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"Some obligations can't be passed on": Watching A Place To Call Home
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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 245227" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>Interesting. I've yet to reach that S&D storyline, but I've never been keen on the "woman decides to have an abortion then changes her mind at the last moment" cliche, with its implication that women are too dizzily indecisive to be trusted to make an informed decision about their own bodies*. But this didn't feel like that: Sarah's dilemma wasn't about whether or not she herself wanted to keep the baby, but about the wider implications of her decision. And needless to say, Caroline is a total moron while Sarah definitely isn't.</p><p></p><p>I kind of liked Elizabeth becoming involved/implicated in this situation which is completely outside of her comfort zone. It felt satisfyingly knotty. And at the end of Season 3, it looks as if it has returned to bite them all on their Australian arses, which is all to the good.</p><p></p><p>Hmm, I guess I felt the wider statement the show was making was linked to the grim medical procedures we'd already seen performed on Anna and James. Contraception, abortion, gay conversion thingy -- they're all about aspects of sexual freedom that we take for granted now but that were strictly prohibited then. And they do love close-ups of forceps.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">*unless it only emerges that she changed her mind decades later when her long-lost child turns up looking for murderous revenge, in which case I'm all for it.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 245227, member: 22"] Interesting. I've yet to reach that S&D storyline, but I've never been keen on the "woman decides to have an abortion then changes her mind at the last moment" cliche, with its implication that women are too dizzily indecisive to be trusted to make an informed decision about their own bodies*. But this didn't feel like that: Sarah's dilemma wasn't about whether or not she herself wanted to keep the baby, but about the wider implications of her decision. And needless to say, Caroline is a total moron while Sarah definitely isn't. I kind of liked Elizabeth becoming involved/implicated in this situation which is completely outside of her comfort zone. It felt satisfyingly knotty. And at the end of Season 3, it looks as if it has returned to bite them all on their Australian arses, which is all to the good. Hmm, I guess I felt the wider statement the show was making was linked to the grim medical procedures we'd already seen performed on Anna and James. Contraception, abortion, gay conversion thingy -- they're all about aspects of sexual freedom that we take for granted now but that were strictly prohibited then. And they do love close-ups of forceps. [SIZE=2]*unless it only emerges that she changed her mind decades later when her long-lost child turns up looking for murderous revenge, in which case I'm all for it.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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