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Spoilers "Superman & Lois" Season 3

For a variety of reasons I've been watching this episode in snippets and now I've come to the scene where Kyle tells Lana that Chrissy is pregnant, quickly adding by way of apologetic "that wasn't planned."

My God, I think that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard from an averagely intelligent adult man.

Considering that until now they have NEVER mentioned that they used contraception, let's see the two different approaches according to Kyle between a planned and an unplanned pregnancy:
  • Planned pregnancy: having lots of sex
  • Unplanned pregnancy: having lots of sex.
and Kyle still remained completely FLABBERGAST that the two approaches had the exact same result.

If for the writers Kyle's reactions should reflect those of the audience, then they consider the audience pretty dumb.
 
^To be fair to the writers, I'm not sure they intend us to fully approve of Kyle's choices here, given how uneasy Lana looked when she watched Kyle propose. I got the sense that we weren't supposed to see this as an uncomplicatedly good thing, but as a potentially reckless choice by a man with a history of bad relationship decisions and a woman who might be acting more out of loneliness and low self-esteem than good judgment about her future.

The catch, of course, is that we don't know if we'll ever get any followup for these characters now that they won't be regulars anymore.
 
Christopher said:
^To be fair to the writers, I'm not sure they intend us to fully approve of Kyle's choices here, given how uneasy Lana looked when she watched Kyle propose. I got the sense that we weren't supposed to see this as an uncomplicatedly good thing, but as a potentially reckless choice by a man with a history of bad relationship decisions and a woman who might be acting more out of loneliness and low self-esteem than good judgment about her future.
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This at least makes a modicum of sense.

I'd just like to add my observation about the "unexpected pregnancy" trope so common in fictional works, where it seems like no one is capable of doing a minimum of family planning.

In real life, in my circle of acquaintances, friends and family I have NEVER known anyone over the age of twenty who was completely taken by surprise by an unexpected pregnancy. At best they weren't actively working on it, but they were kind of in an "if it has to happen it happens" mode. None of those whose pregnancy, for various economic, family or other reasons would have been difficult to manage, has happened to "accidentally" become pregnant.

I know very well that often in the most disadvantaged groups from a socio-economic point of view there is often no awareness of how to possibly plan a possible pregnancy, but when I speak of my acquaintances, I speak of middle class people with a fair level of culture, exactly like the average protagonists of fiction.

I don't know how many times in fiction single women get pregnant after "one night stand". It honestly never happened to one of my single female friend (the only one who was in doubt had immediately taken the morning after pill).

Seeing this trope in fiction set in the present day already irritates me deeply, when I see it in a series set in the 25th century I find it more far-fetched than human-identical aliens and the warp engine.
 
People can understand the logic of pregnancy and still be surprised when it happens.
 
Tosk said:
People can understand the logic of pregnancy and still be surprised when it happens.
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Ok serious question. How many people of middle class, normal intelligence and education with a good job and in their late 20's and who already had kids do you know who were TOTALLY AMAZED like, "Oh, bro, you can't believe this, we had sex all the time without protection and she GOT PREGNANT!!! I don't understand how this could happen!??!"

I'm not saying it can't happen, just that this category is terribly overrepresented in fiction works, just because they make good drama.
 
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Skipper said:
I'm not saying it can't happen, just that this category is terribly overrepresented in fiction works, just because they make good drama.
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I agree with almost everything you're saying, but I question whether they really do make good drama, as opposed to simply formulaic drama. Writers too often recapitulate the same familiar beats because it's how they're used to thinking of stories working. It doesn't necessarily make them good stories. I found the whole Kyle/Chrissy business here to be cliched and going through the motions.
 
I am pretty sure their is lots of people who have unprotected sex while not expecting every sexual encounter to lead to the women being pregnant. I also think people are confusing excitement for surprise. They fell in love. They had lots of sex because of that. Maybe they didn't talk about the ramifications but hey that happens. People are more emotional than logical in general.
 
Jayson1 said:
I am pretty sure their is lots of people who have unprotected sex while not expecting every sexual encounter to lead to the women being pregnant.
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Yes, hormone-flooded teenagers. Not people in their early thirties who have always been shown to be at least averagely intelligent, who are professionals in their work and one of them already had children.

This kind of stupidity is widespread only in tv. Otherwise, in real life, every family would have 8-9 children like in 1800s' rural Russia.

Jayson1 said:
I also think people are confusing excitement for surprise.
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He literally said that it wasn't something they planned. I think that "surprise" sums it well.

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I don't know. One starters Smallville is rural America. Kyle and Chrissy are small town folks. They are smart but he is a firefighter and she works at small local newspaper nobody would be paying attention if it didn't have the great Lois Lane working their. For all we know they did use protection most of the time but maybe they caught up in the heat of the moment one night and you just go with the moment.
 
Jayson1 said:
I don't know. One starters Smallville is rural America. Kyle and Chrissy are small town folks. They are smart but he is a firefighter and she works at small local newspaper nobody would be paying attention if it didn't have the great Lois Lane working their. For all we know they did use protection most of the time but maybe they caught up in the heat of the moment one night and you just go with the moment.
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Sooooo...

Idiocracy was right..?
 
Christopher said:
I haven't seen Idiocracy, but I gather that it's basically got a very classist, eugenicist message that less intelligent, implicitly lower-class people shouldn't be allowed to breed freely. https://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/id..._is_really_a_celebration_of_eugenics_partner/
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Mostly it's just a comedy about dumb people taking over the world and the smartest guy on the planet is someone with just regular average intelligence. A comment on how society values lowest common denominator entertainment to a point where it eventually overruns even things in society that should be treated with a level of seriousness. There is a reason why so many people feel we are now living in that world.
 
Jayson1 said:
Mostly it's just a comedy about dumb people taking over the world and the smartest guy on the planet is someone with just regular average intelligence. A comment on how society values lowest common denominator entertainment to a point where it eventually overruns even things in society that should be treated with a level of seriousness. There is a reason why so many people feel we are now living in that world.
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Yeah, I don't think that eugenics was the solution proposed by the authors.
 
Inde Navarrette, who plays Sarah Cortez says she's back as guest starring status next season. She also said some other former cast members are also coming back as guest stars but doesn't say who.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/one-superman-lois-cut-leads-003401568.html

So basically, me and a few other people from the cast are now guest stars instead of series regulars, and so we’ll be in about three episodes at least. But, at least you guys get a Season 4. We almost got cancelled, so at least we got a Season 4.
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