The Fall of Joss Whedon

[JD]

Just to be clear, this is not a defense of Wood Allen, I'm just talking generalities here.
What @Sci is saying might be true of some parents, but if the person you're dating has been divorced and the kid doesn't live with them, there's a pretty decent chance you could date the person for years and never meet their kid. So just because you are dating a parent, doesn't mean you automatically have a relationship with the person's kid.
Just out of curiosity, I looked up Soo-Yi Priven up on Wikipedia and according to that she first met Woody Allen when she was 11. So yeah, that whole relationship is definitely just disgusting and wrong.

As I recall, that one got especially weird because Hall and Carpenter had divorced (or separated, or filed for divorce--whatever, they were in splitsville) by the time that the Dexter producers decided that Debra was in love with Dexter.

Yeah, that had to have been really awkward. There were also situations like that on House and The Big Bang Theory where cast members who played couples got together in real life, but then broke up, and their characters were still together.

 

[Nerys Myk]

As @Grendelsbayne noted, the feelings of the adult towards the child are actually not relevant to the question of whether or not that adult has a parental relationship towards that child. What matters is the role that adult plays in the child's life (and therefore how much emotional power that adult has over them, both as children and into adulthood).

I think it does matter, especially because it will impact the child and its emotional development. Waiting rooms are full of people impacted emotionally by unrequited affection for a parent, child or partner.

Yes, that is the point. What role does this person play in the child's life? Is it someone who interacts with child? Talks to them? Listens to them? Includes them in the relationship? Or are they someone who drops by, picks up the parent for a date and ignores the child?

Also, if you're in a long-term relationship with a parent but don't care about their child, that's a form of emotional abuse and the parent should dump your ass ASAP and find a partner who can love them and their children appropriately.

Yes they should. But there are people who will put the relationship ahead of the child.

 

[Jayson1]

How did I forget Luke and Leia. You can't blame them either. Luke was a virgin and Han is frozen in carbonite. It can get lonely I am sure on those Rebel bases at night. So maybe when nobody is looking they sneak into each others quarters. I mean they waited like 3 years to rescue Han and that is along time to be lonely.

 

[Nerys Myk]

How did I forget Luke and Leia. You can't blame them either. Luke was a virgin and Han is frozen in carbonite. It can get lonely I am sure on those Rebel bases at night. So maybe when nobody is looking they sneak into each others quarters. I mean they waited like 3 years to rescue Han and that is along time to be lonely.

Lando was there with a cape to cry on.

 

[Mudd]

Let me know when y'all have solved the world.

 

[Jayson1]

Let me know when y'all have solved the world.

I already solved it. I just can't get people to implement the solutions.

 

[cooleddie74]

We can't have monkeys run all heavy equipment, Jayson. We've talked about this.

 

[Mudd]

I already solved it. I just can't get people to implement the solutions.

Send them to re-education camps. That always works.

 

[Jayson1]

We can't have monkeys run all heavy equipment, Jayson. We've talked about this.

You can if you embrace socialism. Every monkey gets a equal number of bananas whether he or she is doing something complicated like driving and operating a cement truck or something less taxing like digging ditches with shovels.

 

[Mudd]

What if they're flinging poo?

 

[Nerys Myk]

What if they're flinging poo?

They join the Central Committee.

 

[Jayson1]

They would never do that. The allure of 3 guaranteed bananas a day would be to much for them to do things that might upset the system.

 

[cooleddie74]

Just let primates get a word in edgewise and everything will be fi...

well. Better than before in any case.

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[Mudd]

They would never do that. The allure of 3 guaranteed bananas a day would be to much for them to do things that might upset the system.

Monkeys are too smart to buy that.

 

[The Realist]

Yep, this is officially a TNZ thread now. The folks in here who never go there are like, WTF is up with this monkey business?

Now all we need is some Tuvix.

 

[Jayson1]

Tuvix is a universal theme. All trek fans know about the brutal murder of this precious new soul at the hands of a cold blooded killer wanting nothing more than watch his life be pulled molecule from molecule through the transporter just to feel the rush of power she had knowing she was basically a God now. Decider of who lives and who dies.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Tuvix died for our sins.

 

[Timby]

I don't think there's anything more worthwhile to be said on the subject and we're at the point of people posting just to post, so we're going to say goodnight, here.