Ross and Rachael.

[sweetnpetite]

Ok, I saw the finally. I loved it- I cried. I laughed my ass off when Ross said, "unless we're on a break."

However- that's it!!!!!!!


I want a wedding!!!


I liked the "Ten Years of Friends" show- but the 2HR Friends should have been a two hour Friends!!!! not just 2 hours *of* Friends. They left a lot unanswered. I knew it was time to say goodbye, but rather than making me feel 'finished' the end left me wanting more. (and I do not mean more joey in La!)

Am I the only one who wants to see Ross propose? To see Racheal get the wedding she deserves- that the fans deserve? (You know, the one were Ross says her name and really means it?)

Everyfreaking body got a beautiful wedding except these two! I feel gyped!!!

Sorry, guys, sorry- I just had to rant.

Other friends fans have anything to add?

 

[wildsweetone]

oh darn...

I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this. I managed to avoid the other Friends thread/s. We don't get the final here until June sometime. *sigh*

 

[sweetnpetite]

Re: oh darn...

I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this. I managed to avoid the other Friends thread/s. We don't get the final here until June sometime. *sigh*

Well, you can get the DVD next week. Scour the net.

 

[DirtyJJ]

SnP,
Yes, you are right - a wedding would have been nice. The only other thing I would have liked to see is for Ross to go WITH Rachel to Paris instead of her staying back here. That would have been more interesting.

I liked it overall though. And I am looking forward to Joey - because I really like him - and I hope that show can stand on its own as a new show, not just "Joey without his 5 friends".

DJJ

 

[Guest]

Re: oh darn...

 

[McKenna]

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[Svenskaflicka]

Rachel didn't end up with Joey? Chandler never managed to yank the pineapple out of Monica's ass? Phoebe didn't have an overdose? Ross didn't get brutally killed in some very gory, bloody "accident"?

OK, that's it, I'm not watching this series anymore. I was hoping for a good ending, but noooooo...

 

[sweetnpetite]

SnP,
Yes, you are right - a wedding would have been nice. The only other thing I would have liked to see is for Ross to go WITH Rachel to Paris instead of her staying back here. That would have been more interesting.

I liked it overall though. And I am looking forward to Joey - because I really like him - and I hope that show can stand on its own as a new show, not just "Joey without his 5 friends".

DJJ

Yeah, that would have been a lot better. Both because it would have been better for her career, and it would also make more sence w/ the whole "the gang's all breaking up, boo hoo" thing. I mean hey, isn't that the point?

L. pointed out to me that the only one going very far is Joey. the other two are moving over to New Jersey- not far at all. And I guess Ross and Racheal will just move back in together in NY. Peobee will stay in NY. They didn't mention in the episode that Joey was moving, so the only thing the characters really had to be sad about was *the apartment*!!!!

 

[sweetnpetite]

Evil evil girl...

Rachel didn't end up with Joey? Chandler never managed to yank the pineapple out of Monica's ass? Phoebe didn't have an overdose? Ross didn't get brutally killed in some very gory, bloody "accident"?

OK, that's it, I'm not watching this series anymore. I was hoping for a good ending, but noooooo...

 

[Svenskaflicka]

 

[Guest]

My favourite character was Phoebe's brother (Giovanni Ribisi), I liked the wife too. They were probably the nicest people ever on that show.

Ribisi is a very fine actor and I recommend an Italian film called "Heaven" co-starring Cate Blanchett. It's a heavy-duty profound film and Ribisi speaks only Italian in it.

Perdita

 

[sweetnpetite]

Yeah, her brother "Frank Jr." was cool. THe woman who played his wife is on another show now. She's "Kitty" on THAT 70'S SHOW.

My favourite character was Phoebe's brother (Giovanni Ribisi), I liked the wife too. They were probably the nicest people ever on that show.

Ribisi is a very fine actor and I recommend an Italian film called "Heaven" co-starring Cate Blanchett. It's a heavy-duty profound film and Ribisi speaks only Italian in it.

Perdita

 

[sweetnpetite]

SPOILERS DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FINALE

NBC took a break from promoting the "Friends" finale to air it Thursday night.

"Friends" tributes and rehashes will continue in the days ahead, of course. But during a one-hour void between buildup and post-mortems, there was, simply, the last episode.

It couldn't possibly have lived up to expectations — and didn't, by a long shot. It fulfilled its frantic mission to tie up the major loose ends, but did so grudgingly, with no surprises.

And destiny-wise, it left Phoebe and Joey to fend for themselves.

But at least the world can rest easy knowing Rachel and Ross sealed their heretofore uncertain future as TV's least-hot couple since, well, Monica and Chandler.

At the last possible moment, Rachel got off her Paris-bound plane, still at the gate, and returned to Ross.

"I do love you," said Rachel.

"I love you, too, and I'm never letting you go again," said Ross.

"This is where I want to be," said Rachel. And hang that glamorous Paris job she was headed for!

The episode began with a birth — the son Monica and Chandler (Courteney Cox Arquette and Matthew Perry) had arranged to adopt.

"That is one disgusting miracle!" stammered Chandler during the delivery. And then, shockingly, a daughter arrived, too. Twins! Who knew? Not even the mother.

Meanwhile, it was the morning after Ross (David Schwimmer) had slept with Rachel (Jennifer Aniston).

"It was perfect," Ross glowed.

"The perfect way to say goodbye," cooed Rachel, still planning to move to Paris that very night.

Lots of back-and-forth followed with Joey and Phoebe (Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow) imploring Ross to tell Rachel how he felt, and Ross insisting there was no use trying to change her mind.

But moments after Rachel had gone, Ross finally erupted, "I'm gonna go after her!" The studio audience cheered. And displaying the sort of implausibility reserved for TV sitcoms, Phoebe and Ross tore off to the airport in Phoebe's cab.

Just as absurdly, new father Chandler — already home with Monica and their infants — concerned himself with rescuing Joey's baby chick and duck stuck in the foosball table across the hall. Then Monica stepped in to tear the table apart.

"Now, I've got to get back to the babies," she said once the animals were recovered.

The final moments of the show found this sitcom sextet (and the newborn twins) in the empty apartment — Chandler and Monica were moving to the suburbs — as everyone relinquished their door keys.

Lots of group hugs. Lots of tears. Then everyone, including the newborns, were off to the Central Perk for one last coffee.

What this finale served viewers was a mighty weak brew.

http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=157822

Sadly, I couldn't agree more.

It was a good episode, but not a great finale.

 

[sweetnpetite]

this one's funny cuz it was written in 2002

Entertainment Weekly) -- Imagine you're a writer on "Friends." You're dealing with the Ross-Rachel-Joey love triangle and the usual what-to-do-with-Phoebe conundrum when your boss storms in: "We might be off the air in May! We have to figure out how to end this series!"

You stress out. You pig out (and you always kind of had issues with Brad Pitt). You get this idea -- "Friends" ends with Rachel dying in childbirth -- and somebody leaks it.

You know what happened next: The story made the tabloids, the fans went ballistic, and the network swore it would never go through with a plot twist so twisted.

And can you blame NBC? Ending "Friends" with Rachel's death would be like Britney Spears belting out Metallica's "Search and Destroy" in an encore. I'm thrilled that "Friends" will, in fact, be back next year for a ninth season, but I'm scared that the writers will go even more bonkers and end it with The One Where the Fat-Turned-Hot Guy (Pitt) Goes Columbine on Everyone. So I think it's time to get the finale ball rolling. Here goes ...

RESOURCES
EW.com: All about 'Friends'





Perhaps I suffer from clique envy, but there's a cynical part of me that would love to see The One Where They All Get New Friends. At an audition, Joey bonds with some nubile young actors (hello, spinoff!). Meanwhile, Rachel's mother throws a baby shower for her and, in a hormone-induced haze, Rach finds her daddy's credit card that she cut up in the pilot and moves back to the Island.

Monica and Phoebe realize that without Rachel-glue, they have nothing to talk about so they split off, to a support group for perfectionists and a folksy respectively. Again: spinoff! At a Knicks game, Chandler runs into some dudes from "work" in the nosebleed section and Ross, fed up with the long line, leaves to meet up with some mammalogists on the Upper West Side. Like so many of their best episodes, the breakup just kinda happens.

But then, de-Friending would be pretty damn contrary to the entire series -- we don't want to see "Friends" enter "Seinfeld" prison camp. It might seem more organic if the episode was titled The One Where Chandler and Monica Realize They're Married.

Over one of those lazy in-the-apartment breakfasts that real New Yorkers never have, Chandler and Monica explain that they have to bail out of a memorial service for Phoebe's cat because they are expected at a dinner party. Rachel hints that she'd like to tag along (potential stepfathers!) and they reveal that it's a couples-only affair.

Upon their exit, the remaining friends, feeling rejected in a Bridget Jones sort of way, make a pact: They'll each take a month and hang out only with mature singletons. They set a date to meet at the coffee shop, but to show up only if they don't like their new lives. Last scene: the coffee shop, their couch deserted. Fade.

Okay, I've recovered from the Ben and Jerry's binge-inducing depression brought on by that scenario and know that it's better to go out with bang than a ha-we-got-you! whimper. So what if NBC takes their not-for-families ethos to a whole new level with a psycho ending: The One Where Gunther Goes Postal and Blows Them All Away.

Kidding people, kidding. Always better to end with life ... maybe a new way of life! How about The One Where They All Turn Gay? Imagine the GLAAD flag waving if a massage session between Phoebe and Monica went to the next level. And in walk Ross and Chandler. Ross faints. Chandler grins.

Cut to Rachel, out with what she swears is the last afraid-of-an-unwed-mother guy that she'll endure. So, on a whim, she rings up Winona Ryder -- her old Sapphic sorority sister -- and they plan to rendezvous atop the Empire State Building. Back to the scene of the massage, where Ross comes to, realizes he's kind of weirded out -- "What's with all the women I love going gay? Maybe I'm gay too" -- and finds Chandler to be, um, up for going there. As for Joey, two words: gay porn.

Then again, going for the rainbow coalition would be, you know, so out of the blue. What if, in classic literary fashion, something from the past was resurrected: The One Where They All Fall in Love With Their Cheat-Sheet Fantasies. By some only-on-TV twist of fate, bizarre encounters with their objects of lust lead to-omigosh! -- lasting relationships! And imagine the guest stars!

Ehhhh. Who wants to see these actors, who've made us cackle for nine years, upstaged by the likes of Yasmeen Bleeth? Admit it. We all want the same thing:

The One Where Ross and Rachel Finally Get Over It and Get Married. So a wedding is cliche, so what? We've watched the savvy sixsome evolve from date-to-date, naked-fat-guy-watching newbies to baby-having, big-speech-making adults. Seeing the Friends find domestic bliss would be pretty damn cathartic.

Here goes: Rachel in labor. Trapped in an audition, Joey misses the call. Rachel sees a future in Westchester (and it's not the Demerol) in her birth coach Ross. Boom. They go.

Ever the former fat chick/competitor, Monica interprets Ross & Rachel-dom as some kind of we're-a-better-couple-than-you move. So, she and Chandler immediately house hunt for something bigger and better ... in Montclair, New Jersey.

After years of floundering in soaps, Joey realizes that hot dumb actors belong in L.A. That leaves Phoebe, who, after a life rife with homelessness, motherlessness, etc., finally gets the blow (abandonment!) that sends her songwriting to the next, marketable level.

Everybody's happy-happy to be in the next stage of their lives. Which is good, because then, when the cast enters their 40s, having failed to morph into movie stars, they come back on the air via "Old Friends," which opens with the Rembrandts doing a jazzed up "That's What Friends Are For."

Hey, a girl can dream.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/28/ew.hot.friends/

 

[Guest]

 

[CharleyH]

Hm, the character of Ross has always reminded my of a snivelling, grape juiced lip kid with a snotty nose, and yolk stuck to the corner of his mouth. So disappointed that the character Rachel actually got together with him (he was much better suited to single and longing) and that producers x'd the lesbians, I stopped watching years ago.

That's my rant. FINALLY - I got it out.

 

[sweetnpetite]

AT the risk of being a total and complete sap- just reading your idea nearly brought tears to my eyes.

I so wish that you worked for NBC.

I decided Sweetnpetite was right. The audience would come back again in droves for a wedding.

It would have been a delightfully Machiavellian twist at the end as the camera panned over the now empty apartment, and zoomed in on the framed peephole in their door, to then superimpose lettering saying, "Coming in November, Ross and Rachels's Wedding"

Viewers would have gone nuts. They'd have forgiven being manipulated into believing this was the final episode and forgiven the two hour final actually having an hour of recaps. They'd assemble again in record breaking numbers next November, delivering NBC another sweep month triumph.

Advertisers would have gone ballistic. They ponied up Superbowl like rates for ads on that final program. As mad as they might be, they'd be on the phone trying to get spots for the wedding.

Friends had the best ability to deliver the most sought after demographic, 18-34 year olds (to advertisers, the rest of us can eat shit and die) Movie producers especially lament the passing of Friends. Movies now must have a huge opening weekend to be profitable, and the marketing machines ability to reach this demographic is key.

Anyway, that's how I'd love it to have ended. From a Marketing, and Programming standpoint this might have been sweet.

 

[Guest]

 

[sweetnpetite]

From your mouth to someone who wants to pay me obscene amounts of money's ear.

Jennifer Aniston I heard is the only one cool to doing a reunion show. I guess she believes she has a shot at movie stardom, and she has had some success lately.

A wedding show would make her the center of attraction. Plus, it would be closure for her character. Didn't Rachel enter the show wearing a wedding dress?

Good point. (the wedding dress part)


Send out resumes. Enter contests, ect. ect. I don't think the execs are listening to me. You'll have to get there attention on your own, lol.


ps. you're not a college student and a fan of Guiding Light are you? (they are running a writing contest)

 

[Guest]

 

[sweetnpetite]

Wow, last time some as young & cute as you mistook me for a college guy, her guide dog bit me. Thank you.

you know that pictures not me right?

(I am cute though )

You're welcome. But college guys come in all ages now

 

[sweetnpetite]

Svenskaflicka,


You are chandler bing!

Rachel didn't end up with Joey? Chandler never managed to yank the pineapple out of Monica's ass? Phoebe didn't have an overdose? Ross didn't get brutally killed in some very gory, bloody "accident"?

OK, that's it, I'm not watching this series anymore. I was hoping for a good ending, but noooooo...

 

[Guest]

 

[gothgodess]

I just have one tbing to say.

Its a TV program, They come to an end.
Please people get over it.

I know I'm being nasty but Its what I was told when Buffy ended!

 

[Guest]