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jordchandfriend
11-27-2004, 11:06 AM
Hey guys.

I received my Region 1 DVDs of The Complete 8th Season a few days ago, and the 1st thing I've done is to check if 8.03 "The One Where Rachel Tells" displayed the original pre-9/11 scene involving Monica and Chandler being intercepted at the airport 'coz Chandler joked about bombs. The secne appeared at the end of the episode in the UK's DVDs so I was hopping it will be there too but no !!!.. I was really disapointed !
So, the next thing I did was to watch the episode with the commentary to see what the producers have to say about it and there it is : at the begining of the aired Mon/Chan-at-the-airport storyline, Kevin S. Bright says that this wasn't not the plot orginially intended and that we're gonna see the deleted scene on this DVD for the very first time ! So then I thought : did I miss something at my first viewing ??! The answer is no : there ain't any original scene included !

So, do you think they forgot to include this scene on the DVD and that thus they planned to do so or that Kevin Bright thought it would be included ?!

Or maybe it's me that didn't undersand it ??!!If anyone can help me here ! Thanks ! :)

Also, about 9/11, I noticed that, on these new DVDs, they remove the 9/11 tribute at the end of the episode 8.01 (the 1st episode that aired after the tragedy). You know, it was just after the "Exectuve Producers..." and before the closing credits" and that was saying : "Dedicatd to the people of New York City."

Why would they do that ??

So betwen that and the 8.03 scene not included, what is it ? Is it some kind of removal to pretend that nothing happenned on 9/11 ? Not wanting to make people think about it again, or what ??

Orcrist
11-27-2004, 11:10 AM
Kind of offtopic; but what's new with season 8? Everywhere on internet I come across a Season 8 banner. Did they do something special with it? Because I got season 8 but it's just the 24 episodes with no extra's.

friendscrazy302
11-29-2004, 06:16 AM
I'm from the UK so have seen this alternative story line. The US dvds get way more than the UK one so it is kinda nice to have one thing more than the uS ones.

jordchandfriend
11-29-2004, 12:12 PM
Kind of offtopic; but what's new with season 8? Everywhere on internet I come across a Season 8 banner. Did they do something special with it? Because I got season 8 but it's just the 24 episodes with no extra's.
The US get its own Friends DVD only in 2002 when "The Complete first Season" was released. Howeer, those DVDs have way much contents that the European's : nice packaging, never-before-seen footage on each episode, and great bonus features (whereas the European's version have none).
Plus, here, you get to see the non-syndicalized episodes + added footage !

And , so "The Complete Eigtht Season" of this US lineup was released on November 9th. That's what's new.

Orcrist
11-29-2004, 01:45 PM
Ah I finally get that. Pretty lame; first making people buy the complete 10 seasons; then releasing the actual complete 10 seasons. Now I have 2 buy it twice; because I already have the complete 10 seasons..