Ok so I made it a point to watch the friends finale last night. I had been a fairly serious watcher for a while, I’ve seen every episode in the first 8 seasons, most of 9 and I did miss most of 10, but caught a few. But the grand series finale, can’t miss that, right? WRONG. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that it was terrible, but it was very.. mediocre.

I was expecting something.. anything that would make me feel anything. Maybe by now it was all too formula. The symbolism of the destruction of the foosball table (breaking up of chandler and joey’s relationship by monica) was a nice touch, but the entire thing between Ross and Rachel just seemed entirely forced. It was like I could feel the actors all thinking “thank god we’re done, only one more episode. This is the last time I’ll ever have to put up with THAT putz.”

I guess that I was expecting something touching, something that made me cry. I was watching an old episode of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air before it (the one where Wil’s father comes back then walks out on him again) and I was weeping like a little baby. But Friends.. eh.. whatever. I guess that I look to the finale’s of some note, like Cheers, MASH and even ST:TNG as being something that gives a fitting ending, with dignity and emotion. Even Seinfeld was better, because it ended like it began.. about nothing.
But this one left me feeling.. nothing, which is really a disappointment, because I have, at varying times laughed with them, cried with them and hated them. Now I just feel like I have lost touch with a friend, with no desire to re-establish contact with them. And I guess that makes me sad.

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