Do you think Mr. Big is a catch?
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Anonymous
Charlotte wasn't stuck with Harry. If you remember she was even repulsed by him and then got to know and love him for who he was and not how he looked. What a novel concept. Don't be so shallow. |
Anonymous
Would you be ok with a guy stepping out on you regularly??? I guess I just don't get the point of being married if you just wanna bang other people. *shrugs* |
Anonymous
+1 Aleksandr was my favorite: he was sensitive and artistic, and had a successful career in his art (unicorn! chupacabra!). Carrie wrecked their relationship in her inability to adjust to expat life; I see people like her every year who leave the US and then walk around viewing everything through a lens of comparison with home in a way that indicates her internal monologue is insisting that home is better. Those people never last and always return home. Carrie is too unsophisticated and insensitive for Aleksandr, plus she sounds like a yokel clod in her responses to his attempts to discuss his art. In addition, she handled the book signing debacle in Paris completely wrong, and she really screwed up (and showed her selfish true colors) when she skipped out on it. She should have gone to her book signing (which she had committed to do, and which people were setting up just for her) and then MAYBE left early for Aleksandr's exhibition (could have invited the people at the signing to go with her; a book signing in Paris for a book of her caliber would have been tiny anyway). By skipping out on her book signing, she destroyed her chance at a life/involvement in the literary scene in Paris that would have saved Carrie by giving her her own interests and life in the new country, and allowed her to live with Aleksandr as an expat but equal. Carrie is an idiot. She messed up a good relationship with her immaturity, and she messed up a chance to continue her place in the literary scene in another country. |
Anonymous
It is entirely plausible that the doctor would have been "obsessed" with her for a short-term, fast-burn fling, especially if they lived in the same building. The doctor struck me as a player anyway: very insincere and too practiced with the romantic gestures and rhetoric. That would never have been long-term, and the doctor (in his head) never expected more than a fling. And the man who Miranda ends up with is exactly the type of man someone like her would realistically attract. There was nothing unrealistic about Miranda's dating prospects (except that there were too many: no way she would have had time to date so much as a single while building her career). Volume aside, I think all the women attracted reasonable prospects for them EXCEPT Carrie: there is no way guys like Big, Aleksandr, and a few others would be interested in a low quality prospect like homely, childish, spendthrift, neurotic, clownishly dressed Carrie. |
Anonymous
That's exactly the point and why the whole thing was so dreadful. |
Anonymous
| Mr. Big is the catch I would throw back into the water. |
Anonymous
| I always thought his character was intriguing/dynamic/mysterious because there were good points and bad points about him. I did find him good looking, but he was also non-committal, evasive, unpredictable, and kind of a jerk. He did seem to be above the fray and not to care what others thought of him...but then he went and married the safe and predictable choice of Natasha. He came and went with a car and driver; he had actual and metaphorical walls around him and seemed like kind an isolated loner. I don't know if he would be a "catch" in reality, but he was an interesting t.v. character. |
Anonymous
| there was something sexy about him, tall dark and handsome with a ton of confidence |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1. He was the most physically attractive man on the show, IMO. He could also be quite funny/witty. |
Anonymous
The character realized there was more to life than looks. I loved this storyline and loved when he dumped her ass for being awful to him, she deserved it. And because he was a good person he forgave her when she realized she lost the best man she ever dated amongst a ton of chumps. |
Anonymous
I found his confidence to be fake and more like arrogance. He still had a ton of issues and expected her to be at his beck and call whenever he decided he wanted her around. Always available to him but never let her get too close. Big was the worst, and then she went and married him for a lifetime of his crap. |
Anonymous
That sounds like a great justification for women who have butt-ugly husbands and probably ugly kids too |
Anonymous
Woooooow, are you a supermodel yourself? I hope you don't have any butt-ugly friends, kids, husband, or family members. I'm sure they'd be ashamed to hear you talk like that. |
Anonymous
I love Harry! Don't talk smack about Harry |