True, I did love the Twilight of the Gods or whatever it was!
No, I just hate the whole Magical Accelerated Aging Baby trope. Just once, I'd like to see a genre show have a character have a baby and then RAISE THAT FUCKER. It just really, really annoys me that shows use pregnancy and birth as a way to build drama but always back out of the consequences.
(Also, I love the idea of Xena and Gabrielle raising Eve together. Although I actually would have also been satisfied with an ending where Xena and Gab decided to send Eve to live with people with safer, more stable lives, if it had been done right.)
I mean, of course I get that the writers were trying to come up with a way to handle Lawless's pregnancy. It wasn't like they decided to have a character get pregnant when the actor wasn't and then get rid of the baby after she's born. Intellectually, I can understand it and it's not the worst thing ever, but still. Pet peeve.
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Date: 2014-01-03 10:55 pm (UTC)No, I just hate the whole Magical Accelerated Aging Baby trope. Just once, I'd like to see a genre show have a character have a baby and then RAISE THAT FUCKER. It just really, really annoys me that shows use pregnancy and birth as a way to build drama but always back out of the consequences.
(Also, I love the idea of Xena and Gabrielle raising Eve together. Although I actually would have also been satisfied with an ending where Xena and Gab decided to send Eve to live with people with safer, more stable lives, if it had been done right.)
I mean, of course I get that the writers were trying to come up with a way to handle Lawless's pregnancy. It wasn't like they decided to have a character get pregnant when the actor wasn't and then get rid of the baby after she's born. Intellectually, I can understand it and it's not the worst thing ever, but still. Pet peeve.