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Summary: Not Nearly as good as the first 7 seasons,but not entirely a disaster
Comment: I bought season 6 and 7 because I hadn't seen any of those episodes..I told myself I was going to avoid season 8 since Topher and Ashton left the show..After Watching Season 7,I needed to watch the last one to see how the show ended..well I was actually surprised it wasn't that bad,the absence of Kelso and Eric was evident,the show wasn't nearly as funny and the introduction of "Sam" and "Randy" didn't help and infact hurt the show more,but it was great to see the other cast members together for one last year...a lot of interesting things occured [albeit forced,like Jackie and Hyde being totally over each other within one episode] Eric's final appearance in the series finale episode was very weak and felt pointless..The show clearly lost alot of it's magic,but it's still watchable and with an open mind can provide some laughs.
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Summary: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: Don't be so hard on this season. I just started watching the show and I like it. Was there a problem with this season?
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Summary: Funnier then given credit for
Comment: Yes, Eric is gone on this season until the last 2 minutes of the last episode but this season was really funny. Fez got better lines, Randy was really funny, Hyde got himself into a new world of marriage (only to end) and Jackie decides she wants to date Fez. I mean come on there was some great stuff in the last season. I loved it and would suggest it to anyone.
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Summary: Not the Best (Contains Spoilers)
Comment: Season eight of That '70s Show is the last season for this wonderful series. With Eric and Kelso gone (Kelso stays until the fourth or fifth episode, then moves to Chicago to help raise his daughter Betsy), there is a gap in the characters. This problem is fixed pretty quickly, with Randy and Samantha being featured in the show for quite a bit of this season. The idea of Randy in my opinion was not a great one, it seems as if the writers tried to make us miss Eric and Kelso less by giving Randy some of the qualities that they had. Season eight starts and ends well, but to me the middle 11 or 12 episodes are not as great as the episodes from previous seasons. I would not say that season eight is the best season, but I also would not call it the worst season of That '70s Show. To me Randy was not really a necessary character, I think they should have written him out of the storylines earlier and had Eric come back an episode or two prior to his series finale return. In addition, Randy seemed to lack humor when saying lines that the writers of the scripts thought were funny. The other characters seem as funny as ever, I really think Randy is the only character who seems to lack any sort of humorous side. Aside from the missing characters, new relationships occur. Donna and Randy get together, as well as Fez and Jackie towards the end of the series. In addition, we find out that Hyde has married a stripper (Samantha), which is not one of this season's best plotlines. Some characters have changed a lot over the eight seasons the show ran, but some characters like Red and Kitty really did not change too much and remained the same for the most part. Is season eight worth buying? Yes, even if the only reason you buy it is to see what happened to some of your favorite characters. Some episodes are up to the standards of the earlier seasons, others aren't. Its up to you to decide what you think of this final season of That '70s Show, and how it compares to the seven previous seasons.
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Summary: The end of an era...in more ways than one...
Comment: "So this is how [it] ends...not with a bang, but with a whimper..."
I forgot who first said this, but it rings true not just for something as grandiose as the universe, but also for something as comparatively trivial as a television show. "That 70s Show" was one of my favorite shows of all time: it was funny, creative, bold, and had great chemistry between all the actors. Unfortunately, the cast that began as unknowns had grown into strong, marketable actors by the time the 8th season came around, and the show had to deal with the loss of two of its biggest stars, Topher Grace as Eric (the central character of the show) and Ashton Kutcher as Kelso (the idiotic-but-lovable ladies man), who both left to film movies. Although the final season was nowhere near as bad as people love to claim, most people have quite a few problems with it (it jumped the shark when Eric broke up with Donna, Randy was the most annoying character ever made, Jackie and Fez finally getting together was forced, etc.). I, however, found the biggest problem to be the giant hole left by the two actors who left: despite Kutcher's involvement for the first four episodes, a larger role for Tommy Chong as our favorite stoner Leo, and special guest stars like Mary Tyler Moore and Christopher Knight, the magic that was present for the rest of the show's run was nearly non-existent here. This is not to say, however, that the acting was poor: on the contrary, Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp give some of their best performances as Mr. & Mrs. Forman during this season, and Danny Masterson (Hyde) and Laura Prepon (Donna) hold their own admirably, but the sum of their parts just didn't seem to add up to a good collective whole. All in all, this is a part of the show's history, so if you're a true fan, you'll need this in your DVD library. It might not measure up, but the series finale makes it all worthwhile. Overall, I give it 3 & 1/2 stars. ***
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