That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Well keep in mind also that the S1 set and the S2 and Gold Box sets were put out by two completely different companies. I would imagine that CBS/Paramount really had no desire to mimic the Artisan set completely, especially when it came to costs. The S2 set was about the same retail price as the S1 set, yet one only had 7 episodes while the other had 22. The reason being that Artisan created a very high quality DVD set and spent a lot of money doing so. CBS/Paramount could have done the same thing for S2, but we'd be sitting here crying right now because the price would have been upwards of $80-90, easily. (In another thread last year, I did a breakdown of retail price-per-episode...the Artisan set was like $5.70 per ep...using that as a baseline, 22 episodes on a set of the same quality should theoretically cost $125!) Since it was no guarantee that S2 would be a big sell, or even a moderate sell, CBS/Paramount was wise to not go that route. Especially since they were already in the process of creating the Gold Box release. Granted that didn't give us the really cool menus of the S1 Artisan set, but I think what we got was definitely a fair trade.

Not to mention that there's also the possibility that the menu design and menu music from the S1 set was actually copyrighted and belonged to Artisan exclusively.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Well first off, I'm not talking about Europe. But if you'd like, adjust my calculation for the inclusion of the pilot (and adjust my retail cost of the set as well, as I believe the European S1 was slightly more expensive than the US one).

Second, complaints abounded with the second season of TP because of video quality loss due to CBS/Paramount cramming so many episodes onto each disc (compression, etc etc etc). My calculation is based on if we were to get Season 2 exactly how Artisan's Season 1 package was, with 2 eps per disc. As I stated above, I had that same discussion in another thread...there, though, people were complaining about the quality of the entire box set of S2, so I pointed out how much it would cost if S2 were EXACTLY like S1. I was lazy and just took my cost calculations straight from that thread. My apologies for not adjusting all the costs. I'm just used to trying to defend CBS/Paramount yet again for something they apparently didn't do to please the TP fans. :)

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."