DVD Day: August 5th, 2008
? Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
The BBC celebrated Who‘s 20th anniversary with this special, which featured five of the doctors teaming up, making it pretty much a Who fan’s wet dream. This DVD continues the pleasure with deleted scenes and new effects in a 2-DVD special edition.
? Star Trek Season 2 Remastered
This is the version with the new CG Enterprise and effects, but just on regular DVD. I guarantee this thing will be coming to Blu-ray eventually, so you might want to wait.
? He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Vol. 3
The final 13-episode season with the Snake Men, Hordak and the awesome episode revealing King Grayskull and actual secrets of Castle Grayskull. Damn, I miss this show.
? Starship Troopers 3
Yes, there’s now a third, and it still “stars” Caspar Van Dien. More importantly, the original Starship Troopers?which is a hilarious movie, in true Verhoeven style?is now available on Blu-ray, as is this one. I find it bizarre that people think Starship Troopers was supposed to be taken at face value?although it’s clear the makers of the two sequels sure did.
? Gurren Lagann Vol. 2
Gainax’s crazy-ass robot show. It’s now airing on the Sci-Fi Channel at 11 .p.m. on Mondays, if you’d like to check it out.
? Code Geass Part 1
A big-ass box of the first season of Code Geass, the CLAMP-designed, Sunrise-made anime currently airing on Adult Swim. It’s fun, but it’s so pro-Japan anti-everyone else it’s a little disturbing.
? Get Smart Season One
A TV show written by Mel Brooks is nerdy enough for TR coverage, in case you were wondering.
? Code Monkeys Season One
I don’t watch this show. Anyone think I’m missing out? You know, besides employees of G4?
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.