I hate how the show butchered Monica after her and Chandler got together. I really loved her until then and it just went downhill so fast.
One moment I just watched was Rachel’s baby shower and it was all an absolute mess. They changed Rachel’s mother (who absolutely loved her friends in every other episode she appeared in) to a pompous witch so Monica could have the lowest of low moments ever?
It was also the most grounded they made Phoebe in a long time; trying to get Monica to drop it when Ms. Green was angry to her bemused “I have no respect for Chandler” after hearing Monica’s plan to get Ms Green mad at her pregnant daughter so she could swoop in.
Just... wtf? That’s not the same sweet Monica who got her dream job only to deal with the bittersweet of everyone hating her. That’s the one I cheered for and loved.
Last big one: All the retcons they did to make Monica and Chandler fit perfectly together. “Kissing doesn’t feel weird!” is weird when they woke up to “can you not look while I dress?” The thanksgiving ones where apparently she got into cooking because Chandler suggested it? Dropped weight to get back at him?
I don’t know what happened with the writing, but running on fumes made them all pretty bad people towards the end and it just really crushed the nostalgia that built with it.
