I was watching the characters, Kim (Krysten Ritter) and Deena Kate Bosworthh), struggle with their friendship in the wake of Kim's unplanned pregnancy and new baby.
It had an unplanned, unarranged quality.
A 2010 study showed that women between the ages of 18 and 25 were more supportive of using birth control after watching a storyline on "The O.C". in which two of the main characters went through an unplanned pregnancy.
Who ultimately ends up with whom doesn't have to be as life-defining or character-defining as the unplanned pregnancy currently complicating another "Young And The Restless" storyline.
Indeed, it's the arbitrary or unplanned event that not only generally unhinges Citkowitz's characters, but changes them as well.
But, within hours, an unplanned, illicit kiss between two of the game's background characters made The Sims the talk of the show.
In it, her character, Donna Stern, navigates a break up, a flailing career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, ultimately, an abortion.
But to the nth degree, because videogames are now able to contain random interactions, unplanned occurrences between the player avatar and the unscripted independently programmed characters and elements of the game world.
Sisson and Kimport found that 47percentt of the TV characters who got abortions chose to do so because an unplanned pregnancy would interfere with future opportunities.
As the fire spreads, his Thoreau springs to life, meditating defensively about accident and intention — "how rapidly the unplanned cause produces the unexpected effect" — and when Pipkin surreptitiously incorporates sections of Thoreau's journals into his character's perspective, he creates a Thoreau who rationalizes with adolescent piquancy: "He has not taken what was not his.
