 episode long compared with the usual 22 that are found... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful