I finally watched Love Actually, and I have THOUGHTS:
1- How is Nathalie the one who gives Hugh Grant both his papers AND his cookies and tea? Doesn't she need a top-secret security clearance to handle those papers? I said this to my husband and he couldn't believe 1/

the level of specificity I was expecting out of a 20 year old X-mas Rom Com, but I am ALL about the logistics.
2 - In WHAT world does a writer fall in love with the person who *loses* their book? Any writer knows what I'm talking about here. There are only two possibilities. 2/

Either Colin Firth knows his writing is garbage, or he just has no self-respect and doesn't care if the person he's with treats him badly. Even if he knows the writing is no good, he still spent how long writing it?? I could never get past that, let alone fall in love 3/

with the person who loses my days of punishingly hard work.
3 - I am not ok with the incomparable Alan Rickman being a bad guy. Maybe it's his genius turn as Snape, but I have been conditioned to see hints that he's a bad guy, and then expect a twist that he's actually good 4/

I kept waiting for the twist where the necklace was given to Emma Thompson. To make Alan Rickman's character so basic as to fall for his awful secretary? I'm so disappointed. 5/

The least troubling part of the whole thing was the airport scene, to be honest. But seriously, the 11 year old is able to by-pass all the guards, and NOT get arrested. Also, Liam Neeson is a BAD father figure, encouraging his kid to break all the laws to express his love. 6/

BUT, if you're going to commit to the airport scene, you commit: How does Joanna get back to the little boy in 2 seconds after it takes him 3 mins to run to her once he gets past security? We cannot be expected to believe this.
And that's all my logistics-loving brain has. 7/7