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It's a shame a show with this much potential suffered such a swift demise. Almost as if murdering a bright child. I am however extraordinarily content that this long awaited series has finally made it to DVD! I voted for its release a while back as many of us BOP fans did when the forums were up. Words do little justice to convey my enthusiasm having heard the Birds are finally uncaged!
Rating:  -
Nice job, WB. Here is it 2008, and you put out a shoddy release like this. Folks, this is being sent out in letterbox widescreen. Meaning they just slapped black bars on the top and bottom of the full frame picture. It should have been the far-superior anamorphic widescreen.
Rating:  -
Through a stroke of insane luck, I came upon the official DVD set, in my local used DVD/CD store (obviously sold to the store by a reviewer who got an advanced copy to review) and contrary to the, "Standard" specs on the box, this is in 1.85:1 widescreen.
So, you can all relax.
Hope this helps :)
P.S. The next reviewer seems to have some erroneous info about this release, and here was my comment to him:
"Anamorphic has nothing to do with the aspect ratio of widescreen, anamorphic simply means that the picture will properly fill up a widescreen TV without the picture appearing stretched (and since I don't have a widescreen TV, I can't report on the validity of this being anamorphic or not).
I've watched 9 episodes so far, and this is true widescreen and not letterboxed (as there's no crowded feeling in the frame or missing side information associated with simply putting black bars at the top and bottom of the picture to create a faux widescreen formate)."
Rating: -
I started watching this show on WB the very first day it aired -- the only TV show I can ever claim that with -- and as each episode passed, my enjoyment became obsession.
All three of the main characters are likeable, dynamic, and interesting. The dialogue, while occasionally cheesy, is overall witty and clever and a great deal of fun. I loved both the romances (especially Helena's :D), and greatly enjoyed all the other character interaction.
As far as villains go, Mia Sara's Harley Quinn has got to be one of the most fascinating villains I've ever seen. She's so bizarrely and believably psychotic! While I like all three main characters a lot, I can definitely say it's Harley Quinn that makes the difference between "loving the series" and "obsessing over it."
And as for plot, I won't reveal any spoilers, but I will say this: in only thirteen episodes, it managed more than three huge plot points that blew my mind.
When I first found out this series was going to be cancelled -- on Christmas day, of all days! -- I cried for hours. Ever since then, I've been waiting to see it get released on DVD, and I'm psyched that it is now going to be. The series was FAR too short -- far, FAR too short -- but the writers did a great job of wrapping it up in the last few episodes they were given, and this TV show will always rank among one of my favorites of all time.
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Birds of Prey had so much potential to it, the actresses and actors were fantastic they knew what the characters were feeling. The show was shot down way to soon. But I'm glad that this is being released on DVD at least we can have that much.
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