The future of Lee and Lynn
Nov. 2nd, 2009 03:38 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
adamant-turtle.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
nbc_mediumBased on the little info we've gotten so far, do you think they're going to make it?
Personally, I don't think so. Everything we've ever seen about Lee in the past seasons indicates that he's an extremely solitary person, devoted to work without too much personal going on. He seems uncomfortable with emotion, and the pregnancy was something that blindsided him. (In fact, he seemed reluctant to deal with it at all until it was absolutely necessary, having become the proverbial elephant in the room.)
My take on the subject is that Lee is basically a good guy. Despite his shortcomings, he really wants to do the "right thing" (whatever that may in fact be), especially since it's been indicated that his own dad wasn't too great. Yet, as indicated in the short restaurant scene two weeks ago, Lee's and Lynn's views on parenthood are vastly different -- Lynn seems to have embraced the baby wholeheartedly, making it her entire life, while Lee is...not so much.
I'm curious as to what you all think.
Personally, I don't think so. Everything we've ever seen about Lee in the past seasons indicates that he's an extremely solitary person, devoted to work without too much personal going on. He seems uncomfortable with emotion, and the pregnancy was something that blindsided him. (In fact, he seemed reluctant to deal with it at all until it was absolutely necessary, having become the proverbial elephant in the room.)
My take on the subject is that Lee is basically a good guy. Despite his shortcomings, he really wants to do the "right thing" (whatever that may in fact be), especially since it's been indicated that his own dad wasn't too great. Yet, as indicated in the short restaurant scene two weeks ago, Lee's and Lynn's views on parenthood are vastly different -- Lynn seems to have embraced the baby wholeheartedly, making it her entire life, while Lee is...not so much.
I'm curious as to what you all think.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 09:32 pm (UTC)I would agree with exactly what you say, I think Lee wants to do the right thing, but I did get the impression fatherhood isn't something coming naturally to him or something he honestly really wants to adapt to. I mean I can understand his difficulties adjusting, considering his relationship with his own father. He doesn't want to be that kind of father either, hence the doing the "right thing".
In the car with Allison, even Allison gave him a look as if she didn't quite believe him when he said it was a "wonderful adjustment". It was quite a sigh.
I would love to see this aspect of his character explored more, definitely intriguing, although I love my Dubois family time. I know Joe and Scanlon rarely share screen time, but I wouldn't mind them discussing fatherhood. That way I could get my backstory too, Joe's father wasn't always around either, although I don't think he was ever violent like Scanlon's, just worked too much.
Seriously, I'm trying to remember Scanlon's dream from Four Dreams, the one where he rented the child for the day?