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by AldusValor
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I needed to jot something down about the whole of Season V thus far. Season 2 had some big revelations. The identity of the Sovereign and the identity of the boys' mother, would be the biggest among them. For seven years, those truths were universally acknowledged. We held those truths to be self-evident!

I'm not taking anything away from the writing. Undoing both of those reveals in back-to-back episodes the way that they did took some real special talent. Part of me loves this direction.

But there's another part of me. The part that spent the last 10 years of my life memorizing every last detail of every single episode. I've been with this show since the beginning. It's been a huge part of my entire adult life. I love nothing more than to slip lines from the dialogue into normal conversation (ask me sometime about working in "my nipples work as a team.")

For years, I've considered myself an expert. Any piece of trivia, no matter how trivial any piece of speculation, no matter how speculative, I was your man.

But now, if someone asks me, "Who's the boy's mother?"
I'm forced to answer with, "well....."

Jul. 8, 2013, 8:21pm

by cpc65
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If Doc and JP had this planned all along then I'm cool with it, but if they suddenly decided to do an about face just to be shocking and freshen things up then I have issues, because that would be so unlike them.

Jul. 8, 2013, 9:02pm

by Mike
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Myra was never really confirmed as their mother. It was only hard and fast that Doc had sex with her, which doesn't necessarily mean anything outside of that fact. I honestly never answered with a definitive "Myra" if someone asked, just with a "there's this one lady who could maybe be it?"

Jul. 9, 2013, 3:26am

by The Mysterious 'H'
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"Okay, so I fucked her. What of it?!"

Jul. 9, 2013, 4:10am

by gnormie
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Going back to the episode where Myra was introduced I always got the feeling Doc was giving out half truths to get the boys off his back. He went out of his way not to confirm or deny Myra was their mother which tells me he wanted the boys to be so confused they stopped asking about their mother.

If he confirmed Myra was their mother then they want to know more about her. If he denied Myra was their mother then they would keep nagging him about who she is. So letting the boys think this crazy woman might be their mother was the perfect solution to avoid the mommy conversation.

Jul. 14, 2013, 6:37pm

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