“Stargate Universe has been tons of fun so far in the first half,” DVD Special Features Producer Ivon Bartok told us in an exclusive interview this week. “And this year what we’re doing is a little bit different. As far as I know, we’re going to be doing volume one and two DVDs.
This falls in line with a separate tidbit GateWorld received earlier this month.
Bartok’s special feature line-up indicates that the first ten episodes will be released in Volume One, while the back ten — premiering on SyFy in 2010, will follow later. This has become a popular trend for shows that air two chunks per season.
Seasons two and three of Battlestar Galactica released the first volume of DVDs just prior to the airing of the second half of the season, to help build anticipation and allow viewers to catch up. If this holds true for Universe, we should expect to see Volume One of Season One hit store shelves just before the second half of the season premieres in 2010.
There is no word yet on whether the 3-hour pilot of “Air” will be released as a standalone DVD like the SG-1 and Atlantis pilots.
“What we did for the DVD special features for the first ten episodes was to create 30 two-minute pieces and try to give us a really broad spectrum of things to cover,” Bartok told us. “We’re developing the strategy for the back ten right now. So, I don’t have the information I’d love to give you, but there’s definitely going to be a bunch of stuff on the back ten. And ultimately on the back ten, too, we want to expand the narrative a little bit.”
It appears Season One of SGU will have a sizable assortment of special features no matter how the sets are released!
Stargate Universe premieres on SyFy this Friday, October 2nd! Be sure to listen to our complete interview with Ivon Bartok, available now!
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Great. Another way to get more money out of us.
First post though! :P
Like wow, so they join the 'let's screw you out of as much money as possible' brigade huh?
Because I sincerely doubt each of these sets will be half the price.
I hate shows that do this. It's like the ice cream companies that now sell you 1.5 quarts for the same price they used to sell you two quarts. Or the boxes of cereal that now sell you 8oz for how much they used to sell you 12 for.
Nothing but a backhanded way to charge you more for less.
And, anyone want to make bets on when the super expensive blu ray version will come out? That, of course, they won't tell you about until they've sold enough of the regular versions.
If it does get released like that, I don't care how great it is, I won't buy it.
Are you kidding me?
I'm in complete agreement with what Denise has said, unless they're putting each half season at half the PRICE of a season, they're pulling a BSG and just trying to scrape as much dough out of the fans.
I know this is a 'new show' and not 'old stargate', but that doesn't mean you should start charging for DVDs even more than you already are.
/endrant
PS: Probably wouldn't have bought it if it came in one box, but now the chances of me buying two seperate boxes for a season is slim to none.
My policy with the BSG dvd's is to just wait until they release the version that has all of the episodes. Not only do I not want to pay twice the money for the series but I don't like having the two separate boxes.
If all the sg-1 and sga were two per season that would be thirty different boxes I have to store. That = stupid.
This pisses me off. I can't believe it. Greedy bastards!
and then they'll probably use the lower sales of the DVD's to justify not making the SG1 and SGA movies...
I hate shows that pull this crap! They aren't gettin my money.
I still haven't purchased the Battlestar Galactica dvd's for this very reason! If this is true, then this is MGM screwing over their customers! Sorry, I might love the show, but consider this one less customer that will buy the Stargate: Universe dvds.
I wasn't planning on buying your DVDs now I wont for sure. If the pilot is 20 bucks, part 1 is 20 and part 2 is 20, thats 60 bucks. When you can buy usually a season for 20 in SGA and SG1 on ebay.