About
All Feedback (166)
- d***1 (2602)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseSuper card! Packaged well and arrived safely and quickly! Three cheers!!
- n***2 (628)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseCard is in great condition. Good packaging and shipping
- c***2 (3879)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseGreat seller
- e***a (4660)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseItem as described. Great seller. Fast shipping. Would buy from again.
- h***o (26729)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseLightening Fast Delivery & Great eBayer ….. AAAAA+++++
- j***2 (65)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseQuick shipping and great price!
Reviews (4)
04 Jul, 2017
Not McDevitt's best tome, but engaging
The idea of a potentially 'lost' alien contact was a nice set-up and played out well but in the end I felt a bit let down with the resolution. Potentially this one works better as the start of a two parter? Mr. McDevitt has better examples of first contact books with "Infinity Beach" being a nice stand alone novel and "Chindi" one of the better Hutchinson books.
19 Dec, 2017
Good fun but could have been better, very minimal extras
2 Disk set contains 6 stories including two related ones about the monks 9who first appeared in Extremis -last episode of series 10 part 1) and a two-part finale featuring not one but two incarnations of the master.
The pyramid at the end of the world: At first I thought this one was aiming to check off another diversity category, but in fact that aspect was well managed (character had an obvious difference which was NOT an integral part of the story - quite refreshing to see this normalized rather than sensationalized - and I'd love to see more of that character again. The story itself was OK - a bit overdone on great power interactions, better on the true threat to the world and how the doctor combats it..
The Lie of the land: follows directly from a key event in previous episode and deals with the consequences of choosing the lesser of two evils. Better story than its predecessor, though again the totalitarian society aspects were overdone.
Empress of Mars - brings back the ice warriors and adds some Victorian soldiers in a decent stand alone story with an uplifting theme about second chances.
The Eaters of Light was my 2nd favorite of the set - nice confounding of historical mystery with advanced alien interlopers. Didn't care for the interactions between Bill and soldiers which added little to plot - thankfully more on English folk.
World Enough and Time had the best premise about a very large spaceship encountering a black hole and an interesting side effect. MANY holes in the science behind this one but I could tolerate that and appreciated how the complications were handled.
The Doctor Falls had its good moments but I've never been a big fan of John Simm's Master (prefer Missy and versions back in the 70's). I did like how the departure of various characters was developed.
Extras were minimal - about 3 minutes of commentary per episode. A bit disappointing there.
Navigation was fine and subtitles easy to implement.
19 Sep, 2017
Great to relive the moments, shoddy case but great navigational maps
As other reviewers have indicated it is really helpful to be able to ditch the network TV audio in favor of local radio hosts. The DVD's have very easy navigational controls which let you pick the half inning you wish to see - even better you do this by clicking on the line score so you can go right to the innings where leads changed etc... because such details are embedded in the navigational map. The accompanying insert had some fun facts too.
I was surprised that the hinged plastic case holding the 8 DVD's was not somehow attached to the box in which it resides. Rather it just rattles around loosely. Doesn't look like a defect or broken missing part but intentional design. Likely to shorten the life if viewed often.
Video quality was so-so on a 50" screen. It seemed to be mildly pixelated momentarily at the start of some scenes but then settled in OK until camera angle changes. Or was that my blueray player trying to upgrade the DVD?