The S7 DVDs...

[Positively Kanyon]

I just pre-ordered mine on Amazon.com and I just received an email from them saying it's shipped, with a delivery estimate of October 20th... Very strange, anyone fill me in?

[Erik Pasternak]

It get's released on the 19th. But if you ordered it from a US website, and you live in Australia, it's not gonna get there overnight.

[Lenonn]

My copy arrived today in the mail. I've noticed two changes from the original airings. Their minor things, but still:

FALLEN/HOMECOMING originally aired as a sole two-hour episode (no title was given except in the writing credits (i.e. "Fallen" by..., and "Homecoming" by...)). On the DVD, the episodes are separate, each with their own opening and closing credits, and each with their respective episode title.

LOST CITY originally aired as two one-hour episodes. But they have been spliced together as a sole two-hour episode on the DVD, so it is just LOST CITY, not LOST CITY PART 1 and LOST CITY PART 2.

I know, minor things. I just like the episodes as originally aired, unless there was some reason dictated for the change, or the change makes sense (ala NEMESIS and beyond switching to the Showtime opening credits).

But the DVDs are chock full of extra features. I can't tell who the Asgard is on the side of the first disc case. Is it Loki? Nice image of Anubis on the side of the box, though.

[Erik Pasternak]

You got it early?? That's not cool (well, it's cool for you, but not for me). Anyway, this is not the first time "Fallen" and "Homecoming" have aired as two different eps. They of couse did it that way in syndication, but I think I saw them aired as two eps on Sci-Fi once or twice.

[DownFallAngel]

The first de-slicing, is because they are stand alone episodes.

The second re-constituting, is because TLC was written as one script, to be the movie, that finished off the SG1 Series. It was aired as two stand alone episodes, but was and has always been intended as the SG1 made-for-TV movie.

[Erik Pasternak]

I'm glad they reconstituted TLC. The teaser for the second part just ends so akwardly that it's not even funny.

[DownFallAngel]

What was it again? Cause I don't seem to recall it.

[Erik Pasternak]

Spoiler:

Jack is in what I think is Carter's lab working on his crossword puzzle while Daniel is trying to get him to recognize alien symbols. Carter comes in and starts bugging Jack. Daniel asks how Jack feels and he repies "I'm hungry" and stands up to leave.

[Lenonn]

Well, if this is what the producers originally intended, then I won't complain.

Was the combining of FALLEN and HOMECOMING and LOST CITY's slicing something that Sci Fi demanded/asked for? I guess I should listen to the audio commentary.

[Darren]

For those who get a bonus Atlantis-related disc on the outside of your Season Seven boxed set packaging, a GW reader has passed along this warning:

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Just received the Stargate SG-1 season 7 DVD boxset.

Glued to the back side of the slipcase is a DVD bonus disc (says SG
ATLANTIS all over it).

THE GLUE IS SO STRONG/STICKY that it tore the side of the packaging it
was attachted to.

It's pretty much the E.T. dvd all over again

Please inform visiters of your site to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL when
removing this bonus disc! Perhaps don't remove it at all?

I'm sending my set back for a replacement...

GOOD LUCK!

[DownFallAngel]

Yea, thats what happened to my Indian Jones boxset, with the special DVD that came with it. Ruined the whole thing for me.

[Erik Pasternak]

I'm going out to buy mine tomorrow. I'll be careful and good luck to everyone else.

[Lenonn]

Oh, well... I didn't get an Atlantis bonus disc.

[Erik Pasternak]

Oh, well... I didn't get an Atlantis bonus disc.

Probably depends on place of purchase.

[RAJ]

You guys are lucky, in the UK the region 2 boxset is not available until 21st march next year.

Oh well six months and counting down