Talk:All Broke Up/@comment-38041932-20200812072702

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA i had such high hopes for this episode (after I first looked up Rachel on the fandom and then after I watched the 'TP+KF' episode). But then when i watched it's like man this is stupid.

Kimi expects to end up with Tommy (based on the 'TP+KF' episode) after what she (and phil and lil and chuckie) did? They ruined the good ending between Tommy and Rachel. Initially, they ended on good terms since they broke up only because they had some implicit code of not wanting to do long distance (a weird implicit code also seen in the finale of the TV series friends...and i think also in the spin-off TV series Joey. man am i glad that in himym, ted and victoria tried long distance).

Now thanks to Kimi et al, we have that Tommy and Rachel end on bad terms, and Tommy's chance with Anita was ruined. Furthermore, Tommy's grief is completely false and artificial. It's not grief over the lost relationship. It's grief that the relationship ended badly. - particularly when it could've ended on good terms It's false grief because Kimi et al were meddlesome busybodies who weren't careful with what they wished for, and it's artificial grief because it's over an artificial way that the relationship ended: namely that it was because of Kimi et al rather than that Tommy and Rachel ended things on bad terms on their own.

How can anyone seriously blame Tommy? It's like if you're captured by some terrorists and then you're tortured for information that you don't have. To the end the torture or to pause it, you might just make up something.

I haven't found out yet if Tommy ends up with Kimi or whatever, but as of this episode, that ship should have sunk, if all is right in the world.

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ETA:

1 - Chuckie probably thinks of himself as a good friend for visiting, when visiting is THE LEAST that Chuckie can do after what he and the others did.

Come to think of it, Tommy doesn't need such entitled and impossible to please friends. He can make new ones. Recall again the TP + KF episode where Tommy had a lot of replacements lining up once Chuckie left. Plus Tommy still has Dil (and Angelica and Susie and Harold I guess) and just imagine that at Tommy's young age, he's such a successful amateur filmmaker and has girls hitting on him left and right. I mean, he didn't need to look for a rebound or whatever. The rebound (or whatever) looked for him!

2 - one thing i did like about this episode is about how tommy was sent to the nurse's office instead of the principal's office. very 'mental health positive' or whatever is the term (i'm borrowing from the term 'body positive') for 2007