Two & a Half Men plans “gay adoption” plot
How do you know when a show is at its end? When it dreams up plots like this one. Minor Spoilers.
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Minor Spoilers: This alarming plot just smells of a final season …which of course it is.
Two and a Half Men is planning to hitch its two stars in a fake gay wedding so they can adopt a child.
Yes you read correctly.
Here’s how it will all play out…..
Walden (Ashton Kutcher) experiences a health scare that will lead him to having an “existential crisis.”
As CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler told reporters, “He wants to find a way to add more meaning to his life so he decides he wants to adopt a child and in doing so, he starts the process and realises that it’s very difficult to adopt a child as a single, straight man.
“So once and for all he decides, ‘I’m going to propose to Alan (Jon Cryer) and we’re going to get married and adopt a child as a gay couple’.”
Tassler went on to say that she is not concerned with a potential backlash from the LGBT community, citing it as “a very positive statement.”
While the move comes comes a year after adding Amber Tamblyn as Charlie’s long-lost lesbian daughter,a spokesperson for GLAAD urged the show to depict the “greater scrutiny” faced by same-sex couples in the adoption process, in addition to “the progress made in acceptance of gay and lesbian couples”.
“We hope the show will acknowledge not only the progress made in acceptance of gay and lesbian couples, but also the fact that — in many areas of the country — same-sex couples are often under greater scrutiny or still barred from adoption options that straight couples have,” a spokesperson told the Hollywood Reporter.
Not to mention marriage.
Ultimately everything is in the execution but if the show was genuine about putting out a positive message, why isn’t it doing it with same-sex characters and why has it waited until the last season?
Sorry Chuck, Modern Family wins this one hands down.
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8 Responses
“religious right” not “religious folk in general”.
If I need to clarify further – I was referring to people who believe that homosexuality is a sin and seek to force that belief onto other people through censorship and by restricting their rights, even those people who are not members of their particular religion.
Your comment about religious people having “a warped sense of reality” is pretty offensive. I’m surprised David allowed that comment through given the reference to religion in the Comments Policy. Guess he agrees with you on that one.
It would be wrong (very wrong) to presume I agree with every comment approved here. Moderation falls back on wording and context. Comments allow for robust debate, just as you have defended here. But the wording of the comment was general enough not to impact on any specific religion.
@Secret Squirrel: FOX did the very same thing when Patty came out on The Simpsons, and even Channel Ten gave it one of The Simpsons’ rare PG warnings prior to the episode (though it is common practice now, it wasn’t back in 2005).
There have been jokes about people thinking Alan and Walden were a couple for quite a while. This story in a way gives them another “half” men. They already jumped the shark when they introduced Joan of Arcadia as Charlies lesbian daughter thet he never knew. Now if only nine will screen the remaining half of its 11th season.
I am with Pertinax on the ‘positive message’ aspect, I want to be entertained, made to laugh etc….when shows have a ‘message’ it bores me senseless, especially the clumsy,heavy handed way that many (not all) US shows handle this.
I am with David when it comes to the quality of the idea….it sounds way too far fetched and ultimately crap. In real life a straight bloke wanting kids would go out of his way to find a like minded female….durr. And plenty could be made fun of about this
IIRC, ABC (US not Aus) inserted a warning msg at the beginning of that Ellen ep because, you know, you wouldn’t want children watching someone coming out in case they had nightmares or something.
There were also the usual protests and threats of violence from the religious right trying to impose their warped sense of reality on other people. We’d like to think that we’ve progressed in the 17 or so years since but I’m not so sure.
Why should every show have to be a positive message? Who wants to watch public service announcements all night.
The are just taking a common plot (e.g. I Now Pronounce you Vince and Ralph) to continue the Alan is gay jokes they have been doing for 11 years. As they are entitled to do.
If people don’t like it they shouldn’t watch it. I don’t.
They aren’t the first show to resort to desperate storylines in their final season. Even Ellen only came out in her last sitcom season. But don’t try to pass it off as a positive message.