The Carrie Diaries: Oh No!
June 30th 2010 03:13
This might seem a bit strange, but I’m going to give my thoughts on a movie that hasn’t been planned, that is based on a book I haven’t read. I was browsing a book store the other day and saw Candace Bushnell’s The Carrie Diaries, incongruously located on the edge of the literature section. I flicked through it.
It is the first in a series of prequels Bushnell plans to release, and is aimed at a teen audience. According to the LA Times, it chronicles Carrie Bradshaw’s trials as she finishes high school in Connecticut.
From what I can gather, just like the recent film, it deviates a lot from the background we are given in the series, leading to large flaws in continuity.
The Father: In Season Five of the series, we discover that Carrie’s father left Carrie and her mother when Carrie was three years old. In The Carrie Diaries, it seems she has three younger sisters and “a tender-hearted scientist father” who raises the family after her mother’s untimely death.
The Boys: In Season Three, Carrie tells Charlotte she lost her virginity in the eleventh grade to Seth Bateman (on the ping-pong table), yet the prequel apparently describes Carrie as an unpopular virgin in her final year of high school, who develops an ill-fated relationship with a boy named Sebastian Kyd.
The Girls: Carrie’s three best friends in high school are Lali, Maggie and Mouse, and her nemesis is a girl who goes by the inconceivable name of Donna LaDonna. Reportedly, their characters are aligned in some ways with the people in Carrie’s life in later years. The book ends with Carrie going off to make her fortune in Manhattan, after her cousin gives her the phone number of her friend, Samantha Jones. Never mind that in Season Four we learn that Carrie had not yet met Samantha when Carrie was twenty-two.
I sincerely hope no teen movies are developed from the books, as ten minutes of flicking in the book store revealed little wit to be had from the text. This tale of teen angst is already inspiring more than enough angst for me.
Michaelie Clark
Carrie arrives in the Big Smoke. Image courtesy of metro.co.uk
From what I can gather, just like the recent film, it deviates a lot from the background we are given in the series, leading to large flaws in continuity.
The Father: In Season Five of the series, we discover that Carrie’s father left Carrie and her mother when Carrie was three years old. In The Carrie Diaries, it seems she has three younger sisters and “a tender-hearted scientist father” who raises the family after her mother’s untimely death.
The Boys: In Season Three, Carrie tells Charlotte she lost her virginity in the eleventh grade to Seth Bateman (on the ping-pong table), yet the prequel apparently describes Carrie as an unpopular virgin in her final year of high school, who develops an ill-fated relationship with a boy named Sebastian Kyd.
The Girls: Carrie’s three best friends in high school are Lali, Maggie and Mouse, and her nemesis is a girl who goes by the inconceivable name of Donna LaDonna. Reportedly, their characters are aligned in some ways with the people in Carrie’s life in later years. The book ends with Carrie going off to make her fortune in Manhattan, after her cousin gives her the phone number of her friend, Samantha Jones. Never mind that in Season Four we learn that Carrie had not yet met Samantha when Carrie was twenty-two.
I sincerely hope no teen movies are developed from the books, as ten minutes of flicking in the book store revealed little wit to be had from the text. This tale of teen angst is already inspiring more than enough angst for me.
Michaelie Clark
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