What I’d like to see: Spousal support
This week, with all the characters checked-up on, I’m doing some looking ahead to what I’d like to see more of in upcoming episodes of Brothers & Sisters — sometimes specific stories, sometimes general directions. Monday’s was a general longing for more sibling together time, and yesterday’s was a specific idea for a specific actress.
Today’s post is back to the general, and back to our familiar family members, with a wish for the Walker spouses to have some interaction beyond their particular sibling storylines.
Earlier this season, things were looking bad for Walker relationships. Sarah was divorcing, Tommy and Julia were on the rocks, Kevin and Jason were at least geographically far apart, and there seemed a possibility that differences in baby-wanting might split Robert and Kitty. Yet here we are, with Elizabeth’s parents back together, the McCallisters happily wed, and Kevin about to tie the knot with Scotty. Joe is still gone, but we stand to have a record number of in-laws on hand by the end of the season.
So let’s do something fun with them, okay?
If they’re part of the family, they’re part of the family. I look forward to seeing Julia, Robert, and Scotty interacting with each other and with their brothers- and sisters- and mother-in-law, not just their individual significant others. I think Rob Lowe, Sarah Jane Morris, and Luke MacFarlane (who apparently will be a regular next season) are up to the task of making those scenes worth our while. They’re regulars. We should see them regularly.
I’m thinking about that double-date dinner from “The Other Walker” where Sarah and Kitty keep breaking out in squabbles while Robert and Joe commiserate and then ditch out for a cigar. Or “Northern Exposure,” with Scotty getting pulled into the argument involving Tommy and Julia and Kevin. Or even the very early episodes where Joe and Julia kind of lurked around the edges of conversations, putting in a word of sanity every so often. More of that sort of thing would be nice. There’s no need for a character like Julia to go missing for weeks on end because there’s no couple plot going on. She could at least meet Sarah at the playground to snark about the meanie mommies.
They could find the extra time for these in-law scenes by ditching the business intrigue plots, and the doubts-about-parentage plots, and any further plots involving Justin and drugs. Tons and tons of time.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I HATE SCOTTY!!! He is so whiny, and demands wayyyyy too much from Kevin. Kevin deserves someone so much better.
I am so sick of some of the directions the show is going in! Justin and Rebecca, and KEEPING kevin and scotty together? BLECH.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I agree, Maria. I fast forwarded pretty much all of Scotty’s scenes the last 2 seasons, so I’m depressed that he’s been made a regular. (OTOH, I loved Jason.) Robert’s my favorite in-law. I hated Joe, and Julia’s boring. I think it’s the actress and not so much the writing. As far as Justin and Rebecca go, I love them both, so they can hook up and I would be thrilled.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I LOVE SCOTTY!!!! And YESSSSS!!!!! to him becoming a regular on the series. And congrats to Luke for coming out.
I do hope the writers will write a scene for Julia, Robert and Scotty at least once.
You know, we all got to see the scene of what happens from a Walker point of view, in “Northern exposure” right after the ’sperm’ conversation at the table, but I would have LOVED to see what happened to the “partners” after they walked out.
Did they get together and discuss the Walkers while finishing the wine that Joe took with him?
Would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that conversation. :-)We know Warren offered Scotty a ride back, did the other partners discuss things with eachother? Like Joe and Tyler and David? Did Tyler perhaps try to cheer Julia up?
It would ofcourse require Robert and Scotty to be on speaking terms. I wonder how Robert will feel about the whole marriage thing. We have not yet seen a Robert/Scotty scene.
And we should see a bit more Julia too, She is such a lovely actress. And I’m sort of disappointed that she isn’t attending the fundraiser because Lizzie is sick. It feels as if she’s constantly stuck in the house. That’s too bad.
Perhaps time for Kevin/Scotty or Robert/Kitty to baby-sit? So Tommy/Julia can have a romantic dinner together?
April 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
i totally agree with you karyn, jason and scotty are a much better match. i’m really hoping both mccallister boys will find their way into the walkers permanently.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I wouldn’t mind seeing Jason back as Robert’s brother, I would like to see Kevin and Jason (and Scotty) become friends.
But if Kevin ‘divorces’ Scotty, I’d rather see him with alone or with someone else then back with Jason. Unless Jason undergoes some dramatic change and reverts back to the Jason he was prior to going to Malaysia. THAT Jason just might get a second chance from me.
The church can keep the Jason he became in Malaysia and who came back. They may have cloned the looks, but not the essence.