SG-1 Season Eight DVD Set -- Content

I will rate each season’s DVD set before reviewing the season’s individual episodes.  My rating in this post solely reflects the DVD content, options, & extras (or lack thereof), not episodes.

Overall Rating for the Set:  Good

No audio commentary on episode 18,  “Threads.”
Audio commentary on the rest of the episodes.

There is not a “play all” option.

English and French audio.

Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish.

The episodes are close captioned.

This is a five-disc set, with 20 episodes.
Each episode is approximately 44 minutes long.

All episodes are anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1.

Sound:

English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
French: Stereo Surround

The special features are not rated.

The special features are neither closed-captioned nor subtitled.

Special Features:

SG-1 Beyond the Gate: An Air Force Experience with Richard Dean Anderson
SG-1 Beyond the Gate: A Convention Experience with Christopher Judge
SG-1 Directors Series: “Avatar”
SG-1 Directors Series: “Covenant”
SG-1 Directors Series: “Reckoning”
Super Soldier: The Making of a Monster featurette
Photo and Production Design Galleries

All episodes in their entirety, some featurettes, and there are audio commentaries for all episodes except one.  Episodes finally have subtitles, and in three languages.  Audio is available in English and French.  Slim cases, and nice artwork.

With TV series on DVD, there are two quality of life options (meaning non-essential perks) that I enjoy.  First, a “play all” option for the episodes on a disk.  Main menu to episode menu to “play episode,” and then from the episode menu to the main menu to the next episode menu to “play episode” gets old, fast.  Second, putting a scene break on the DVD at the end of every episode's opening credit, where the theme music plays.  I love Stargate SG-1's opening credit theme music (I love all of Stargate SG-1's music), but sometimes I want to get straight to the episode after the opening scene.  In this season 8 DVD set, neither of those two quality of life options are available.

By having subtitles on episodes, and more than just English as a language option, this DVD set is a step up from previous seasons DVD sets.  On the flip side, there are fewer special features in this season’s DVD set, and for the first time since commentary was added there is an episode without commentary.

I rate this season’s DVD set as  a solid Good.