I'm pretty much with you on Daddy McGarrett. In fact, I don't think I like him.
As well as agreeing with you, I see his parents being very old school. She stays home, does the good wifely thing raises the kids, doesn't complain about Dad being away at work all the time etc, which I think has shaped the both of the kids into such different life directions.
And in my head, Daddy McGarrett might have loved his son and checked on him all the time and went to all his games, but that doesn't mean that spilled over into affection for his boy. I think that Steve spent his first 15 years practically begging for his fathers approval/affection in his studies, his sport, even just in life and being sent away showed him that he didn't get it from him.
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Date: 2011-11-21 09:57 am (UTC)As well as agreeing with you, I see his parents being very old school. She stays home, does the good wifely thing raises the kids, doesn't complain about Dad being away at work all the time etc, which I think has shaped the both of the kids into such different life directions.
And in my head, Daddy McGarrett might have loved his son and checked on him all the time and went to all his games, but that doesn't mean that spilled over into affection for his boy. I think that Steve spent his first 15 years practically begging for his fathers approval/affection in his studies, his sport, even just in life and being sent away showed him that he didn't get it from him.