migblog

there was one point last night while i was watching the ten years of friends blurb they had that i had seen an awful lot of those shows. for almost every clip they showed, i remembered sitting down and watching it; from ross and rachel looking at their baby on the ultrasound to monica and chandler's proposal, from phoebe's first utterance of "oh no" to joey's last "how you doin'?"

it seems like i could oddly relate to everything that was going on, albeit on slightly different levels: ross saying "rachel" at his wedding was akin to some flub that miguel won't elaborate further. the coffee shop scenes, the lesbians, the cabs, the trip to london. i wanted to live out the friends fantasy and have five other equally good-looking people around me all the time and always end up doing a lot of stuff together.

new york reminds me of friends. not just because it's where it's set; it's exactly the type of place that would harbor such relationships, where people would depend on each other, on anywhere from the simple things to the things that really kick your ass.

the final episode was great; i thought it was a good way for the series to end, all of them still together, finally realizing that everything had fallen into place for their adult lives.

if you recall from the first season, phoebe and joey were absolute ditzes, ross was a complete nerd, chandler's job was a mystery, and monica and rachel were just as obsessed with their hair as the rest of america. last night, they were thirtysomethings, notches under their belt, ready to finally move on from that rent-controlled apartment, ready to lead their own lives.

i'm hoping that sometime, my life would echo scenes from that show: from weddings to births to proposals, to awkward thanksgivings with other people's parents to christmases stuck in a place you don't really want to be, to the mundane blackouts to exotic vacations. and all that time, surrounded by people whom i care for, and people who care for me.

i'm not going to miss friends that much -- just look at the syndication. i'm going to be really sad, though, that i don't get to follow around those six anymore, and look at more scenes in their life so that i could dream of something close to that.

i really like that show.

posted by Open Source Food @ 9:47 AM