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Emerald City Blu-ray Released July 25th

posted 8 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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I am sad that this, to me at least, amazing series was cancelled, but I am thrilled that we will be getting a Blu-ray version of the one and only season. I have never seen a broadcast network TV show that looked as good as this. Most of us probably watched it on some medium other than broadcast, which means we saw the signal compressed. Uncompressed (airwaves broadcast, or Blu-ray) is like a thousand times cleaner. The cleaner your signal, the closer you are to your material. I mourn 😪 the loss of this show, but I celebrate our ability to watch what we have of it in pristine format!

[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 7 years ago

Well, I suppose that's one good thing.

Maybe another network could possibly continue the series? Not sure how that works with copyright and all that, but I thought I heard of something similar happening to other shows...

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

I'd guess that the cost per episode for EC was much higher than for most other TV shows, Leia, so, unless Amazon with their $4.5 billion show budget becomes interested, probably not. I'm glad that we at least got what we did, and that I met you as a result!

[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 7 years ago

Oh well. Maybe if one of the big movie channels picks it up (HBO, Starz, Netflix, etc) it could stand a chance.

Wonderful meeting you, too! 🤗

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

I have just received the Blu-ray boxed set of this series, and I have a couple of things to say.

First: the only other TV series that I have on disc is American Gothic (the original, not the unrelated modern knockoff), and they were both produced by Sean Cassidy. I know this is not a coincidence. I enjoy the correspondence.

The Blue-ray version of Emerald City is a revelation. The clarity of the sound and vision on the uncompressed Blu-rays reveals what a triumph Ana Ularu's performance as West truly was. Tarsem Singh created a broadcast TV visual feast that rivaled, perhaps surpassed, Game of Thrones, but the commercial breaks and the Friday-night-after-Grimm-on-NBC was a death warrant for this series that, even with a very weak lead actress, had so much potential. Watch the Blu-ray. I adore Game of Thrones. The art direction and the cinematography on Emerald City are better. And Ana Ularu rocks, hard!

Like, Janice Joplin hard. Like, Stevie Nicks hard. Like, HARD.