{"id":157615,"date":"2016-11-30T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=157615"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:11:52","slug":"nbcs-this-is-us-you-werent-a-choice-you-are-a-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nbcs-this-is-us-you-werent-a-choice-you-are-a-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s &#8216;This Is Us&#8217;: &#8216;You weren&#8217;t a choice \u2014 you are a fact&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In Tuesday&#8217;s episode of NBC&#8217;s hit show &#8220;This Is Us,&#8221; viewers witnessed what real parental love looks like.<\/p>\n<p>(WARNING: This article contains spoilers.) To provide some context for those who have not seen the show, &#8216;This Is Us&#8217; centers around the individual and family life and struggles of the Pearson family: siblings\u00a0Kate, Kevin, and Randall, and their parents, Rebecca and Jack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd1\">\n<p><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_by_250_top_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0\" class=\"ArticleAd1a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kate and Kevin are twins; initially they were part of a triplet pregnancy, but tragically, their brother was stillborn. The day they were born, Rebecca and Jack also adopted baby Randall, born on the same day and abandoned by his biological father.<\/p>\n<p>The show moves back and forth between the present day (in which the siblings are adults) and scenes from the past. Jack, who has been described as &#8220;the best dad on TV,&#8221; passed away at some point, although he is frequently present in flashback scenes. It has not yet been revealed how or exactly when he died.<\/p>\n<p>Randall has recently discovered his biological father and has begun building a relationship with him. Even more recently, he discovered that his adoptive mother Rebecca knew who his biological father was, and kept the secret from him.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s episode, Randall, still dealing with the complicated feelings involving his adoptive and biological parents, accidentally ingests psychedelic mushrooms and experiences a vision in which he airs his grievances with adoptive father Jack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6zsA5UYUME\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Randall\u00a0explains to\u00a0Jack that he doesn&#8217;t feel like an equal part of the family, as compared to his siblings. \u201cI was a replacement for your dead baby,&#8221; he asserts.\u00a0&#8220;That\u2019s all I\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the scene is portraying\u00a0a drug-induced hallucination, fans of the show would no doubt agree (based on\u00a0flashback scenes demonstrating Jack&#8217;s\u00a0uniquely caring\u00a0personality)\u00a0that Jack&#8217;s response in the vision\u00a0is exactly what he would have said, had he still been alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment I saw you, I knew you were my boy,\u201d\u00a0says Jack, while pulling Randall in close. \u201cYou weren\u2019t a choice, Randall. You were a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as it is portrayed in the fictional &#8220;This Is Us,&#8221; real-life adoption can be complicated and at times challenging. Many adopted children can identify with the feelings and questions expressed by Randall. And yet, just like Randall, every child deserves to know that, regardless of circumstances beyond their control,\u00a0they are more than simply a &#8220;choice.&#8221; Their existence &#8212; and their right to live &#8212; has always been a fact, and a beautiful one at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s episode of NBC&#8217;s hit show &#8220;This Is Us,&#8221; viewers witnessed what real parental love looks like. (WARNING: This article contains spoilers.) To provide some context for those who have not seen the show, &#8216;This Is Us&#8217; centers around the individual and family life and struggles of the Pearson family: siblings\u00a0Kate, Kevin, and Randall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":157639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9456,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NBC&#039;s &#039;This Is Us&#039;: &#039;You weren&#039;t a choice \u2014 you are a fact&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThe moment I saw you, I knew you were my boy,\u201d says Jack, while pulling Randall in close. \u201cYou weren\u2019t a choice, Randall. 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