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I prefer Caucasian with the occasional dash of brown or black, so I'm glad Friends was made that way. There ought to be room for white-only or white-supermajority casts on television and movies. Lighter Hispanics, Indians, Arabs, or Jews (a la David Schwimmer) are fine too in those settings so long as they're Westernized.
There's always been an obsessive and competitive nature in her personality, which I never liked, but that's just how the character was constructed to be.
She pulled it off eventually, that's for sure.
I got Ross, unsurprisingly.
Not shocked, unfortunately. In the last interview I saw him in, he looked and sounded like an 85-year-old. Poor guy aged horribly. He'll be missed.
Sometimes — oftentimes, in fact — a bunch of white people get together and form friendships, relationships, get into conflicts, build professional relations, and so on. And sometimes, this aspect of life will be reflected in art and entertainment. Other groups will be black, others Hispanic, and others multiracial.
If you only have a problem with the first one but not with the last three, then it sounds that you just have a problem with white people. And if you have such a problem with white people as to seek to deny them group representation on television or elsewhere, then no, there's not much validity to your argument.
PS: The whitest of the Friends has just passed away. So there's that. I'm sure there'll be plenty of threads about this.
Half of them were female, some came from riches, some from poverty, some middle class, some Italian, some Jewish. Point is, there was enough diversity in the show for my taste. The closest thing to a person of color in the cast was David Schwimmer, and that was good enough.
I identify most with Ross, but largely because of socioeconomics (college life, solidly middle class, married rather early, no particular desire to womanize).
Hang out with: Any of the three men. They all have their strong points as potential friends: Ross if you want to discuss deep subjects or ideas; Chandler for showing himself reliable when Joey needed help; Joey to just chill out and/or have fun. Obviously, I could hang out with the women, too (with the exception of Phoebe), but not as comfortably as with the men.
Date: Rachel. Not only was she the hottest in most seasons, but her personality is tolerable and even cool at times, contrary to either Monica (competitive, obsessive) or Phoebe (weird).
The two stupidest storylines were the one where Chandler couldn't crack a simple smile for a photo shoot and the one where Joey couldn't repeat short sentences in French. Basically, things anyone whose IQ is above retardation could perform but somehow these two guys weren't able to do. Not sure what the writers were thinking at that point, but those two scenes (and a few others) are automatically skipped during rewatchs.
Janice wasn't the most beautiful but was definitely a bit of a hottie.
I see the episode you're referring to. The old guy who showed up wasn't the one they were expecting, but some hunky boss of his. Phoebe went nuts over him, but Rachel didn't and only pretended to "let her have him". No way Rachel would lie with that unless big sums were involved.
Agree about Joey. He was the male version of every man in the show finding Phoebe super pretty.
Yeah, Aniston exuded a certain womanly confidence and demeanor that was very attractive, and dressed the part. Less so in seasons 7-9, but was overall the hotter one. Cox clearly had a more reserved personality, and her character's neuroticism didn't help.
Don't know about sex appeal for the guys, but yeah, Perry was #1 when it came to straight-up good looks. Though LeBlanc could rival him in the first season.
I totally forgot about Gary randomly shooting a bird upon waking up lmao.
Because of the age difference?
They should've just kept it at a fling. Would've been in line with Joey's personality as well as Rachel's temporary infatuation with him in season 9. That whole scheduled "powering through" sex and Joey staring Rachel in the eye and saying, "I love ya" was all pretty awkward.
With the regards to the white thing, it has to be kept in mind that the characters lived in Manhattan, one of the whiter boroughs of New York City. And the show began in the 1990s, when the place was majority white. So not really unrealistic for there to be all-white groups of friends.
Even today, I live in a diverse, big city, and most "cliques" I see are monochromatic, whose members only interact with other races outside the "friends & family" circles, and there's rarely a gender balance. For immigrant circles, it's even less integrated than that, because they're usually not only of the same race, but of the same country of origin as well.
By the way, and that's just me and my own standards but David Schwimmer is not white.
Yeah, I get they had to look good, but the "boots, jeans, and fancy dresses" at home seemed to bit too unrealistically uncomfortable for people to wear.
Also, the characters would get new outfits pretty much every week, which is hard to afford for anyone who's not outright rich.
Age of consent is 17 in New York, so that may have been when they got together.
Also, people assume there's less harm being done when the minor is very close to majority and/or male, so I guess nobody bothered to report or press charges ("bigger fish to fry" mentality).
Depends on the episode. About half of them were boring, and the others are interesting enough. But it's definitely slow-paced, yeah.
Not shallow at all. Esthetics are always part of what makes a movie/show enjoyable. That's why they give movie awards for cinematography, music, and whatnot. And that's why bad guys have to look like bad guys, hoes have to look like hoes, and Gary Hobsons have to look like Gary Hobsons.