The episode did have a whole parental thing going on. Didn't concentrate on it as I'm not a parent. They usually don't delve that much into a characters personal life. I don't really like shows that do it to a detriment.
House on the other hand kinda pissed me off, that last scene was pulling the dinner from my stomach. I almost threw my remote at the wall. I really don't need uplifting shit on my TV. Entertain me, if i want to cry I'll watch Titanic. --- In [email protected], "Hannah Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think she's cute, too, and I'm just happy Boreanaz has de-puffed into and > older semblance of his Buffy hotness. I liked the first episode of the > season and I like the whole dynamic of the group, including the new boss. I > enjoyed the biblical revisionism in the car. I even thought that the > impossibly written scene between Booth and his ex was somewhat saved by the > actors. > > But... > > I had a real hard time with the way they handled the whole paean to > fatherhood in the same episode as motherhood-gone-horribly-horribly-awry. > It felt like they were setting up fatherhood as a counterbalance, rather > than a complement, to motherhood, i.e. the killer never would have killed > her baby in a fit of psychotic PPD, and then tracked down the woman in her > lamaze class and killed her for *her* baby (wow, I think I'm having a > Passions flashback as I write this) if she hadn't been A SINGLE MOTHER > *gasp*. And the threat by the ex-girlfriend to Booth...not cool, even if, > as I said earlier, the actors managed to elevate the material. > > Basically, the whole thing seemed to take a very Fatherhood Initiative-type > attitude to male parenthood, which by its very conception of that role, is > at the expense of the female. > > So, I'm going to see if this is just an aberration. It has been a long time > since I watched network TV, so maybe I just have to get back into the whole > dynamic of the hour-long serialized drama. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
