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desoto_hia873 ([personal profile] desoto_hia873) wrote2006-08-21 09:00 pm
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Done The Impossible

I got my Done The Impossible DVD last week and watched a good chunk of it last night. It's pretty cool and has a lot of bonus features. I was a bit sad that the June 23 preview screenings weren't specifically mentioned in the Interactive Timeline as that was the one I actually went to. But that's a pretty minor quibble. I was a relative late-comer to the Firefly fandom (I didn't watch the series until it came out on DVD), so it was interesting to learn about all of the history that I missed out on. The audio from an entire Q&A session with Joss, Tim, Ben Edlund, and half the cast is included in the Interactive Timeline--that one feature alone is an hour long. There were a couple of videos from Q&A's at other cons, but I don't know how long they are. I had to give up and go to bed sometime.

I got 10/10 on the easy quiz. :-) The medium quiz, however, looks just about impossible.

One thing that caught my eye was the fact that one of the interviews was with a fan who was wearing a WriterCon 2004 t-shirt! I had to wait until the credits to find out what her online name was--turns out that it was [livejournal.com profile] agilebrit. I think I met her briefly at this year's WriterCon, but I am terrible at remembering faces and didn't recognise her.

[identity profile] desoto-hia873.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Was there a patch in the first third of the documentary where it wouldn't play properly? There was on mine--I was wondering if this was a "universal" feature.

[identity profile] styrofoam-guy.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard there was a patch online but I have not downloaded it yet to play on my DVD-ROM

It was buggy on my DVD player. Some of the timeline voice overs would not work and it does not easily return to the main menu. I did accidentally find the easter egg with the Jewel embarassing moment.

[identity profile] desoto-hia873.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I did accidentally find the easter egg with the Jewel embarassing moment.

Ooo, I hadn't heard about that! How do you get to it?

[identity profile] styrofoam-guy.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I was in the second DVD menu and I was trying to get back to the main menu. Pushing the top menu for me got this video. Actually I think it happened several times while I was trying to get back to the main menu which got frustrating.

There is a commentary on the DVD vide and I wanted to turn it off and get back to the main menu but up would pop this easter egg.