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I squee enough to drive bats out of the sky when I think of the upcoming SJA episodes.

when was the last time someone didn't have a dead parent? Or at least divorced parents

The Chandras are the *first* nuclear family to show up in any of the Whoniverse series, and the only ones to count one of the show's stars as a member (unless you go sideways for Ianto's sister's family in Children of Earth.)

Three shows. Multiple seasons. The first. Oy. Add to it that both Gita and Haresh, although played for laughs, are also competent at something, and it's unheard of in the Whoniverse.

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I mean, kudos to the Whoniverse for showing families outside the nuclear "norm" (even if it has a rather bad track record showing them as happy or functional families, a point that bothers me somewhat), but, still, it's nice to see a family that isn't unhappy. Some of them have to be, right?

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I liked the variety at first, but then I rapidly got a bit o.O that, while functional, *every* family was either missing a parent for one reason or another and/or unhappy (or in the case of Martha's family, both). And then most of the unmarried love affairs were doomed in one manner or another.

So yes - some of them have to be, and I'm glad that it finally sunk in that there had to be a couple of 'em left in the UK!

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It's a pattern for TV in general, I think - I can name maybe one or two functional married couples out of all the TV I watch. Supposedly a married couple or long-term committed partnership isn't as interesting as family drama or romance outside of marriage, which seems like a bit of a failure of imagination to me.

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can name maybe one or two functional married couples out of all the TV I watch

It used to be better, I think. Scarecrow & Mrs. King were eventually married, Hart to Hart were always married, as were the leads in the original Invisible Man series.

Half the issues in Hart to Hart were "will this break up their wonderful marriage? Of course not!"

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It seems LJ ate my reply...I'm sorry if it shows up twice.

Donna's parents were together in Runaway Bride, and would have been together in season 4 had Howard Attfield not passed away. Also, Gwen's parents are still together, according to the episode Something Borrowed.

But yeah, I was going to comment on the lack of intact families in the (new) Whoniverse: Rose's dad is dead, Sarah Jane's parents died when she was a baby, and Martha, Clyde, Maria, and Mickey are children of divorce.

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Ah - I'd forgotten about Donna's dad! I knew that Howard Attfield was supposed to play him, but I'd forgotten that he actually showed up in Runaway Bride. And I didn't know about anyone's family in Torchwood.

And there's Luke, who's technically parentless but has his adoptive mother, and we never see most of the Classic companions' families. Not many parents there.

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I give them points for going beyond the happy nuclear family, but after a while, I had to wonder why it seemed there were none left in the UK!

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