How long has it been since the crash? Meg didn't look pregnant before the crash, so either it's been 5 or so months since the crash(and the timing for it to be Duncan's kid is wrong) or she hid things really well.

No, it doesn't have to be five or six months since the crash. She needs five or six months (at least, I'd say she was probably at least in her 7th month, if this weren't a TV pregnancy) total, to get that big, but she wouldn't need five or six months since the crash to get that big. She'd only need a decent amount of time since conception to get that big. It's easily believable that she wasn't showing at the time of the crash (particularly when clothed) and then popped in the time since the accident.

I wore my regular size 8 (or 10, I think 8) jeans until my fifth month of pregnancy. If you saw me clothed, you wouldn't have thought I was pregnant (unless you were checking out my breasts and my hair).

Also (fyi for the people who haven't been pregnant) pregnancy months are reported weird. If you ask a pregnant woman how far along she is, and she says, "Five months," she may well mean what many people would think of as four months. It's sort of like how my daughter just turned seven, so she's in her eighth year.

Also? I don't find it unbelievable that she didn't miscarry. I took a horrible fall down a flight of stairs early on in my pregnancy with Julia. It was the kind of fall that, if it happened on TV or in the movies, I would have miscarried. I was terribly upset. When I called my OB, he didn't even want to see me. He said early on, the baby is so tiny, and so well cushioned that unless I took a blow to the abdomen, it was unlikely the baby minded the fall at all. In the real world, some pregnancies stick and some don't. Some miscarriages are induced by trauma, but not every trauma is going to induce a miscarriage. The bus landed in water. I can buy Meg's still pregnant.

Oooh! Lookie. My very first VM fanwank.

Oooh! Lookie. My very first VM fanwank.

TV pregnancies are eminently wankable. But, yeah, I can buy it, too.

My big problem(s) with the alt ending is 1) Why did Meg's mother wait that long? 2) I have a hard time believing she knew V was there, and, if not, then why do that then. Much better to have a scapegoat.

Overall, I like the questions raised by the aired ending. How long has Meg been awake? Was the whole coma thing a cover?

I also prefer the possibility of live baby to thwarted potential-baby, even if they do manage to revive Meg.

Yeah, I have to say I don't especially love Veronica being under suspicion yet again. Would've been much better if it had been Duncan who was found with the pillow, for instance. We'll see. I'm not getting how they're going to reconcile the two endings next week, at all.

They are promising a character's death in the promo. . .

I would also prefer that Veronica break up with Duncan because they are incompatible rather than because she thinks that he's the father of Meg's baby. Meanwhile, we need to know who this Chris person is. There is no real reason to think that it's Chris for Christopher rather than Christine, is there?

sumi, I wonder if that's Meg to reconcile the two...

I had this long-standing gripe with Buffy. Well not so much a gripe. I wanted a nice, normal breakup with no one dying or leaving town. Not that there are werewolves in Neptune, but, it is one of those things you rarely see on tv (How I Met Your Mother is actually one of the places I can point to and say "they kinda did that," with whatshername from the pilot who's now a regular.)

eta: Anybody got a link to the voting. I didn't when I watched it, but I want to now.

a nice, normal breakup with no one dying or leaving town. Not that there are werewolves in Neptune, but, it is one of those things you rarely see on tv

The flip side to that is the revolving door bedrooms which you also see on shows, and ups the soapy factor. It does happen -- Friends and BH 90210 are the first to come to mind, but it's early.

You can vote right on the page with the videos: [link]

Ah! Thanks! See, that's a page that i couldn't find last night. I ended up just searching the aol videos.

I agree with the gripe about the alternate ending. I don't like the fact that VM might be under suspicion. However, I can explain why the mother waited so long. I'm thinking that the parents actually expected her to die and when she didn't (and she might be coming back to consciousness), then the mother decided to act.