In My Head...
Joey,
as we know, went off to try his luck in Hollywood, but unfortunately he didn’t
quite make it to the level he wanted to.
Monica
and Chandler, meanwhile, would have their hands fairly full with the twins.
They would be around ten years old by now, which would mean that certain things
like costs and educational opportunities would have been seriously considered
(or about as seriously it can be considered by Chandler), before being doubled
down.
Monica
would be a stern mother, insisting on the kids using the coaster every time
they sit down in front of the TV watching Cartoon Network’s latest programme.
Chandler, meanwhile, would be the good cop in the relationship, being the one
his children would run to seeking advice on their own trials and tribulations
in school. I suspect it would not be too early by that time to have had
romantic crushes, especially more so in the Facebook age.
Ross
wouldn’t really use it, though. He would have an account, but I don’t know how
often he would actually use it. In fact, I reckon they would all be fairly
traditional in that sense, prefering their communication to be done at least
verbally, if not face to face. Rachel, on the other hand, would probably have
@RachelGreen as her handle, which possibly suggests her being an early adopter
of such social networking, simply because it is the latest.
The
differences between the two, though, would not necessarily be a hindrance; if
anything, they come together and be good and loving parents to Emma. Emma, by
now, would have been about twelve years old. Though the difference is slight,
it is enough for her to be the de facto leader of the Geller children whenever
Ross and Rachel would come to the suburbs to visit Monica and Chandler.
Their
kids would potter around in their backyard. Playing Twister? Maybe, maybe not.
I imagine that they’d be pretty active, but not to the point of disobeying
their parents. Monica being Monica, she may be strict, but she only has their
best interests at heart by insisting that they don’t go too far. Perhaps by
now, Chandler would have gotten over his fear of dogs, and there’d be one or
two dogs around. Joey, in theory, would have eaten almost all of the food, but
he’s not back as often as he used to be back when they first moved out here.
Though his stuff is still in his room, the room above the garage is becoming as
much a garage of junk in its own right. Monica would insist, fight and scratch,
but she would have accepted that a family of four (and a couple of dogs) would
not necessarily be exactly the same as how she imagined it to be.
Mike
and Phoebe, though, are the furthest. Phoebe would end up spending more and
more time with Mike’s friends and family, and though they still keep in touch,
their actual physical connection to Phoebe is probably the weakest. By now, she
probably would have taken full advantage of the fact that she can travel
internationally. Mike being relatively wealthy, they would have taken in the
Bahamas again, where things really got going for them. Perhaps France, where
Rachel nearly went, because Phoebe can speak French. That’s a plus, so why not
we make use of the plusses we have, right?
What
would they actually be like, though? What kinds of lives would they really have
led? To ask these questions and more of characters that existed as nothing more
than mere figments of someone’s imagination is not really practical. You’ll
never get a prim and proper answer. Perhaps they would all have gotten a
Whatsapp group set up. Maybe, just maybe, people like Carol and Ben would also
pop in (maybe not so much Ben, since he would be in university by now), and
let’s not forget Janice.
When a
TV show dies, sometimes it is sad to not know what happens next in the lives of
these others we call our own. We become attached to the characters and their
stories, and we see how these iterations become important figures in our own
lives. They serve as a point of reference in conversations, they become
archetypes that we compares ourselves to. In short, they become our actual
Friends.
I don’t
know whether it’s all that appropriate to consider the above, but in my head,
that’s how it went.
That's how I would quite like it to remain.
That's how I would quite like it to remain.
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