Did Mike and Carol Hold Marcia Back?

[Sharon]

Hi everyone! Do you ever feel like Mike and Carol prevented Marcia from reaching her full potential because Greg was older and they felt he should achieve the things Marcia wanted first? Or do you think it was fair of them to insist that Greg be first?

I can understand Greg getting the attic room first, but I think it was unfair of Carol to suggest that Greg be student body president because it was his last year at the school. What if poor Marcia got hit by a bus the next year (okay not going to happen, but still) and never became student body president. Maybe if Greg would have worked harder the previous year he could have already served a term as president by the time Marcia wanted to do it.

[Poor Jonathon]

Hit by a bus and missing out on being student body president! Geez either one of those two events would be bad enough but for both to happen in the same year that would be very unfortunate. If Marcia had been hit by a bus though I'm sure she would have been able to walk the next election by playing up the sympathy card. That is of course assuming that she had the use of her legs and that she didn't have more pressing things on her mind such as being dead. If we've learnt anything from Desperate Housewives it's that the dead have a lot to think about.

In regards to her not reaching her full potential, I'm not sure there was much potential there to begin with because by the time The Bradys rolled around she had lost her home, her job and even her own face. And honestly, it's not as if being student body president was something she could have built upon as opposed to Bobby's blossoming career on the professional pool circuit.