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.
