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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, to take a break from brunch granny musings (seriously, can we NOT make this thread about how "women today" aren't getting married and popping out kids enough? Said as a married mom. It's just a boring subject).

Back to the show, I'm the poster from the first page who recently started watching AJLT, which I still maintain is terrible (yet I keep watching, what does that say about me?).

But one thing I LOVED was when Carrie and Natasha have their little confrontations/conversation. First Bridget Moynihan is really great in that scene which was nice because she's actually a very skilled actress who was cast back on SATC primarily for looking a certain way (as the "stick insect") and never had a chance to do much on the original show, even as her character got totally screwed over by Big and Carrie being selfish and ridiculous.

So it was just nice to see this scene of her character being pretty in control of the situation, expressing her anger at Carrie and Big but also you can tell she's 100% moved on and has a lovely life with a good job and two kids she loves, and ultimately you see that Big cheating on her was probably a blessing for her ultimately because he was always going to be withholding and not fully committed and while she doesn't say word one about her husband (you know she's remarried because she uses her married name at work), it's hard to imagine her having that life with Big who probably would have jerked her around, refused to have kids, and divorced her right at the point when she was feeling too old to get pregnant.

Natasha was a very two-dimensional character on SATC and I loved this glimpse of her as a much more fully-realized, and realistic and empathetic, person. The show has always been terrible at giving anyone outside the main 4 real depth (it's still a thing on AJLT, all the new characters primarily exist to provide character arcs to the main three) but it was rewarding to watch someone from the original cast who can really act have the chance to make herself much more real, if only for one scene.[/quote]

I agree, I thought this was a great part of the show.  It was also totally consistent with Carrie and her self-absorption that she would be chasing this woman around NYC and forcing her to dredge up the ugly past to try to make herself feel better[/quote]
Huge YES to both of these posts. That episode of AJLT was the first one that seemed like the regular show. I think I even said that on the AJLT thread.[/quote]

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