Excellent analysis and discussion. My yearning is to hear more in canon about Steve's mom--so far, only fanfic has engaged with her much at all IMO. Canon has barely given us any info at all, other than she's dead & Wo Fat likely killed her. What was her name, huh? I'd love to meet an old friend of Steve's mom in canon. Didn't she have any friends or kin?
In my personal canon, Steve's mom came from one of the Old Hawaiian Families with money--it's how a cop family like the McGarrets could afford a home by the beach in Oahu with the high real estate prices. Mom married down when she married Jack (she married for Love!) so her family doesn't have much to do with Jack's offspring...
I'm seeing a tv show trend of Motherless Sons (non-H50 examples off the top of my head: Dexter and SGA's Sheppard), where mom either died when the hero was a child or was otherwise missing/not an influence, allowing the Hero to have all these Daddy Issues. Not that Daddy Issues aren't fun & dramatically interesting, but doesn't anyone have Mommy Issues anymore? Or is it that the Hero can't have them?
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Date: 2011-11-21 06:07 pm (UTC)Excellent analysis and discussion.
My yearning is to hear more in canon about Steve's mom--so far, only fanfic has engaged with her much at all IMO. Canon has barely given us any info at all, other than she's dead & Wo Fat likely killed her. What was her name, huh? I'd love to meet an old friend of Steve's mom in canon. Didn't she have any friends or kin?
In my personal canon, Steve's mom came from one of the Old Hawaiian Families with money--it's how a cop family like the McGarrets could afford a home by the beach in Oahu with the high real estate prices. Mom married down when she married Jack (she married for Love!) so her family doesn't have much to do with Jack's offspring...
I'm seeing a tv show trend of Motherless Sons (non-H50 examples off the top of my head: Dexter and SGA's Sheppard), where mom either died when the hero was a child or was otherwise missing/not an influence, allowing the Hero to have all these Daddy Issues. Not that Daddy Issues aren't fun & dramatically interesting, but doesn't anyone have Mommy Issues anymore? Or is it that the Hero can't have them?