The overall tip was to basically focus my hypotheses and conlcusions around typical "childhood fairytales we tell our children". What he meant by this was that in terms of gender representations and the evolution of them, one could say they have never really completely changed. For example, Monica in Friends can be seen as the mother and caregiver of the show and Rachel can be seen as the daughter. And also that the series ends once Monica and Chandler have children, Rachel and Ross get back together and Phoebe is married to Mike. Likewise, fairytales always end with their "happily ever after" of marrying "Prince Charming". The reason for Friends to end in this way could be because of this happily ever after and the satisfaction this kind of ending would give to the target audience.
This brings me to another one of Paul's points about who the target audience of the show actually was and knowing this will then show me why a fairytale ending works. Paul also said that including actual facts and satistics about the show would help create a good essay. Because of these things I am planning to do some internet research about the actual viewer numbers and demographics for Friends and I will write a blog post about it for my reference.
There is still a lot more I will post about my chat with Paul Marchbank, however writing it down in seperate blog posts like this is really helping me go into detail more about what he said and what this will help me to do in terms of further research.
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