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20 January 2008

Storyline Opps (Possible Spoilers) A thread for pointing out storyline inconsistencies from your favorite television shows →[More:]One of my favorite shows is "Sex and the City", and I've watched the whole series. Overall, they keep the stories straight pretty well, but one big thing I noticed was in season 6 when Carrie runs into Aidan, her long ago ex, on the street, carrying a 4-6 month old baby. They act as thought they haven't seen each other in forever, and Aidan informs Carrie that he married another furniture designer and had a baby. Carrie acted as though this was news to her. BUT, those who watch the show know that Aidan was Steve's business partner, and Steve was Miranda's boyfriend/friend/baby-daddy/husband, and Miranda was Carrie's best friend. That's a pretty short grapevine- no one mentioned over several years, oh hey, Aidan is getting married, Aidan is married, Aidan's wife is pregnant, Aidan had a baby? I find that hard to believe.

Ok, Mechazens. Show me you think about your favorite TV shows as much as I do.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 19:02 | 11 comments

(Oh, to be clear, Aidan was carrying the baby, not Carrie- although, fun trivia, it was actually Sarah Jessica Parker's real life baby, and you can tell, because the baby clearly recognizes and reaches out for her).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 January | 19:04

aaaw, poor baby.

posted by dabitch 20 January | 19:08

Huh, I just watched that show the other night, and that never occurred to me - the Aiden thing. I'm a SATC addict/whore.

posted by iconomy 20 January | 19:11

Ha, I found the scene in question on YouTube! Starts at 5:30 in.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 January | 19:12

See, I think too much about these things, clearly.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 January | 19:13

I'm sure in the writer's meetings someone brought that problem up, but they went with it anyway knowing that only the superfan would probably notice. For the casual watcher it probably wouldn't register. And for the more than casual watcher, you bringing it up will probably get an "oh yeah."

The only show I had a problem with was Bewitched. I never understood why Darin had the problem with Samantha using her magic all the time. I'd be completely supportive of her using magic. I also never understood why they just didn't kill Gilligan after the first time he fucked up their chances to get off the island. And why did the Howels and Ginger bring all that crap on a 3-hour tour?

posted by birdherder 20 January | 19:14

re: SATC--color me clueless and immune to spoilers.

re: Bewitched--"Derwood" fulfilled the role of straight man, an essential element of many comedy setups, particularly in Vaudeville comedy (think Marx Brothers or, much later, Smothers Brothers.) Writers, actors, and audiences at the time were raised on Vaudeville fare and were also accustomed to horse manure on the streets.

re: Gilligan's Island--Gilligan fulfilled part of another comedy meme: skinny vs. fat and physical comedy (like Abbot & Costello and Laurel & Hardy.) Gilligan was the fool (fools being an ancient storytelling ploy for pointing out the foibles of other characters.) He may be senseless or raised poorly, but his well-meaning antics/bumblings uncovered or highlighted the weaknesses or plots of his "betters."

posted by bonobo 20 January | 21:53

Okay, not a tv show, but this has always bothered me from The Wizard of Oz.
Mrs. Gulch, the bitchy neighbour (who is the witch later in the story) hates Dorothy's dog Toto 'cause it bit her or something, and insists on taking it to be killed. Uncle Henry says fine, they have no choice, take it. So Dorothy freaks and runs away, goes to the fortune teller dude, tries to come home but there's a cyclone, gets hit on the head and passes out and dreams the whole Oz thing. Fine. But after "there's no place like home" and she wakes up and promises to never stray again and everyone's all happy, the movie ends. It's only been a few hours and you gotta know that Mrs. Gulch is going to be right back to take Toto again and have him put down. Did everyone forget about that? Always bothered me.

posted by chococat 20 January | 21:58

Baum's writing has stirred many a person and many groups to interpret his Oz stories for whatever agenda.

My interpretation of the potential aftermath of Mrs. Gulch (if she wasn't killed by the tornado): Dorothy learned that she has the guts (lion), heart (tin woodsman), brain (scarecrow) and a dose of cynicism following her encounters with the fraudulent "wizard" to not put up with bullshit.

I assumed that the new-found insight helped Dorothy "grow up" and become equipped to deal with greater, manipulative powers.

posted by bonobo 20 January | 22:45

now I'm wondering why my sister's kid is named Aiden.

posted by desjardins 20 January | 23:19

I wish that, at the end of The Wizard of Oz, when it goes back to black and white, and Dorothy wakes, up, she looks down and notices that she still has the ruby slippers on. And they are in color (just the shoes).

That is how I would have made an otherwise perfect film.

posted by danf 20 January | 23:51

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