[ SECRET POST #3233 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3233 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I do hate when a character is given a pregnancy storyline out of the blue because the actor is pregnant. I would much, much rather the creators just do their best to disguise the bump and we all just pretend it's not there until the actress gives birth.

Giving a character a baby when it wasn't in the original plan for the story is a narrative decision that forever shapes the character and the story you're telling. I feel like a lot of writers don't really realize what a huge chunk of narrative structure they are dropping abruptly into their story and forcing the story to accommodate. (Can you imagine if Scully had a baby in S2 of The X-Files, rather than being briefly abducted? *shudders*)

By comparison, simply asking your audience to put their baby bump blinders on for a few episodes is such a minor thing that I don't understand why the writers would ever choose the former option.

But I do feel like you're hugely underestimating the cost of that kind of complicated CGI work, OP. I don't think using CGI to disguise a pregnancy is something that's particularly doable yet, in a budgetary sense.

[(Anonymous)]

I especially hate it when said baby storyline turns into a contrived plotline they do away with, like the writers realized "you know what, nevermind baby."

Although I think it happens in general with baby plotlines, not just the actress being pregnant. Look at 30 Rock - they gave Jack a baby, made him all about being a dad, then got tired of it and... actually, I forget what happened.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i agree. just use close ups for the season.

[(Anonymous)]

It was funny, because she looked super pregnant but they hid it as well as they could (big coats, most of her job early in the season was as a medical examiner so she was always behind a desk or morgue table, and then in the trunk of a car!) but when the character was pregnant in season 8, Gillian Anderson didn't look the slightest bit like she had looked when actually pregnant!