Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I truly hate giving any product a bad review - especially when I am the first to review it. But this one is just too bad in too many ways to not report it. First, there’s the packaging. While the box did not arrive with any evidence of damage, the disc cases rattled with broken pieces before I even opened them. When I did, and flipped through the sections, the internal disc holder sections of the cases broke free and fell out in two of the three cases along with all other broken fragments. Second, there are no subtitles. Anytime the actors speak in the Dothraki tongue – which is a lot – there are no subtitles and those portions of the plot are lost. And while my BluRay player allows me to select the use of subtitles in a variety of languages, Dothraki doesn't happen to be one of them. Third, there is nothing to identify which episode is which. This wouldn’t be so important except that some of them are out of order. For instance, disc 3 of season 2 contains episodes 5, 6, and 7. Only 7 is really episode 5, 5 is really episode 6, and 6 is really episode 7. It’s completely maddening to get part way into an episode only to discover that the reason there is no continuity with the last episode is because you’re watching the wrong one. Lastly, each disc is marked as having bonus features, but I’ve only found one disc so far in the first 8 that actually has an interesting segment of any length in which some of the actors discuss the making of one of the episodes. The other remaining 1-5 minute segments on the discs seem to contain merely the usual warnings about copying the discs in a myriad of languages or medleys of video snippets from the episodes themselves. It breaks my heart to see such an incredible series as The Game of Thrones be delivered to the public in such a shoddy manner. My advice sadly is to purchase them in some other format – any other format - than this one. This one really should be taken off the market.