The writing of Mallory as an air-head
I didn't like it in the 80s and now, as an adult, I just sort of see it as bullying by the script writers. Let's attack pretty girls as air-heads.
shareLOL...I WAS IN LOVE WITH MALLORY IN THE 80S AND NOW,AS AN ADULT,I AM STILL IN LOVE WITH HER.
shareThey needed an 80's contrast to the 'hippie anti materialistic' mother....so they came up with the materialistic airhead daughter.
It's the inverse of all in the family--where the kids are now more conservative than the parents but everybody loves each other regardless bc they still share the same DNA. They're not 'attacking' mallory. They are showing how she is the opposite of her mom.
Mallory has some moments, she cares re her family members. She is not a total valley girl. And her dating Nick means she was actually interested in more than looks. Some of her parents teachings had gotten through after all. Steven and Elyse did not understand it, but Nick was supposed to be the 80s counterculture. Yes they had become 'square' lol
Actually, Elyse seemed to get the irony more than Steven.
She told him that when they were young, they would have rather hung out with Nick than with Alex.
isn't that how it is in real life though, the dad always worried that his little girl is going to be taken away? Even the guy who thought he was 'cool' and withit. Steven Keaton still found himself wanting to kill Nick even though he had been an anti-war hippie lol!!
The irony of course is that Nick probably did much less drugs than they ever did.
That was actually addressed as well. Elyse remembered that back when they still were young hippies, Steven had sworn that he would never disapprove of whomever their daughter wanted to date. His reply was pretty much "all of that changed when I became a father".
That was why family ties was cool. It was pretty much real life. Steven Keaton was believable as a dad. my dad attended Janis Joplin concerts but yes he wanted to kill my first boyfriend. This was my 'all in the family'.
shareLike this exhippie dope smoker trying to stop Alex having a drink on.his 18th birthday.
shareTo be fair, I don't believe that it was stated that Steven and Elyse did drugs.
And even if they did, they might have regretted it later and wanted to keep their kids away from it.
well I don't think TV network would acknowledge that back then. I think the most they ever mentioned was pot. But we never see Nick smoking anything, or drinking.....which was my point. He is a teetotaler. It fits in with Nancy Reagan's whole 'Just Say No' campaign which was super big in the 80's and would have targeted him too.
shareThe kids certainly are not more conservative than the parents.
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