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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 think it makes sense, Nya is a type everyone would expect her to end up with (though, [b]why is the assumption that because Miranda has discovered she is bisexual that Nya is open to a same-sex relationship? [/b]That jump is puzzling to me but I am firmly heterosexual so there is that) but Che is different from anything she has experienced before so she needs to do this, it's part of her journey. [/quote]

Just going off what a pp said--  that Nya was originally supposed to be her love interest, but Cynthia Nixon wanted Sara Ramirez/the Che character. If so, Nya's character was rewritten as a straight married woman. [/quote]

Bad choice. I suspect that sexual interest in people with ambiguous gender signals is fairly niche and limited, so it's not relatable. Also, I'm grossed out by how much of Cynthia Nixon's body I'm being forced to view in exchange for watching the show. It's much like the show Girls, which intentionally subjected viewers to ugliness as part of its shtick. But, AJLT isn't pulling it off as well as Girls. And to be clear before someone freaks out-- Nixon isn't ugly. But I can't be the only one who wishes I could unsee Nixon's softcore porn scenes.  [/quote]

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