09-25-2016, 06:47 AM
(09-20-2016, 07:37 PM)izzy Wrote: These posts set me to thinking, generically again. I don't watch much TV etc, so I may be out of touch, but I am really trying to recall a show where the couple were deliberately trying to have a child, as an act of love between them and portrayed as such.. You know the way a husband and wife do in real life, like when the woman looks in her man's eyes as they make love and says "I want to have your baby". Just once I would like to see that, rather than oops babies. I get that Monroe and Rosalee's baby was likely planned and certianly a product of live, but I am speaking generically on TV as a whole. It would nice to actually see a pregnancy associated with an act of love between two adults, not some parking lot rutting activity between inebriated casual partners.I think these ‘oops babies’ scenarios could realistically portray individuals as discovering a level of morality and personal responsibility that alluded them prior to the ‘oops baby’ becoming the most important person in his/her life.
So while I agree with you about the traditional family dynamic, I think the show’s failure was keeping the characters much as they were before their forced union. Both loved the baby and protected him in day-to-day life, but neither tried to work through past traumas & failures and become emotionally stronger individuals, which prevented them from creating the family dynamic, traditional or otherwise.
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