I have a lot of questions about Sex and the City. First off, can we not assume that every voiceover Carrie has is what she has written in her article? Then does she really offer out those intimate details about her friends lives? Do they mind? Are they ever hurt about it? I ask because I know my website used to cause a lot of controversy. My roommates, my jobs, my friends, my family, a significant other – almost all bothered somehow my site at one point or another. Either it was something I said, something I didn’t say, a detail I included or left out, a mention of someone’s name, upset that their own name isn’t mentioned…always something. So, my question is if that column ever got her in trouble. I seemed as though it was only mentioned when she was dating that politician guy – the guy that wanted her to pee on him.

It’s just that you watch it and allow yourself to believe that her personal stories are really just for us, the viewers, and she draws on her stories to create a column that isn’t quite as specific as her voiceovers. But then much later when her book is published and Mr. Big is talking to her about it, you realize she really did talk about him that frankly on a weekly basis in a public paper. He read it every week. I mean, she was discussing her private feelings that she couldn’t even share with HIM in a paper that HE READS every week! How was THAT not an issue? Last time I checked, it was an issue for me. Trust me, I would LOVE to talk openly about everything and everyone in my life. I’d have great stories if I could speak as frankly as Carrie Bradshaw. If there were a way to just make sure that the people I wrote about would NEVER find out I wrote about them, that would be great too. See, I love to write, and the only way I know how to write is autobiographically. It’s just my style. I’ve been keeping journals my whole life, and all I really know about is me…and if I’m at all relatable to the rest of the world, then great, but I can’t write fiction. And I can tell a good story if I’ve got one. I can make the slightest miscommunication into a epic poem of betrayal and anguish. I can definitely write me some drama. But, alas, I cannot. Or will not. Not if I want to keep everyone in my life. Too bad. Maybe I’ll write it all for myself, and later in life, if everyone I ever wrote about were no longer IN my life anymore (thus not afraid of losing them), I could publish it or something, or at least post it here. Hmmm…

Also, why couldn’t we ever learn more about the history of these four New Yorkers? Why wasn’t Charlotte’s family at either of her weddings? How did these four women meet if they are so different? I mean, why would Charlotte and Samantha EVER become friends to begin with? I think I’ve seen one episode where they actually spoke to each other directly without Carrie around. What about Carrie’s family? Why do we only know about Miranda’s? Where were they all born? What were they like as kids? How long have they been friends? These are things I would have liked to know. I think the writers should get together and write a book – like a prequel story to Sex and the City. Four stories about four women, and the story ends with the first day they began the tradition of Saturday morning dining. God, that’s a great idea. It can all be written in the same voice and tone of the show. Flashback style. I would SO buy it. Who of everyone who adored the shows would NOT want the writers’ story of how these women came to be who they are? Get some psychologists on board so their history makes sense with how they turned out, their values, etc. I mean, no one is raised in a typical American household and ends up like Samantha. What’s the deal with that? How did that happen?

I was just wondering about that.