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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BYE BYE CHE[/quote]

They clearly left it so Che can float on the margins of the friends group. Maybe just the occasional one-on-one scene with Carrie, like in this ep.[/quote]

Yeah, I didn’t mind them in that scene for a change.[/quote]

+1 It was the only scene with Che I didn't want to fast forward through.[/quote]

I don’t know. It’s like if we white women need to have Che in the audience reaffirming our inner thoughts about life and moving on, rather than vice versa, then maybe making the cast more diverse isn’t that much of an improvement?[/quote]

No, it's more like I like Che when they are being a good friend but not when they are being a selfish, immature significant other.

Do you remember when Carrie cheated on Aiden with Big and everyone pretty much hated her that season also? Similar situation, only viewers had years with Carrie to establish affection for her character before she pulled that BS. The show introduced Che and then immediately through them into a relationship with Miranda that was highly problematic from the start. Of course people hated Che.[/quote]

I liked Che more this episode when she was facing up to hard things. I think she is good at that. But I don’t think she really needed Carrie to show her the way. She faced up to being trans on her own?  I just — don’t get me wrong, as a white woman I found the episode enjoyable and I liked Che more. But I’m not fooling myself that someone like Che would need some white super rich privileged lady to teach her about how to handle hard things. Whoever wrote the scene where Che was sitting in Carrie’s audience NODDING HER HEAD along to Carrie’s book reading (where btw Carrie did not even take audience questions wut?) was writing pure white woman escapist fantasy imho and not real life but then again it’s Carrie Bradshaw so *shrug*[/quote]

It's odd that you don't think a Latina woman could empathize with a white woman.  It was a scene about two friends, connecting. [/quote]

It was a little white savior-y though, no?  Che could not get out of their funk -- even though up until that point they had been extremely good at not hiding from tough things in her life -- but thanks to listening to an inspirational chapter from Carrie's book, Che immediately snaps out of it and gets their life back together and takes action.  Thank you, Carrie, for helping them out of their difficult spot without even really trying, that was magical of you.

Isn't it pretty to think so?  I mean, I liked it!  Part of me ate it up, but another part of me is mad at myself for it.  I think I'm also a little offended that they did it in that "Carrie reads a book chapter which we perceive to be very meaningful and we just catch the last five sentences and look the whole audience is in tears and Che's life view is now changed" trope, Carrie just reads part of her book and it magically fixed Che!  They didn't even have to have a conversation or anything, just Carrie's magical words did it alone.[/quote]

I interpreted the scene differently. Carrie asked Che to attend with her because she was feeling a little insecure and was relying on Che to help her through. So it started out as a somewhat one-sided event where Che was helping their widowed friend through a stressful event. But, as the night went on, you could see that Che was also benefitting from attending-- being relied on, consulted, connecting with others, and then in the final scene, hearing words that resonated with them and met them exactly where they needed to be met. It was a lovely episode about connection, after many episodes focused on isolation. I didn't watch it through a racial/intersectional lens. [/quote]

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