Thursday, April 19, 2012

Survey Says... Danny Phantom!

Danny Phantom is one of my absolute favorite shows from Nickelodeon! And when Shout Factory! announced last year that they had got the rights to it (along with many other old Nick shows), I was so excited about getting them on DVD!

Season 2, Part 1 was released April 3, 2012, so OF COURSE I went out and bought it (I did the same for Season 1) :3 But I feel like ShoutFactory! didn't really give a shit about this release. The artwork is cool and all, but the actual content on the discs are all screwed up.

The inside artwork of the DVD set lists the first ten episodes as being:

  1. Memory Bank
  2. Doctor's Orders
  3. Pirate Radio
  4. Reign Storm, Part 1
  5. Reign Storm, Part 2
  6. Identity Crisis
  7. Fenton Menace
  8. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 1
  9. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 2
  10. The Fright Before Christmas
The list on the artwork is 100% correct, as that's the order the episodes were originally released by Nickelodeon while they were on air. HOWEVER (and this is what really saddens me), while watching the DVD, I noticed the episodes are ordered all out-of-whack, some are missing, and some are on the set that shouldn't be there. The DVD episodes go in the order of:

  1. Reign Storm, Part 1
  2. Reign Storm, Part 2
  3. Doctor's Orders
  4. Identity Crisis
  5. Fenton Menace
  6. Pirate Radio
  7. The Fright Before Christmas
  8. Micro-Management (should be in part 2)
  9. Masters of All Time (should be in part 2)
  10. Beauty Marked (should be in part 2)
So yeah, way to show no respect for the fans of a show. It looks like they just slapped together a bunch of episodes that just HAPPENED to be in Season 2 of the show, called them part 1, and hoped no one would notice. And so, obviously part 2 (whenever it's released), will be just as jumbled of a mess to finish up the season. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Season 3 isn't as out of order as this was.

**UPDATE**
ShoutFactory! commented on a Facebook post I left them about this issue, and they stated that the episodes on the DVD are in the order that they intended, but there was a misprint with the DVD artwork. They informed me to email them about getting the correct DVD wrap, so I'm doing just that! >.>

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