enigmatic
Wednesday 2nd January 2013 5:15pm
241 posts
Quote: zooo @ January 2 2013, 12:08 PM GMT
a) Have you seen the female characters they put 'unattractive' male leads with in TV shows? And no one bats an eyelid.
b) Miranda's not unattractive anyway.
c) I think Gary and Miranda are 100% believable as a couple.
d) I'd prefer it if every relationship represented on TV wasn't based purely on looks anyway.
Erm... and probably some other things. But my brain's all tired now.
The situation in which 'unattractive' males find themselves with attractive females is more common IRL as well as TV, and unattractive male leads tend to struggle a lot more in love when the entire premise of the show is based on them being odd-looking.
But I don't think it's purely looks that make Miranda an unattractive proposition: it's more to do with her apparent mental age of eleven. Attractive or not, would you or anyone else you know consider asking Miranda Hart's character on a date after five minutes in her company?
Nobody treats Miranda like the overgrown child she is apart from her mother (and it's supposed to be her chief character flaw) except at comically opportune moments. It's my big beef with the show. I can't suspend disbelief in the character interactions unless I try to imagine it's all going on inside Miranda's head.