Stargate Atlantis season 4 DVDs (revised content)

[wraithfodder]

 More information has come out on the season 4 DVD set of Stargate Atlantis (from the original Fox material leaked last month). It's basically the same, with a few (deep sigh) changes. Details under the cut. Still July 8th though :)

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/stargate-atlantis-season4-/9357 posted the details of the JULY 8^th (which is what the Fox info from last month said, too) ;) Alas, some content change.

Disc 1:
Adrift - Commentary by Martin Gero, Martin Wood
Lifeline - Commentary by Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping
Reunion - Commentary by Joseph Mallozzi and William Waring
Doppelganger - Commentary by Robert C. Cooper and VFX Supervisor Mark Savela
Other Special Features:
A New Leader: Amanda Tapping Joins Atlantis
Mission Directive: Doppelganger with Robert C. Cooper
Photo Gallery
Production Design Gallery

Original Fox info - 1st Disc contents:
Continuum Trailer
Ark of Truth Trailer
Episodes:
Adrift - with commentary Martin Gero, Martin Wood and David Hewlett
Lifeline - with commentary Martin Wood and David Hewlett
Reunion - with commentary Joseph Mallozzi and William Waring
Doppelganger - with commentary Robert C. Cooper and Mark Savela
A New Leader: Amanda Tapping joins Atlantis
Mission Directive: Doppelganger with Robert C. Cooper

Changes: Crap! David’s gone on Adrift, replaced by Amanda on Lifeline.


Disc 2:
Travelers - Commentary by Paul Mullie and William Waring
Tabula Rasa - Commentary by Alan McCullough and Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping
Missing - Commentary by Carl Binder and Andy Mikita
The Seer - Commentary by Alan McCullough and Andy Mikita
Other Special Features:
The Doctor Is In: The Return of Paul McGillion
Stargate: Atlantis</i> Bloopers
Photo Gallery
Production Design Gallery

Original Fox info - 2nd Disc contents:
SG-1 Seasons 1-10 Trailer
Episodes:
Travelers - with commentary Paul Mullie and William Waring
Tabula Rasa - with commentary Alan McCullough, Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping
Missing - with commentary Andy Mikita, Rachel Luttrell and Jewel Staite
The Seer - with commentary Alan McCullough and Andy Mikita
Stargate Atlantis bloopers

Changes: Rachel and Jewel are gone, now it’s Binder and Mikita


Disc 3:
Miller's Crossing - Commentary by Martin Gero and Andy Mikita
This Mortal Coil - Commentary by Joseph Mallozzi and William Waring
Be All My Sins Remember'd - Commentary by Martin Gero and Andy Mikita
Spoils of War - Commentary by Alan McCullough and William Waring
Other Special Features:
Mission Directive: This Mortal Coil with Will Waring
Photo Gallery
Production Design Gallery

Original Fox info - 3rd Disc contents:
Episodes:
Miller's Crossing - with commentary Martin Gero and Andy Mikita
This Mortal Coil - with commentary Joseph Mallozzi and William Waring
Be All My Sins Remembered - with commentary by Martin Gero and Andy Mikita
Spoils of War - with commentary Alan McCullough and William Waring
Mission Directive: This Mortal Coil with Will Waring


Disc 4:
Quarantine - Commentary by Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping
Harmony - Commentary by Martin Gero and William Waring
Outcast - Commentary by Alan McCullough and Andy Mikita
Trio - Commentary by Martin Gero, Director Martin Wood, and Amanda Tapping
Other Special Features:
Mission Directive: Quarantine with Martin Wood
Mission Directive: Outcast with Andy Mikita
The Making of Trio
Gallery
Production Design Gallery

Original Fox info - 4th Disc contents:
Episodes:
Quarantine - with commentary Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping
Harmony - with commentary Martin Gero and William Waring
Outcast - Alan McCullough and Andy Mikita
Trio - with commentary Martin Gero, Martin Wood, Amanda Tapping and Jewel Staite
Mission Directive: Quaratine with Martin Wood
Misison Directive: Outcast with Andy Mikita
The Making of Trio

Changes: Jewel isn’t doing the Trio commentary now


Disc 5:
Midway - Commentary by Director Andy Mikita, Christopher Judge and Jason Momoa
The Kindred - Commentary by Joseph Mallozzi and Director Peter F. Woeste
The Kindred, Part 2 - Commentary by Alan McCullough and Martin Wood
The Last Man - Commentary by Paul Mullie and Martin Wood
Other Special Features:
A Look Back at Season 4
Deleted Scenes
Photo Gallery
Production Design Gallery

Original Fox info - 5th Disc contents:
Episodes:
Midway - with commentary Andy Mikita, Christoper Judge and Jason Momoa
The Kindred - with commentary Joseph Mallozzi and Peter F. Woeste
The Kindred, Part 2 - with commentary Alan McCullough and Martin Wood
The Last Man - with commentay Paul Mullie and Martin Wood
A Look Back at Season 4
Deleted Scenes


Cost is $49.98 SRP in the USA and CA$69.98 SRP in Canada for 900 minutes running time on 5 DVDs. Episodes are presented in Widescreen: 1.78:1 video and English - Dolby Surround 5.1 audio. Subtitles are in English, French & Spanish. Stay tuned for package art! 

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Wow, if it wasn’t for Jason doing a commentary, we’d have zip in the actor category. Alas, I still see Amanda as SG1, not SGA. Fortunately I’m not a massive ‘commentary’ fan or else I’d be tearing my hair out.

 

Comments

[jenniferjensen.livejournal.com]

Crap! I guess its better than no actors doing commentaries?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm starting to think they should hand the actors some tape recorders and say, watch it at home with the family and send us a tape! ;)

[ditraveler.livejournal.com]

I miss the actor's commentaries, this sucks!!
I just hope that the people that DO the comenteries are entertaining, the guy who commented...I think it was epiphany, was awefull!!! almost went into a coma it was SO BORING!

I can't wait to get the new DVD's I love season4

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Although I'm disappointed none of the main cast are doing commentaries, I *am* excited to get nice clean copies of season 4 :)

[neevebrody.livejournal.com]

That's so disappointing. I'm not that big a commentary fan, but I love commentary with DH and JF, especially David. *is crushed* I thought I read something a while back where both he and Flanigan were in for commentary, but I don't remember.

Well, deleted scenes and bloopers are something I've wanted to see for quite a while, so that's good.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup. Maybe for season 5 they can get Joe and David. I'd love for them to do a commentary together. THAT would be fantastic.

[neevebrody.livejournal.com]

They did Seige III together in S2 with Martin Wood and Gero and they did another one where Joe came in after they'd started, but for the life of me, I can't think which one - probably an S2 as well. I was hoping for more of the same for S4.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it was "Duet" that JF wanders in, mostly to go "ewww~" at the Beckett/McKay kiss! ^_^

(I thought they did "Lost Boys" together, too, but that might've been only DH, I just know one of them was there because Martin Gero commented in the field scene that McKay & Sheppard had nice chemistry, and one of the actors said something like, "yeah, that's hatred!" XP)

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

They did "Conversion" together too with Gero. Martin Wood and Martin Gero are the most interesting non-actors to listen to, even if Gero tends to take over the commentaries.

[neevebrody.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! I knew there was another entire commentary they did together. I agree about the Martins. I love hearing Wood explain how he does certain things and you're right, Gero can get a little full of himself sometimes and end up hogging the action.

[dovil.livejournal.com]

Damn and blast about the commentaries - I really love it when the actors chip in because otherwise it can get a bit overly technical and dry for my tastes - I pretty much gave up on the season 3 ones. But it's good at least to get it confirmed that the bloopers are in.

[bramble-rose.livejournal.com]

I'm excited to see Carl Binder doing a commentary, he wasn't scheduled originally, and I really enjoyed his commentary on Phantoms. Agree that it sucks that DH & JF aren't doing commentaries, I really enjoyed their take on things :-( Also agree that deleted scenes and bloopers are v.v. good :-)

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

Speculation...
Schedule conflict or contractual conflict or content conflict?

hmmm.....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's a matter of time more than anything. You'd like to think it's just one hour but I bet it takes HOURS to set up and do one, and the actors want to go home...

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

I think that has a lot to do with it but I feel that contracts get in the way more often. The dispute over the when, how long it will take, where, how much, among other things. I have heard from around that sometimes commentaries just don't go to the final product... they are recorded but it wasn't good enough or something. *shrugs* We can only speculate.

I say any commentary is better than none. Well sometimes I do feel like I don't want to know how things are "supposed" to be interpreted. I like how things work in my little head better sometimes. :)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

True, true. The agents/managers probably go "you're going to give them your time for FREE?" is probably one thing, and Joe flies home every weekend to be with his family in the States, and David has the new baby and several projects but come on, David could probably do a commentary in his own kitchen with a tape recorder watching the episode on DVd ;) Darn, wonder if there's anyway to bribe 'em for next season...

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

When I said disputes I did mean agents/managers. Maybe a piece of the DVD profit pie might be enough?

[the-scary-kitty.livejournal.com]

Well, that sucks. At least the blooper reel, (some) deleted scenes, and the commentary with Jason and Chris on Midway is still a go. That's the only one I'll bother to listen to. Hopefully we'll get to see some behind-the-scenes Torri on the Mission Directive for TMC. *sighs*

And gee, one would think it would have made more sense for the "The Doctor is In" feature on Paul McGillion to have been on the same disc as The Kindred...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Studios are never logical...

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

OK, what? Amanda is doing *four* commentaries, Jason is doing one...and nothing from anyone else? Am I the only one who finds that just....strange?

And the thing is....I thought I'd seen something somewhere where DH posted something about going in to record at least one commentary.

[astrumporta.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I really don't need to hear Amanda four times. I don't like her commentaries, sorry. When she's there the director feels he has to talk about her half the time. Blech. I think Amanda is very nice about making herself available, but still...

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

What else do we need to say? Scheduling conflicts, illness (DH was really sick for a handful of the S1 & S2 ones, so he was told to stay away by his cast mates. :-p), cost factors and ignoring the fans wishes..... (which JM & PM seem to do on a regular basis... :-p)

Midway they have to have Jason & Chris do, since yeah, the ep was all about them, but why couldn't they have had the rest of the main cast do a viewing or two? (I'm sure Baz would probably love to help his dad out, since he's going for that whole world domination thing anyway.... *g*)

But, yeah, more of the "We are sticking by our guns that it was a really good idea to kill off Weir and bring over Carter!" with having her do 4 of the commentaries. Oh joy.

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

>>ignoring the fans wishes..... (which JM & PM seem to do on a regular basis... :-p)

Well it depends on which fans you are talking about.

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

Well, on the final press release Chris and Jason's commentary on Midway has been cut, leaving only Amanda's for actor commentaries. :S

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Which means I won't bother with listening to the commentaries then...

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

Do be wary of tvshowsondvd information, though. They do get the information wrong often enough. *shrugs*

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Well, we'll wait and see. I'd love to see David show up on the DVDs in a commentary.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

WEll, if they post a press release...

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

lol *shrugs*

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

I'm buying the DVDs to have a good version of the episodes but I love commentaries... done by the actors :(. David Hewlett and Joe Flanigan doing commentaries in season 1 : best ever.

I am disappointed, especially since DH himself said he was recording commentaries :s.

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

Damn, and I used the "commentaries" word 3 times in 3 lines (I need to find a substitute :p)

[ionaonie.livejournal.com]

DAMN! I was really looking forward to hearing David, Jewel and Rachel talking. David is always fun and interesting and I enjoyed that commentary Rachel did way back in season one.

I really wish they'd not released the info until they were sure because now I'm going to feel cheated :-(

And yeah, Amanda is to me, forever SG-1, so while it's nice having her there, she still isn't a SGA actor. Still, I'm excited about hearing Jason. That could be fun.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not the first time I've seen DVD info change (with other shows as well). I'm glad we get Jason at least.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Damn *tears out hair*. Not that the technical background info isn't interesting, but I like a good balance of technical stuff and anecdotes on the commentaries. Well, at least it looks like the bloopers made it in.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup, hope we get a nice selection of bloopers.

[kaaatie.livejournal.com]

:( I enjoy listening to actors on the commentary, so that really sucks. I know that they have family, and lives, but it's a shame that they don't have time.

The deleted scenes could be good though, and I'm excited about the bloopers too! :)

[leesa_perrie]

Good news is that the blooper reel made it - there was a moment of doubt not too long ago - and the deleted scenes sound like fun.

Pity about the commentaries, not that I tend to listen to them much myself, though I would if DH did one - hmm, actually, I haven't watched the one (or is there more than one?) that he has done... Which episode was it, does anyone remember off hand?

I know that (according to Joe Mallozzi) no one gets paid for doing a commentary and therefore they are done out of the kindness of people's hearts (so's to speak) - but I suspect it has more to do with scheduling than money. Our actors appear to love the fans enough to do the commentaries ... if they have the time. And we all know that they are busy people (DH, for example, just how many scripts is he writing at the moment? I've lost count, but it's at least two films and Starcrossed - and then there's baby Baz - learning lines and saving the galaxy - oh, and an upcoming wedding to organise!!).

Maybe we'll get other actors next season. I hope so. But at least we have Amanda (okay, I know, more SG1 than SGA) and one with Jason (and Chris Judge) - it's better than none at all!

I'm hoping that Joe Mallozzi is his normal charming, charismatic, sarcastic, super-villian self on the ones he's done! I know not everyone likes his humour (or him), but I love his dry comments on his blog.

[hawtboyluvin.livejournal.com]

those.......dirty birdies!!!!:(

[tavabean.livejournal.com]

Would have loved to see what JF would have said about his kids being in the Kindred scene with him