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Crusade - J. Michael Straczynski commentary to be removed from Crusade
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Posted by David Lambert
2/03/2005

Last June we reported that Babylon 5 and spin-off Crusade
creator/producer J. Michael Straczynski had recorded commentary tracks
for the Crusade - The Complete Series DVD set that was released this
past December 7th. Now Straczynski has posted info that his commentary
tracks will be removed from future pressings of the set!

Fansite FirstOnes.com has posted the text of Straczynski's recent
message about his latest goings-on, and from his long note, this is
the portion which talks about his insistance to Warner that the
commentaries be removed:

On the subject of the Crusade DVD commentary...I see another
fairy tale looming in the future...WB has agreed, after quite a bit of
noise, to remove the commentary that I did from all future pressings
of the set, since that was the deal that we had made: use it all,
including the explanation of what happened, or use none of it. So
those of you who have your DVDs now, and for the next bit, will have
that commentary. Those afterward won't. I don't know when the next
pressing will be, but whenever that is, is when the change takes
place.

So we imagine that the existing sets will now fly off the shelves, in
order for fans to get Straczynski's commentary tracks on them. But
don't forget that this is the edited-down version of his comments, and
that the whole story isn't on there.

Our thanks to readers Casey Barrett and Jesse Willis for passing this
on to us.

Link to this page:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2857






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