Land of our fathers (and Doctors )

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Heroes continues to improve. Here I was watching the last few moments of ep 9 (I think?)and vaguely thinking how fixated Heroes in particular, and modern US TV in general seems to be on fathers, and especially dead fathers - when we discover that HRG isn't dead at all. A twist! Redemption by the blood of the daughter rather than the son! And Hiro couldn't rescue his dad from death, we all knew that, or no one would ever stay dead, but it was nicely done. But that still leaves Telepath Cop and his dysfucnctional father and Mohinder and his dad, and Elle and Monster Bob (funy how everyone called Bob is evi isn't it?) and, and...

But seriously why IS America apparently so hung up on fathers (usually dead) and children? What happened to the mothers? Lost season 3 is the same. Jack and his father, the Korean couple and who is the father of her child and *her* father, Kate and her murder of her step-dad, and about a 1000 other badbad child-father relationships I can't recall right now.

Will no one think of the mothers? All we've got is Angela Petrelli in Heroes and no obvious mother-daughter (or son) relationship of any importance in Lost (unless you count non adult-to-adult relationships, like Claire and her baby, which I don't). Strange!

In other meeja news, caught up on Turn Left in Dr Who which like most people i think I thought was bloody ace (and Catherine Tate acted her socks, shoes and sandals off). So now we know the Donna-is-deadmeat stuff was misdirection, does our-Donna still have to die? (My bet is no, and happy ending for Donna and her dream guy from the library.)And how many people out there said , "oh god, it's Crisis on Infinite Earths!" as soon as Rose told us why she was there?!

Has The Doctor ever mentioned his mother or father, one wonders? And if not, why not? It seesm we now know that Gallifreyans *do* marry and raise kids; having just rewatched The Impossible Plahnet, I vaguely wondered if Time Lords were also "grown not made" but probably not. Maybe UK TV writers are just less hung up on their relationship with their fathers than the US variety?!