revbiscuit: I apologize for sucking at having links, but I think there were several threads on metafandom a couple-three weeks ago about the construction of partially or non-biological families. One polar case is the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Family" which is about exactly who Tara's real family is, and it isn't the guys she's related to.
Certainly, fandom couldn't be having its big-league Incest kink if there weren't plenty of biological families within which to commit incest! But even apart from that, Heroes is about, among many other things, the creation of a Family of Mutants, but along the way, we have the Petrelli clan and the Bennets and Nikki-Jessica, DL, and Micah.
One of the things that Farscape is about is a man who keeps trying to send letters to his dad (and who, much later, marries and has a child), although along the way he does form a not-terribly-terrestrial family.
Friday Night Lights is about good and bad parenting as well as about the brotherhood of Panther football.
So, I'd say that a very large number of shows are about the creation of families--sometimes even by marriage and rearing children of the marriage.
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Certainly, fandom couldn't be having its big-league Incest kink if there weren't plenty of biological families within which to commit incest! But even apart from that, Heroes is about, among many other things, the creation of a Family of Mutants, but along the way, we have the Petrelli clan and the Bennets and Nikki-Jessica, DL, and Micah.
One of the things that Farscape is about is a man who keeps trying to send letters to his dad (and who, much later, marries and has a child), although along the way he does form a not-terribly-terrestrial family.
Friday Night Lights is about good and bad parenting as well as about the brotherhood of Panther football.
So, I'd say that a very large number of shows are about the creation of families--sometimes even by marriage and rearing children of the marriage.