Gilmore Girls "Complete Series" announced, MI ticked off

[Martianinvader]

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7692
Why? Well, because of one item in that photo. Look at it.

"The Complete Gilmoreisms Booklet."

The Gilmoreisms booklets were left out of #1 (I guess they hadn't gotten the idea to do them in time) and #6 (due to the Palladino exodus). #5's booklet was not in its box either; instead there was a sheet directing you to where you could download it from the WB website.

So what now, Amy finally did the rest of them, but WB won't give it to us for less than the price of a new Wii? I want the option to buy the Gilmoreisms book separately! Or at least if I can prove I own the separate sets that didn't get books.

For those who don't know, Any crammed so many ultra-obscure references into each GG episode that one of these things is required to get everything. GG is still a popular show. If WB released a complete Gilmoreisms book into the book market, like they should, it would make back the printing money. But nooooooo.

If anyone needs me I'll be in the Angry Dome.

[Jin Kazama]

Lucky me, I never paid more than $25 for any of the sets so far, so I'd rather have got the insane deal off what they're charging for the complete set than the extras they're including with it. It'd be nice, but I'm not about to shell out another $250 for it.

I don't like the way studios are doing that, though. Like with Friends, Sex and the City, West Wing, Alias, Six Feet Under. I mean, if the real fans didn't buy them to begin with, they never would have put out the rest of the seasons on DVD. So how do they thank the true fans? By re-releasing it all as one set. With bonus stuff. Talk about "Bite the Hand That Feeds."

[Anarky]

perhaps they'll release a companion book to the series
CBS-Paramount recently released a such a book for the sci-fi hit The 4400.

[Wanted]

Well, you know what this teaches me? Abstinence.

Though, it's not likely that Warner would ever do such a thing with any of the shows that I purchase (maybe Smallville, once that ends; but not the others).

[DisneyBoy]

Don't get too ruffled MI, it might not be such big shakes. Firstly, you said that Amy "finally finished" the gilmoreisms...where did you hear that? I thought she'd wiped her hands of GG after the exodus...so why would she go back and write a booklet for past seasons? She's the one who ultimately got screwed. Why help WB sell the series they let her walk away from?

Secondly, we still don't know the details about the extras. They said "hours", but sure, if you compile the stuff Amy put on seasons one, two, three, four and five (which wasn't all that much, since only one episode got a real commentary), it already adds up to more than one hour (and therefore "HOURS" of extra features). While Rosenthal might have put together a commentary and farewell featurette for the last season, who really cares? It's the earlier ones that deserve the special features, and unless Amy's on drugs now, I doubt she's going to turn around and make commentaries and featurettes on the baby they essentially pushed her to give up.

This is just marketing. Let's wait and see.

EDIT: What's with the packaging on the series set? BARF! Amy's disgusted, surely. It looks so "BRATZ"...this wasn't set in the 40s, so let's lose the flowers and deco styles, shall we?