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Originally posted by robustpuppy
How much of that is due to SJP's recent affectations, such as walking so that one foot crosses in front of the other, or looking down, and then looking up with pursed lips and squinty eyes, or looking up wistfully at the sky as if she would take off her beret and toss it, if only she weren't so melancholy, yet still somehow hopeful?
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Some of it. Some of it is that, the way the character has been written for the last couple of seasons, she always seems put upon by others and never seems to do anything wrong. First few seasons she was sort of an amusing fuckup. Recently she's been sailing through life being put upon and dealing with adversity, etc, and it all seems sort of ... self-righteous or self-justifying, somehow.
For example, the fact that they did a whole show about how justified Carrie was to be pissed off that a friend didn't understand spending $350 on shoes, and then make the friend replace said shoes when they were lost, and the show was written in such a way so that CARRIE WAS IN THE RIGHT ABOUT THIS WHILE THE OTHER WOMAN WAS THE ONE WHO WAS A SELF ABSORBED PRIG is just, somehow, not OK. Real loss of perspective. The best aspect of Carrie's character was that she was an amusing fuckup, and its nice to relate to someone who is amusing while they fuck up. One is not able to relate to someone who may be amusing but is never actually wrong.
edited to add: but, yes, the marked increase in facial tics and body language that scream "I've been clinically diagonsed as a narcisistic personality" are annoying, too.
