I can't believe I'm even posting about this: A SATC:The Movie quibble.

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So, they've been filming all around midtown the past few weeks, and this week, the crowd is over by St. Patrick's Cathedral. Word on the street is that Big and Carrie are getting married. Good on them.

However.

The continuity whore in me has a big problem with this. In the Season 1 episode, "Come All Ye Faithful," it was established that Big was a weekly churchgoer at Park Avenue Presbyterian Church. Carrie, in that episode (or possibly the one where Charlotte is wrestling over whether she should convert to Judaism or not), states that she was raised in "the church of be nice to people and eat your vegetables."

So, why, pray tell (pardon the pun), would they get married in a CATHOLIC Cathedral?? I may not know too much about the Christian faith, but I'm pretty sure that Catholic and Presbyterian are not interchangeable. It's not a big hall you rent out, either. I think you need some proof that you're Catholic to get married in St. Pat's. Am I wrong?

A few reasons they could be shooting that scene there:

1. Big and Carrie aren't the ones getting married, and that was just a rumor.

2. The producers/location people figured that no one currently living in the five boroughs is going to bother seeing this film, so they decided to go for an iconic New York location, rather than an *accurate* one. I mean, St. Patrick's is pretty, right? And it's on Fifth Avenue, right near where Saks just opened up a temple to Carrie's real religion: shoes! It's like, perfect and stuff.

3. No one remembered that Big has been established as a Presbyterian.

4. It's some kind of wacky dream sequence.

I know it may be silly of me to take up a tiny detail such as this one, especially on a show as grossly inaccurate in so many ways as Sex and the City always was. But it's like they're not even trying. They might as well call it Sex and the City: We're In It For More Money. And, like I said, I'm a continuity whore. When a show refers back to some obscure detail from a past season, it makes me all aglow. (like when NCIS referred to DiNozo's past Ypestis poisoning in the season premiere. That made me squee. Continuity!!) It's easy enough to do, especially when you have as few episodes as SATC did. Seriously!

Anyway, I'm through embarrassing myself. Point and laugh in the comments if you must.

Comments

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

...perhaps a dream sequence?

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Buh?

Why not use Cathedral of St. John The Divine?

That place is so ecumenical, it's practically Unitarian!

[dar-actually.livejournal.com]

For a pretty good indicator of just how compatible and interchangeable Catholic and Presbyterian are, google "Northern Ireland" sometime. The body count is somewhere in the thousands, at last check.

Why didn't they just try for something a little more plausible. Like a Jewish wedding in a mosque.

[first-lobster.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Sex and the City, but I HAVE seen the episode where they show Big's church (wasn't there also interior shots of the church as well, didn't she like, drop a hymnal from the balcony?)
Either way, if neither of them are Catholic, they wouldn't be able to receive communion at St. Pats, let alone get married. My father was the catholicist person ever, but my mom still had to take classes and make like she was converting or they wouldn't have been able to get married in the church. Also, I had from catholic friends in town who REALLY REALLY wanted to go to a service at St. Pats. I went along (I'm Lutheran) and when it came time for communion my friends were like, "Oh yeah, you can come up!" I got to the front of the line and I guess I didn't say "amen" the right way because the priest stopped and looked at me and was like, "You're not catholic, are you?" When I said no, he refused me communion and sent me back to my seat. So yeah, I don't think Presbyterians and members of the church of be nice to people and eat your vegetables can get married there.

[teany.livejournal.com]

Well, the other possible explanations include:

a. Like you mentioned, they're not really getting married and people are being annoying.

b. Carrie's Catholic.

c. They're not passing off St. Pat's as St. Pat's, and just using it as a "NYC iconic church", or something. Did they really shoot that Season 1 episode at Park Avenue Presbyterian?

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Has to be a dream sequence. I don't think she'll get married any more than Charlotte will actually be hugely pregnant...I think the press is showing all these very spoilery things to throw us off.

Actually I think the entire movie is going to revolve around Carrie planning this ridiculous wedding, with anxious preggers Charlotte hovering around the whole time, Samantha and Miranda rolling their eyes, and then in the last 30 seconds Carrie will wake up in her own bed. And then Patrick Duffy will be in her shower.

What I want to know is, are they going to start referring to him as John now or will she still call him Big to her friends?

Also, they were filming in the Astor Place Starbucks a couple of weeks ago. I'm trying to think of when that was...wait, it was way more recent. Kip and I walked past it on our way out of Trivia last week. That was it. We saw nothing, though. Kip may have seen something on his way there, but he wouldn't have known what he was looking at, because he is a boy.