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  1. I agree. That whole episode where Samantha was so offended that Carrie was mortified by walking in on her giving a random guy a blowie in her office was so passive-aggressive. And let's not forget, Sam was with Richard at the time, cheating bastard that he was. I saw Anchors Away last night and while I found Carrie to be charming and endearing, and I love the ode to NYC that the episode represented, I think they took the "NYC is my boyfriend" thing too far. When the sailor, something Leroy but I'll just say Daniel Sunjata since that's the actor who played him, said he didn't much care for NYC, she just up and left him, but not without a cheeky salute. Trick, please. I mean, I know you love your city with your VO about "aint nobody gonna talk shit about my boyfriend" and everything, but you felt the same way right before he invited you to the big Navy party. Fucking weirdo.
  2. I...wouldn't go that far. I think the show did a decent job trying to make Charlotte seem less neurotic than she was. It did that with all the girls. I think they married too quick, but there's almost no question in my mind that Trey would've been happy with a baby. He just didn't want one as much as Charlotte did, which is probably true a lot of the time. But when you add in Charlotte being obsessed with it and sort of dragging Trey along for the ride, he probably wanted out. Charlotte cared more about having a kid than she did having a kid with Trey, which is why she let their relationship quickly deteriorate. And Trey was several years older than Charlotte; if he didn't want to marry, he wouldn't have married. I'm sure there was some familial pressure involved, but I thought Trey was who he was and he only looked bad because of the expectations Charlotte projected onto him. He loved Charlotte and wanted to make her happy. But Charlotte moreso saw him as a means to an end than a spouse and life partner. Well, IIRC, she said she was scared of getting pregnant in her 20s when she could've been screwing everything in sight, so some of this is the result of decisions she made. Not that she was wrong, per se, but unfortunately this is how it works for many women in their 30s who decide they want to have kids with someone in their 40s. It's not a simple process. I do agree Charlotte was very traditional, but I've known (and dated) plenty of chicks in college who knew they wanted a husband and kids at some point. Most of them don't wait until their mid-30s to start for exactly this reason. They don't just shack up with the first eligible guy they can find, but they don't search high and low for the rich WASPy guy of their dreams, either. So I think she was shallowly waiting for the perfect guy to come along and sweep her away and that's why it took her so long. Yeah that was pretty unrealistic. Charlotte wouldn't have been able to afford that apartment for a year even if she didn't move Harry in. And she's all with the "oh I paid for that apartment" bit. What? Trey wasn't a bad husband, he just got tired of her acting like their marriage is a fertility seminar. And he must've felt guilty for not giving Charlotte what she wanted which is why he agreed to give her the apartment. And I thought they said it wasn't actually Trey's apartment...that it had been in the family for years. So, Trey just decides he's going to go stay with his mom and give his precious, self-centered ex-wife an apartment that wasn't really his to begin with. Again, I'm no Bunny fan, but I see why she was fighting Charlotte. She pretty much bailed on the relationship after Trey said he didn't want kids, but she feels entitled to keep their apartment? Plus, Trey was a grown ass man. Had I been Bunny I would've told him and his stupid bowl haircut to go get his life because he's not staying with me when he has a nice, big Park Avenue apartment. Charlotte wasn't entitled to shit.
  3. Looking back at the episodes with Trey and Charlotte fighting because he doesn't want a baby kind of cement why I never really liked Charlotte. First of all, I found the entire plot line to be a tad unrealistic. I know it's difficult for women of a certain age to get pregnant, but Charlotte was a perfectly healthy woman in her thirties. They didn't mention any kind of genetic traits that might hinder her from having a baby. But her every attempt was goose-egg, bupkis. Trey was a perfectly healthy man and a doctor and he tried avoiding the issue and making excuses like any regular guy would, but wouldn't a doctor care a little more than most about something impeding something common like childbirth? Him wanting to leave it up to chance was kind of incurious and silly knowing Charlotte's resolve to have one, which made it unrealistic given he's a doctor, IMO. I also don't understand why Charlotte would agonize over not being able to have a child in her mid-30s. If she always knew she wanted children, why would you wait until you're at a statistical disadvantage? I know she had high expectations but it seems to me a woman who wants a husband and kids doesn't wait until her mid-30s to do so, nor does she try to do so with a man in his early-40s. Besides that, their having a baby become almost entirely about Charlotte. She quit her job before she was even pregnant. She put them on the waiting list for a Mandarin baby before even discussing it with him. She was just becoming a bit...much. I think she should've played it better than she did. I think Trey had become stressed about it and tired of her being all about babies and her outburst at the Scottish Fling thing was just the icing on the cake. And, though I didn't entirely like her throughout the series, I was kinda/sorta on Bunny's side. She was being messy and catty and butting her nose into their business, but Charlotte, baby, think for a minute. Tradition matters to Trey, if for no other reason than it matters to his mother. He...might not want a Mandarin baby. Before you go learning Mandarin and putting your name on lists, you need to talk it over and allow for the fact that he might not want to go for it. He might want his own kids that share his own heritage. There's nothing wrong with wanting to love a child, but this isn't about just fulfilling your need for motherhood by any means. I think Trey would've been up for a baby if she had tabled the matter for a few months and they tried the regular way with her taking fertility treatments. Or, she could've been honest and not a passive-aggressive baby and told him that she didn't want to give up trying to have a baby and that if he did, that might mean they can't be together. Instead she turned resentful as if the entire problem was that he didn't consent to it. Not to sound nasty, but Charlotte was going to have a hard time regardless how much they tried. I doubt Charlotte wanted to adopt and raise a baby by herself, so why ruin your marriage over a baby that you might not have anyway? It just didn't make any sense.
  4. Did she? I must've missed that. I just remember the comparison to Donald Trump. I understand people not thinking much of Big -- I made it through the series and two movies still feeling nothing for him -- but I will say, at least in this episode. he just seemed to be a normal guy. A bit sly and smilrkingly frank, but he wasn't the smarmy guarded emotional vampire douche the show made him out to be later on.
  5. I rewatched the first episode in honor of this thread. Wanna hear my thoughts? Couple things. First, it's cool that the story of the beautiful English journalist and the wealthy I-banker featured the dad from the short-lived WB show Popular. Was that show on concurrent with SaTC? It might've been. The first episode seemed to move really fast, almost like NYC. Just one shot to the next, quick dialogue, VOs, the "toxic bachelors" vs the "single women". I wonder why they never mentioned it again that Samantha tried hitting on Big before he and Carrie got together. Or, that Sam wound up being Capote Duncan's chippy for the evening after Charlotte didn't give him any. I'd almost forgotten how bitchy Miranda used to be. The dude's name was "Skipper"...to keep calling him out of his name was just disrespectful. Even still, he wanted to make out with her at the end of the evening, and so did she. Not entirely sure how that happened, but: OK. I loved how dark this episode is, and really how dark the whole show was back then. The writing was wry, satirical, tawdry...with just enough of a humanizing element to make it engaging. In parts it seemed like a spin-off of those street interviews on Real Sex on HBO (I think actually filmed those in NYC) and Taxicab Confessionals, the saxophone toodling all over the place gave the show an added...something. They never did establish where "Big" got his name, but Carrie just started calling him that. And why was her whole understanding fucked up off of Big accusing her of having never been in love? It was true to an extent, maybe, but it seemed kind of weird for a person who calls herself a "sexual anthropologist" to be keenly unaware of the fact that she's never really been in love.
  6. It did seem implausible that Big would marry Natasha after less than a year of dating, but I can see why he wouldn't mind committing to her over Carrie. Natasha seemed "easy"...for lack of a better word. Not simple in the way Carrie described her at the end of season two, but just easy to be with. Big didn't seem like the type of guy who would be in love with a woman he couldn't stand. I just felt like Carrie didn't give Big a chance to be a good guy re: the Paris trip. She was all wounded and upset because he didn't tell her before he even knew anything concrete. Then she's all with the late-night drunken phone call. Big probably didn't want to deal with her BS in another country. And after a few months of dating, I can see why he wouldn't want her to move with him to Paris. As it turns out, had she not acted like a crazypants about the whole thing, they probably would've still been together since the Paris deal fell through. I do agree with you, though, about Carrie putting Big on a pedestal.
  7. Queasy-bo (and Sherry), it's good to see you guys over here. Right! He brought it up at the time he did, how he did, because he didn't know yet. Carrie just decided that she wasn't a factor in his decision. WHAT DECISION?! It's not like he was leaving right then and didn't tell you, chick, he said he would know more when he got back! Carrie was just exhausting when it came to Big. I think Big just gave in to her paranoia too easily. If he explained to her that he's been married before, and one of the lessons he learned from his previous failed relationships is that he shouldn't give too much too soon, that he has have time and space and trust before committing emotionally to a woman, that he has to have time and space for his work and career, and he needs a woman who can respect and trust that, it would make him seem real and normal. Like maybe he has an inner process Carrie wouldn't understand because they're two different people (even though, Carrie full well would understand where Big was coming from regardless if she liked it or not...look at how she was at times with Aiden). Just giving in to her summation of his personality made him look like an asshole, and that made him intriguing to Carrie, which is why she kept running back. If Carrie cared about easy love without the bullshit, she would've understood this about Big early on. Instead, she found every reason to play patty-cake with him whenever he wanted. They weren't "friends"; Big knew he had her mind and Carrie liked him giving her attention.
  8. I figure we could use one of these just to have a place to speak (and throw shade) generally. I heard Demi Lovato's latest song "I Really Don't Care" today and it's kind of a cute song, but she's starting to grate. I didn't really care about her until she came out with "Skyscraper" after went to rehab for unspecified reasons (see: burgeoning drug addiction; eating disorder). I've noticed she tends to push her voice a lot, and not in the interesting way Christina does, but she always seems like she's almost straining to get her songs out. Like maybe her songs are all written a step-and-a-half too high for her range. It's hard to really appreciate the shades of her voice given that she's always on the gas pedal, so to speak. And...well, I've seen her perform live a few times and she's kind of like Rihanna in that a lot of her charisma seems to fizzle when she sings live. Demi sings her pretty little head off on her records but live she's like Top 8 Performance Night: Songs From The 2000s on American Idol. Good, but a bit unpolished and amateurish.
  9. 21bored in this bitch! Well, you know, with my age updated and whatnot. They have S4 on OnDemand and I've been making my way through the episodes. My Motherboard, My Self is the hardest episode of the season (nee the series) to watch because it is emotional. I just watched Time and Punishment with Carrie repeating the "you haaaaf to forgive me" line/incantation to Aiden. I always liked Aiden so I didn't mind him being back on the show, and I didn't much mind him getting back with Carrie. I could see that happening. When Aiden said he hates that Big calls her and he doesn't want her to ever talk to him again, and she was like, "I can't do that....he's in my life". Uh, am I the only one who says to the screen, "why, bitch?" Because see, this would be what Miranda was talking about when they had that fight towards the end of S3. The only time Carrie wanted a guy was when she figured he didn't want her. Big was emotionally unavailable, so she pined away at him and ruined her relationship both times with Aiden because she held out hope he would give her some meager sign of approval. She kept him around and basically forced Aiden to "deal" with it because not to would mean he's still punishing her for cheating on him. She only obsessed about Aiden when she decided she wanted him back and she was all with the bullshit bagels and the late-night pebble throwing and tossing her cigarettes away to show she was a different person. It took Big years to come around, which is why she always went back. And by the way...okay, I've never been a huge fan of Big, but I've always thought a lot of his hang-ups were to avoid honestly assessing Carrie's, because this show wasn't above making up BS "issues" for the men to make the women not seem neurotic, whorish, or self-centered. I never really bought Big's chilly disposition as being him not wanting to get close to Carrie; I thought he was just the type of guy who did things in his way and in his own time. Carrie, for whatever reason, had a hard time respecting that and felt it Meant Something every time he didn't seem to move the relationship along when she wanted him to. Think about all their break-ups. Each one of them was for some bullshit non-reason. The first time was because Carrie felt hurt that Big didn't introduce her to his mother, so she made Miranda join her in spying on them. The second time was because Big said he might (emphasis on might) have to move to Paris for a few months for work, and she said she wasn't even a factor in his decision-making process. The third time was after she got caught in Big's apartment by Natasha. Each time they broke up: a) it was because she decided for both of them that he was being emotionally vacant, and b) she initiated it. I would dare say, outside the cheating thing, they never had a good reason to break up. I don't think Big was worth all the torture she put herself through -- his charm, wit, and sexiness always came across as slick smarminess and, for the most part, he did seem more fun when Carrie seemed interested in a no-pressure, no-expectation relationship -- but she seemed to go for those types of guys, so Big was in her wheelhouse.
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