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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Che also can't act, which only makes her character more grating.

When did Miranda become a bumbling fool?
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I think over the course of two decades while stagnating at home in a relationship that was comfortable but not right - and then going on a sort of rumspringa with Che, who is a disaster for Miranda but is also unleashing something in her that feels (to her) authentic and necessary. I think the problem is that usually we understand the powerful attraction that a character has to another character, but they've written Che so weirdly that none of us can imagine feeling that way about them. So it makes Miranda seem crazy, not just like someone who's bursting into something new in later midlife.

I continue to think that Miranda's midlife crisis can be narratively exciting, while we see her make mistakes and also find the person she believes herself to be at this stage of her life. It's just hinging so much of it on an unappealing character that makes this story hard for any of us to get with, I think.[/quote]

Bingo.

The posts upthread about the intent to have Miranda and Nya together helped crystalize this for me. If they'd stuck with that, we'd see Miranda's sexual discovery being matched with intellectual growth, which would feel so authentic to her character. That would have been so fun to watch. She's clearly the smartest, best educated, and intellectual of the original four.

Instead we're supposed to believe that she's attracted to someone with the maturity of a teenage boy who plays video games with his friends until 4 in the morning. It makes no sense.[/quote]

I am the PP - and I *think* that the show is introducing Che playing video games all the time and getting high day and night as new info to help Miranda get away from this relationship. When Miranda met Che, it was when they were performing, and seemed confident and successful - and I think we were supposed to understand that she (Miranda) found that incredible alluring. Found the whole package alluring. And now Miranda is getting to know what life with Che actually looks like, and even if Miranda learned a lot about herself through this relationship - I think without Che drastically changing their life, Miranda is going to have to come to the conclusion that this relationship was a turning point but not an end point.

But yeah the show messed up by making Che so freaking annoying. [/quote]

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