Ghost Hunters: Season 3-Part 2 | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson
Studio: Big Vision
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 3417
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 500
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
MPN: FLPD130697D
UPC: 881737130693
EAN: 0881737130693
ASIN: B000YDOOS2
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 02/26/2008 Run time: 500 minutes
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 Disk #2 and Disk #3 Bad December 31, 2008
I'm going to make this short and painless. Love the show and love the way the guys/gals interact with each other. With that being said....Hate the quality of the DVD's. Let me first point out this is a brand new DVD player that has had maybe four disks played in it. Them all being new when played in this player. Ok back to Season 3 part 2 of Ghost Hunters.
Disk #1 played just fine as a brand new, just opened DVD should. Disk #2 played first episode fine and then in middle of second episode it started skipping. Just a quick skip here and there, like a few frames. Then it started to do the digital pixelated mess. It was so bad it wasnt worth watching any more so we skipped to the third disk. This disk only made it a few minutes into the first episode before it started the pixelated mess. We checked the disks and they are shiney brand new. Not a scratch, hair, dust or whatever it would take for something like this to happen.
From what I can gather this a problem with the disk itself and we have decided to exchange it for another in the hopes that we get one that doesnt do this. If the next one does we will just get a refund. Like I said before I love the show and would have given it more stars but I feel if you put out a DVD it should work properly. I know they didnt create the DVD's but it is their show and if it was mine I would want a decent DVD representing my work.
 Where The Show Starts To Go Downhill December 11, 2008
There are a few episodes in Season 3 Part 2 that are worthwhile, but for the most part Season 3 was tame and increasingly uninteresting.
This is the start of where the show takes a turn away from the reality TV tone, to a more produced, calculated "Jason and Grant investigation follow-through" direction. This would be fine, if it weren't so mundane.
Instead of keeping characters like Brian Harnois on the team, they go for personality lacking people such as Tango, increasing the focus on what is the somewhat snobby, phobia-ridden (yet incredibly uninteresting on his own) Steve, and eventually adding Kris (female) whom, I have no idea what sort of value or background or skills she brings to the group (apparently she likes to do research, but those skills never seem to be shown much). They apparently work well together, there's no in-fighting, drama, and any comedy seems to be staged, and comes-off as fairly lame.
In other words, no drama to track any longer, just long-winded, often mundane investigating in nightvision, with the cameras stuck on Jason and Grant's heads most of the time.
The K-2 sessions are very interesting, and are first filmed in this series (Manson House and Underground Tunnels I believe) but beyond that, they really don't catch a lot of impressive evidence at all, compared to the first two seasons.
TAPS seems to be moving away from IR video evidence, focusing on EVP's, "cold spots," EMF and temperature fluctuations, the K-2 meter, and Thermal Imaging video. Evidence they capture is not replayed very much, or focused on, and they do not go into much detail about the public places they investigate. They typically interview one person who shows them around for a few minutes, then they go lights-out.
The focus on de-bunking seems forced and is often just as mundane as watching them sit around feeling cold spots. Spending 10 minutes trying to figure out how a door might close or open, if car headlights are the cause of possible lights seen in a room, or talking to a doll, is mind numbing.
Gone is the personal touch the first two series had, maybe because of the insane celebrity worship and freaky folks this subject matter attracts (one woman stalked and tried to sue them over TAPS non-profit status). I am not sure, but the show is now almost entirely dedicated to following them through investigations, with evidence being shown once or twice at the end to the client. Steve and Tango really aren't that funny and the staged clips of them reviewing evidence isn't nearly as honest or genuine as the first two seasons when Harnois was involved. You know, Steve making fun of Tango's red headphones, saying they're pink, and refusing to use them. (and that specific example could be from Season 4, can't remember, but you get the idea hopefully)
While I can't say anyone who liked the show from the start wouldn't like Season 3, I just see no reason to buy it on DVD, ecspecially for $20, for just half a season. These DVD's in the past were produced poorly, with an infamous sound issue on Season 2-Part 2, leading to it being re-called. So beyond that I don't really trust the DVD's themselves. The episodes I would care to watch again, I have DVR'd.
Season 4 is a bit better in terms of evidence, but falls deeper into the stale abyss of mundane personalities and robotic characters playing to the camera.
I suppose some of this was inevitable as the show gained popularity, but some if it avoidable and I am disappointed at the direction Jason and Grant have taken with their "empire."
No longer every day plumbers, the show has lost it's personal touch, relatability, and is out of touch with people who do this in their spare time without the publicity. The team drama is very real for people who do this, due to the nature of the subject and how people work together.
It would be nice to also see how people deal with their team work problems and balance their personal lives who do this. The show used to be just as much about that, as investigating - which 90 percent of the time is not very exciting on it's own.
 ghost hunters October 26, 2008
season 3 of the ghost hunters takes you to even more frightening locations. but with a gentle understanding hauntings
Good Stuff October 18, 2008
I think this is some great stuff to watch and it makes me want to get out there and ghost hunt myself. Although I'd probably run at the first sign of anything creepy. I love the way these guys make everything come "down to earth" instead of hyping it up.
The only thing that stinks about this is the packaging. You have to constantly take all discs out to keep them in order as you view them.
Ghost Hunter Season 3 part 2 September 8, 2008
This was so far the best season all together but part 2 was better than part 1. It seems to me that TAPS is getting more money in and can now pay for more equipment and go alot more places. The only issue I could have in the future is if TAPS decides to go "Hollywood" meaning they are only going to do investigations for money, that worries me because this has always been an authentic series. This is ironic because they said they dont charge people for their investigations. Regardless, this is a great series and is so far alot more believable than any other ghost hunting team you will find. This is a must see, I own every season and the single investigations. Enjoy.
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