The thing that struck me the most about that debate in Barrayar was my disappointment in Aral. I was glad he chose to support Cordelia, saying to Piotr "You are my past. She is my future." I was disappointed, however, that Aral wasn't showing any determination to defend his son. If it were Cordelia who didn't want to go through with the pregnancy, Aral never would have come up with the idea of using the uterine replicator to let Miles have a chance at life even though his mother didn't want to gestate him. Miles wasn't real to Aral yet -- and while I guess I can understand how an unborn might not feel as real to his father as he felt to his mother, I still wanted to see Aral defend him.
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Date: 2009-01-11 02:04 am (UTC)