May 06, 2004
Breaking up is hard to do.
I am one of fourteen people between the ages of 22 and 38 not watching the last episode of Friends tonight. I've had enough heartfelt and touching good-byes in my real life, thank you.
Plus, I really hate the sappy FINAL EPISODE business sit-coms pull these days. They completely change what everyone loved about the show for the finale. That just doesn't make sense.
They are always way too sappy and way too preoccupied with trying to make things neat and tidy, but at the same time they are compelled to leave those poor saps who are addicted to the show with the feeling that the characters who they know better than their own parents and spend more time with than their real friends will carry on and grow old with them after the show is long gone.
It's like they feel like they are breaking up with a sensitive girlfriend (or millions of them, I guess) and have to be all soft and caring all of a sudden. I would be much happier if they'd just continue doing what they did well all the way up until the end, then just said, "See ya!" and were never heard from again.
I pity you all, the jilted and lonely ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends of Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Ross - the one that has been sappy from the start. Don't worry, though, you'll be able to relive your time together every weekday on Fox at 7 and 11p.m.
Posted by jtnt at May 6, 2004 09:27 PM in Blather