The Outer Limits - The New Series (Aliens Among Us/Death & Beyond/Fantastic Androids & Robots/Mutation and Transformation/Sex & Science Fiction/Time Travel & Infinity Collections)
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Actor: Alex Diakun, Eric Schneider, Garvin Cross, Kevin Conway, Larry MusserBrand: N/A
Editor: Alison Grace
Producer: Brad Markowitz
Producer: Carleton Eastlake
Producer: Nora O'Brien
Writer: Ed Adamson
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Writer: Sam Neuman
Writer: Seeleg Lester
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1596 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Outer Limits - The New Series (Aliens Among Us/Death & Beyond/Fantastic Androids & Robots/Mutation and Transformation/Sex & Science Fiction/Time Travel & Infinity Collections)
DVD Review: Giving up control of your television set...
Summary: 4 Stars
While "The Outer Limits-The New Series" had a number of fine moments, the series could be extremely inconsistent. The finest episodes of the new series could compare favorably to the best of the original show. MGM has chosen to release a series of themed DVDs as opposed to the entire seasons. I'm not going to dive into the controversay about the way this is being released but focus on the quality of the episodes, transfer and extras.
The weakest set is "Sex & Science Fiction" and played to the peeping tom in the audience by combining the science fiction elements of the original show with nudity and four letter words. The best episode on the "Sex" set is "The Human Operators". That's not to say that the rest of the episodes are particularly bad; they're not they just don't share the "sense of awe" of the original series. You do get Alyssa Milano nude though as a compensation for the guys out there.
"Aliens Among Us" features a number of terrific episodes including the classic "Quality of Mercy". Robert Patrick plays a soldier taken captive by a race of reptilian aliens that Earth is at war with. He's put in with a cadet (Nicole DeBoer)who is gradually being turned into one of the aliens as part of some sort of bizarre experiment. "Afterlife" features Clancy Brown as a man wrongly convicted of murder who is given the choice of death by lethal injection or participation in a biological experiment by the military. He chooses the latter but doesn't know that he's being biologically transformed into something else. "The Grell" and "Realtivity Theory" both touch on a number of fascinating themes as well.
"Death and Beyond" features a number of strong episodes including Alan Brennart's suspenseful and moving "The Second Soul" which has much in common with the best that Joseph Stefano, Leslie Stevens and Harlan Ellison contributed to the series. A dying race contacts Earth asking for help. They don't want technology; they want our dead. The aliens want to reanimate them with their own "souls". "The Second Soul" asks a lot of complex questions, addresses bigotry without a heavy handed approach and creates much suspense. The performances by Rae Dawn Chong and Mykelti Williamson are strong and Brennart's (who wrote some of the finest episodes of the 80's "Twilight Zone" and is a novelist of note)script touches on the spirit of the original show.
"A Stitch in Time"by Steven Barnes features Amanda Plummer as a scientist who is linked to a series of murders the oldest of which occurred 30 years ago only she was a child at the time. An FBI agent (Michelle Forbes) finally begins to put the pieces together when she discovers where the research led. "Tribunal" and "Deja Vu" both are worthwhile episodes as well. In "Tribunal" an attorney discovers a way to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice by snatching him from the past. Unfortunately, his decision has some nasty consquences.
"Fantastic Robots and Androids" has a couple of wortwhile episodes as well. I wasn't impressed with the remake of "I Robot" from the original series but "Glitch" touches on Philip K. Dick territory in a story about a man who discovers he's an android designed to assassinate people. "The Camp" where the last humans are herded into concentration camps by andriods left behind from an alien invasion.
Each disc has a number of featurettes about the series with interviews featuring original series producer/writer/co-creator Joseph Stefano, producer/writer Pen Densholm who revived the series for MGM and Showtime. There's also documentaries/featurettes about various episodes as well.
The drawbacks are few but significant. The transfers here for many of these episodes contain quite a bit of video noise and the transfers aren't always the best either. The quality of the writing and performances make this worthwhile even if MGM has dropped the ball on many of these episodes. The "Aliens" set in particular has quite a few flaws in this area. A pet peeve of mine is when studios fail to put chapter stops after the opening logos so you can skip them and get right to the episode. On the earlier sets MGM did a fine job with this on the later sets (such as "Aliens") they put the chapter stops at some of the most bizarre moments.
Overall, this is an exceptional series. It may not have been as ground breaking as the original series but many of the finest episodes were the equal of the best from the original series. Like the 80's version of "The Twilight Zone" "The New Outer Limits" may not have always captured the flare and power of the original but that doesn't diminish the importance of this series.
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Description of The Outer Limits - The New Series (Aliens Among Us/Death & Beyond/Fantastic Androids & Robots/Mutation and Transformation/Sex & Science Fiction/Time Travel & Infinity Collections)
No Description Available.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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