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Mar. 29th, 2008 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficIt just occurred to me that, of the cast members in The Sarah Jane Adventures...
Maria is a child of divorce, as Patrick Bateman might say.
Luke is artifically conceived and adopted by a single mother (his "return" to a two-parent household is presented as a Very Bad Thing indeed).
A throwaway line specifies that Clyde is also a member of a single-parent household.
And in Doctor Who... Rose's father is dead (and the later restoration of her family was treated as mitigating circumstances in a tragedy).
Martha Jones is a child of divorce, although I think her parents' split-up could've occurred when she was an adult.
I think Donna Noble has both parents, but I also don't know if she was conceived from the start as a full-time companion.
Don't know about Torchwood, but I doubt there are a bunch of people going "Man, my childhood was awesome!"
So there's this weird message where, to experience the majesty of life, you can't be "normal," you have to have some sort of secret pain or something.
While I'm on the subject, isn't there something hinky about Luke being the product of thousands of people being compiled into an Archetype... yet he's lily-white? I'm probably putting more thought into this than the producers, who just wanted "kid with superpowers and endearingly little social skills." But then, by the same token, should he really be vanilla heterosexual? Leaving bisexuality alone, imagine the sexual kinks you'd inherit from having thousands of people contribute to your psyche.
But then, if I wanted to ponder the sexuality of fifteen-year-olds, I'd be in Harry Potter fandom. Ooooh, douche chill!
I cannot ship anyone on Sarah Jane Adventures except maybe Sarah Jane and Alan Jackson. Well done, show, you've reduced me to the canon subtext. No, no, Sarah Jane/Maria would be weird. It really does play as a maternal relationship. Plus, you know, thirteen. I choose to believe that no child thinks of sex at that age. No, they just play with slingshots and learn life lessons at supper camp.
Christy is presented as such an OTT rhymes-with-witch that it makes me frowny-face when they tease a reunion with Alan. Perhaps they're trying to portray a healthy divorced family, but having her blithely discuss her love life in front of her daughter and ex-husband just makes her look monstrously insensitive. It makes you wonder how Alan stayed with her as long as he did (Maria's, what, thirteen, and the Jacksons divorced six months ago, so even if Christy only got pregnant on her honeymoon and they had a whirlwind engagement, that's over a decade in holy matrimony). Skater boi, drop that zero, get with the hero.
Maria is a child of divorce, as Patrick Bateman might say.
Luke is artifically conceived and adopted by a single mother (his "return" to a two-parent household is presented as a Very Bad Thing indeed).
A throwaway line specifies that Clyde is also a member of a single-parent household.
And in Doctor Who... Rose's father is dead (and the later restoration of her family was treated as mitigating circumstances in a tragedy).
Martha Jones is a child of divorce, although I think her parents' split-up could've occurred when she was an adult.
I think Donna Noble has both parents, but I also don't know if she was conceived from the start as a full-time companion.
Don't know about Torchwood, but I doubt there are a bunch of people going "Man, my childhood was awesome!"
So there's this weird message where, to experience the majesty of life, you can't be "normal," you have to have some sort of secret pain or something.
While I'm on the subject, isn't there something hinky about Luke being the product of thousands of people being compiled into an Archetype... yet he's lily-white? I'm probably putting more thought into this than the producers, who just wanted "kid with superpowers and endearingly little social skills." But then, by the same token, should he really be vanilla heterosexual? Leaving bisexuality alone, imagine the sexual kinks you'd inherit from having thousands of people contribute to your psyche.
But then, if I wanted to ponder the sexuality of fifteen-year-olds, I'd be in Harry Potter fandom. Ooooh, douche chill!
I cannot ship anyone on Sarah Jane Adventures except maybe Sarah Jane and Alan Jackson. Well done, show, you've reduced me to the canon subtext. No, no, Sarah Jane/Maria would be weird. It really does play as a maternal relationship. Plus, you know, thirteen. I choose to believe that no child thinks of sex at that age. No, they just play with slingshots and learn life lessons at supper camp.
Christy is presented as such an OTT rhymes-with-witch that it makes me frowny-face when they tease a reunion with Alan. Perhaps they're trying to portray a healthy divorced family, but having her blithely discuss her love life in front of her daughter and ex-husband just makes her look monstrously insensitive. It makes you wonder how Alan stayed with her as long as he did (Maria's, what, thirteen, and the Jacksons divorced six months ago, so even if Christy only got pregnant on her honeymoon and they had a whirlwind engagement, that's over a decade in holy matrimony). Skater boi, drop that zero, get with the hero.
