The love story of Noah and Allie from The Notebook is the stuff legends are made of. Whether or not you’ve seen the 2004 book-to-screen adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel, you’ve definitely heard of these characters. You’ve seen them kiss in the rain. Maybe it’s because I thought I understood the inevitability of Noah and Allie’s attraction that I never really felt the need to revisit the movie, but now that I have, I’m shocked at how my opinion has changed on Allie’s love triangle with Noah and Lon.
The Notebook became available to stream with a Netflix subscription this month, so I decided since it had been 20 years since my first viewing, it was time to revisit one of the best non-rom-com couples — Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling). I had actually forgotten all about James Marsden’s Lon, remembering only that there was some poor schmuck of a Noah placeholder in Allie’s life for a short time. Now that the rewatch has happened, I cannot believe I was ever Team Noah.
