Okay, I finally got around to buying the first season of 24 on DVD-- and I have an issue with the 20th Century Fox marketing dweeb who wrote the copy describing the “extras.”
If I’d bought this when it was first released, this would be posted in the pit, and I’d be spewing vitriol. And I’d probably take the thing back in disgust.
Since we are well into the second season, the ‘teaser’ didn’t really figure into my decision to buy the set – I just wanted to have the series. If that wasn’t the case, I’d be seriously vexed. Before season two started, I was pretty twitchy for it. Hyped. And, of course, I’d have skipped to the “Special features” immediately, sweating with anticipation. I’d have happily shelled out more semolians, too.
Actually, I did skip to the “special features” right away-- (I just wasn’t twitchy for the teaser, natch.)
There is no teaser. There’s a clip of Kiefer giving a TV Guide-quality synopsis of the concept of the first season, at the end of which he says, (I’m paraphrasing, here,) “What can we expect from the next season of 24? In a word: More. More action, more suspense, and more drama. Jack Bauer’s next day will keep us all awake for another twenty-four hours.”
That’s no damned teaser. A teaser is “a short preview of a film, or a brief scene from an upcoming television show.”
This is a teaser. This is a cussed teaser.
A pudgy Canadian casually mentioning that he’s got another year’s work is not a teaser.
Any other blatant lies on DVD packaging out there?