So now to my point and one question that has me baffled, what the hell happened to Nancy and Celia's friendship? At the beginning of the series, Celia and Nancy had a friendship. It wasn't bullet proof and it wasn't the closest of friendships, but nonetheless it was a friendship. By the end of the series, not only had Nancy denounced their friendship to almost everyone, but Celia was not mentioned nor invited to Stevie's Bat Mitzvah. Say what?! Even the drug dealer who threatened to kill Nancy multiple times was present at the Bat Mitzvah of the century.
As I said earlier, I am not saying they were the best of friends, but just acknowledging they did have a relationship. Nancy clearly wasn't the biggest fan of Celia, however, she was there to lend an ear or sarcastic comment when Celia needed it. And sure, Celia wasn't a great friend, she made some big mistakes, but Nancy clearly had her share of sins as well. What's more is when Celia made mistakes, they were usually out of sheer coincidence or some part in a comedy of errors. However, Nancy actually went out of her way on occasion to do things that she knew would cause Celia hurt. So why, did they never reconnect I ask? Based on the evidence I just provided, one could argue Celia got sick of begging for Nancy's friendship and got her own life, but we all know that is not in Celia's nature.
Why was there an effort to mend almost every broken relationship before the series ended, but Celia and Nancy's... NADA. Did I care that Nancy and Josh reunite? Did I even care about Josh reuniting with Doug? No, I had nothing invested in Josh's character who appeared in a whole two episodes, or less. I know this pivotal moment was for Doug's character, but I saw no point reconnecting with Nancy. It was sweet but also awkward and Celia would have made much more sense than Josh. Don't get me wrong, I don't even like Celia that much. I did love Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Flintstone, but that is not where this is coming from. I just believe Celia was an integral character for most of the series. Even if all she did was provide some comic relief or maintain the bad guy quota by throwing out some obstacles here and there throughout the years, she was a crucial member of the Weeds family. I wanted to know what happened to her. How she took Isabelle's new identity? Did her weed business survive? Is she broke again?
Also, more than anything Celia added to Nancy's depth as a character. When Nancy was there for Celia in the early episodes, despite her transparent dislike of Celia, it showed me the compassion that I sometimes thought Nancy's character lacked to those outside of her family. It made Nancy human and gave her a "girl next door" quality to her. For example, when she stood up for Celia to the mean girls of the PTA or when she would call Celia out on her bullshit. Celia and Nancy's friendship made me like Nancy more because it showed she was warm but also she marched, or more so danced to the beat of her own drum and didn't get caught up in the political bullshit of Agrestic.
CONCLUSION: So maybe Elizabeth Perkins couldn't commit to the episode, fine with me. Conrad and Isabelle weren't in the episode either, but they were made reference to. The slightest reference to Celia would have satisfied me and probably would not have sparked this maundering.
AND finally, if there WAS in fact reference made to Celia in the finale and I am completely speaking out of my ass right now, then I take back all of the above. But I do maintain that I wish Celia played more of a role in the last few seasons.
RANDOM SIDE NOTE: While writing this post, I was started seeing crazy thought bubbles of Celia as Wile E. Coyote and now I think about it, Nancy definitely parallels the road runner. Celia seems to run around town, setting up traps and obstacles of how to catch up with Nancy and get ahead of her but Celia is constantly brought back down to the ground and always ends up one step behind Nancy. Even though life gets bumpy for Nancy, somehow she gets lucky, even with the worst of the obstacles ahead of her, she effortlessly glides over the bump and to her next obstacle, completely oblivious to the perpetual and consistent destruction of Celia.
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