YES. THANK YOU.
Not only immature, but being lectured by that same grown ass man about how immature she was, before and after they had sex.
(Morgan's rape happened before they had sex. The "suffering" was Nola lying about being pregnant. Because that grown ass man was too stupid to keep track of who he had slept with when).
Marland even said in interviews that he created the story because he asked his teenaged niece what kind of story she would like. So, yes, he was selling the fantasy that an older boy (man) would fall in love with you, you could have sex with him, and then end up married. Every soap opera character suffers before they attain any kind of happiness, he doesn't deserve applause for that.
The funny thing is, they were locked into the Kelly/Morgan marriage, because the outdoor scenes had been taped way beforehand. Vigard said in The Locher Room interview that all the outdoor scenes at Laurel Falls were taped over a few days at the same location, including the wedding. She was fired (or quit, depending on who you ask) very soon after the wedding scenes aired. So when Marland was talking about a year and a half of story going down the drain, he was likely thinking of the pre-taped material already in the can. He had no choice but to write the marriage story. Which is too bad, because IMO it was a mistake to marry them off, the subsequent story was not good. It might have been a better thing if the nework/sponsors had pressured him to abandon it. Though he might have quit the show even earlier if they had done that.
As someone who has written and enjoyed reading fanfic by others (not soaps), my rule is this:
Stay true to the characters and the history of the show and you can do whatever the eff you want.
In this case, Fletcher fathered a child AFTER it was established he had had a vasectomy BEFORE Michelle was conceived. IMO, it is not only perfectly plausible to use that for a story, it's an excellent use of the show's history.
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