Board Thread:COMPLETE BULLSHIT Forum/@comment-24.130.28.230-20140318041303/@comment-64.191.177.146-20140723173824

130.126.72.213 wrote: Yes it was a MAJOR let down. That is a really lame excuse to abandon your son for several years. Accidents happen all the time. I can understand if he left for a couple months or even a year, but for that long to go without talking to your son? It seems incredibly unrealistic. And the show hyped it up as though it was some major major reveal that would change everything. This means nothing. Doesn't affect anything. And yet parents do it all the time. It is a lame excuse not to see your son but it is what so many folks do and therefore one of the more realistic parent/child moments on the show. And some parents have even lamer excuss.

It should've been hyped as a major moment becuase it was a human moment and it means a lot to THE MAIN CHARACTER and his development. It affects every moment of Scott's life, having a father who walked away (or was thrown out and chose to stay away). Everything Scott does is actually colored by that iincident even if he didn't remember it. He just knows his dad left and never really came back.

And Melissa, knowing Scott didn't remember the fall, worries, like any mother (or father if they're the caretaker) that the child will blame them. She made him leave (doesn't matter that she didn't make him stay out of Scott's life at all, she made him leave: child logic).