fannish5: Monogamy Is Not For Everyone

[selenak]

Name five characters who probably shouldn't try to be monogamous.

1.) Chiana (Farscape). Actually, to clarify that: not because the early s3 incident, which was mostly Chiana panicking and self-sabotaging. Not to mention being very young. But I think even a mature Chiana under optimal cirucmstances would not be happy in a monagamous

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[selenak]

Hm, I'm between you and Kalypso in that I agree with her that Nate is more a serial bigamist than anything else, and that if he had died, he'd have kept upon wandering between Brenda types and Lise types (if Brenda wouldn't take him back, otherwise just between Brenda and the Madonna of the moment), but I also agree with you that he should not consider monogamy - for that very reason. You don't have to be prone to screw everything that moves in order to be unqualified for for monogamy. Inability to commit to one woman instead of two counts.

Re: Brenda - here I first was going to agree with you but then reconsidered. She did strike me as having matured and be more sure about what she wants than Nate did by the end of the show, but otoh most of the time she was married to Nate she was pregnant, and those are not normal circumstances. And in s4, Nate had a point about her taking up with him again just after Muscian Guy Whose Name Escapes Me Right Now had proposed to her. Not that I don't think Brenda wouldn't have gotten back together with Nate in any case, because she never fell out of love with him, but even leaving her s2 meltdown aside, she does have issue.