ETA: I absolutely agree that this is not the perfect fit, but maybe Claire is right about adjusting expectations. Trevor, otoh, would be wanting to join in sex-toy chat in Bitches without introducing himself in the slightest.
Very subtle. A cynical person might say therein lies the Fail, but then the reboot, imo, was broader and still not successful.
But then there is only one Piven and Marshall and Thomas never did get to make them one of the couples looking for love like he wanted.ETA: You know, I read the scripts and retain nothing of the experience...reading scripts is not fun since I've undertaken to write one. Either it's my shitty spec, someone else's shitty spec(those are sort of encouraging, in a schadenfreude way) or it's something so good there's this voice in my head that says "You could kill yourself before you write anything half this good, right?" Although I didn't realize it affected my reading comprehension so profoundly. Billy Walsh fail.
I like that they didn't set Alex up to be either a jerk, or completely not sexy. Not that it takes much in rom-com shorthand to be established as not-sexy...it's (sarcasm font)totally fun (/sarcasm font)for me to note that any obvious physical flaw(especially allergies, for some reason) can be enough to establish a character as a non-sexy killjoy of the highest order.