Thanks for the offer. This series in particular I like owning on DVD because the extras (audio commentary) are so enjoyable.

Entourage, Deadwood, and The Wire all have good ones, in different ways. Entourage ones are good mostly cause by now those guys really are friends and they break balls and so forth.Not terribly *instructive* but fun as hell. Which kind of means they match their material perfectly, if you think about it. Deadwood: I learned so much from David Milch on those, but really I think McShane and Olyphant should have some kind of roadshow. Like "A Bit Of Fry and Laurie" with more expletives. The Wire: Despite my incredible Simon "spousal delusion" (and, yeah, still love him and how seriously he takes the Commenting process, especially compared to how sad all but, say, two, of the H:LOTS commentaries are. Like I really needed to spend forty bucks to hear Anya Epstein say "I really don't remember much about this." about everything...my favorite is the one with the teens from Season Four...they're hilarious. But there really is an art to the commentary thing and I think it's too bad that sometimes they get put on because people expect them, not because somebody has something to say.

erika, good observations. I still haven't watched Deadwood, but I own the dvds (gifts). I think what keeps me away is the knowledge that it just up and ends. I hate truncation.

I love my Wire dvds, especially because of the commentary.

Well, it all ends, right? But I know what you mean, that last season was so crowded, with the showfolk and all, and then it's like that part in the Princess Bride, and David Milch is sitting on our beds as we're like

"Uncle Dave, tell us something awful happened to Hearst? Right? It's like a Vader thing...Swergin kills him and is redeemed?"

And then, we might need to repeat that, because Uncle Dave used to *really* love heroin and maybe his short-term memory isn't quite what it used to be.

But it whets our anticipation, so it's a bummer when Uncle Dave looks over his glasses at us and says "Nothing happens to him. He's the same shitbird as ever, except worse. And I have to go make up a story about a surfing alien now."

Or something like that. Right?

I'm not for certain that this is the right thread...but have we seen this Spartacus trailer already?

Oy. It's like Gladiator Meets 300 While Slithering Around Plato's Retreat. Seriously.

I'm intrigued because it's Sam Raimi...with John Hannah and Craig Parker (Darken Rahl of Legend of the Seeker and Haldir of LoTR), but the preview puts it in the category of so OTT I might not be able to handle it.

I wonder what Kirk will have to say about it.

eta: Huh. The 2010 release date puts it within the 50th anniversary of the Kirk Douglas version. I had no idea it was released in the year of my birth. OR, that KD's given name is Issur Danielovitch Demsky. Impressive facts, both.

Is Haldir the Tori Spelling Elf?

Yes. (Also the evil dude on Legends of the Seeker.)

Lucy Lawless!!

For those few people that care, I put up an essay about Johnny Drama on my blog. [link] You know, coming from such bookish fandoms, I'm kind of shocked that people don't write this way all the time, but there are eps that are so silly, it can be hard to think about Entourage canon with a straight face too...I have to remember that part of the fanbase is fascinated by breast implants.

Weee! Flashbacks! Non-embarrassing accents! Sam finally asking The Question!.

Now if only the power would stop cutting out. Hail earlier, now rain pouring in through the front door.