Comments | nzlaura: Discos and Dragons

nzlaura

Discos and Dragons

Jun 13, 2006 23:29

I've got that particular ache of the heart that comes with watching the very last episode of a television series and knowing those characters will never say anything new to you again. I first bought the Freaks and Geeks dvds years ago, when they first came out, but this month was the first time I actually watched them since the series first aired ( Read more... )

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nzlaura June 13 2006, 22:36:28 UTC

Awesome! Shame the good ones always get cancelled early!

amerella June 13 2006, 14:21:12 UTC

I've been re-watching Freaks and Geeks these past few weeks. I'm halfway through the season now and I just want to draaaaaaaaw it out, so that it will never be over.

Yeah, Nick is adorable for the first few episodes, but quickly becomes super-creepy. I still love him - the actor delivers his lines pricelessley, etc etc, but. Wow.

nzlaura June 13 2006, 22:44:16 UTC

Cool - did you get the regular dvds or the super-hardcore-fan kind? I have the former but am starting to wish I had the latter, because then at least I'd have 6 more hours of almost-show to enjoy. Mind you, I haven't started on the commentaries yet so it's not all done.

One of the things I love about Nick (and Ken, and a few of the others) is that he's not the sort of character you usually see on tv, but he totally feels like about half the guys I actually knew in high school. All his facets and flaws are kind of messy and don't quite fit together. And also he has really bad hair.

amerella June 14 2006, 01:49:51 UTC

I've just got it on my computer, but it would be one of those shows I wouldn't mind having on DVD. It's something I could watch again and again, for sure.

Nick is like a lot of the guys I knew it high school too. Ken too, yeah. Even Daniel, who's of course a stereotype in a lot of ways, feels like a very real character to me. I'm thinking especially of the episode where Lindsay helps him cheat on his math test because he feeds her that woobie-tastic sob story: "How do you think that feels, huh? To be told you're dumb when you're ELEVEN YEARS OLD?" A story that, while maybe based in reality, is at the end of the day shown to be an awesome pile of crap.

I think a lot of similar shows would have just played the woobie card and left it at that, which wouldn't have been nearly as fun.

disgracelands June 13 2006, 16:29:44 UTC

I adore Freaks & Geeks. I love the episode where Lindsey gets high when she's babysitting.

You should see if you can get Undeclared on DVD, it was the show that Judd Apatow did after F&G and while not in the same league, has a few familiar faces in it.

nzlaura June 13 2006, 22:46:25 UTC

The babysitting episode is gold - poor Milly!

And thanks, I've added Undeclared to my amazon wish list. Once I start working in the next few months I have a feeling my dvd library will be growing exponentially!