{"id":1453,"date":"2007-07-20T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/07\/is-katherine-heigls-character-poorly-written\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T12:06:00","slug":"is-katherine-heigls-character-poorly-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/07\/is-katherine-heigls-character-poorly-written.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Katherine Heigl’s character poorly written?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Karina Longworth<\/a> at SpoutBlog has some interesting comments on Knocked Up<\/a><\/i> and the alleged lack of realism therein:<\/span><\/p>\n

Stepping away from Denby and Emdashes for a moment, this brings us back to the elephant that\u2019s always in the room when talking Knocked Up: the idea that Katherine Heigl\u2019s character is poorly written, because someone like that would never get involved with someone like the character played by Seth Rogen. I know it\u2019s a stretch to ask anyone whose natural analysis of character stops at \u201cPretty\u201d or \u201cFat\u201d to think this way, but do you think it\u2019s maybe possible that the Katherine Heigl character was written that way for a reason? Is it so hard to imagine that a woman whose chief asset is her body, whose greatest aspiration is to follow in the footsteps of Giuliana DePandi<\/a> (no offense to Giuliani), who is clearly lonely as hell (her only friend is apparently her shrewish older sister, who\u2019s clearly occupied with her own pre-midlife crisis) would be lacking in self-confidence and self-worth, and for all of the reasons above, would be attracted to the unconditional love that a baby would represent?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like there some kind of post-feminist block that won\u2019t allow some female critics\/viewers to admit that some real-world women are less than total braniacs, and\/or that *most* women make decisions from time to time that don\u2019t make total sense, and\/or that in real life, attractive-but-dim women often date down the social ladder, picking men who they feel they can control without worrying that they\u2019ll get dumped. At least Seth Rogen\u2019s character showed promising glimpses, signs that he was capable of being genuinely caring, witty and kind. This puts him miles ahead of the average 23-year-old boy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More interesting thoughts on the film at the link above.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog has some interesting comments on Knocked Up and the alleged lack of realism therein: Stepping away from Denby and Emdashes for a moment, this brings us back to the elephant that\u2019s always in the room when talking Knocked Up: the idea that Katherine Heigl\u2019s character is poorly written, because someone like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nIs Katherine Heigl's character poorly written?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog has some interesting comments on Knocked Up and the alleged lack of realism therein:Stepping away from Denby and Emdashes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/07\/is-katherine-heigls-character-poorly-written.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Katherine Heigl's character poorly written?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog has some interesting comments on Knocked Up and the alleged lack of realism therein:Stepping away from Denby and Emdashes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/07\/is-katherine-heigls-character-poorly-written.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-07-20T12:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RqEI14SGF9I\/AAAAAAAAAcY\/0EucyIgey9M\/s400\/knockedup.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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