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People support emailing my Roughnecks place about the friendly DVD order, so here it is:
This is the order the Roughnecks DVD’s should be watched in:
(but skip the clip-shows on the “Trackers” disk and attach them till last)
1. The Pluto Campaign (episodes 1-2-4-3-5)
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[episodes 3 and 4 deliberately switched around, disk plays in "true" order]
2. The Hydora Campaign (episodes 6-7-8-9-10)
3. The Tophet Campaign (episodes 11-12-13-14-15)
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4. The Tesca Campaign (episodes 16-17-18-19-20)
[also known as the Tesca Nemerosa campaign]
5. The Zephyr Campaign (episodes 21-22-23-24-25)
[also known as the Ice Asteroid campaign]
6. The Klendathu Campaign (episodes 26-27-28-29-30)
7. Trackers (episode 31; clip-shows 1 thru 4)
8. The Homefront Campaign (episodes 32-34-35-36-37)
[there IS NO EPISODE 33! 37 is the "final" episode even though it's a cliffhanger]
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Finally, my collection is complete, but this particular disk is not up to the quality of the other seven in the space. Originally conceived as a series with eight “chapters” of five episodes each, production problems led to having to accomplish four “clip shows” to instruct the promised 40 episodes. (The actors recorded dialog for two episodes that were never tantalizing.) These clip shows fill from 60-90% “recycled” material, but the 10-40% that’s current ties the clips together into exquisite stories.
When packaging the series, the five daily episodes for each week were combined into a single feature-length disk, with only one intro and exit that had combined production credits for all of the episodes on the disk (sometimes 2-3 different Directors, for example.) The first six disks faithfully prefer the first six weeks. The last week (”Homefront Campaign”) contains the last five production episodes, but there is a missing episode (#31) that precedes the first one on the disk, and the tale ends with a cliff-hanger (#37) because they never completed the last few episodes. (Another review provides a very honorable chronology for viewing the disks.)
What we score on “Trackers” is the missing episode and the four clip-shows, but the DVD layout is confusing … it appears to have one “feature” and four “extras” … these are, in fact, the missing Episode 31 and the clip-shows that were delivered instead of 33, 38, 39 and 40. All five episodes hold their novel intros and exits. (Treasure that music! 
Unfortunately, unlike the other seven disks, there are no audio commentaries or production featurettes.
If, like me, you started collecting these DVDs as they were released in order to have the Complete Series, then you *MUST* have this disk. Because each episode is only about 22 minutes long, with the complete intro music and ending credits, they are a expedient arrangement to introduce friends to the series without forcing them to sit through an hour and a half in one sitting to discover all five episodes from a single week.
If, OTOH, you objective have fond memories of the demonstrate and would like to have a “sampler”, then this is a very top-notch choice as your first engage, as the four clip shows beget some really tall action sequences. The down-side is that several of those scenes are repeated in more than one of the episodes, and the plan they are ordered on the disk, you’ll spy a flashback approach the extinguish of one episode repeated come the begining of the episode that follows it.
I don’t feel cheated by the duplication … there are keen stories wrapped around these clips from other episodes, sometimes appearing as flashbacks (when Ricco is marrooned in site, or Razack is being court-martialed), others as material that Higgins is trying to cobble together into a broacast for FedNet. It also looks like they may have included some scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor as script changes were made during production of the current episodes.
In the commentaries on the other disks, they talk about the production problems that led to having to train the clip shows, but it would have been nice to hear them telling the stories of how they went about putting them together, as I bear at least one of them was actually a “preview”, containing clips from episodes that were tranquil in production and had not yet been aired.
So, don’t be fooled that this is fair a 20 diminutive “feature” with four “extra featurettes” … these are 5 episodes that should have had an entirely different menu for navigating them. They did a Very Dreadful job of packaging this disk, but at least we’ve got all 40 episodes to delight in and part. I’m thankful to have them in any condition!
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