The DVD gods giveth, and lo, also do they taketh away.

It was almost a year ago that I demanded the release of The Flash and the Dark Shadows revival series on DVD, and just five months later I discovered that DVD executives everywhere had cowered and capitulated to my every order.

Unfortunately it seems the knaves, in their haste to quell my insatiable wrath, slipped up. Their Dark Shadows DVDs are inexplicably widescreen, even though the shows were originally shot and aired and intended for full screen. (Apparently DVD execs confuse our preference for intended aspect ratios with an irrational love of wide things.) The Flash, meanwhile, actually has some kind of production error that crashes your DVD player during the pilot episode.

Hey, look, I wasn't even disappointed that there were no special features. As I've addressed, these are DVD sets that only I could possibly want. But come on, DVD execs. You can do better than this.

In other, more pressing news, I'm selling my homemade 12-DVD set of Twin Peaks season 2. So, if you want to see David Duchovny in drag, this may be your last chance for a while.