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Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Blu-Ray Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic

 



This gives you an idea of where the storyline went after the live-action show ended. As most die-hard Buffy fans likely know, the creative team behind Buffy continued the story in a series of comic books. This tells the first part of the story in the comics (there are over 40 comic issues and this covers the first 19 issues), basically set sometime down the line from the events ending season seven. I would say the story is okay, but nowhere near as good as any of the seasons were in the live-action show and the fact that the characters were not voiced by the original cast members made it feel a bit lackluster. The animation was okay at best, but not even as good as what the best video games at the time this came out boasted.

The A/V quality of the blu-ray is good, but not spectacular. There are a handful of extras including a preview of the series played at Comic-Con, a test pilot, which is basically a very rough version of the first issue/episode, a trivia experience that pops up trivia questions as the episodes play, and a gallery of the comic book covers. Good for what is there, but nothing to write home about.

Overall, only die-hard fans of Buffy are only going to consider getting this, and even then not everyone who was a fan of the show will likely be interested in this. If you really liked the comic series, from what I can tell this tracks the issues pretty well, but it is not even close to complete, and given how much time has passed, there is not likely to be a DVD or Blu-Ray release with the rest of the story.

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