There’s nothing you can do until you understand, until you have gone through the ‘worste’ hell and come out again with more knowledge

And until that day marrying an ‘Aidan’ would only be a manipulative act on our side, we would do it only because we want to prove to ourselves otherwise, being certain deep inside that we’re not ready yet!!

I’m glad you liked the movie, and I agree with you totally on the clothes. (What was up with the big earrings?) But they got Miranda’s hair color just right–such a pretty golden red! And, as for Samantha being “fat,” well–it’s all relative. SJP is a size 0, so anything above a size 2 looks “fat” to that crowd.

As to the clothes — although Miranda and Charlotte usually looked great (with a few clunkers on M — and the big earrings didn’t always work) — Carrie had some really awful outfits and nearly everything Samantha wore was hideous and unflattering. I didn’t get how people thought she was fat when she showed up at Charlotte’s baby shower — that outfit was the most flattering thing she wore the entire film, and the cinched waists and shoulder pad outfits actually made her look fatter.

I didn’t watch many episodes of the actual show — so why did Carrie dump Aidan? I find John Corbett way better looking the the guy who plays Big.

Maybe I wasn’t so sympathetic to Miranda because the movie was so heavy-handed about it: “get it over with”,”have to be up in 4.5 hours”, totally not shaving. Those are extremes—she really should have known better, and her friends were very silent about the “get it over with” when I thought someone should have said “get thee to therapy immediately” or kidnapped Brady weekly to enable date night. But definitely the Steve-Miranda subplot was the one I cared most about. I thought she walked out a little fast too, but they rationalized it better afterwards (can’t trust, “you broke us”).

I was uncertain how to read Miranda’s excursion into Chinatown, and freaking out about being surrounded by Asian people.

And Rad–yes, one brief mistake does not mean that the marriage is over. I was more sympathetic to Miranda than the rest of you seem to be. I disagreed with her moving out, and she definitely was part of the problem, but she’s also tired from working, caring for a child (albeit with the help of a nanny!), and for an elderly mother-in-law. It’s the typical web of responsibilities of people in their 30s and 40s, and yeah, I bet getting on the sexy sexy will seem to be a lower priority than paying the mortgage, etc.

Re: Steve. I mean that marriage dynamics are such that a couple can be in a bad situation and one steps out. I don’t think it’s necessarily just a cheating spouse or bad judgment or attraction or love or libido gone wild. Although one or more of those can influence a situation, when a married person has an affair, it is inextricable from the marriage. And Steve is a good example of that.

After they are married, she will never have to worry about feeling that “stomach flip” that to most of us indicates a problem, but to her represents true love.

Dance–the wedding was overdone. But–do you really feel no compassion for the massive public humiliation Carrie suffered as a result? I’m sorry–but the time to back out of a wedding is well before the actual day, with all wedding guests assembled. (That would be a permanent, no give-backs deal maker for me, anyway!)