Originally posted by Merethrond
1) I probably sound stupid now but what do you mean by 'baggage'
? Also, who said they can't 'grow-up' in the show?
2) Everyone says "Oh, they get paid so much", but when you think about it, most A-grade Hollywood actors get paid US$20 million per movie. Knowing that each television season goes for 24 episodes (therefore 24 weeks; almost six months), this means that each cast member gets paid US$24 million dollars per season, which is the equivalent to most A-grade Hollywood actors anyway.
3) I head they pulled it down, to make room for the "Joey" set. I wish I could have been in the audience for the last episode of Friends.
1) Baggage as in they had problems/issues and stuff in their lives... like, at the very beginning, Ross was divorcing from the his lesbian wife, Rachel left her husband to be at the alter, that sorta thing... And no-one's really saying they can't 'grow-up'... it's just that their lives became so complex that it must have been really hard to focus on just the six of them, rather than all the add-ons like Mike, and the babies coming out of everywhere, and marriages between two of them and relationships between three of them... Though they probably built it all up for the end! Hehe... but I guess it's just that what they started with at the very beginning changed dramatically by the end... and now before I start the circle with verbal diarrhoea again I'll stop
2) Still, it is an astonishing amount of money! That we'll probably not even see in our lives...
3) Ah, I see... I wonder how THAT'S going to go, if it'll be a hit like Frasier and carry on for another decade or will it die... Though apparently they're already running into problems and people are all shitty and some this and some that...
Re: The DVD box sets, if you have a multi-region DVD player that can play the US Region 1 - I REALLY RECOMMEND GETTING THE US VERSIONS!!! The shows are significantly longer because they chuck in unedited footage every now and again, and often make the shows more like 28mins-half an hour instead of our 21 minutes - quite a bit of extra time sometimes! Plus some special features seem a bit more special... I think
Also they're cheaper than the Aussie ones! $US30/$AU43 against the crappy Aust releases at $AU67?? Mmm... and the Amazon.com shipping costs aren't that extravagent.
But first maybe check out eBay or something for a cheap region 1 DVD or the Friends Finale DVD just to make sure you can play it, rather than spending X dollars first off and only to discover that it doesn't work
But to answer your question they're now up to season 9 in the release of the DVDs in Australia... we're ahead of the US in that respect, surprisingly.
