Summary
“Take thee, Rachel.”
Three little words that floored theFriendsfandom whenDavid Schwimmer’sRoss Geller uttered them on May 7, 1998.
It was the two-part finale of the show’s fourth season.
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However, Emily was not the monster she was made out to be.
The true big bad of the story was the one who shared the altar with her.
It’s Rachel who brings her and Ross together.
Ross Geller, Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Phoebe Buffay are six twenty-somethings living in New York City. Over 10 years and seasons, these friends go through life lessons, family, love, drama, friendship, and comedy.
Rachel promised her boss to take his niece, Emily, to the theater.
Instead, Rachel makes a date and pushes Ross into entertaining the visitor.
Intellectually and culturally, she is every bit Ross' equal.
Two points for Emily, zero for Ross.
There is no better example of this than with this particular love triangle.
Ross' wedding is a complicated matter for Rachel.
It is a competition made worse when Ross agrees to Emily’s anti-Rachel terms.
Emily is never seen again on the show and is only occasionally mentioned.
When she is, she’s always portrayed as the domineering tyrant, who nearly destroyed Ross and Rachel.
Her reputation in the fandom hasn’t been much better, viewers often remember her as cold and antagonistic.
Indeed, that title goes to everyone’s favorite unstable dinosaur man, and series “hero” himself.
Friendsis available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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