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The best theory/storyline EVER!


Greetings from Australia!

Ok, so a bunch of my mates and myself used to be Football Wives junkies. (hey, I still am!)

Now, I remember we came up with a theory/storyline that would have been PERFECT for Footballers Wives and would have without a doubt made it the most screwed up and most awesome tv drama ever made.


So without further ado, here's the theory:



Jackie Pascoe and Roger Webb are Jason Turner's biological parents.




Some things to consider:

* Jason was adopted and never knew his real parents.

* Jackie and Roger are both old enough to be Jason's parents.

* Jackie and Roger hooked up when they were younger. (how young were they? Anybody?)

* Kyle is younger than Jason... so it's very possible that Jackie and Roger had a kid when they were younger teenagers and had put him up for adoption since they were so young. (before they split and Jackie went on to have Kyle with someone else)

* Jason and Roger look the same (and hence Jackie's attraction to Jason to begin with)

* Jason and Roger both have attitudes and think they're both perfect. (like father like son.... and mother for that matter!)


But here's the clincher....


* If Jackie was Jason's mum, then that would help explain the reason Paddy is so messed up!



Bingo!


Oh yes... can you just imagine the scene when Kyle asks Jason to trace his real parents, only for Jason (and Jackie! And Kyle!) to discover that.....

Ouch.

It has "Footballers Wives" written all over it!

The only thing I can think of that doesn't make sense is that Roger Webb didn't show up until Series 3. But if writers had brought Roger in at the start of series 2 (this would get rid of the Freddie story, but who cares!), and slowly worked this crazy stupid idea into the storyline from day 1 of series 1, subtly dropping hints about Jackie's past etc..... then that would have made Footballers Wives without a doubt the most awesome tv drama ever made. :)

As it is, I have to put it 2nd behind The Sopranos.

Sorry, I had to post this... it's been on our minds for ages. We used to sit around thinking about how much more screwed up this show could get.

Well, now you have the answer.

Thoughts?

:)

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:D
It's a great theory (you must be a die-hard fan:o), but I think that would have cast a gloomy shadow over Jackie's character, she was one of the most moral people at some point in the show. So the writers would have lost a great "motherly" character to incest. Eww.

I'm surprised though that you came up with that. Maybe you and your friends should start a sideline career writing soap scripts;)

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moral? I wouldn't use that word for anyone in FW except for maybe Chardonnay. That woman was the only stable one.

<<-- Mess With The Best, Die Like The Rest -->>

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Moral? Maybe Shannon or dull Donna?

Maturity. The very staple of the IMDb message boards.

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