I bought bodysnatcher

I’ll get this eventually. Every time I think to pick it up, my wallet gets distracted by something else.

I prefer stacking to the things that rattle around inside, myself.

*Got it for ?18.50 off a “PlayTrader” at Play.com a few weeks back, and watched the extras, including commentaries – but not the text track beyond The End, nor the remaining episodes (incidentally, what pea-brained goit decided that making it impossible to have the text-tracks on WITH the commentaries was a good idea?!). Feels he paid too much having seen it.*

>(incidentally, what pea-brained goit decided that making it impossible to have the text-tracks on WITH the commentaries was a good idea?!)

Is this true? It doesn’t sound likely to me unless the commentaries are laid over a separate video track than the subtitles are, which I really doubt.

You may not be able to set them both to come on at the same time in the menus, but try setting the commentary to on and then just cycling through your subtitles with the subtitle button on your remote when the episode begins.

If THAT doesn’t work–or if you’ve tried that already–then yeah, I agree, that pretty much stinks.

Yes, it is true – and you can’t select individual episodes to play with them, either – you start from the beginning and have to skip through the chapters if you want to play them on later episodes…

>you either have subtitles or commentary, not both.

B-but that’s…AWFUL! It seems like it would have been more effort to author the disc that way–unless I’m completely ill-informed here. (Which is probably the case.) What’s the point?

>and you can?t select individual episodes to play with them, either

Yeah, I remember that from the review, too. That’s annoying even just sitting here reading about it.

> (I can?t be the only one that goes through movies this way to find where I left off, rather than menu-naving and trying to figure out what chapter title matches what I remember.)

I do that sometimes to avoid spoilers. If it’s something I haven’t watched before, I don’t want any chapter titles or thumbnails.

>But purchase-ruiningly ?AWFUL???

I never said purchase ruining, or even suggested it! I intend to buy it, as I mentioned above.

Ah, so that’s what you were gay-sexingly “saying.”

Attaching irrelevant adjectives to one-word quotations is fun! :-)

Dave, you can smear my felch annnnytime.

> So would I be right in assuming that if they hadn?t had the space for a 7th episode to go back and re-shoot. That episode on The Original Assembly would have been the final version?

Hard to say. More or less, I suppose, though no doubt Rob and Doug would have fought to reshoot PARTS, at least, during the regular shooting schedule. And Paul Jackson certainly knew how important the opening show was.

One thing: We’ve never been able to track down the The End reshoot tapes in full, which is probably my biggest Bodysnatcher disappointment. I have a massive suspicion that the funeral scene was reshot at some point, and then excised anyway. (I base this on the one funeral still taken on-set, which shows Rimmer in a different, darker outfit to that of the scene we’ve recovered. Could just be a rehearsal, but I doubt it – making the scene darker was certainly on the writers’ minds.)