Speaking of lazy writing, ...
Question: Speaking of lazy writing, why, oh, why, must we have babies on prime time? They serve no purpose. If a baby is in a scene, it will either be lost/kidnapped, cry while the caretaker of the moment can't get it to stop before someone else gets it to stop on the spot, or provide the opportunity for a diaper-change episode/scene. Yeah, that's about it. Latest example this week:
Grey's Anatomy. Please use your powers, Matt, and keep babies off of prime time, or at least make them go upstairs and come down as teenagers like on the soaps.
Answer: You overestimate my powers, but I share your pain. Much as I love
Grey's and enjoy the humorous interludes as much as the romantic and medical subplots, it was just too silly to saddle Cristina with Bailey's infant and have her fumble so predictably at tasks like diaper changes. (I did love George coming to the rescue, though. Go, George!) Babies can be a crutch, and I agree with my "Is It Just Me?" colleague Rochell Thomas that Bailey has already brought the baby to the hospital at least once too often. And yet there are times when babies add plenty to a show, from the birth of Little Ricky on
I Love Lucy to the Cylon hybrid child on
Battlestar Galactica to the fate of Claire's infant on
Lost. (I will, however, never forgive
The X-Files for Scully's "miracle" baby.)
