Post by Lady in Red on Jan 3, 2016 11:29:45 GMT
You know what I often wonder about? How distant the children are from the adults in the show. Of course, they got very close to Fran, but mostly as a friend or as a "fourth" of them. Gracie probably saw her as a mother in the earlier seasons,but most of the times, she was a confidant. This is of course because of how old the children already were when she came. The other real relatinship was built with Yetta - at least Gracie and Brighton. Yetta loved them, and it's absolutely impossible to not love Yetta. Even C.C. liked her. In her way. Otherwise, the most realistic relationships were to Sylvia, Val and C.C. -the Nanny's mother, her friend the Father's collegue. They knew each other. That's it. What I don't understand is - what's with Maxwell and Niles? Maxwell is their father, Niles raised them. There was NO relationship. Of course, the distance is understandable to Niles, because I assume that's how you are with a butler (probably even if that butler woke up in the middle of the night, changed your diapers and played Santa Clause for you) but Maxwell is there father. Of course, he's got work. But he mostly works at home and spends lots of time with everyone else. Yet, apart from sharing a chair with Gracie in the early seasons. There was neither a kind of emotional or physical closeness. Considering they're already half-orphans I think that's rather odd. Except there's the whole "they remind me of Sara, so I can't be with them"-thing. The next thing is - the friends. The kids had friends, yes. Whenever they brought a friend to the Sheffield home, it was a different one and always a loose friend. Apart from Fran, they really had no one they were truly close with. Not even Gracie, who is more the type for one very close friend instead of many loose ones. Also, before Michael came, Maggie never had a serious relatinship. They also never spent really time with Jocelyn (okay, Maggie went riding with nice Jocelyn and Gracie was afraid she had to be shot, so that's okay and who would want to be with mean Jocelyn anyways) or Nigel. Is it because of the loss of Sara? Are the children totally afraid of bonding? Of course, their relationship with Fran (and with Yetta) is beautiful, but otherwise they seem rather lonely. They were not even particularly close with each other.
