Well, $%^%%^!! That sucks. (spoiler)
That's all this show needed is for Toby and Happy to have a damn baby.
I do not have attention deficit disor...Ooh, look at the bunny!
The other reveal was a blockbuster (for me, at least) but the baby one was blatantly obvious all the way through the episode. What I don't get is how 2 certified geniuses can't grasp the concept of condoms and other various forms of birth control. Happy seems like the most unlikely person to want to be a parent, given her own upbringing and her general surliness toward most people. And the look of shock on Toby's face was ridiculous... hey, genius, unprotected sex often equals pregnancy and you don't need a whiteboard to figure that one out.
I've always loved Toby and he and Happy are cute together but this baby is going to be a real buzzkill. Why do shows resort to the time-honored soap opera tactic of bringing an infant into the mix? It's going to completely screw up the Scorpion team. Note to writers: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The show has been doing well in the ratings and a baby is unnecessary and, frankly, just stupid.
I think the baby dynamic will change the show but not for the better.
shareThat's what I'm thinking too. I've loved this show from Episode 1 but I am NOT in a good place right now. The whole crux of the show is going to change now. I love these over-the-top missions they do but now it's going to be focused on the pregnancy, the birth (will Toby get there in time or will Walter, probably still the "officially legal" father at that time, have to deliver it?), and the lifestyle changes for everyone. If they bring Ray back as the live-in nanny for the kid, I'm out.
They did the same thing with "The Blacklist" on NBC when Megan Boone (her character's name is Elizabeth Keen) got pregnant....so maybe Jadyn Wong became pregnant too?
In any case, ratings for "The Blacklist" did briefly dip for a little while, but have since bounced back. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see if this Walter / Toby / Happy baby situation affects the ratings at all.
Normally, if the actor becomes pregnant in real life, the writers will write the pregnancy into the storyline, but not the other way around.
I don't think Jadyn is pregnant, although she has put on some weight...
If an actress becomes pregnant in real life, that's all well and good but they don't have to write a baby into the show's storyline. They can film around her or make up some excuse for her character to be gone. Introducing a baby into the format of a TV show is a permanent solution to a temporary filming inconvenience. Once Happy announced that she was pregnant, that changed the way a lot of things will be done on the show.
Yes, I feel you. I'm worried about the baby thing as well.
Obviously, Happy cannot function her role really well with a baby, that will lead to bad things to her role, which I don't want.
Alternatively, they can decide to go with abortion. That will hurt the relationship between Toby and Happy and all the fans.
So I'm intrigued to see how things will pan out...
Hopefully, the writers don't make big moves just for the sake of big moves.
They will come to the realization that they would make totally dysfunctional parents and give the child up for adoption. The bulk of the pregnancy will be during an extra long hiatus.
Either that or that accidentally leave the child in rocket bound for Mars that suffers some sort of malfunction at makes it impossible to turn the rocket around. The team spends the next season between assignments figuring out how it can live on Mars.
50/50, you never know with this show.
"Are you seeing this?"
"It's just a flying saucer, Ed. We gotta go."
They will come to the realization that they would make totally dysfunctional parents and give the child up for adoption. The bulk of the pregnancy will be during an extra long hiatus.
I hadn't thought of adoption. That works, but it would have to be with a reputable agency. The last thing Happy would want was for her child to be in the fostercare system.
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I was mostly joking at the time of the post. I had been using the scenario to poke fun at the show in a few other posts and the humor didn't maker it to this one
For such a simple show it is rather hard to predict on an arc level. I should give it more credit for that. Nothing is impossible. I made a joke about Ray moving his home into the garage... and suddenly it happened. Had they downloaded Megan into a computer and made her a full cast member... that it was even the tiniest bit remotely possible that they might do that says a lot.
So maybe the adoption or the Mars scenario will come to pass. Who knows.
You make a good point about the foster care.
"Are you seeing this?"
"It's just a flying saucer, Ed. We gotta go."
If an actress becomes pregnant in real life, that's all well and good but they don't have to write a baby into the show's storyline.
Agreed. When Gina Bellman was pregnant, they didn't write her pregnancy into "Leverage," they wrote her character out for part of the season.
I'm not 100% convinced she's going to have the baby. In real life there are things that go wrong during pregnancy and it's horrible and awful. I don't see why it would be totally impossible for that to happen on the show. It would lead to some great dramatic moments.
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I'd like to think that the baby storyline will go away but I honestly don't see any way for that to happen. If she has a miscarriage, there will be lots of depressing episodes about that situation and if she and Toby decide to give the baby up for adoption, there will be lots of episodes where they question their decision and go through guilt, plus a lot of the audience probably wouldn't appreciate them (but particularly Happy given her own childhood situation) for basically ditching their child because it's inconvenient for them. As for abortion, I'd be utterly shocked if this show went that route because it's way too polarizing.
For whatever stupid reason, the writers have decided to drop a baby into this popular show and they're going to have to deal with the repercussions. I'm sure they're imagining all of the comical situations that will ensue with these geniuses trying to figure out how to change a diaper, etc. but that's not what this show was meant to be. I'll definitely keep watching because it's the only show I look forward to at the moment (come October 23rd, however, my #1 show, "The Walking Dead", returns and I'll be fine again) but I'm not happy with this situation and I don't see how they can write themselves out of the mess they've created.
Article about the pregnancy and development of story line:
http://www.tvinsider.com/article/100680/scorpion-producers-stars-on-happys-two-big-secrets/
Thanks or posting that link, corry. Having read it, I'm sorry to say that I'm not the least bit comforted... in fact, that article seemed to confirm all of my worst fears about the upcoming direction of the show. And as for them saying it would be "fun" for the audience to get both of those reveals within minutes of each other, I'd like to inform them that this audience member found it anything but fun. I'm okay with the Happy/Walter fake marriage (even though it really doesn't make much sense... **see below**) but I don't think I'll ever get on board with this baby.
**The situation with Walter needing to be married to stay in the country is confusing because I distinctly remember him making a deal with "the government" in the first episode (or one of the first ones) about what Team Scorpion wanted in return for their services, specifically money. Wouldn't that have been the perfect time for him to ask for citizenship or at least an express version of the usual way of becoming naturalized? They could have fast-walked his paperwork and gotten it done in months rather than years.
It's weird because I don't bat an eye at the no-way-no-how missions they take on each week and do a brilliant job of but I'm having a hard time with the more mundane aspects of the show, specifically the reason for the fake marriage and now this completely unnecessary baby. I'd much rather watch them blasting into space or figuring out a way to outsmart the smartest building on Earth than see them deal with this soap opera melodrama.
YW dag. :)
How much I might agree with your point of view, I'm afraid that the personal relationships/romances are definitely part of the writers vision on the set up for this serie's plot.
see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrRkQ9rvu4
I guess it has to do with the various types of viewers they want to attract ad please.
No method of birth control is 100% effective.
I do not have attention deficit disor...Ooh, look at the bunny!
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