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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 16, 2008 16:58:32 GMT
Unexpected impulse buy today - complete West Wing (seasons 1-7) boxed set for £50 from Zavvi.
Amazon do a similar price but I wouldn't trust postal delivery to get me an un-dented box.
Should tide me over nicely through the real-life American politics of the next few weeks.
(That and Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 6, due out in R1 format next week.)
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 16, 2008 19:37:10 GMT
Thats such good value. I need to replace seasons 1 and 2 as there on video and take up so much room.
Andy
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Post by legios on Oct 16, 2008 20:18:12 GMT
That is a very good price for a large chunk of quality television. A nice buy there Martin.
A while ago I picked up the second season on DVD for about a fiver in a Charity shop in the town where I originally grew up. A visit to my old homestead and the acquisition of cheap West Wing made for a good day.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2008 11:10:03 GMT
A fine purchase there, Martin. I have found the series rewards re-watching quite a bit. You'll get a lot for your fifty quid.
I enjoyed re-watching season 6 (which revolved around picking the Presidental nominees) during the real-life nomination season. Season 7 (the election) will be re-watched soon alongside the real one!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 17, 2008 16:21:18 GMT
I have 3 and one half series of Gilmore Girls to watch (the final one will be for the first time, I'm most excited) then it's on to The West Wing, though I have a strong urge to watch Studio 60. I'm sure I missed an episode on TV.
Hopefully I'll get on to it before the election.
Andy
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Oct 20, 2008 13:59:54 GMT
Unexpected impulse buy today - complete West Wing (seasons 1-7) boxed set for £50 from Zavvi. Martin I got the same deal from HMV. Guess the Credit Cruch is good for something... I'd forgotten how much I love this show. I watched 8 episodes over the weekend. Superlative television. Mx |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 20, 2008 17:20:04 GMT
I did once almost overdose my self and watched a season in two days!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 21, 2008 6:40:24 GMT
I don't think there's a bad episode to be found anywhere in the box.
I watched the series faithfully on TV, but I'm pretty sure one or two seasons in the middle were never shown on terrestrial. It'll be fab when I get to that point in the box and find it all unfamiliar and new.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 9:55:33 GMT
Season 5 is the weakest, being merely 'quite good' rather than 'brilliant'. Seasons 6-7 (which I'm fairly sure where not on terrestial) take a very interesting change in direction. I shall not spoil details though!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 21, 2008 10:35:45 GMT
All 7 seasons did make it to terrestrial eventually and in order, but ended up at odd times. I think season 5 was the worst.
It was also the worst in terms of episodes due to Sorkins departure. 6 and 7 are better because they stopped trying to make the show as he'd written it, I think.
Andy
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Post by legios on Oct 21, 2008 10:43:15 GMT
All 7 seasons did make it to terrestrial eventually and in order, but ended up at odd times. I think season 5 was the worst. Andy Yep, Season Five was buried away at some horrendous hour of the night. (If not all the way into the small hours of the evening). Really, "The West Wing" suffered the fate of so many shows bought from America - a steady slide from a reasonable late evening time slot down a slope that leads rapidly into tomorrow morning. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 21, 2008 11:17:40 GMT
It's a Channel 4 speciality. They seem incapable of letting a show stay in an established slot and finding it's audience.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 11:20:36 GMT
All 7 seasons did make it to terrestrial eventually and in order, but ended up at odd times. I think season 5 was the worst. It was also the worst in terms of episodes due to Sorkins departure. 6 and 7 are better because they stopped trying to make the show as he'd written it, I think. Andy I agree. I think I may have had less patience with season 5 had I watched in week by week rather than in one go as a box set. Still very watchable though. I do agree the change in direction thereafter did stop the show from spiralling downwards though which it might have done had it continued to ape Sorkin's approach. -Ralph |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 21, 2008 17:24:33 GMT
Season 5 is the weakest, being merely 'quite good' rather than 'brilliant'. Seasons 6-7 (which I'm fairly sure where not on terrestial) take a very interesting change in direction. I shall not spoil details though! I have clear memories of seasons 6 and 7. It was the late night ones I missed. Slightly disappointed to learn that the episodes unseen by me are the weakest, but hey-ho. Martin |
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Post by legios on Oct 21, 2008 19:49:43 GMT
I have clear memories of seasons 6 and 7. It was the late night ones I missed. Slightly disappointed to learn that the episodes unseen by me are the weakest, but hey-ho. Martin They are not terrible or anything. They still make for good television, but they don't quite reach the heights that the Sorkin re-/written episodes do (because no-one on the writing staff is quite capable of being Sorkin) or that those of the following seasons (because they haven't quite foind their new "voice" yet). I'd still rate it above much of what was contemporary to it - it just went through a bit of a rough patch when it was trying to adjust. Karl (Which reminds me, I must get around to rewatching Season Two at some point not that I actually own it) |
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 21, 2008 19:54:06 GMT
They're not terrible or anything, largely the same cast performing scripts by largely the same writers, produced by largely the same behind camera people. You just suspect that the odd line would have had more zing and that things would have gone in just a little bit different a direction if Sorkin had been around. For instance Season 4 ended on a cliffhanger and Season 5's resolution was completely different to how he'd planned to do it.
Rob Lowe leaving didn't help either even if Will Bailey was a decent replacement.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 20:22:02 GMT
Oh, I still enjoyed season 5. It's that the 'worst' of the show, then it shows how good it was overall!
Amusingly, around that time there was a 'fan campaign' to cancel the show because 'the fans' didn't like it any more. Ah, interwub.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 23, 2008 15:30:25 GMT
Finished!
112 hours in two months and a week. Time and money well spent.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2008 17:10:48 GMT
Splendid!
I do agree!
It has very good re-watch value. I've been through the series four times and I can still see myself watching it again.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 26, 2008 18:00:57 GMT
I got stopped during season 2 when I went to London. Meant to start up again but then I finally found Studio 60 hiding behind a book.
Andy
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Post by Hero on Jan 16, 2009 17:17:20 GMT
Entire series now £49.99 in Zavvi + 20% off in VAT. £40 quid for the lot!  ===KEN |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 17, 2009 17:33:01 GMT
Hmm, tempting.... A friend has just got me started on this right from the start. Not at all my usual thing but very engaging.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2009 18:00:40 GMT
Another convert! Great!
I did not think it would be my thing at all. A show about American politics? Er, yes. I caught a few random S1 episodes when Channel 4 aired it but the late time slot and ads killed it for me. It was not until I was loaned some of the DVD's that I became hooked!
It's extremely rewatchable.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Jan 21, 2009 10:09:27 GMT
I went to Zavvi yesterday (both the Bristol stores) to buy one of the complete boxsets and found out from the staff that somebody had scalped every single one of them. There was loads available not that long ago.
HMV in Bath are aparentley selling them for £50. Hopefully the scalper has'nt reached there yet.
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