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December unscheduled posting meme: Peter & Elizabeth
This question from Leesa Perrie is spoilery for season six of White Collar, so I'll put the whole thing under a cut.
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leesa_perrie asked: How do you see Peter and Elizabeth adapting to a child in their lives?
Really well, honestly. They're SO well-adjusted anyway, both as a couple and as individuals. As much as I have enjoyed them as a contentedly childless couple, I think Neal's right that their kid won the parent lottery. They're the kind of people who would thoroughly dote on their child while also giving him/her structure and guidance, who'd support them in whatever they wanted to do.
.... Well, okay, just based on how he relates to Neal, I can see Peter being a little accidentally heavy-handed about trying to push his kid towards the things he likes, not because he's trying to make them into a mini-me but because he likes the things, and he has all this nostalgia for his childhood things, and he wants them to like the things too! In particular he seems like the kind of dad who would really, really want to teach his kid ALL THE SPORTS and enroll them on ALL THE TEAMS, and try to do all the things with his kid that his dad used to do with him. But I also think that if he realized they weren't having fun he'd back down quickly, and El is savvy and honest enough to catch something like that even if Peter himself didn't.
I don't think either of them will be stay-at-home parents, but it will definitely impact their lives ... I mean, it couldn't not impact their lives. Peter will probably have to cut back his long work hours; they won't be able to have "date nights" for awhile, and so forth. Still, even though there will be adjustment difficulties, I can see the two of them finding a lot of pleasure in it -- they've always been the kind of people who would rather have a quiet dinner at home than go out, anyway.
And I also think it will, in a weird way, cement them even more closely to the rest of the cast. I feel that way about Diana's baby, too, because I could see Neal and Mozzie dropping out of the adults' lives and going off to do their own thing somewhere else, but I have a hard time seeing them completely withdrawing from Theo's life, and ditto with the Burkes' baby. I think at this point they're all irrevocably stuck with each other in one big, weird, sometimes conflicted family.
leesa_perrie asked: How do you see Peter and Elizabeth adapting to a child in their lives?Really well, honestly. They're SO well-adjusted anyway, both as a couple and as individuals. As much as I have enjoyed them as a contentedly childless couple, I think Neal's right that their kid won the parent lottery. They're the kind of people who would thoroughly dote on their child while also giving him/her structure and guidance, who'd support them in whatever they wanted to do.
.... Well, okay, just based on how he relates to Neal, I can see Peter being a little accidentally heavy-handed about trying to push his kid towards the things he likes, not because he's trying to make them into a mini-me but because he likes the things, and he has all this nostalgia for his childhood things, and he wants them to like the things too! In particular he seems like the kind of dad who would really, really want to teach his kid ALL THE SPORTS and enroll them on ALL THE TEAMS, and try to do all the things with his kid that his dad used to do with him. But I also think that if he realized they weren't having fun he'd back down quickly, and El is savvy and honest enough to catch something like that even if Peter himself didn't.
I don't think either of them will be stay-at-home parents, but it will definitely impact their lives ... I mean, it couldn't not impact their lives. Peter will probably have to cut back his long work hours; they won't be able to have "date nights" for awhile, and so forth. Still, even though there will be adjustment difficulties, I can see the two of them finding a lot of pleasure in it -- they've always been the kind of people who would rather have a quiet dinner at home than go out, anyway.
And I also think it will, in a weird way, cement them even more closely to the rest of the cast. I feel that way about Diana's baby, too, because I could see Neal and Mozzie dropping out of the adults' lives and going off to do their own thing somewhere else, but I have a hard time seeing them completely withdrawing from Theo's life, and ditto with the Burkes' baby. I think at this point they're all irrevocably stuck with each other in one big, weird, sometimes conflicted family.