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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chuckdee" data-source="post: 9716001" data-attributes="member: 6804357">Being for the entire world makes it hard to section out a space for themselves. And they conquered that challenge at the expense of their relations to anything outside the family. They give you hints of this - the Ed Sullivan... I mean Gilbert it where they talk about always having family dinner together. And how much is concentrated on Johnny being single and available - I don't think he's a playboy at heart in this film. I think he's presented as the world's most eligible bachelor, but he's not really that image. They show that also in what he's actually interested in when they focus on him - the science and space.The world looks at them as their saviors and their paragons, but they are isolated from it other than as symbols.As far as the conflicts in the family, other than there being something between Johnny and Ben, the others are there. Reed and Johnny disagree on the way forth, and he wants to concentrate on science more, but Reed barely acknowledges him. Sue and Reed and that whole conversation that they had. They're there- they just don't dwell on them, and for introducing the characters after 3 other abortive attempts, I think that's the right call.</blockquote>