717: Great Expectations
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:54 pm
Where your expectations met in this episode?
I would never be able to take young John Avery seriously with a ragingly thick Sco'ish accent. Plus he didn't in Thank You, God.31899 wrote:Young Mr. Whittaker didn't have a thick Scottish accent *RAGE*
Umm, maybe because she's approximately eleven years old? What you just said about the family being more important than the pilot's license--Whit had to tell her that. Emily had given no thought to the possibility of starting a family--as most kids her age don't. The question is, "What do you wanna be when you grow up?"--as in, a career, not a familial role--and the question is directed in this manner to both boys and girls. Boys are no more expected to talk about "being the caring head of the family" than girls are expected to talk about "being a nurturing mother". Kids want to pursue their dreams, and this isn't the nineteenth century--women are no longer indoctrinated to believe that their only role is to serve in the home. Emily hasn't been told all her life that her purpose is to stay in the kitchen, and therefore she gives no thought to that prospect. Besides, Emily's a freer spirit than that--even if it was the cultural norm for her not to have a career, would she really pay attention to that? Therefore, the idea that Emily would just go gaga over being a stay-at-home mom is unrealistic and inaccurate to both her age and to her character.Christian A. wrote:Therefore, all of this story about Emily wanting to follow in the footsteps of her dad and become a judge (though she did change her mind about that) just doesn't sit well with me. Ideally, she should be wanting to be following in the footsteps of her mom--to have children and raise them in "the nurture and admonition of the Lord." I found it quite interesting that at one point in the episode, Whit himself says, "My wife and children were far more important than a pilot's license." Why then does Emily give no thought to having a family, rather than pursuing her own career?
I take great umbrage with this phrasing here--the idea that a woman who wants a career thinks her children are "getting in the way". I want a career. I want to do something other than be a stay-at-home mom. I want to pursue my own dreams. But I also want a family. I want to be a good wife and a loving mother. Should I choose to have children--the question being, "will I be able to be patient with them because taking care of children is hard work", not "are they getting in my way"--I want to be the best mother I can be to them. My point? A woman who wants to have a career is just as capable of loving her children and nurturing them and raising them to honor God as a woman who wants to stay at home to raise them. Neither is the better choice. These two sentences act as if women who want careers are automatically going to think that children are only a burden. Seriously?Christian A. wrote:it doesn't matter if children get in the way. We have birth control and daycare and public schools to take care of that issue, right?
//nodnod I liked that, too. I was glad that they were able to get Jim Custer to voice the young Whit again, as well, and I appreciate that he "aged up" his voice, so to speak. I wish they'd been able to get Mandy Kaplan to voice the young Jenny, though. I loved her in "Prequels of Love", though I understand that she was not the original voice for the young Jenny. (I'll never really think of Melissa Disney as anyone but Monica Stone.)Christian A. wrote:* I was glad to hear from Jim Custer again as the voice of young Whit. I liked how much flexibility he was able to use in his voice. It really did sound like Whit was getting older as the adventure progressed. And one thing I noticed that was interesting to me was that Jim Custer's Whit seemed to fit better with the Andre Whit than with the other two actors' Whits. I guess the case could be made that he sounds like Paul Herlinger a little bit, but I was very surprised to observe that Jim Custer's and Andre Stojka's voices are quite similar.