How to Spend $20
By Eric Hughes
August 24, 2010
Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP’s look at the latest Blu-ray discs and DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Lost comes to a close, The Simpsons celebrates unlucky 13 and Jennifer Lopez has twins.
Pick of the Week
For people who thought they’d finally come to know the origins of the Hurley Bird: Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season
Lost celebrated finality in May when its sixth and final season came to a close with – if I remember correctly – four and a half hours of new and pre-packaged content.
The way you felt about the finale depended on what you expected from (and liked most) about the series. If you wanted answers to every single frickin’ piece of the puzzle, then you probably hated the final episode. If you’re like me, however, and have always cared more for the series’ characters above all else related to the show, then you probably liked it (and may have even cried a little bit. I know I almost did).
It’s amazing, really, to think about how this thing started and then where the series shifted to in subsequent seasons. That first season, my favorite, was so memorable. And even though it was as confusing as hell, the scope of the show by that point was so small. Who would’ve thought that what was inside that hatch would unleash all the characters, stories and so on we’d meet over the next five years? The plane crash, hatch and polar bears were just the tipping point.
No, I haven’t seen every episode of the show, but have always had at least a general idea of what was going on thanks to those uber helpful catch up specials. I did see nearly every episode of season six, though, and felt things really came together for at least the last half. A few of the earlier episodes of the final season made the show seem a bit laborious and misguided – to the point where I didn’t even know if I cared about how things ended. But then episodes like "Ab Aeterno" aired, and all was forgiven.
Disc includes: The New Man in Charge featurette; The End: Crafting a Final Season featurette; A Hero’s Journey featurette; See You in Another Life, Brotha featurette; Lost on Location featurette; Lost in 8:15: A Crash Course featurette; bloopers, deleted scenes, audio commentaries
For people who like when Homer gets terrorized by computers: The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season
Maybe in about five years, every season of The Simpsons will be readily available on the home media market. In 2001, Fox began an ongoing project to make the series available on DVD, and has released at least one season (if not two) every year since.
Well, we’ve finally made it to season 13. (Separately, season 20, which aired during the 2008-09 television season, was released in January). As I said, give Fox about five years and it just may get there.
The Treehouse of Horror this season is the one where Homer gets cursed by a gypsy and becomes a walking bad luck charm, Bart and Lisa go to a school for wizards and Marge buys a HAL-like computer system that attempts to murder Homer.
Other highlights include a Simpsons family trip to Brazil (“Blame it on Lisa”), a board game fight that leads to a social worker tending to the Simpsons family (“Brawl in the Family”) and Moe turning his long-time bar into a trendy nightclub.
Disc includes: A Token from Matt Groening featurette, audio commentary on every episode, Ralphisms featurette, The People Ball featurette, The 13th Crewman featurette, Blame it on the Monkeys featurette, The Games featurette, The Sweet Life of Ralph featurette, multi-angle animation showcases, sketch gallery, deleted scenes, special language feature, commercials
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