Saturday night SATC

Every week, there are mini Sex and the City marathons on the Cosmo Canada channel. 
It's Saturday, and tonight's mini marathon is the last episode of season 2 and the first 5 episodes of season 3.

Season 3,  I believe is when the characters really started to fit.  The actors had become familiar enough and comfortable with the roles they were playing. And by this time, the fans were locked in martini in hand.

If you've been reading much of this blog over the last few years, then you know I do my best to tie in my real life (and those around me) with as many of the episodes as possible.

The end of season 2,  Ex and the City  episode 30, has Carrie trying to deal with Mr. Big's new marriage. It's also the episode where they all talk about how they can't be friends with an ex.   I can not be friends with an ex.  I'm very much in the Miranda camp on this one,  very much the idea that we didn't work out you need not to exist.  Carrie's question of the week is "can you be friends with an ex?"
This is also the The Way We Were episode.  The four girls sit around and compare their lives to the Robert Redford/Barbra Streisand film from 1973.   They even have a scene that mirrors the last scene in that movie.  I have to admit, that it was that episode that finally got me to break down and see the ever so classic movie. 
And I got it.  The whole plot of that season.  If you haven't seen the movie The Way We Were, you will be missing out on a big subplot of SATC. 

I would love to be able to tie this into something tonight, but I can't at the moment. 
I just love this episode and when it came on tonight... well I don't have an excuse or reason for talking about it other then wondering if relationships are really based on the idea that some people are simple and others are more complicated?   There is a comment that the girls make in their scene when they talk about the movie The Way We Were, where they bring this up. 

Relationships that are simple vs ones that are complicated.

Everyone wants a relationship that is easy and simple. But are those the ones that are best for us?  Should we be settling for simple and stress free or paying more attention to the ones that challenge us and force us to grow?

I suppose that would be my question tonight.