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The correct episode order is?




I've never seen Star Hunter and I'm thinking of picking up the DVD. I think I read somewhere that the episodes on the DVD boxset are in the incorrect order. So if anybody could list them I would be very grateful.
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"Have we fallen so far that we cannot even trust ourselves."

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Um, did it occur to you to click on "Episode List" in the left column?

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nope , is that correct?
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"Have we fallen so far that we cannot even trust ourselves."

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If it lists "The Divinity Cluster" as the first episode, it's most likely correct. If it lists "The Man Who Sold The World", it isn't.

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The DVD set has "Peer Pressure" as the 1st.

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Can anyone confirm that the list posted here at IMDb is the correct list?

There is a lot of confusion over this elsewhere.

Does anyone know the correct order?


http://yetanothertvreviewpodcast.blogspot.com/

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Ep 101 The Divinty Cluster
Ep 102 Trust
Ep 103 "Family Values"
Ep 104 "Siren Song" (originally written as 1st Ep in early drafts)
Ep 105 "The Man Who Sold the World"
Ep 106 "Peer Pressure" (First production episode, but always intended to be ep 106 from a story pint of view)
Ep 107 "Frozen"
Ep 108 "Past Lives"
Ep 109 "Order"
Ep 110 "Cell Game"
Ep 111 "Black Light"
Ep 112 "Goodbye, So Long"
Ep 113 "The Most Wanted Man"
Ep 114 "Half Dense Players"
Ep 115 "Dark and Stormy Night"
Ep 116 "Super Max"
Ep 117 "A Twist in Time (Part 1)"
Ep 118 "Eat Sin (Part 2)"
Ep 119 "Bad Girls"
Ep 120 "Bad Seed (Part 1)"
Ep 121 "Travis (Part 2)"
Ep 122 "Resurrection (Part 3)"

Showrunner GP Jackson was ill during the last 3 eps and unable to supervise the edits, after release he was however able to re-edit the last three episodes for important story continuity. However this producers edit was only release in Canada and USA as the main distributor Alliance Atlantis did not replace the erroneous edits with the corrected ones. If anyone wants to know the major differences can be spelled out but they would contain major spoilers.

Also note some distributors are releasing the second season only with the sub-heading "the Complete Series", Beware it is only season two -so not complete. To the best on my knowledge there has yet to be a 44 episode release of the full series, let alone the full series in the correct order.

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Many, many thanks for this answer. I have the 2-volume version so I don't have all the episodes, but at least I can watch the ones I do have in the right order. I've only seen about three episodes and I like it a lot.

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Anyone know the correct order for the 44 episodes? Is IMDB episode list correct here? Thanks!

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K-Mart has both seasons for $5 a piece. There are 10 episodes on season 1 and 12 on season 2. Great price.....

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"K-Mart has both seasons for $5 a piece. There are 10 episodes on season 1 and 12 on season 2. Great price....."

I think you are mistaken. I believe that what you found at K-Mart is season one chopped in to two volumes:

Volume One

http://www.amazon.com/Starhunter-Season-V-1-Claudette-Roche/dp/B00141VKDU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_9?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1221043464&sr=8-


Volume Two

http://www.amazon.com/Starhunter-Season-V-2-Claudette-Roche/dp/B00141VKEO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_12?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1221043464&sr=8-12


I bought Volume 2 just to check out the quality, and it wasn't all that great. First, the episodes are Full screen, NOT wide screen. Second, they compressed 564 minutes onto two one sided discs! That's a LOT of compression!

BUT, if you are only a casual fan of the show these DVDs are a cheap way to pick up the entire first season.

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I'd disagree with the statement that the official air-date order of the series (starting with "Divinity Cluster") is the 'correct' order to watch the eps in. The production order in which the episodes are presented in the U.S. 4 DVD box set (starting with "Peer Pressure") make more sense from a continuity standpoint. There are several minor continuity errors with the air-date order and one big one that occurs in "Family Values" when Caravaggio asks Percy when she was last on Earth and Percy answers that she has never been to Earth, even though in "Divinity Cluster" the Tulip and her crew visit Los Angeles (or what is left of it). An added bonus of watching the series starting with "Peer Pressure" in production order is that the several little scenes of Luc using/hiding her communicator foreshadow the reveal in "Divinity Cluster" that she is secretly working for her father; allowing that plot-element to build slowly rather than just jumping into it with "The Divinity Cluster."

The full production order of the episodes is as follows (with air-date order in parentheses):

1 Peer Pressure (6)
2 Trust (2)
3 Family Values (3)
4 The Divinity Cluster (1)
5 Siren's Song (4)
6 The Man Who Sold the World (5)
7 Frozen (7)
8 Past Lives (8)
9 Order (9)
10 Cell Game (10)
11 Black Light (11)
12 Goodbye, So Long (12)
13 The Most Wanted Man (13)
14 Half Dense Players (14)
15 Dark and Stormy Night (15)
16 Super Max (16)
17 A Twist in Time (17)
18 Eat Sin (18)
19 Bad Girls (19)
20 Bad Seed (20)
21 Travis (21)
22 Resurrection (22)

As you may have noticed, the production order and air-date order are the same from "Frozen" on. I can understand why the decision was made to air "Divinity Cluster" first as it is a really strong episode and establishes the major story arc of the series. I also understand the decision to bury "Peer Pressure" as the 6th episode aired as it isn't one of the best.

The thing I really like about watching the episodes in production order is that you get to see each actor growing to understand their character and watch as the three leads become more comfortable with the interaction of their characters. I can only imagine how difficult it would be as an actor to do a show like Starhunter with its exotic setting and miniscule central cast. On most t.v. shows, and I have no reason to believe Starhunter was any different, the cast recieves their scripts only days before the episode begins filming and there is little time for rehersal. In "Peer Pressure" and "Trust" the actors seem rather lost with their performances. Michael Pare yells way too much, Tanya Allen comes across as a brat and Claudette Roche does not seem to have any real purpose. All three do not interact with Caravaggio nearly as well as they do in later episodes, which is fully understandable as Car. was the product of post-production and until they had seen a completed episode it would have been hard for the three lead actors to visualize what they were seeing and talking to in their scenes with Car.

Over the course of the season as the characters' backstories were explored and as each actor grew more comfortable their performances improved immensely. All three (and Murray Melvin as Caravaggio) grew to express wonderful wit, and not just verbally, which helped leaven the gloomy nature of the show. With the help of the writers, Claudette Roche managed to make the rather off-putting Lucretia Scott a very sympatheic character who could be both tough-as-nails and very delicate simultaneously. Michael Pare injected the glum Dante with an ironic sense of humor and gave the character, sometimes just through a facial expression, the ability to demonstrate that he was not taking himself seriously all the time. Tanya Allen figured out early on that her upbringing aboard the Tulip chasing criminals had left Percy more than a little nuts... and she played it so well that her perfomance would be one of only two continued in Starhunter: 2300 (along with Stephen Marcus' Rudulpho).

Let's face it, the sets & props for the most part were plastic-looking and the CGI (excepting Caravaggio) rather crude even for a decade ago. The only thing that could carry a show like this, which was ultimately a dark look at human nature and the source of that nature, were the actors. It is only because they brought so much warmth and complexity to these flawed characters in their flawed world that the show garnered and retained its cult audience.

Bottom line, let the characters reign: watch the show in production order!

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My friend and I are blogging our way through Starhunter, and we went with the production order the DVDs come in. While it does open the series on an especially weak note with "Peer Pressure", I agree with Alan Smithee that the continuity of events just doesn't make sense in the aired order, yet it all falls perfectly into place in the production order.

http://saturdayshowcase.blogspot.com

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