This is a gripe I've had for years.
Don't get me wrong. I'm child-free and happy about it. In real life people should absolutely make that decision if it's right for them.
But making it the main conflict between a couple on a soap is BORING.
Now, if Abby had been a character like Erica Kane, who gets pregnant and sneaks off to have an abortion behind her husband's back--THAT'S a soap story that could potentially reverberate for years.
But she wasn't that kind of character.
The same thing is going on at Beyond the Gates. The most boring couple, Naomi and Jacob, never talked about anything other than other characters. So they "juiced" them up by giving them this conflict.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
It makes a great magazine article, but as a soap story, it sucks.
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DeeVee ·
