Save Chuck
So it’s May 4th and possibly due to a variety of outside factors NBC hasn’t released their full fall lineup yet and Chuck is one of the shows TBA.
Thus far I have blogged about the show, watched the show live, watched it streaming online, participated in Finale & Footlong by buying my family dinner at Subway last Monday, followed savechuck and save_chuck on twitter as well as tweeted and retweeted many a tweet on the subject. I even went out and bought the first season on blu-ray even though my friend had already lent it to me before – although I only just now discovered the deleted scenes so it was still worthwhile, plus I wanted to re-watch the first season anyways. Today I’m taking the family back to subway again for Chuck vs. The Footlong. I’ve even bought Nerds.
But I’ve always known that the holy grail of supporting the show would be to preorder season 2 on blu-ray but it hasn’t shown up on amazon.ca so I tweeted the experts and they suggested I order it from amazon.com and ship it internationally. Only it turns out that costs $8 is shipping on top of the supersaver free shipping plus over $9 in import fees which is absolutely ridiculous, the final cost works out to something like nearly $90 US.
And the thing is once it’s listed on a Canadian site or retailer I’m sure the price will be more reasonable.
And I’m not sure that I want to set the precedent of spending nearly a hundred dollars to buy a single season of a show on blu-ray, because then I’d have to run out and buy Torchwood season 1 on blu-ray which Best Buy’s had for months at about that price. Although Torchwood doesn’t exactly need saving the third season just being a 5-episode miniseries doesn’t exactly scream comfortable success. For one thing it was supposed to air in spring but now they’re saying we might get a preview mid-June.
I want to save Chuck, Torchwood, and the economy but how far is too far? I bought Enterprise on DVD at similar if not higher prices to try and save that show but let’s face facts, fantastic as these shows are they’re no Enterprise.
And the fact is despite whatever objections I’ve heard I’d still like to take a vacation this year and I just found out my raise isn’t quite what I expected (or, frankly, was previously told) but with people losing their jobs and pensions left and right I hardly feel as if I’m in any position to complain.
