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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the things that drives me crazy about the Che storyline, from the beginning, is that they have never once been able to convince me that Che is a funny, charismatic comedian. Which is honestly weird because Sara Ramirez has a history as an extremely charismatic, versatile actor, so there is no reason that with the right material they could be believable as a successful stand up comic. But for some reason Che is written in the most generically obnoxious way and their delivery of every "joke" is exactly the same sarcastic eyeroll, and I don't think I've ever heard the character said anything that made me smile or chuckle to myself. It's depressing! If you want me to buy that Miranda fell for Che because they are so charismatic and funny and interesting, then why not write a charismatic, funny, interesting character? Che's whole schtick seems to be "I'm nonbinary, and some people don't like it, and those people suck." No wonder the pilot failed.

And the hard thing about Miranda's storyline for me is that right now she seems to have no agency whatsoever in her life. She is getting dragged around by Che, she's afraid to speak to Steve like two adults who have known each other for 20 years and need to just sort out their issues so they can both move on, she is obnoxiously fawning over Brady, she's even annoying sycophantic towards Nya. [b]Maybe I could deal with the upheaval in her personal life if we ever saw her asserting herself at Columbia, but mostly we just see her looking awkward about being a non-traditional student. She doesn't seem invigorated or excited about it -- she seems ambivalent and disinterested (like deciding to turn down that great opportunity to follow Che to LA? What the hell?).[/b]

Years ago I wanted to name my DD Miranda but chose not to specifically because I knew people would assume she was named after this character and that was not the reason at all. And then for a time I regretted it because I still love the name and the show had faded into the past a bit. But watching this show now, I am SO GLAD I trusted my gut instinct because I cringe in every scene Miranda is in and I would hate to be reminded of my lovely daughter's name every time I did. Ugh.[/quote]

Good point. And what's up with the Columbia thing anyway? She dropped out to follow Che and now she's suddenly back in the program? How does that work?? (And the fact that she ditched that program is one of the big reasons I hate this whole storyline of hers.)[/quote]

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