Sunday, June 04, 2006
In a trip to Wal*Mart last night, I picked up two more dollar DVDs, thus the backlog is up but I watched one today so far so its not so bad.
Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths & Legends: The Bait: From Digiview comes another of their licensed series made to the general public at a dollar a pop. The show is about this character named Nick Logan, a bounty hunter turned alien fighter for a strange group called the Alliance while he searches to find what happened to his biological father when he was three years old. It's not really explained who the Alliance are, who funds them or how one really gets a job with them. Nonetheless, they are the alien fighters and are the good guys in the show.
What's interesting is that the aliens are not the little green men aliens we've come to expect in movies, but they take the form of the myths and legends that the world has heard about for years (Banshees, Yettis, Vampires etc.) and even some join the "good" side. Logan's partner is a "young" banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. They both work as a team with slight romantic overtones. There's also some other characters like the old man General Rinaker who runs the alliance and the comic relief known as Fitz who is on cover up duty as well as his partner who is so bland I can't even remember her name.
All in all, it's a decent show for a buck. At $1 for 5 episodes, that means if Digiview keeps this up, the entire 40 episode show could cost a grand total of $8! Not a bad deal at all, even though the cheapness of the presentation is evident with commercial bumpers left in and even the TV-Y7 rating still in the corner though I suspect these may have been part of the masters and added at the same time the titles were. One oddity is that the opening displays the [CC] logo and yet there was no closed captioning encoded on the disc.
One last note, Sh'lainn was played by Janyse Jaud who has quite a few voice acting roles under her belt including some anime. Besides that, she is one very fine looking woman! ~_^
Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths & Legends: The Bait: From Digiview comes another of their licensed series made to the general public at a dollar a pop. The show is about this character named Nick Logan, a bounty hunter turned alien fighter for a strange group called the Alliance while he searches to find what happened to his biological father when he was three years old. It's not really explained who the Alliance are, who funds them or how one really gets a job with them. Nonetheless, they are the alien fighters and are the good guys in the show.What's interesting is that the aliens are not the little green men aliens we've come to expect in movies, but they take the form of the myths and legends that the world has heard about for years (Banshees, Yettis, Vampires etc.) and even some join the "good" side. Logan's partner is a "young" banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. They both work as a team with slight romantic overtones. There's also some other characters like the old man General Rinaker who runs the alliance and the comic relief known as Fitz who is on cover up duty as well as his partner who is so bland I can't even remember her name.
All in all, it's a decent show for a buck. At $1 for 5 episodes, that means if Digiview keeps this up, the entire 40 episode show could cost a grand total of $8! Not a bad deal at all, even though the cheapness of the presentation is evident with commercial bumpers left in and even the TV-Y7 rating still in the corner though I suspect these may have been part of the masters and added at the same time the titles were. One oddity is that the opening displays the [CC] logo and yet there was no closed captioning encoded on the disc.
One last note, Sh'lainn was played by Janyse Jaud who has quite a few voice acting roles under her belt including some anime. Besides that, she is one very fine looking woman! ~_^
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