Note: This post was originally published on 31 July 2009.

Apparently the details of the second season DVDs have been released and have everyone up in arms. What is currently known about them have led many to conclude that the second season home videos consist of one disc repeated seven times. To add to the beautiful irony, each disc is priced at a premium rate for what is essentially the same episode repeated to fill to capacity. For the record (as if I haven’t made it clear enough already), I have yet to actually watch any of the second season. I won’t touch any of the episodes until they all rest on my drive. If the show isn’t going to play fair, I want equal parity. I don’t think that’s too much to ask. Everything I know about it is from hearsay, and what I’m hearing doesn’t sound good.

To be honest, I’ve been trying my hardest to resist making comment until all materials are officially released. This is a preemptive statement that could very well become moot in an instant, and I would be devastated if that happens to be the case. However, I made enough bad decisions this week so what’s one more, right? The numbering of the second season discs, which goes from 5 – 5.999…, might be another plot device whose purpose won’t be revealed just yet. The device of the same events repeated verbatim ad nauseam could have a currently hidden function that would not be possible if presented any other way. All of the apologies on the creators’ part could be part of the trick. Not that it would matter to me if it is, anyway, since I had ideas for this kind of thing years ago. There is also the possibility that, as I’ve stated before on other forums (and only recently below this post), this is part of a scheme to divide the fanbase as widely as possible and drive them to fight and defend indefensible presentation choices like this. I would really like to think it is. I don’t know, and neither does anyone else. Yet the people who stood by the poor decisions of season one are beginning to resent it now as if they never saw it coming. I’m trying really hard to hide it, but I’ve never felt so smug in my entire life.

I promise that I will retract all of my statements if I watch these and discover that this was in fact a huge ploy with a big surprise ending that the fans instantly forgive, but it better be the best gimmick in the history of the industry to even come close. That’s the good thing about not watching this experiment as it unfolds: I don’t have to wait for it to get better.