Incredible Move For Big Fans

Newcastle Herald

Tuesday May 13, 2008

GIRL POWER AMY EDWARDS

LATELY I've been feeling like a little kid about to sink my teeth into a huge slice of chocolate cake.

And the best thing is I haven't had this particular chocolate cake for years, just the memory of what it tasted like.

You see with every movie poster I spot and every magazine interview I read featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, the single gal in me starts to get all excited about indulging in another slice of Sex and the City.

I'm not usually a devotee of television shows and I admit my attention span is lucky to get me to follow a series for an entire season.

But as I opened my laptop to write this column, I noticed them all six seasons of SATC DVDs piled up next to the TV and I realised . . . I can't wait for this movie.

The gals are back and I want my fix, but in true Sex and the City style I have a pertinent question will I be left satisfied by my encounter?

Not surprisingly, the question is Big.

Mr Big in fact.

I'm not convinced Big is better and as an ol' romantic and believer in an equal kind of love, I'd hate to see the female heroine Carrie Bradshaw (played by Parker) settle.

For six seasons on TV Mr Big was a womaniser and then suddenly in the finale episode he supposedly saw the error of his ways and in a cliched moment told Carrie she was "the one".

The problem was I, and many of my single girlfriends at the time, just didn't buy it.

Call us cynical . . . but a long-time womaniser actually seeking commitment without losing his good looks due to age or suffering a near death experience?

It ain't likely.

Okay . . . perhaps in the interim but in six months, the leopard would find his spots. He'd start telling attractive women at parties that his relationship is "not going so well" and everything would turn to poo.

I think what made it hard for female viewers to swallow the final Big and Carrie storyline was that the show had always been so realistic up until that point.

It even caused viewers to grimace at times as Kim Cattrall's character, Samantha, contemplated the pros and cons of oral sex.

It reflected women's incessant need to analyse things, our drive, our passion, the need to feel alive and our loyalty to female friends.

So I guess the Big question remains.

Will Chris Noth's character finally be the "Bigger"' man in the long term or will he try to get his chocolate cake and eat it too?

© 2008 Newcastle Herald

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