Felicity - Junior Year Collection (The Complete Third Season)

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Summary: i heart felicity
Review: sure, felicity's a bit neurotic. she hyperanalyzes everything and has the proclivity to complicate situations. but she has such a pure and amazing heart, which is so refreshing in general, and esp. on tv. she makes mistakes, but she learns from them. she's an intelligent and eloquent human being. and the character, ben, wasn't perfect, but he made me melt every week. i was really bummed out when the show got cancelled. it aired while i was in my last years of high school and my first years in college. one of my best gal friends and i watched the finale in tandem, and yes, we giggle about it now, but we were seriously using the kleenex that night. even though some episodes weren't stellar, it always pertained immense quality. this show means a lot ot me, and i'm glad by reading the other reviews on this website that i'm not the only fan with fervor for this show and the characters. it's such a sweet and romantic story/series. i relate to the characters, esp. felicity.
i heart felicity.

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Summary: Yaay! I can't Wait.
Review: This series was awesome, in fact im watching part of season 2 right now, its so touching and you just become part of the characters lives and the things they go through just become something we go thru ourselves. Even from the soft piano background music during some of the scenes just make the emotions even greater. I can't wait until July when season 3 comes out, and then hopefully it wont be another year for the final one, we need that one now! This new DVD will be a great treat for all of us felicity fans!

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This show is just awesome...what more can I say!?

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Summary: CAN'T WAIT!
Review: We all thought this DVD pkg. wasn't going to get released! Thank you Buena Vista for picking it up. I can't wait to get it when it's released on July 20. We all know it will include the late John Ritter as Ben's dad...so that is maybe why they decided to press it for sale. Either way, 1,000's of Felicity fans worldwide thank you - including me. I can't tell you about how great the series is -- Season 3 will be a great add-on to my collection of Season 1 & 2. Let's now get a date set for Season 4. I watch the entire collection, back to back, day after day within one week from receiving it. You'll enjoy it too.
I want to relive my college years (I'm 33) - How about you? Live them w/Felicity and the gang, over and over again. The tale sure speaks of life in a realistic and flawlessly acted, humourous way!
Peace!

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Summary: Forget about Felicity and Ben and let's talk Sean and Megan
Review: What was true about the second season of "Felicity" is even truer about the third season, a.k.a. "Junior Year": I watched this show despite the title character and not because of her. For me the idea that the show might have "jumped the shark" did not come when Keri Russell cut her hair, but rather when Felicity chose Ben (Scott Speedman) over Noel (Scott Foley). This is not to say that Ben does not have his moments, but they are almost always BAD moments. Plus there is the vicious cycle of their relationship. One of them does something "wrong," at which point Ben gets mad and Felicity cries, but she wants to talk about it and he does not (and she gets her way). It is actually a good thing that I know what happens at the end of the series, because that way I do not have to have a vested interest in Felicity's love life, which is fine, because the grand irony is that Felicity is not why I watch "Felicity."

I watch "Felicity" primarily for Megan (Amanda Foreman) and Sean (Greg Grunberg). Whoever decided to take those two scene stealing characters and throw them together into what is one of the great opposites attract pairings in the history of television was either a genius or really lucky. When I think about what are my favorite moments are from the junior year of "Felicity" they basically boil down to Megan being serious with Sean about important things like his cancer ("One Ball, Two Strikes") or their relationship ("It's Raining Men"). Watching Megan strip away everything to get down to the level of absolute honesty was always a big moment. Then there is when Megan is so touched by Sean wearing ass-less pants for a fetish party ("James and the Giant Piece"), and her taking the phone sex job ("Greeks and Geeks"). The writers knew what they had with these two and gave them several great opportunities to shine.

On the Felicity front life is just a continuing series of trauma, with are heroine getting a hell hole apartment to share with Ben ("The Christening"), waking up in some frat guy's bed ("Greeks and Geeks"), gets kissed by Ben's father ("Kissing Mr. Covington"), gets asked by Javier to donate an egg so he and Samuel can be parents ("A Good Egg"), another visit from her mom ("And to All a Good Night"), Avery going after Ben ("Blackout"), Avery kissing Ben ("The Breakup Kit"), Noel kissing Felicity ("Senioritist"), and the biggest trauma of all, what to do in the summer ("The Last Summer Ever").

When the WB stopped broadcasting on WGN my particular neck of the northern woods ended up being the largest television market in the nation without the WB (or maybe it was South Bend, but we were in the running), so after the first couple of episodes in Season 2 the only way to see the show was if I when my brother taped "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for us if it remembered to tape "Felicity" as well. So I saw some of the Avery episodes, enough to start clucking again over Felicity choosing Ben again. More so than watching season two, for me watching Felicity and Ben during season three was the comic relief, which means that I am pretty much reading this show completely opposite of the way it was intended. Yet, strangely enough, I am happy with that and it does not take away from my enjoyment of the series.

After all, the relationship between Elena (Tangi Miller) and Tracy (Donald Faison), is pretty much through the mirror, with her wanting to have sex and him wanting to wait until marriage ("The Christening"). You have to admit that particular role reversal is refreshing, and Tracy's Christian principles and Sean's brush with death making him decide to start to start practicing his Jewish faith and finally have his bar mitzvah ("Senioritis"), "Felicity" was one of the few television series to deal with religion in a substantial way ("7th Heaven" being the exception that prove the rule on this score), although "BtVS" deal with Wiccans a bit better.

Stil, the tragic figure for me is poor Noel, who comes back from vacation married only to have his friends band together to put an end to it ("The Anti-Natalie Intervention"), and gets to work closely with Felicity on an internet cartoon ("Final Touches (a.k.a. Let's Get It On)"), just so he can have painful reminders of what he has lost on a regular basis. If you liked Noel's "Break Up Kit," then his lovely parting gift, "Our Official Time Capsule," only underscores that Felicity made a serious mistake when the mental coin she flipped to make her decision came up tails. Ben as his best moment is not as good as Noel at his worst (which would be when he was reading Tyra Bank's e-mail, but he is just so earnestly dopey as opposed to Ben's painfully stupid). But, hey, don't run away. Let me tell you what I REALLY think about Ben...

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Summary: Finally...
Review: When I listened to the actor's commentary on the second season, Keri Russell and Scott Speedman were thanking the fans for supporting the show, and eluded to the fact that the fans should buy the next season when it comes out...so there was that little glimmer of hope that there would be a third season, and I checked Amazon almost every day hoping that I could pre-order it. The third season is probably one of my favorite seasons because you get to see Felicity and Ben finally together, but that's not to say they don't have their difficulties. I can't wait until the 4th season comes out so I can complete my collection.

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Summary: Wednesdays
Review: when I was working in NY I asked for Wednesday to be my day off so that I could watch Felicity, no other reason but to not miss felicity. I didnt miss one episode of any season and I taped most of them! and when I saw the first dvd set come out on sale I almost cried I was so happy! then I got the second one and I am so psyched about the third, I just wish it was here already. I loved this show soooooooooo much and was sad that it ended but sooooooo happy I can watch it all over and over again!