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Wallander's Relationship with His Daughter...

posted 9 years ago by maskirovka77
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strikes me as a bit odd ... not that I think they're hinting at something creepy between the two but it just seems to me that she's way too much involved in his life. I know families are all different and some adult children have closer relationships with their folks than others but I couldn't help but think that the scene where Wallander is the one holding his daughter's hand while she's getting the ultra-sound was strange...where was her husband? Where was her mom? Heck, even the nurse thought at first that they were a couple.

I can't help but think that the whole dynamic between Wallander and the daughter would make more sense and be more plausible if instead of her being his daughter, she was his kid sister. Because I think that's what their relationship is more like than a father-daughter one....more brother and sister.

[–] morn1960 9 years ago

The brit series has a screwed up version of their relationship, in the books I have read so far, she is in and out of his life, floats between careers and education types. in the series she just seems to be a bitch toward her father, very judgmental and antagonistic

[–] Jakuja 7 years ago

I agree with you. Like episode 2 season 2... she complains that he never tells her anything. Then when he tells her that a man asked for his help and he turned him away, and then the man died, she gets up and walks away! And turns and makes that snotty remark like "do we have to die, would that do it for you?"

I mean, he was trying to tell her what was going on, and she reacts like that? No wonder he never tells her anything.

And then he apologizes, confirming my longheld belief that the more conciliatory you are to people, the worse they will treat you.

[–] La_Marseillaise 9 years ago

I didn't get the impression they were very involved with one another. It felt to me that they were practically estranged, and a lot of their interactions were a little awkward. I haven't read the books, but I got the sense that he had always worked a lot, had trouble with sharing his work with his family, so much so that his marriage didn't end well.

She wasn't a big part of any of the episodes. But when she was there, she was concerned about his health, encouraged him to eat healthier, to develop healthy relationships, as many adult daughters would. And she was unhappy with the way he didn't make more of an effort to spend time with his own father, and the way he shut her out after the shooting incident, also as many adult daughters would.

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[–] joeysdoghouse 8 years ago

I took it as she wanted him there to make up for him not being invited to the wedding. It was her way of showing him she wanted him in her life. I thought it was a little odd but nice.

[–] ShannonTriumphant 7 years ago

I agree that their relationship is odd. It keeps shifting, too. Sometimes they seem really close and other times she's off doing her own thing somewhere, not any more involved than he is. When she gets married, she really seems to drift off.

For example, when she insists that Kurt drive hours to her father-in-law's birthday celebration and he does, she doesn't even come over to greet him, but keeps on hobnobbing with the guests whom the birthday boy says HE can't stand!

Then she insists that Kurt find him when he goes missing. Weird! She seems like a selfish brat.