Felicity

Jun 16, 2008 - 05:53 AM PST
As a birthday present to myself, I bought the first two seasons of Felicity and am in the process of watching them. I have not seen these episodes in YEARS and I am falling in love with the show all over again! One of my favorite episodes is when Julie and Felicity get trapped on the subway and are forced to confront each other about what happened with Ben. As they are fighting, all the other people on the subway with them start taking sides and fighting with each other about Julie and Felicity's situation. At one point, an old man who has so far not been participating in the argument, stands up and says my favorite line of the whole series:

Man on Subway: The way I see it, you two "best friends" were never "best friends" to begin with.
Felicity: Actually sir, I really think we were.
Man: If I’m understanding right, and I think I’m understanding right, you two met when you were both seriously lonely, maybe a little desperate, when you both needed a "best friend." You shared a few things together, started to refer to each other as “best” but that was premature, wasn’t it? ‘Cuz what you had never earned that title. I had a "best friend" for sixty-three years, played in the minors together, went to war together, sixty-three years and here’s the fact: you can’t get a "best friend", "best friends" become. It don’t happen in a meeting or a year or two, it’s a package deal, friendship, only as valuable as what you put in, come through. Judging something like that after one year, even if you got all the facts, that’s like looking for the final score before you’ve seen the second inning. I don’t think you two were "best friends" to begin with. Now one of two things is gonna happen, you’re either gonna come through this on your way to becoming the kind of friends you thought you were or you become memories – memories that will fade into nothin’.

Felicity


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Jun 16, 2008 - 06:29 AM

Edmonds2007 on
Never seen the show but do like the scenario you extracted for review on "best friends".Have to agree with the old man,in our private(unselfrecognized?)loneliness we grasp for meaning and substantiation,one method being catagorical superlatives.Say,think something over and over and maybe in time you may believe you believe it,that is until something like being trapped on a subway with each other that causes a larger reality to the surface.