Fannish 5: Pregnancy...

Five unfortunate uses of pregnancy as a plot device.:

1. Scully's pregnancy in X-Files.
   
   
2. Amy Pond's wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey pregnancies in Doctor Who.
   
   
3. The alternate Olivia's pregnancy in Fringe. Okay, the pregnancy plot itself is/was really good. But having alternate Walter interfere, having the childbirth turned into one of thoe instant/magical things - not so smooth. An unusual clumsiness in a superb show.
   
   
4. The Scarlet Witch's imaginary/magical pregnancy in Marvel comics. It was absurd, and it was a disappointing climax to what had been a good storyline. And guess what? They've picked it up again and made something quite interesting of it - for instance, Wiccan's identity and his search for his mother in Children's Crusade. Subsequent stories have made me forgive the lame situation that existed in the first place.
   
   
5. Children of Men, where the pregnancy is simply unexplained because it is unexplainable. That's cheap.