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The extras in the FRIENDS DVD seasons are a tragedy
Compare the extras of the FRIENDS box set seasons with the SEINFELD ones. In FRIENDS, none (I repeat NONE) of the six main cast members gave any interviews or details specially for the DVD release. Not a single one!! The commentary tracks are about four to five each season, and that's it. Add some eight minutes of gags reel, some stupid thing with Gunther talking one minute about next season, and that's all. That's ALL you'll get!! What disrespect for their fans. Shame on you, Matt, Schwimmer, Aniston, Kudrow, LeBlanc and Courteney. There were already hints that they are six really greedy people, and this proves it, because they knew the DVD's would sell anyway and did not want to spend their "precious" time with it... Or did they ask too much money to do them...? Who knows?
Look at SEINFELD's DVD's. There is a kind of "making-off" for almost EACH EPISODE!! There are plenty of interviews with all the ensemble cast, ALL OF THEM, including Jerry. And 90 percent of the extras were made for the DVD edition, and not simply taken from TV interviews or specials from the past! It's clear that everything was made with care and thinking about the fans. It's a lesson that, unfortunately, will make no impact in Warner BRos to modify the extras in FRIENDS, because it's already the ninth season....
As for the show itself, of course FRIENDS is very good. Ninth season is not their best but, if you came this far, there's no reason to skip this one.
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