This week Clare returned to the show.
Does anyone remember Clare? She was around for about five seconds six months ago and appeared to have a crush on Jack. Then she was raped by the Beachwood Beast and promptly disappeared afterwards.
Anyway, she arrived in town and immediately offered to be a surrogate for Jack and Lincoln.
Jack was thrilled with the idea for some reason, and said yes without even thinking about it.
What is wrong with Jack? “Well, I’ve been sober for a month after a serious p-addiction, I have essentially zero income, I haven’t finished school yet, and Lincoln and I have been together for only a couple of weeks, so this should be great!”
Jack and Clare ambushed Lincoln with the idea, and he was a bit ambivalent about it. Who would blame him?
He eventually came around to it after being pressured into it.
I assume that what we are meant to gather from this is that these people have all completely lost the plot?
Jack at least sort of has an excuse- those drugs probably really munted his brain. But the rest of them don’t have any excuse.
I’m also a bit worried about Clare. She was raped only a few months ago and is also only like 19 years old. And does she even know about Jack’s drug addiction?
In yesterday’s episode we had the very contrived twist of Clare overhearing Lincoln on the phone saying that she was “damaged” and that the surrogacy was probably a bad idea. Yeah, great idea to have that conversation in the staff room where anyone could just walk in at any time.
Does this remind anyone of Morgan’s disastrous surrogacy storyline back in 2009? You know, when Morgan decided that she just had to carry a baby for her friends?
Well, it turned out that the parents-to-be were actually total lunatics who were constantly at each others’ throats. They kept harassing Morgan, often screaming at her, and threatening to file lawsuits against her. Yeah (!), I’m sure a baby would fare very well in that kind of environment (!).
What a horrendous storyline. I think it may have been worse for me than it was for the characters. By the end I wanted to throttle the lot of them.
So how long do you think it will be until this new surrogacy situation goes pear shaped?