On SATC

I just saw the movie, and could not but help have something to say about it. Well, not so much about the movie itself, which I really enjoyed. For all of us fans who miss the girls, and the show that was impossible not to enjoy, it was a nice reunion.

My biggest let down is that Mr. Big's real name is John. Yes, seriously! Oh come on writers, get creative! The jilted boyfriend was Aiden, but her true love is just another John .

Oh yes - regarding the huge amounts of product placement, will the movie do for Vitamin Water what the show did for Manolo?

But I do wonder about the drama of it all. The Cinderella story - poor Cindy weeps at her loss as the prince frantically chases her down all over the countryside, while other women try desperately hard to make the shoe fit. Same story, different period, different place, different people.

Does television melodrama make us want to replicate it in our own lives? Do TV and movies foster behavioral patterns, or is it the other way about. Do they reflect society as it stands, or do the two feed on each other until both grow out of control?

As I watched Mr. Big lobby back and forth between wanting to be with Carrie and then not, and then the whole thing ending happily ten years later, I wondered whether women are secretly encouraged by the romantic notion of being reunited with lost love - if it could happen to her, it might happen to me. Someday I will be together again with the love of my life. Nothing is sweeter than unrequited love. And so we continue to hold on to memories instead of moving on.

And does it make men think, "yes, no matter how much I bounce around, she will still be waiting for me when I figure it all out".

Oh well, there's more, but it's late, and it's been a long day, so perhaps I'll have more to say later.