After having reservations about becoming a mother, Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) finally let herself enjoy the little miracle growing inside her. She even let Addison (Kate Walsh) do the first ultrasound, which is when everything went downhill; the baby growing inside her was developing without a brain.
"She's almost short-circuited by the information," Scorsone, who also happens to be expecting in real life, tells TVGuide.com. "She's faced so much tragedy in her life, especially this year, that this new terrible revelation is almost enough to break her." And break she did. Her fellow doctors had already been concerned about Amelia closing herself off, but now she revealed to happy new mother Addison that even hanging around her and witnessing her joy was too painful.
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I don't get what Shonda has against the pregnant women on her show, but I wish she'd stop that. I think Bailey's pregnancy on GA is the only one ever without complications.
ReplyDeleteAnd poor Amelia. I wouldn't be surprised if she broke after giving birth.
Too bad Scorsone couldn't tap in to her personal experience as a pregnant woman. Last night was an essay in bad acting from her part.
ReplyDeleteReally? I think she was amazing last night.
ReplyDeleteI think she did a great job, actually.. and it had to be hard. Since she's pregnant herself, it probably tortured her to think of something that awful happening to her own child. And I don't think it's bad that she didn't "tap in" to that enough for some people - it would have been horrific to do that to yourself for the sake of a television role.
ReplyDeleteI thought she did a great job with this episode. I was never a big Amelia fan but she did do a great job being jealous of Addison's joy right now. Addison had a much harder time having a child and she should be having a great time enjoying being a mom so this happiness does bring down an expectant mom who is having a baby without a brain.
ReplyDeleteMy little girl died of the same illness her character's baby has. And the show clearly didn't research it too well, because of the nature of the disease babies who die of it can rarely be organ donors. (The full explanation of why is too long and complicated for this post). As for the rest of the article, even if your child dies you are still a mother. A child's life matters and has value for it's own sake, even if their life is short. After my daughter was diagnosed I really tried to cherish the time I was pregnant because I knew it was the only time I would have with her. I tried to value the time we had together even though I was sad because that was her whole life, and we deserved to enjoy what little time was had together as a family.
ReplyDeleteI'm very sorry to hear your sad story. It must have been a hard episode to watch.
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