Rambling on TWW season 7 set
Nov. 12th, 2006 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eloriekamI've been thinking about this since this afternoon, which I first popped a disc in to see what it looked like (yes, I'm weird like that...), and I still can't decide whether to rant first or get all melty first.
I think it's gonna be the rant. Without further ado: I am now officially pissed off. There's about a bazillion gazillion regulars on the back of the case (pretty much everybody that was in the season 7 credits, which is good), but not only have they once again not bothered with a group shot for the main menu, they LEFT PEOPLE OFF in the rotated images. There is no Abbey (which I'm not dreadfully upset about, since she wasn't around a whole lot, but it still would have been nice), and there is no Charlie. No. Charlie. Finally, there is no freaking Toby! I watched it through about three times, trying to figure out what was wrong, because they were going in some weird sort of alphabetical order thingy and went right from Donna to Leo. WTF, people? You crammed all of these folks into the credits for 'The Ticket', you can damn well do it for this, or at least include TOBY! The man without whom President Bartlet would be in the tall grass?
M'kay.
The melty isn't exactly fangirlish melting so much as... well, the set is black. We've had dark blue, goldish, dark green, pale blue, a burgundy/red sorta thing, and gray. And season 7's box is black. It just happens to go nicely with what I personally think is a rather lousily designed cover (it's been floating around for a bit, I think--it's the two tiered whatsit) which had a very dark theme to start with. But still, black?
The fade in for the main menu, which has always, always, always been white with the POTUS Seal, the flag and the White House, which in turn fade to the main menu shots of the characters, also started as black. It was exceedingly weird. I mentioned the black to my mom and she said something about it originally being white, but then... you know.
Given the lack of excellent prose on the back cover, I rather doubt that there's really any symbolism, but I just wanted to ramble about it for a bit.
This is, of course, aside from my disgust with the lack of extras, but has anyone found any Easter Eggs yet?
I think it's gonna be the rant. Without further ado: I am now officially pissed off. There's about a bazillion gazillion regulars on the back of the case (pretty much everybody that was in the season 7 credits, which is good), but not only have they once again not bothered with a group shot for the main menu, they LEFT PEOPLE OFF in the rotated images. There is no Abbey (which I'm not dreadfully upset about, since she wasn't around a whole lot, but it still would have been nice), and there is no Charlie. No. Charlie. Finally, there is no freaking Toby! I watched it through about three times, trying to figure out what was wrong, because they were going in some weird sort of alphabetical order thingy and went right from Donna to Leo. WTF, people? You crammed all of these folks into the credits for 'The Ticket', you can damn well do it for this, or at least include TOBY! The man without whom President Bartlet would be in the tall grass?
M'kay.
The melty isn't exactly fangirlish melting so much as... well, the set is black. We've had dark blue, goldish, dark green, pale blue, a burgundy/red sorta thing, and gray. And season 7's box is black. It just happens to go nicely with what I personally think is a rather lousily designed cover (it's been floating around for a bit, I think--it's the two tiered whatsit) which had a very dark theme to start with. But still, black?
The fade in for the main menu, which has always, always, always been white with the POTUS Seal, the flag and the White House, which in turn fade to the main menu shots of the characters, also started as black. It was exceedingly weird. I mentioned the black to my mom and she said something about it originally being white, but then... you know.
Given the lack of excellent prose on the back cover, I rather doubt that there's really any symbolism, but I just wanted to ramble about it for a bit.
This is, of course, aside from my disgust with the lack of extras, but has anyone found any Easter Eggs yet?
