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Throw in a number of other characters including regular best-friends for
Daisy and Tim respectively, Twist (Liverpool 1's Katy Carmichael) and "weapons expert"
Mike (Nick Frost), plus movie references aplenty including
2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Blair Witch
Project and The Matrix and it doesn't all quite gel together, but
then it's not really meant to.
I didn't quite get into this programme first time round, but learned of the
DVD around the time when the series was repeated (Feb 2001) and gave it a
second chance with the sixth, clubbing, episode. Then things began to click.
It's not a laugh-out-loud funny sitcom, but clearly draws you in with its
style including the use of cut-scenes spliced in all over the place, such as
in the final episode when an argument between Daisy and Tim is interspliced
with footage of two
Tekken
characters slugging it out.
There's no problems with the encoding of the picture on this DVD, although
it does have a slightly washed-out and blurry look to it throughout. However,
that is down to the way it was filmed. It's also presented in the original
anamorphic widescreen 16:9 ratio, as shown on Channel 4 and the average
bitrate is a 5.31Mbs, occasionally peaking over 8Mb/s.
Spaced doesn't have a theme tune of its own, but it's populated by
snippets of different songs - almost all of which are named in the subtitles -
and other programmes' theme tunes, including Murder She Wrote and a
remix of The A-Team, plus various audio swipes that accompany visual
cues. Call me a purist, but if someone had remixed the entire soundtrack into
Dolby Digital 5.1 it would have been quite a perfect treat.
The extras, all in anamorphic 16:9 widescreen, feature Cast and Crew Biographies for not only the major
cast members, the director and producers, but also the characters themselves
which is quite a novel twist. The Trailers section consists of two
teasers, the trailers used to specifically advertise episodes 3, 4, 5 and 6
and a near-two-minute trailer for Series 2, which you'll be seeing regularly
of Channel 4 if you're reading this review in the week of February 19th-23rd
2001.
There are nine minutes of Out-takes and thirteen Deleted Scenes,
each with an optional audio commentary track explaining why they were left out
although the booklet comments on this too. Finally, like
The League of Gentlemen
there's an Audio Commentary track from Simon Pegg, Jessica
Stevenson and Edgar Wright which runs for the full length of the
series. I hope more programmes do this in future.
The disc contains five chapters per episode, subtitles in English for the
hard of hearing which capture just about all of the dialogue and the menus
contain music plus subtle animation which changes colour. On my Creative Dxr2
DVD-ROM player, the menus didn't appear most of the time (I also had a similar
problem with
Dogma),
but it worked fine on a
Playstation 2.
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