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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2008-07-24 05:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #566 ]


⌈ Secret Post #566 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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fuyu: (in hoc signo vinces)

Re: OP; also, oh jesus teal deer is teal

[personal profile] fuyu 2008-07-25 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I deanonned elsewhere in comments, so I'm gonna go ahead and own my argument here.

That's true, the epilogue didn't take enough time to really go into anyone's hobbies - honestly I think it was just a bad storytelling move all around, those five minutes could have been material for a new series, practically, so it's fairly shoddy work to just throw them in like that. However, it does go into everyone else's interests, through their careers. Presumably, Sora discovered a love of fashion design, in addition to being a mom. Mimi likes show biz and cooking, in addition to being a mom. Hikari finds fulfillment in teaching other children, in addition to being a mom. Same with the boys, since they're all fathers.

As someone else said, later on in comments, it's always a choice to show what you show - so why was Miyako shown in a nearly stereotypical image of motherhood when she is not at all the only parent, or only mom, when they could have shown her, say... holding the baby while teaching her older children how to use the computer? That would have made it just as clear she was a dedicated stay-at-home mom, without making her treatment lopsided as compared to the other girls'. And while I still probably would have rolled my eyes at it, just because the way I read her character (and I may have been projecting, it's a possibility) she hadn't struck me as a character who would have wanted that... I can bet I wouldn't be angry about it still. Because then, ending!Miyako would have read to me both as Miyako The Character I've Loved For The Past 50 Episodes, and Miyako The Stay At Home Mom. They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, however much I didn't see that in Miyako; my anger comes from the fact that, the way it was presented, one seemed to have supplanted the other.

Definitely when you're a mother, the kids come first, but being a mother shouldn't seem to replace all your other interests. Because you're still a woman with autonomy and interests and desires they don't necessarily have anything to do with your kids, though the kids are your highest priority. "Most important thing" shouldn't mean "ONLY important thing".

(... and oh my goodness yes Miyako would top Ken entirely. entirely.)