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[doyle]

I am still without home net access due to the tiny niggling fact of my internet company being hit by lightning and them being therefore unable to access my account to process the change of address. I think God hates my internet connection. In the barren, netless interim before NTL get their act together, I'm catching up on TV shows. Somehow, I've got to the point where there are only 25 classic Who stories I haven't seen. Oh, and I've watched two-and-a-bit seasons of Sex and the City in about three days - no, I hadn't seen it before, yes, I'm aware that I'm a freak, and I haven't seen 24 or The West Wing or CSI either (or Supernatural, Prison Break, beyond episode 2 of BSG...) I'm enjoying it in a very masochistic way, in that I like Samantha and Miranda but if I knew the other two in real life I'd gnaw off my own legs to get away, and at least every other episode I find myself wondering why absolutely everyone in Manhattan is white.

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

The need to murder Charlotte and Carrie--especially Charlotte--is thoroughly normal. And absolutely every woman in Manhattan is heterosexual as well. Every single one!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I feel like living not in the U.S. you have a v. valid excuse for not having seen assorted U.S. shows.

And yeah, oh the suspension of disbelief re: accurate representations of well anything in mainstream tv.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

no! not true! there were lesbians!

...i thought there were lesbians. did i just really -want- there to be lesbians but those episodes didn't really happen? meep.

[darkpoole.livejournal.com]

Your mind, it does not deceive you. There really were lesbians. Honest. Charlotte hung out with a pack of power lesbians in one episode, and Miranda's boss or co-worker (working on an erroneous assumption) tried to set her up with a lesbian in another, and Samantha ... well, Samantha's quite the adventurer in the bedroom. Don't want to spoil too much for Doyle here, just in case she actually wants to watch the rest of it.

And I'm just a little embarrassed that I know all this stuff. But I have a good excuse: one of my very best friends in all the world absolutely loved the show and kind of forced me to watch it when I visited her. Y'see, she pretty much lived that show. She was an thirtysomething fashion-obsessed single professional woman living on Manhattan's Upper West Side and trying to navigate the Manhattan dating scene. She knows those girls. Many times she was one of those girls.

[darkpoole.livejournal.com]

and at least every other episode I find myself wondering why absolutely everyone in Manhattan is white.

They live in Woody Allen's Manhattan.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

wooyay lesbians! i am pleased. i actually enjoyed the show in a brain candy sort of way, and i really -thought- there had been lesbians. in fact, i thought there had been more lesbians there than there are in a lot of other shows. and it seems that i was correct! thank you :)

[evemac.livejournal.com]

From the few SatC episodes I've seen -- yeah. Embrace the Sam and Miranda love. Try to ignore the need to kill the others.

And seriously, SatC has got to be one of the worst representations of a place I've lived that I have ever seen [and I'm from California!]. The everpresent whiteness doesn't help either.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Well, there were, but Carrie and company made such a fuss about their being lesbians/bisexuals that you'd think they'd never met one in their lives. Gay men seemed to elicit less of an "OMG!" factor.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

I haven't trusted NTL since they started taking direct debits out of my bank account in spite of the teensy detail that I wasn't actually a customer of theirs and never had been. They strike me as the kind of company that would deliberately get hit by lightning just to annoy their customers.

[sakuracorr.livejournal.com]

I love Miranda, but there are episodes where I want to slap her silly with a cod (explaining the cod might take a long time...).

Charlotte would never, never be my friend though.

I think I used to have a Samantha icon, but alas, I was one of those "I watched Sex and the City on HBO" people, so it went away a long, long time ago (though I still have my Six Feet Under icons. Guess Lauren Ambrose is just prettier).

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

My sister, who lives in the room next to me, has only seen a handful of Sex and the City eps. Which is extra WTF considering I watched all these eps with my mom when they first aired. *shakes head*

Not only is everyone white in Manhattan, everyone is rich, unless there's a Plot Reason for them to be poor. Sadly enough though, thanks to my experiences in my line of work, Upper Class Manhattanites tend to be very much WASPs and do tend to stick together.

But the girls of Sex and the City lived in an alterna!Manhattan, hell, they never took public transportation ever and wore some clothing that could get you thrown in a pysch ward (or wait, am I just thinking of Carrie?)

[saira.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Sex and the City for its train-wreckish qualities. Usually, all I can think is, "These women have all that money, they live in one of the major artistic and cultural centers of the United States, and all they can talk about are shoes and their bodily functions?" But Samantha/Charlotte is *so* my femslash OTP.