MadRat

This would be me. I like to think I'd be smarter than that and not tell anyone, but in reality I would be way too excited to keep it to myself. I'd also be worried I'd use it wrong and I'd want someone I trusted as a sounding board. My thought is that Will felt that Jessica was going to flip and he didn't want to flip too and keep it a tie. I certainly thought Jessica was going to flip.

So my big question is: if you are so damn broke, why are you shopping at D&G? I mean, I’ve certainly indulged in retail therapy even when I was stretched thin but I’ve done it at like, Target. Pretty big difference between a $10 impulse purchase and a $400 one. Skipper is adorable when Miranda opens the door at Carrie’s. Leaning against the frame, trying to look all debonair and then deflating when she says he’s early. Did those fuzzy shoes remind anyone of the same ones Carrie wore on her date with Big before he moved to California? The ones Miranda broke her water all over? Okay, I just checked and they don't, but they DO look an awful lot like the shoes Samantha put her in for her book cover shoot (with the lingerie) and also like the ones she wore when she and Berger were trying to have not-terrible sex. How many pairs of fuzzy pink shoes does one person need? This bothered me for a different reason that I have a hard time articulating. It's like Skipper barely even registers as a man on Carrie's radar. There is a David Sedaris essay where he describes what a bowtie says about you. "Not that you're powerless, but that you're impotent. People offer to take you home not because you're sexy, but because you're sexless, a neutered cat in need of a good stiff cuddle." That's how I feel like Carrie sees Skipper.

Yeah, maybe she shouldn't have written him off so quickly - he definitely is getting better with age. I have never had a new-ish boyfriend ask for anal, but is the whole "balance of power" a real thing? It seems to me either you want to or you don't. On the other hand, I have absolutely enlisted help in deciphering a man's messages, so maybe I shouldn't judge. I thought Carrie played it very cool with Big in this episode and I love the "Damn, it would've been so cool if I hadn't looked back." But I hate hate hate when she gives him the crossword clue. That is so annoying. Like when someone comes up behind you while you're playing Solitaire and says, "Red seven on black eight." I WILL GET THERE. If I wanted your help, I would ask. Ugh.

Thoughts as I watched the episode: I'm not sure I would tell my friend about seeing her husband's penis. That seems like it would be more awkward than the incident itself. I like Softball Sid. What a good sport. And I love that Miranda just told her the truth. Carrie says she doesn't like being single at family functions. Lol, have we ever seen her go to a family function? In the scene where she and the Marrying Guy are walking down the street after buying the cheese grater... is Carrie wearing a Hanson t-shirt under her coat? Samantha was right, that party was terrible. Who goes to a party and stands by the wall talking only to their significant other? All of Sean's friends, apparently. Poor Tommy the lonely doorman. I wonder what Season Six Charlotte would think of Season One Charlotte turning down a guy over a China pattern. Normally I would agree with you, but since Samantha apparently slept with half the dudes at that party, maybe there's something there. Most of the clingy women didn't know that, though. I always assumed that she rushed Carrie out because she was embarrassed and pissed at him, not because she thought Carrie was at fault. It seemed to me that he'd done this before and she wanted Carrie out so she could deal with her skeevy husband in peace. In context of the episode, though, it probably makes more sense that she felt threatened by Carrie and that's where her attitude came from, it just wasn't the vibe I got.

I love the opening sequence with the dinner party and Nick's annoyed friends. I like to imagine they liked Miranda so much they dumped Nick and brought her into the friend circle. I also love that Samantha has nothing to contribute to the "what I hate about my body" conversation. I know Carrie described her as "deluded" in the first episode, but in this case, I appreciate that she feels like she's allowed to like her body just the way it is. Even if she doesn't really believe it, I like that she said it. The SoHo artist is gross and find it grosser that Carrie is all blase about him secretly filming women during sex and then showing it to other people. Grooooooss. I found Stanford's model client endearing. I don't really get what Big is doing in this episode. Is he playing hard to get? Keeping her interested until he gets tired of dating models? I mean, he's flirting with her, but in this cutesy, offhand, hit-and-run way. I dunno, I didn't date much before I met my husband so there are a lot of things in this show that I don't get. I liked the breaking of the fourth wall in this episode and the first, but I think if they kept it up it would've annoyed me. Mostly because Carrie got more annoying so her speaking her annoying thoughts directly at me would make me crazy. I do look forward to the clothes getting crazier.

I'm the opposite - I kinda liked Big the first time around (at first) but on rewatching the first episode I find him pretty unappealing. Too arrogant, maybe? Is it ever brought up again that Big rejected Samantha? I think it's definitely that we're more selective. I don't even think it applies only to relationships. When I was in my teens and early twenties, I made friends more easily and was better at taking people with a grain of salt. Now I'm in my thirties and I'm pickier about who I hang out with. If I was dating, I'm sure I'd be pickier about men, too. I see the actor playing Skipper in so many commercials lately. And every time I go, "Hey, it's Skipper!" I really dislike his “but I’m a nice guuuuuuuy” routine. I understand his frustration, but you don’t get a cookie for not objectifying women. And I don't understand, if Carrie knew Miranda would hate Skipper, why’d she bother setting them up? That seems mean. Especially since she was spot on and Miranda was awful to him at the bar.

I'm waiting for my husband to go to work. And then hoping my DVD works because there is a single tooth mark at the very edge of the disc. My beagle is bad.

I also got Miranda for the first quiz and I agree, I don't WISH I was Carrie. C'mon guys. Although I don't particularly want to be Miranda in the picture they used because I hate her hair there: http://s3-ak.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/5/15/11/enhanced-buzz-12544-1368630705-20.jpg On the soulmate one (#3) I got Steve Brady. That seems about right.

Well, it would certainly hurt my feelings. Especially considering Charlotte made it clear she needed space from the conversation and Miranda harassed her about not returning her calls. To a lesser degree, it's like when Miranda said she couldn't find time to shower, much less get a hair cut and Samantha started bragging about the fancy-shmancy hair appointment she had coming up. Miranda and Samantha are free to have kids and get haircuts even when their friends can't but I think it's insensitive to rub it in the other person's face.

But when could any of them keep their traps shut? Another moment I haaaaaaate is when Charlotte is upset because she got her period and Miranda and Carrie can't stop mugging at each other about Miranda's pregnancy. I don't even think they were trying to hide it. At least when Samantha revealed her cancer on Miranda's wedding day she acknowledged that she had to say it so she wouldn't blurt it out in the middle of the ceremony. And just to move the hate from Carrie for a minute, Miranda really bugged me in that pregnancy episode. Especially now that I've dealt with my own fertility issues, I think if a friend basically said, "Look sucks for you but I really need you get support the abortion of my oops baby" I'd have had a really hard staying friends. And why did Samantha have to ask right in front of Charlotte what Miranda was going to do? I felt like they were all really insensitive and should've known better. I thought it was very classy of Charlotte to show up with the flowers. I couldn't have done it. Congrats to your friend! As much as I hate everyone's behavior in that episode, I do love the "We're having a baby" moment in the end. Me me me! I've been thinking of doing a rewatch anyway and jotting down my thoughts as I go (because I get more picky about it with every rewatch.) I was going to do it in my personal blog but I don't think a single one of my friends is a fan of the show.

I think Steve said it best in the episode with Nina Katz (the Face Girl) when Carrie asked how Aiden felt about her and he said, "Aww, man, you're not gonna try and get back together with him, are you?" Ha! Right there with ya, Steve!

The scene where Carrie stalks Natasha, ambushes her at lunch and then drinks her water while forcing her to listen to her apology is absolutely Carrie's worst moment for me. And it's made all the worse because I agree that it felt like the writers wanted me to be on Carrie's side. When Natasha says "I'm sorry, too" Carrie looks so relieved. What did she think Natasha was going to say? I love love love Natasha's speech to her. Not only because Carrie deserved to hear it, but I think Natasha deserved to say it. I like to imagine, after she calmed down, Natasha calling all her friends and telling them about it. This might seem weird, but my second least favorite Carrie moment is when Susan Sharon gives her that cashmere sweater and Carrie immediately asks if she can return it for the cash. So damn rude!

Especially in light of Buffy's whole "here's where you make a choice" speech. Who made the choice? The two dozen girls in Buffy's house were the only ones who got a vote and even then it was all or nothing. Regardless, I do enjoy the moment when the Potentials get their power and start kicking ass. Mostly, on rewatch, when I get to S7 I half-ass it (watching while doing housework and stuff) but I always sit down for the finale. And the episode where Buffy and Spike take the Potentials to the demon bar and then lock them in a crypt with a vamp.

I think Daran's would've worked a lot better if the LED lights worked out. Still, I liked Graham's and was shocked he was on the bottom. But maybe because I like Graham and I was seeing his creature with the Droopy-Dog voice he gave it in the lab. The judges didn't have that. One day I would like to fast forward to the end of the episode before I watch it and see the final creations with the same context the judges get. I think seeing the process and what their initial vision was colors my judgement of the final product.