DVD rant - this week's entry? "Quantum Leap" season 4:

[Deja Q]

Even by QL season 4's release, some people still considered television a form of art than mindless commodity to dumb down the masses with. Hence TV shows would utilize pop music (aka those pop shows from the 80s that included rock music during 3 minute empty driving-around scenes) and it was novel and rather cool at the time, I must admit...

QL did the same thing as needed, also because QL took place in America's past and the music was relevant to the story - not because it was a novel gimmick.

I've yet to buy ANY of the QL releases because, quite frankly, such filleting of these episodes out of "marketable necessity" makes them, quite frankly, "not economically viable" for me AS A CUSTOMER.

The day this series comes out proper is the day I will buy them. Not a day before.

Indeed. I know that the base price for a song can be rather high. Other TV shows that do have the original music have the creators, in commentary, saying how much they've spent (if nothing more to aggrevate the suits, LOL). The average cost seems $10,000 for one song. How many people buy these DVD sets? If ONLY 10,000 people bought them, then you'd only have to raise the price of each set by a one whopping dollar! OMG! What a fortune! Is that too much extra money to ask a consumer to pay? A consumer in an obviously niche market that obvious appreciates unfettered episodes because the show itself doesn't catter to the mindless masses? (Obviously, it seems... doesn't speak much about "customer care", but then DVD companies have no qualms squeezing 10 episodes of a series into a space meant for 7 + a few short extras, or 8 with NO extras...)

And it's a terrible shame because QL seasons 3 and 4 have got the best-ever episodes.

But, sorry, no sale today. Lemme know when the "special editions" with the proper, untinkered episodes come out. I'll be there, whippin' out my big thick checkbook...