trust, not trut :smack:
18 is the legal age for adulthood, and even if Duncan didn’t personally have the money, I find it hard to believe that Celeste and Jake would allow their granddaughter to be adopted away without a fight. Duncan’s parental rights would have to be terminated before the baby could be adopted by anyone else in any case, either voluntarily or by court order. I realize they had to do something to get Duncan written out and I’m glad they didn’t just kill him off, but this scenario was still extremely contrived.
I don’t know that Duncan is the father. He says he is.
But I don’t think Celeste was going to fight to keep the baby. I think Celeste was going to fight to disavow the baby. And perhaps Duncan even knows that he’s not the father, but wants to save the baby.
You’re right that they didn’t explain it. I wasn’t bothered by the lack of explanation.
This ep did require a huge suspension of disbelief. While there could be some plausibility to Meg’ parents winning a custody battle over the baby if they planned to raise it themselves, there is certainly none if they intended to put it up for adoption.
But as for Duncan’s money, they did explain that - he doesn’t have any. He doesn’t have access to billions of dollars. His parents are billionaires, but at no time has the show asserted that Duncan is independently wealthy - no discussion of a trust fund to which he has access, etc. When I was 18 my parents were pretty well off, but I had to scrounge to get money to go out on a Saturday night.
And the show did explain that the Kane parents were not interested in supporting Duncan in a custody battle. Veronica said that “Celeste isn’t ready to be a grandmother.” Snippy, but honestly I don’t see it as implausible that they don’t want their son to become a single teen parent. In the real world, many babies of teenage parents are put up for adoption.
Sua
The only way Duncan wouldn’t be that baby’s legal guardian is if Meg’s parents had some kind of court order giving them custody (perhaps only temporarily, until the adoption could happen?). Maybe they did that. If they went to a judge and questioned the baby’s paternity, talked about Duncan’s history or emotional problems, and the Kanes wouldn’t pony up for an attorney, there might have been some question. Still, there should have been a paternity test and some legal proceddings before kidnapping the baby and starting a new life in Mexico became Plan A. I agree the situation wasn’t explained very well, and their plan wasn’t up to Veronica’s usual standards.
I’ll miss Duncan. I was one of three viewers who liked his relationship with Veronica.
There was no adoption intended, according to Meg, her parents wanted to send the baby to a catholic boarding school, where the baby would be raised as a god fearing orphan, perhaps later to be taken back in by Meg’s parents and abused the way Meg’s sister was (and I suspect the way Meg was. I think Meg’s father is the bay’s father, but since Meg and Duncan were together when she got pregnant, she honestly believes Duncan is, since she was probably in denial about the abuse)
Was it a boarding school? I didn’t think so. At any rate, it wasn’t Catholic. Those people are SO not Catholic.
It was something that Meg stenuously objected to because she felt it would be no better than prison
I thought in the previouslies Meg specifically used the words “adoption” and “religious” (as opposed to naming a specific religion and pissing people off).
BTW, did anyone else notice the TWOP shout out?
what’s TWOP?
Television Without Pity. They do snarky recaps of TV shows. They’re usually pretty funny, and the folks at VM read them and occasionally visit TWOP’s message boards.
Which shoutout, Otto? There’s one in just about every episode, it seems.
A poster on a bulletin board, in the TWoP colors, reading:
Teenage
Women
of
Propriety
Ha! No, I didn’t notice that.