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Im confused... somethings just dont match up

posted 10 years ago by zackmorriscalled
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I just started watching the show. Um where the hell did she get a sister from?? And who the hell in their right mind would name a child "Dorrit" ...hideous name & hideous face... anyway I dont remember her ever having a sister...

Ok now the thing that is REALLY bothering me... In the show her mother dies of cancer... I specifically remember in one episode with Aiden she says something alog the mines of "do we receive the love we think we deserve"....Then goes on to say that she has nothing to compare it to because her father left her and her mother when she was a baby....

Im pretty sure Im remembering that right...
Thoughts??

[–] DamianGein 10 years ago

This is based on the books where her mother dies of cancer and she has a sister named Dorrit.

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[–] zackmorriscalled 10 years ago

OOOOOOOOOOO thanks!

[–] DamianGein 10 years ago

No problem.

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[–] mollykeaton 10 years ago

In the SATC episode where she gets to shop in the Vogue closet she wonders if she will always have questions about men because she never really knew her father...but now he is all she has? My guess is Candace Bushnell is just seeing dollar signs.
And in SATC, Carrie is a lefty!

[–] fredm74 10 years ago

Darren Starr who wrote and produced the HBO series made some changes from the books. The Carrie Diaries on the other hand is directly from the books.

It's kind of like what Alan Ball did with Charlaine Harris' books which is based on the show True Blood.

[–] kcolli11 10 years ago

No. Candace Bushnell wrote Sex and the City, which was turned into a show. But the book ended long before the series did, so the show writers filled in the gaps. Then Candace Bushnell wrote The Carrie Diaries in 2010, after SATC had ended, and the show sticks faithfully to the book materially.

So if anyone embellished, it was the SATC writers who made up facts about Carrie's past to fit in the show. We can't expect a different show on a different network based on a different book to be faithful to the HBO show.

[–] gebsterky 10 years ago

The show doesn't stick exactly to the book, if you are referring to The Carrie Diaries. In that book Carrie is beginning her senior year in high school, not her junior year and she is 17, not 16. Also, in the book, the younger sister is named Missy, not Dorrit. Carrie has 4 best friends in the book, not 3; Lali is left out in the series; Maggie is a combination of Lali and Maggie from the book, as it is Lali who has beenher friend since kindergarten and Lali who kisses Sebastian. Maggie takes up with a classmate, Peter, not a cop, when Walt won't sleep with her. Biggest change--There is no Larissa in the book and Carrie does not go to work in Manhattan during the school year, at the law firm or Interview magazine. She gets her writing experience writing for the school paper under a pseudonym, Pinky Wetherton.

[–] Antigone78 10 years ago

Dorrit is named after Dicken's character/book. The name is the pre cursor to Dorothy and has always been a trendy name of among the well read.

Awesome name, homage and I like the character/actress.

Pretty sure she had 2 sisters in the books though.

[–] sannyd 10 years ago

Trendy among the well read is a stretch if not a outright embellishment.
Show receipts if true.
Making stuff up to show others up is just wrong.

[–] davywap 10 years ago

They're not the only things. How on earth does she go from a pretty young woman to a hideously ugly anorexic horse? Surely she wouldn't get plastic surgery for that.

[–] iremember-967-295440 10 years ago

Ha. This one. Been thinking the same thing.

[–] SarahKatherine247 10 years ago

How did Levar Burton turn into John Amos in "Roots"?

[–] Nakedjaxx 10 years ago

They're not the only things. How on earth does she go from a pretty young woman to a hideously ugly anorexic horse? Surely she wouldn't get plastic surgery for that.

oh snap. i completely agree. lol

[–] jonea254 10 years ago

Much of Carrie's back story in SATC was derived from Sarah Jessica Parker's own life in many ways. She was from the Midwest and grew up with humble beginnings. The Carrie Diaries' Carrie seems to be more inline with Bushnell's own experiences growing up. Bushnell grew up in a Connecticut and frequented NYC as a youth.

I personally prefer the original SATC back story to this new one. It felt more organic, where as this new one feels so forced. In my mind the original Carrie had to work her way up to where we find her in SATC. This new incarnation of Carrie seems to have had all of these things thrust upon her by sheer dumb luck. Not terribly exciting to watch.