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Earth Final Conflict - No Refuge

Earth Final Conflict - No Refuge

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ONLY SEASONS 1 & 4 ARE WORTH WATCHING
Review: "No Refuge" is season 3---skip it.

Season 1 was brilliant introduction. Season 4 provided the conclusion. All the other seasons were "lost" and directionless...boring. Buy 1 & 4 and avoid the rest.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ONLY SEASONS 1 & 4 ARE WORTH WATCHING
Review: "No Refuge" is season 3---skip it.

Season 1 was brilliant introduction. Season 4 provided the conclusion. All the other seasons were "lost" and directionless...boring. Buy 1 & 4 and avoid the rest.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Previous Review is false.
Review: Actually this is season 3 on, Universal decided not to release the first and second season due to their owning of it, basically they just sit on it. But season three is as good a place to start as any.

Earth: Final Conflict will be a great addition to your scifi collection. It features a deep plot with good quality acting on the part of the main charactors. I am sure you will fall in love with this series as much as i did

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: ADV didn't just put this dvd together in a hurry. The digital quality is wonderful! And the interviews are a great edition.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great DVD Quality!
Review: ADV didn't just put this dvd together in a hurry. The digital quality is wonderful! And the interviews are a great edition.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing BOX !!!
Review: Amazing release of EFC tv series. 6 dvd's with full 22 episodes from season 3.As a bonus features you have interviews with the cast , photo gallery and featurette.I'm waiting for season 1 and 2 to be released and i hope to see it as good as seaseon 3-5 are. Highly recommended to all sci-fi fans :) The price is right get it now , you won't regret it !

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Starts on a High Note
Review: Can't review the quality of the DVD production yet, and the series didn't have the level of public excitement that would have ensured backing documentaries and other special features - but, as for the content of the series:

As previously noted, the first season of the 5-year run was a high point - engrossing mystery (though not enough resolution), truly delightful portrayals of complex characters (led by Leni Parker's "Da'an"), and credible CGI and makeup effects.

Most engrossing is the alien's "commonality", or awareness of and identification with a "group soul" of a sort - it gives the opportunity to explore the human dichotomy of self-interest versus common weal.

The initial five episodes can be considered back story, and a break-in period for the actors as they get comfortable with their roles and relationships. The season really picks up at epsiode 6 of 22 ("Float Like a Butterfly"), which includes the introduction of a story component that shows there are things out there in the universe that even the Taelons fear; in addition, it is very good episodic TV of any genre.

I would expect the DVD set to portray the first 90 minutes (two episodes) as a pilot show, as the non-US VHS release does; when shown in the US, this was converted to two separate episodes, which worked out well since minor and major multi-episode story arcs are throughout the season (though not as poished as Babylon 5).

Complex philosophy, intelligent future technologies, and an often graceful (though sometimes slow) unfolding of relationships and story are some of what the show offers.

Later seasons devolve into plastic action scenes as every character with even a pretense to integrity gets killed off (perhaps a trend with Canadian-based sci-fi, considering the little-seen in the US "War of the Worlds" series).

But for one brief shining season we had a real Roddenberry production on the air...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Turning Point...
Review: First, I will echo the views of the previous reviewers...and also say that I cant wait for Seasons 1 and 2 to come out on DVD.

Now having said that, I want to praise and condemn. This show in its first season was fantastic. Smart, interesting and well acted, it played on a couple of different concepts; that of the relationship between colonist/conqueror and conquered. One could almost see the agony of choosing whether to resist or collaborate and the problems and promises of both- there was no simple solution to that decision, and this was one of the sources of complexity and tension that kept the show going (and it was applicable to both sides); and that of the Platonic view of human nature as the interconnectedness of reason, spirit and appetites. With the Taelons providing the reason and the Juridians the appetites, it was clear that in some way the humans provided spirit, but how this was to manifest itself, and how it would develop in the course of the show was always agonizingly unclear, and a source of debate and discussion in my house after we discovered this show.

If only the same high level could have been maintained. Season two was good, and Season 3- in this DVD- was decent, but the show was losing its momentum by that point. I suspect that the writers/producers had exhausted the Roddenberry heritage and had little idea how to move the story forward, or what kind of ultimate resolution would appear. There was a marked tendency to replace 'action' with theme and intelligence, and even though there are several notable episodes in the 3 and 4 seasons (the 5th hardly bears watching... though sometimes it could be interesting) the show really ran out of ideas. This is a shame, because the promise that this show had form the beginning was quite marvelous, and is still mesmerizing to watch... so I've bought the Season 3 DVD, and I can sit and watch and wonder how I would have made it come out in the end... which is not an easy or an obvious thing to do.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: No English Subtitle
Review: How come there is not even an English subtitle? Though it doesn't quite stand in the way of my understanding, it still almost drove me mad while I was watching.Many of my friends, who are also hot EFC fans, withdrew their decision of buying it when they knew there wasn't a subtitle. Not everyone's English(I mean people from non-English speaking countries like me) is good enough to understand the show without any means of assistance.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: I THOUGHT THIS DVD SET WAS FANTASTIC I LOVE EARTH FINAL CONFLICT I CAN NEVER MISS AN EPISODE I AM SOOO GLAD THEY COME OUT WITH IT ON DVD NOW NOT ONLY IS IT COMMERCIAL FREE BUT NOW I CAN THROW AWAY ALL MY TAPES ANYWANY THIS DVD SET IS AWESOME I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!!!!!


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