That’s a rather depressing thought.

But I think you may be right, where some people are concerned.

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It was a great show though … I kind of regret that they’re making movie. All of the main story arcs came to really nice conclusions in the final season.

To add to what I said above, I also liked the way some of the other characters developed. Mr. Big in particular matured a great deal. Others, who were not in the entire series, remained trapped in their smallness, unhappy and not knowing how to be happy.

Like I said, it’s not a Christian or even a particularly moral show, but the underlying message if you watch the entire series is that love, commitment, purpose and stability bring happiness, while the more “liberated” lifestyle women are told they should lead is often unsatisfying.

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I prefer Mauree Dowd to that Ann Coulter. Wait, we were talking about women

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But what the Christian critics miss, I assume because they’ve only seen a couple of episodes and not really followed the character stories across multiple seasons, is the emphasis on the same traditional values you all seem to think it flouts.

The main characters spend much of their lives feeling restless, dissatisifed and longing as they move from one relationship to another. Eventually, over the six seasons, they mature, grow up, and come to understand that they’re not happy because they are never willing to be satisified. As the series progresses, they begin to see the wisdom of monogamy. (This applies to the secondary characters too.)

By the end of the series, two of the girls are very happily married and the other two are very clearly heading that way.

There are two in particular worth noting. Miranda and Steve, and Charlotte and Harry.

Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) starts off as cynical and distrusting of men. She has shallow relationships because she will not trust. Steve comes into her life, as a boyfriend, then as a friend, but even though they officially broke up, he clearly loves her very much. For example, she has laser vision surgery and while she insists that she needs no help, refusing to admit any weakness, he helps her anyway. She wakes up the next morning to find him asleep next to her … even though he is “just” a friend, he would not leave her alone until she had recovered. They eventually marry after she grows up enough to let herself trust that love is real.

In one really moving scene in the final season, Miranda and Steve have left Manhattan for Brooklyn, and Steve’s mother, with Alzheimers, moves in with them. One day she wanders off, confused. Miranda finds her, brings her home and gently bathes her … an act of love that her old self would never have done.

Charlotte (Kristen Davis) first wanted a storybook wedding, and she got it, with a handsome doctor. But once she learned that she was not able to have children, their very superficial marriage crumbled. She later fell in love with Harry, a short, chubby, bald man with no real social graces… but with a real love for her. They also marry, and adopt a child.

You all should get the DVDs and watch the show, and look past the “sin” to see the real human stories. These characters are as realistically human as any ever on television, and they are struggling to live as modern society tells them they should, even though none of them are really happy that way.

It is not a Christian show, but neither is it as anti-Christian as many of you think. The writers of SATC and Christians are saying a lot of the same things about the value of tradition, monogamy and marriage, and love.

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