SATC New Season - And Just Like That...

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Anonymous wrote:I actually thought the plot line with Seema was really realistic and liked how the show handled it. Yes, there was some immaturity there (on both sides! Carrie just totally forgot about her summer house with Seema AND was totally unrealistic about how that would work with Aiden in the picture) but that's realistic too -- people are not always super mature and rational.

But mostly I just think that's a very common issue with friends, even well into adulthood and middle age, when your lives don't match up in certain ways. Seema being willing to say, out loud, that she is unsure if she will like herself when she's the third wheel with Carrie and Aiden was actually extremely self aware. So was her willingness to say that she is jealous of Carrie having two "great loves" when she's never had one. That's very real and I think a totally rational feeling to have in that situation.

I like that they addressed it and I also think it gives Seema's character more depth. Seema is NOT just Samantha 2.0 -- she's embraced being single and professionally focused, but unlike Samantha, it's less of a choice for her and a part of her does wish she'd been able to find someone. But what she has in common with Sam is a refusal to compromise who she is in order to please a man who might be threatened by her. I just really like her character and think this storyline was realistic and fleshed her out a bit. She puts up a good front but there is a part of her that wishes things had turned out differently. What is more relatable than that?!

Same. It reminded me of when a friend kind of dropped out of my life, infertility for her, preg for me. It was painful for both of us in different ways. Seema was eventually able to voice it. I liked that.

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Anonymous wrote:I want more Lisa Todd Wexley.

I want a whole LTW spinoff. LTW, George Washington, and her fabulous wardrobe!

Meanwhile I was like who is Lisa Todd Wexley? Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Miranda was wise not to answer the Big question. There was no good answer to that.

So true. It was totally shocking Carrie said that.

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I love Seema and Lisa.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Miranda getting the promotion at work is somewhat reasonable. Her boss clearly values her experience and she’s certainly had a lot of professional success. She’s clearly more accomplished than the other two interns who are very immature.

Her experience was in corporate law. Bears no relationship to the human rights world. And who would get an intern to cover for the boss for an extended leave ? There are other people who actually work there.

Harvard law degree and 30 years in corporate law and partner are transferable skills to most jobs. Y’all don’t know much about what it takes to get through an Ivy law school and make partner at a big firm. Failure is not an option.

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Where's the pepper mill???

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I really liked the episode and it made me go back and watch the season three episode where Aiden and Carrie got together.

That said… Typical selfish Carrie for wondering if not ending up with Aiden the first time was a mistake… I guess obliterating his three boys lol. I’m kind of surprised Miranda didn’t actually say, well Steve and I ended up divorce, but if I hadn’t married him, I would not have had Brady. Carrie may feel like it was a mistake, but I’m betting Aiden is glad he has his three boys.

It also never would’ve worked out between them… He never was willing to stay in New York, and she was never willing to move out… It’s just totally unrealistic to think that it ever would’ve worked out at an earlier time.

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Anonymous wrote:Miranda was wise not to answer the Big question. There was no good answer to that.

So true. It was totally shocking Carrie said that.

+1. We’re supposed to act like Carrie was walking around the streets of Paris thinking about Aiden…oh wait, she was thinking about Big. We are supposed to act like when they were estranged for a year, she was thinking about Aiden. Oh wait, she was thinking of Big the entire time. We’re supposed to act like when she kissed Aiden in Abu Dhabi, she didn’t immediately regret it and run and confess to Big, and breathlessly wait to be forgiven. Oh wait, that’s what she did do.

We’re supposed to act like they weren’t at the peak of her happiness when Big died, when the whole first season setup was supposed to be, “They are at the peak of their happiness, and she is robbed of the present and future they had planned.”

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Anonymous wrote:I really liked the episode and it made me go back and watch the season three episode where Aiden and Carrie got together.

That said… Typical selfish Carrie for wondering if not ending up with Aiden the first time was a mistake… I guess obliterating his three boys lol. I’m kind of surprised Miranda didn’t actually say, well Steve and I ended up divorce, but if I hadn’t married him, I would not have had Brady. Carrie may feel like it was a mistake, but I’m betting Aiden is glad he has his three boys.

It also never would’ve worked out between them… He never was willing to stay in New York, and she was never willing to move out… It’s just totally unrealistic to think that it ever would’ve worked out at an earlier time.

He would have stayed in New York for her. He would have given up on kids for her. That’s why their breakup was not a “Big mistake,” it was the direction life took them both. I wish they could have graceful ways to say and show that, instead of Carrie to betray Big like that in her comment to Miranda.

Yes, she “made a mistake” by cheating and she should be sorry for that. But that’s what she said to Aiden. That was appropriate. The whole “Big mistake” comment to Miranda was a shockingly awful and unfair betrayal.

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Big was an ass. Of course it was all a mistake. She’s a waking drama loving mistake.

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Anonymous wrote:Big was an ass. Of course it was all a mistake. She’s a waking drama loving mistake.

She’s a walking shopping self involved, largely self unaware mistake that’s stuck in the late 90s

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Anonymous wrote:I really liked the episode and it made me go back and watch the season three episode where Aiden and Carrie got together.

That said… Typical selfish Carrie for wondering if not ending up with Aiden the first time was a mistake… I guess obliterating his three boys lol. I’m kind of surprised Miranda didn’t actually say, well Steve and I ended up divorce, but if I hadn’t married him, I would not have had Brady. Carrie may feel like it was a mistake, but I’m betting Aiden is glad he has his three boys.

It also never would’ve worked out between them… He never was willing to stay in New York, and she was never willing to move out… It’s just totally unrealistic to think that it ever would’ve worked out at an earlier time.

Miranda held her tongue on everything she was thinking at that moment - wisely! I think we can all see that this relationship isn't going to last, but who needs to be the one to say it?!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Miranda was wise not to answer the Big question. There was no good answer to that.

So true. It was totally shocking Carrie said that.

+1. We’re supposed to act like Carrie was walking around the streets of Paris thinking about Aiden…oh wait, she was thinking about Big. We are supposed to act like when they were estranged for a year, she was thinking about Aiden. Oh wait, she was thinking of Big the entire time. We’re supposed to act like when she kissed Aiden in Abu Dhabi, she didn’t immediately regret it and run and confess to Big, and breathlessly wait to be forgiven. Oh wait, that’s what she did do.

We’re supposed to act like they weren’t at the peak of her happiness when Big died, when the whole first season setup was supposed to be, “They are at the peak of their happiness, and she is robbed of the present and future they had planned.”

I don't think we're supposed to act like that - or think that - at all. I think we're all supposed to have the same reservations Miranda has - and to hope that both Carrie and Aiden come out of this not completely damaged. Of course it's not going to work out! What, is Carrie going to go live in Virginia part time to be stepmom to a bunch of nearly-grown kids? This thing they have is really divorced - so to speak - from their real lives. It's like a drug rush that they both seem to need right now - but he can't even bear to go inside her apartment, and she is not exactly going to love Norfolk. Just look what she wore on the plane to go to Norfolk! How in the world would this work in the real world for them?

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I cannot stand insecure Miranda. I cannot believe for a second that Harvard law corporate lawyer would be so insecure and meek about anything. She’s insufferable with the way way she gushes when the author flirts and how inferior she feels at human rights. She’d be annoying anyway but this contradiction is impossible to ignore.

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I hope Aiden's kids openly loathe her.