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[quote=Anonymous]You can't just look at the couple and not the story line.

As far as Sex and the City, Big DID date and marry a younger woman (who was beautiful and a socialite), and it didn't work out.  I think that is part of his character development.  People are also discounting that in the show, Carrie had fame of her own and was a fashion icon.  So it wasn't like Big married some unknown frumpy woman.  He still stayed within his circle, so to say.

I actually think the more unrealistic story line was Samantha and Smith Jared.  Although I think their early relationship was realistic, I don't think IRL they would have stayed together.  I saw them kind of like Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher.  A more realistic story line would have been that Smith Jared moved on when he got more famous (even though that kind of depresses me admitting that).

I actually thought that Sex and the City did address a lot of the unpleasantries of dating and pairing up and the unfortunate realities of it all.  Where that show went wrong was in the ending.  It was like they tried to hard to make all of the stories end nicely.  It would have been far more realistic if at least one of the four women actually remained single (and that it was *okay* to be single, not tragic but normal).

As for unrealistic TV pairings, I actually think that it's not so much mismatched looks (unattractive with attractive) that makes sitcoms and TV romance so unrealistic, but rather, it's the way things all work out and all ends get tied up.

But that's in part because it's what people want to see.  Writers don't write shows to be realistic.  They write them to get viewers to watch the show.  Most people want to see the two characters get together at the end, et cetera, et cetera.

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