“The parents’ plotline is my favorite part of teen melodrama.”— no one(via supcakes)My so called life anyone?
(via yeahgrrrl)
Joan of Arcadia anyone?
I really liked the way My so-called life used Angela’s parents to resolve the problem the writers were stuck with when it got cancelled. [Spoilers.] They’d obviously wanted to set Angela up with Jordan and then play that out over another season or two and eventually she’d grow out of him and meanwhile Brian would get less self-righteous and stuff and they’d get together. When they didn’t have time to do that, they could have just chucked her and Brian together, but it would have been too early and wouldn’t have worked.
So they let Angela choose Jordan and ride off on his bike, because he was the right choice for her at that point. They didn’t reward Brian’s Nice Guy tendencies. But at the same time over the last few episodes they filled in the parents’ back-story — her mum having to make the same sort of choice, going with the hunk, eventually ending up with the geek — to show how it could play out over the long run that we aren’t going to see. That was well played.
I haven’t seen Joan of Arcadia — would you recommend it?
