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Now, a separate issue. For the record, I love children. Have worked with them a lot etc. But I am so tired of random “baby subplots”. The moment there’s a baby in the plot line, especially if it’s a show where there’s more time to dwell on it than a film, everyone goes nuts and becomes obsessed with the pregnancy and then feels/acts like a surrogate caretaker. I suppose that is a natural human reaction to an extent, but it really doesn’t do the narrative any favours. The plot becomes about the baby: miscarriage, birth, custody, etc, etc. To me that means every “baby” plot line is identical to each other and they’re all, well, very boring.
I genuinely have no idea why unless your film is Tully that you would want a baby in it. I mean, yes, it incapacitates and makes the character weaker while at the same time turning her into a “tigress” when it’s a life-or-death moment, which I suppose is kind of handy for character development. But it’s so, so boring and kind of cheesy.