It's been nigh 20 years since I saw this series, and I really didn't question the situation at the time that saw two ghettorats living with a second rate Howard Hughes, but they were, as I am sure you know, the dead maids leftovers.
Mr Drummond's maid.
Probably for decades.
Looking at how he was flirting with Mrs Garret on her first day during the pilot, I can only imagine that with a woman he spent decades with in close proximity with, that clothing was optional while she was dusting and polishing... And it was the 70s, and she was black and married, so of course they'd obfuscate his involvement in making those two fine boys.
If Arnold and Willis were not secretly Phill's kids, I can only imagine from the awful acting and the diabolical dialogue that he has a tumour which is generating erratic and absurd behaviour to explain why Mr Drummond takes on the helps orphan progeny...
Do you watch the Practice?
6 or 7 millionary Doctors.
Their sexy surferboy secretary died tragically, and they all looked at one another guiltylike to to see who would lose at the game of emotional chicken and volunteer to adopt dead surfer boy secretaries 6 year old little girl... No one blinked and they sent her off to a group home to be victimized tortured and probably sexually assaulted. They don't talk about it much any more. Either because of the guilt or because they're fictional characters. Who can say?
Now, how they behaved was awful.
They are awful human beings.
But it's real.
You can see their motivations.
They're assholes.
But Drummond?
What's his angle?
Honest to god, if Arnold and Willis were Mr Drummond's Kids, that would make them viable for organ harvesting if he got into any real trouble down the line, and lets face it, even the actor was pushing 60, or looked like he was pushing 60, so the character would have to be a fool to let those sets of kidneys just wander off into the downturn of Harlem to be eaten by drugs and gang violence.
Imagine that you're dying, and on your deathbed, and you ask your employer to look after your brats for the next 12 to 18 years?
What sort of relationship would you have had to have had with your employer for them not to laugh in your face?
You know the answer is "Sexual"
The answer has to be sexual.
But even if he was sleeping with their mother, that doesn't that mean that Arnold and Willis were absolutely his children? but it remains a possibility...
What do you think?
Mr Drummond's maid.
Probably for decades.
Looking at how he was flirting with Mrs Garret on her first day during the pilot, I can only imagine that with a woman he spent decades with in close proximity with, that clothing was optional while she was dusting and polishing... And it was the 70s, and she was black and married, so of course they'd obfuscate his involvement in making those two fine boys.
If Arnold and Willis were not secretly Phill's kids, I can only imagine from the awful acting and the diabolical dialogue that he has a tumour which is generating erratic and absurd behaviour to explain why Mr Drummond takes on the helps orphan progeny...
Do you watch the Practice?
6 or 7 millionary Doctors.
Their sexy surferboy secretary died tragically, and they all looked at one another guiltylike to to see who would lose at the game of emotional chicken and volunteer to adopt dead surfer boy secretaries 6 year old little girl... No one blinked and they sent her off to a group home to be victimized tortured and probably sexually assaulted. They don't talk about it much any more. Either because of the guilt or because they're fictional characters. Who can say?
Now, how they behaved was awful.
They are awful human beings.
But it's real.
You can see their motivations.
They're assholes.
But Drummond?
What's his angle?
Honest to god, if Arnold and Willis were Mr Drummond's Kids, that would make them viable for organ harvesting if he got into any real trouble down the line, and lets face it, even the actor was pushing 60, or looked like he was pushing 60, so the character would have to be a fool to let those sets of kidneys just wander off into the downturn of Harlem to be eaten by drugs and gang violence.
Imagine that you're dying, and on your deathbed, and you ask your employer to look after your brats for the next 12 to 18 years?
What sort of relationship would you have had to have had with your employer for them not to laugh in your face?
You know the answer is "Sexual"
The answer has to be sexual.
But even if he was sleeping with their mother, that doesn't that mean that Arnold and Willis were absolutely his children? but it remains a possibility...
What do you think?
