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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am hoping for a major time jump to start next season -- at least a year. We find Carrie living in her giant apartment with her cat and struggling with what it means to be "waiting" for Aiden. Does she date? Or is she just a cat lady spinster with too much money and time on her hands? I can see her initially leaning into the romantic/poetic idea of waiting for a lover (I foresee voiceovers about classic literature like Austen and the Brontes where protracted courtships are common) but then going kind of nuts. It would be a kind of internal tension.

Meanwhile I think Miranda and Charlotte will be hitting new career peaks and that would be interesting to watch. Those stories are actually so common in our culture -- women raise kids and essentially start new careers in their late 40s or even 50s, and because of their age and executive functioning skills and maturity, really take off. Like Nancy Pelosi or Vera Wang. Having both of them in that place would be interesting, too, because they are sort of foils for each other -- Charlotte happily married and eternally optimistic and settled, Miranda divorced and cynical and always searching for something. I like it when their stories run parallel because it winds up providing really interesting dynamics.

I think Seema's director returns, they continue to fall in love, and the central set piece of the season is their wedding. So we'd have the bachelorette, the rehearsal dinner, and the wedding itself, plus dress fittings and other things, all to give the characters reasons to come together in fabulous places wearing fabulous clothes. Plus the story of a woman in her 50s finally finding real love and what that looks like and means for her. I think it could be incredibly sweet.

Sadly this leaves Nya and LTW once again in these weird C-plots where they have too little to do. Especially Nya. I think the show made a mistake in adding so many new characters for the sake of diversity, because inevitably what happens is that the focus is on the original three and there is not enough bandwidth to give all these new characters juicy storylines, so you wind up with multiple characters who are POC or LGBTQA+ who don't have anything to do, and it's honestly a worse look than just being a less diverse show, in my opinion.

I think it works a little better with Che and Anthony because Che's storyline is more connected to Miranda's (and Miranda now contributes to the show's diversity. And Anthony is an original cast member and has close friendships with both Carrie and Charlotte in ways that make his presence feel organic. Plus he's always been a secondary character so it doesn't feel dismissive to keep him in that role. If anything he's gotten WAY more screen time than he used to. I expect we'll continue to see him with his Italian guy and storylines about the age and generation gap. I hope Che's focus is mostly on their career, which I think is way more interesting than their love life. Every relationship plot line with Che is like "let's talk about being gender fluid and/or pansexual" and it's tedious as hell. Diversity on shows work best when identities are just an accepted part of the characters background and not the focus of their storyline. No one wants to watch a character when ever seen is like "let's discuss how me being gay/trans/black/an immigrant/disabled is relevant to what's going on." Once in a while, yes. Every scene? NO.[/quote]

I was reading a Reddit thread on this show and someone referred to the new leads as emotional support woc for the original 3. So gross but also correct.

I hate that they threw in all of these new characters clearly for diversity and then didn’t develop them in ways that made them or their stories engaging. Like who are these women? who are their other friends? They feel like rich, shiny, well dressed shells of people to me. I need more but there is no time with the attempt to focus on so many people.

SATC, despite its faults, was pretty groundbreaking for its time and actually tackled social issues to some extent. It was downright controversial at times. I miss the grit. [/quote]

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