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Anonymous
The vacation is a week. Caring for two children for one week is quite different from taking on financial responsibility for a grown woman and two children. If Cameron goes broke and her parents aren't all that financially well off, she will be in a bad situation quite quickly and the rosy picture you're painting of her life seems unlikely. What skills and education does Daphne have? Did she ever work? Why don't you make up some more stuff about her backstory out of whole cloth, so that your little fantasy of her works out? |
Anonymous
GOOD LORD!! Daphne has light hair and blue eyes. Cameron only has to carry the recessive gene for blue eyes and they can definitely have blonde hair and blue-eyed kids. I'm a brunette woman with two teenage blonde blue-eyed sons that definitely came from me. My husband is blonde. A blonde/red-head and a brunette can definitely make a blonde kid---and many of these kids are blonde as kids that turn darker as they get older. People assume dark hair is dominant, but my sister also has two blonde kids and one brunette and her hair is jet black. Her husband is a blonde. |
Anonymous
I think it is ambiguous to make people go with the more obvious "oh wow! she's having an affair they aren't his kids', but I don't think that is it at all--especially with her behavior of not doing anything bad or even trying on her night away and her obvious love/attachment for Cameron. I think she has inner fury that he is doing this stuff behind her back and it wasn't until Harper told her something went on when they were gone--that it gets her going. She told herself he only cheated once and it didn't mean anything and he's not a bad person like the guys at work. I'm guessing either someone falsely tells Cameron they aren't his kids (when they really are)--and that passion killing happens to the messenger. Or- Daphne does finally decide enough is enough and her inner Betty Broderick comes out and she carries out a plan--like she alluded in the scene about watching and loving all the Dateline's where the wife kills the husband. |
Anonymous
Yeah that is why I said it is AMBIGUOUS. Do you know what the word ambiguous means? The show is basically swimming in ambiguity but when they want something to be clear they do show it (ie we know Ethan did not cheat on Harper that night with Cameron). I'm not saying the kids aren't Cameron's, I'm saying the scene is ambiguous. Are you also the poster that thinks the only way people can love each other is sunshine and rainbows and happiness and Daphne is just some poor lovestuck lady crying herself to sleep every night? |
Anonymous
Brown eyed people can carry two dominant Brown genes (kids will have brown eyes--though eye color genetic is tricky and not always-can sometime be green, etc. due to heterozengity). Brown eyed people can also carry one dominant Brown gene and one recessive Blue eye gene. If their spouse has light eyes--the kids can also have light eyes. Can 2 brown-eyed parents have a blue-eyed child? Yes. The short answer is that brown-eyed parents can have kids with brown, blue or virtually any other color eyes. Eye color is very complicated and involves many genes. On the surface, the dominant/recessive eye color model that has been taught in biology classes for decades. However, while about three-fourths of eye color variation can be explained by genetic changes in and around the gene, OCA2 is not the only influence on color. A recent study that compared eye color to OCA2 status showed that 62 percent of individuals with two copies of the blue-eyed OCA2 allele, as well as 7.5 percent of the individuals who had the brown-eyed OCA2 alleles, had blue eyes. A number of other genes (such as TYRP1, ASIP and ALC42A5) also function in the melanin pathway and shift the total amount of melanin present in the iris. The combined efforts of these genes may boost melanin levels to produce hazel or brown eyes, or reduce total melanin resulting in blue eyes. This explains how two parents with blue eyes can have green- or brown-eyed children (an impossible situation under the Davenport single gene model) – the combination of color alleles received by the child resulted in a greater amount of melanin than either parent individually possessed. |
Anonymous
+1 It's extremely bizarre to me that people think this woman's life is aspirational or that she has a good relationship. And yes people have said those exact things in this thread. To me, their relationship is a complete dumpster fire and she is a cautionary tale. |
Anonymous
No. I'm the person saying Cameron and Daphne love each other--even with his flaws and infidelity. |
Anonymous
And, Harper isn't? Out of the two women, Harper seems way more miserable and dissatisfied in her sexless marriage with a husband that shows her zero affection and is always annoyed with her and beating off to p*rn. |
Anonymous
Did I say anything about Harper? No. Their marriage is a mess too. But at least Harper doesn't have innocent kids in the mix and she has a job. |
Anonymous
They might love each other but love isn't enough. Isn't that the whole point of the Nono story? He thought he loved his wife too and Dom is telling him he made her life miserable and his kids. |
Anonymous
I thought she was purposefully ambiguous about whether she's having an affair with the trainer, but by showing Harper a picture of her kids was intentionally signaling to Harper, "don't mess with my marriage because I'm sticking with Cameron for my kids." The trainer isn't the point. |
Anonymous
But Harper really wants kids. And, she appears jealous of Daphne's lifestyle which is why she gossips and speaks poorly of her--though I think that is starting to turn and she is liking her more. |
Anonymous
Harper is definitely jealous of the love and affection Cameron shows Daphne--and the sex they have which she has heard through the walls while she and Ethan sit there not talking and ignoring one another. |
Anonymous
Well then we agree on that! But I honestly don't see how anyone could not at least acknowledge that the scene was intentionally ambiguous. It was a pivotal scene where Daphne was being vague. It could mean anything. BUT I don't think it has any bearing on the deaths for two reasons. 1) The whole point Daphne is making is, IMO, immaterial to whether she is having an affair or whether she gets her purpose from her kids. Her point is that she sees Cameron for who he is and instead of letting it ruin her, she does what she wants and lives how she wants and copes with this unhappiness by getting fulfillment elsewhere. It isn't important who the father is or if there is or isn't a trainer. Her point is that she finds a way, and Harper can find a way too, and that they, as women, shouldn't depend on imperfect men to determine their lives and happiness. 2) I don't think the conflict that results in a death will be between Daphne and Cameron. They have both decided that they can handle their demons and suppress their unhappiness to be together. Neither has unresolved anger towards each other. It is processed accepted and dealt with. Unlike say Harper and Ethan who have an elephant of tension standing in the room with them. Cameron and Daphne don't have that. I think the only thing that could send them over the edge is Cameron being broke, but I honestly still think she would likely just join him in trying to pull a scam rather than walk away. Daphne has coping mechanisms and uses them. I think she's capable of murder honestly, but I don't think she has any desire to murder him |
Anonymous
Yes. I took it as 'don't judge me. I have kids and I'm doing my best by them'...and I think she senses what is going on with the flirting btwn Harper and Cameron and is saying "don't do this. I am a mother with kids'. |