Still no Terror Of The Zygons.
I can't believe The Horns Of Nimon and The Creature From The Pit on out already and not Terror Of The Zygons.
Probably for the reason I suggested earlier - they don't want to be left with the barrel-scrapings once they reach the end of the line. Though not everyone's enamored of Terror of the Zygons, so it could show up.
One other thing to bear in mind is that 2 Entertain is in contact with the producers of the TV series. During Season 4 they put out The Invasion of Time so it could be timed for release when the Sontaran 2-parter aired (they also put out the Bred for War compilation with the other Sontaran stories). I believe K-9 and Company and The Invisible Enemy, which introduced K-9, was timed to come out around the time either School Reunion or The Sarah Jane Adventures started up. So the absence of certain stories could be due to, say, Moffatt telling 2 Entertain that he's planning a Zygons story for Season 7 or something.
Is it just me?
I look at a single story, say, Earthshock. It's $15, and has one audio commentary, a few features, but the "real" content is approximately 90 minutes total. (same sort of scenario would apply to any single-story dvd)
Then I compare this with NCIS, which is a full season at $20, has several audio commentaries, 20+ episodes, the same amount of bonus features, spread out over 5 or 6 discs.
Why is it so easy to justify the cost for a single Doctor Who story, but I have to wait for a good sale before I plunk down money for a full season of another series?
Because NCIS has only a couple of short features, and no commentaries. The BBC puts out the effort to treat every Doctor Who story like it's a movie - which it is. Yes, it's a bit odd when we're dealing with 2-episode stories. But there's about 3 of them in total compared to the vast majority being 4 to 6 episodes in length.
I might get flamed for this, but it also means that fans treat each story (good or bad) in Doctor Who with respect, as opposed to the assembly line nature of most US TV shows. Name me without looking the title and give the basic plot of the 15th episode of Season 3 of NCIS. Without looking it up. Now ask DW fans to name the title and plot of the 3rd story of Season 7. Most can do it by rote.* NCIS is a great show, don't get me wrong. So is Fringe. But none of those shows justify multiple documentaries, commentaries, etc. for each episode. Doctor Who does. Even if the story is crap, they'll do a documentary on why it was crap (see Trial of a Time Lord for an example). You tell me that's not fascinating stuff, especially for people who'll be watching these DVDs years from now.
It's not impossible for a full-length season to come out as one box, with all the special features - see The Key to Time. But I'd rather have to pay extra and see the stories come out in random order, than give up the special features. I just bought Spearhead from Space and I greatly enjoyed it's main feature, a faux UNIT Training Film that had been created for the DVD (they even got Nick Courtney to narrate it as the Brigadier). Let's see NCIS put together a faux documentary on the department hosted by Jethro Gibbs.
Alex
*The Ambassadors of Death; space probe returns to earth and its occupants cause havoc.
The Restoration Team is saying it's taking too long to restore the color, so it's been pushed back to 2012.