Friends

I was rummaging through my drafts folder and found this unpublished blog entry sitting around not knowing she should have been posted weeks ago. I guess I was busy the week I intended to post this. I have certain feelings about this sitcom that I can't quite put into words. Is this even possible? Can a television program do this to people? Anyway, I feel that this entry is incomplete and I don't know how to complete it. So here I'm posting it and moving on to other stuffs that my mind can come up with.

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Except for the six keys on the kitchen counter, there's no hint that there ever were people in the apartment. Six friends, each lived there at least once, have left. And though it was not the most beautiful of all last episodes for a sitcom, I still loved the ending and felt sad that it's over.

I can't believe that Friends has ended. I know the last episode was shown a couple of years ago, but the rerun at Star World has just ended. For one year, I have been watching it everyday at 7:30 PM. I don't know what to do with this vacant TV time now. My favorite TV sitcom is over. And it left me wanting to buy the ten seasons in DVD.

I was introduced to this sitcom about 11 years ago. Back then my favorite TV program was Hercules back to back with Xena: Warrior Princess. I know, depending on what TV genre you like you'd either say, "Cool," or say, "Yuck." But that's not the point. One day ABC 21 decided to have a new lead-in program to Hercules. It is a little sitcom called Friends. My friends and I immediately loved this new show. We watched it every time it's on. But the problem with Philippine television is that they tend not to show programs in the correct order. Some random episodes are skipped and in three months time or so episodes are being played back. It's really frustrating. I mean you make an effort to free your time so that you could watch a program only to find out that they're playing an episode you've already seen. In due time, I've stopped watching the show.

And then there was cable. Then Star World came. When I heard that they're going to do a rerun of the complete ten seasons of Friends, I was very excited and rightfully so. It completely reran Friends from season one to season nine daily. There was a minor break with repeat episodes and then season ten, the last one, was shown beginning February 2006. Since the schedule is Mondays to Fridays, one season takes just about one month to finish.

Now it's over. And I'm a bit sad.