Speaking of dullness

[andrewducker]

Speaking of dullness, last night Julie and I watched the Sex and the City movie.

Which managed to take about two episodes worth of plot and spread them over two hours and make it feel really flabby.

The series worked perfectly - the characters managed to feel coherent the whole way through, while changing and growing up over the six years it lasted.

At the end of the final series they'd all found some kind of peace - some of them got what they wanted, others got what they needed, but they'd all found their way from a long-overdeveloped teenager-dom into (some kind of) adulthood.

The movie needed drama, and so it reset them back to where they'd been in series 4, unable to talk about their problems, either to partners or each other, and so unable to deal with them.

The only one who managed to hang on to what she'd gained was Chalotte. And strangely enough this meant that she had pretty much nothing to do throughout the movie - she was the only one with no arc.

Writing stories about adults is harder than writing them about teenagers - they don't behave in the stupid drama-producing ways and so you actually need to think about things rather than have them make the catastrophically wrong choice for no reason. It's a shame they didn't try harder.

Comments

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

You know they're making a sequel?

Ridiculous.

Lxxx

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Writing stories about adults is harder than writing them about teenagers - they don't behave in the stupid drama-producing ways and so you actually need to think about things rather than have them make the catastrophically wrong choice for no reason. It's a shame they didn't try harder.

And that's why I hate most romances - the characters are so stupid. Amen to your observation.

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

WHY do most of my sensible friends think SATC is anything more than the most dreadful, itch inducing bile to be vomited out of the cock of satan, if Satan fulfilled ancient sterotypes endorsed by stupid women involving shoes, over-analysis and the most boring, selfish friendships that have ever been portrayed on television?

One day, ask me to do the face I get when I hear the theme tune. It looks like I need a poo.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

you know, I have never seen as much a single second of SATC - and it sounds like I have missed precisely nothing.

[andrewducker]

Well, yes. If you take the view of someone rabidly against it, then it's not going to sound like you're missing anything.