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what is it with Lauren Graham characters and their kid's teachers!?!?

Some familial content of my favourite trio (+lovers) because i felt like it was necessary

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding guest actor in a drama series

Parenthood; 3x02.

Mark & Sarah | Parenthood 1x07

But I am watching Parenthood for the first time and I am really... irritated with Sarah’s love life. I watched this out of love for Lauren Graham and I completely fell in love with her character and Mark as a ship. (Not to mention he’s actually pretty hot in an adorable puppy way, so.) They were so cute and at ease with each other. She laughs and smiles and he’s just so pure and good. Age is a number. On the one hand, I know he’s young and might regret never having children, but on the other, he’s a grown man and can make that choice with certainty.  I really dislike Hank and not because he broke up my preferred ship. I would’ve disliked him regardless. Because Mark was so much younger, I had a feeling they wouldn’t be endgame. I didn’t expect the typical trope of another guy coming between them, but. This show is a drama, and it’s one of those dramas with a sense of realism. Which is to be expected, coming from the creators of Friday Night Lights. Whether one half of a relationship is younger or not, if one person wants children and the other doesn’t, that can be a pretty big deciding factor in a break-up. They went through this rough patch and I feel like it would’ve been better for them to decide they wanted different things. I kind of feel like that would’ve been better than how it actually played out. It would’ve cast Hank in a more favorable light even if he isn’t altogether as likable as Mark.  So, Sarah starts working for Hank. Who is really weird and stand-offish and I don’t at all get what she sees in him. He kisses an engaged woman without her consent. He’s that creepy boss that makes girls uncomfortable. I know that he’s one of those guys that buries his feelings because he’s been cut by love so deeply in the past and they overwhelmed him so he kissed her, but it’s still just gross and it doesn’t make him look like a good guy. I get to a small degree Sarah not telling Mark about it too, even though I wish she had earlier. It was, in her mind at the time, a genuine mistake and crossing of wires. I get her wanting to put it behind her.  Then the entire drama with his needing to travel to see his daughter comes up. I think that Sarah’s heart was in the right place. I do. She is a mother and I don’t think it would’ve been too hard for her to imagine what it must be like to be in that position. However, this is no reason why he couldn’t go alone. He didn’t want it to seem like he was going there to stop the move?? Really? Dude, grow a pair and fight for the right to see your kid. It was wrong of Sarah to once again put another guy before Mark, even if I think she did a nice thing by trying to help someone in need. (Her ex husband was very different. He was the father of her children, but Hank?) Sarah is big-hearted and often takes care of others at her own expense--and a lot of the time at the expense of the people she loves most. I do see why Mark feels Hank’s actions were manipulative. They were, even if it was unintentional. Even if it was subconscious. He didn’t need her to go. While attending a wedding might seem like a smaller deal than someone’s relationship with their child being at stake, it still wasn’t... it wasn’t Sarah’s problem, frankly. It was important to Mark. I kept watching those episodes play out and asking “girl, what are you doing?” over and over. I thought it was a fair compromise, for her to meet him there, but I really, really understood why he was so upset. I saw the breakup coming at that point from a mile away. I hate to say it, but I’ve been liking Sarah a lot less since too.  I really don’t see any evidence in the writing or acting that Sarah loves Hank more than Mark and that Hank is better for her than Mark is. While there were some bumps in the road, he overall made her way happier than Hank has thus far. The guy literally takes off and leaves the state without telling her until he’s walking out the door. By the look on her face, I hoped that was going to be the end of them right there, her realizing it was a mistake, but nope. I really had hope when Mark showed up to declare his love and told her to decide. The way she smiled when he talked, the way she looked it at him.. she looked like someone hearing an “I love you” from someone she desperately wanted it from, not from a guy she didn’t love anymore. I have watched Gilmore Girls like 6 times. When you love a show so much, you get acquainted with the actors’ acting. That was not her “I really wish I loved you Christopher, but I don’t, I love Luke face.” I have never heard her speak on it but I think it’s kind of obvious who Lauren anyway, might’ve preferred. That sweet man literally laid his heart at her feet and then gave her the space to decide what she wanted to do. I guess Hank did the same, but not before laying on a heavy dose of guilt.  “I like this, so that means of course you’re going to leave me.”  I get it. He’s depressed, he’s self deprecating, but... come on. I know that doesn’t make him a bad person, but it still... ugh, I don’t know, I just don’t like this character.  She literally says to Mark, as she says her final goodbye, “I can’t describe how much I love you, but I’m going to make it work with Hank.”  She’s going to make it work with Hank. She loves Mark, but she’s going to make it work with Hank. Why? What? When she tells Hank she loves him later, it’s... it’s hard to buy it. Lauren and Ray have 0 chemistry. I get that Jason Ritter probably wanted to leave the show, but an earlier breakup, or even a different kind of breakup, would’ve been better and more believable.  In my view, Sarah majorly settled for Hank. Which doesn’t make sense, because puppy eyes was over here fighting hard for her and she could’ve chosen him. I never got why in an earlier episode, right after they broke up, her father says that he wasn’t the right guy. Back that up with some evidence because I can’t find it.  I know they get married in the end, but the fact that he moved away and left her makes the entire thing so much worse. I know she couldn’t turn around and go get Mark after that, but a part of me wished she would. Like honestly, fuck Hank. There was nothing likable about him and nothing shippable about them. Just because he’s the “proper age” for her doesn’t make him the better man or the right man. They are just.. so awkward and they don’t fit. I get that Ray’s character is supposed to be shy and awkward and that he’s warming up and becoming less so around her, but somehow... I don’t know. It just doesn’t work for me.  Anyways, I don’t have anyone to talk about this show with so I wanted to complain somewhere. 

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