Views on Bill’s parenting
whenever i watch big city greens i always think about the way bill interacts with cricket and tilly respectively.
bill clearly displays a favoritism towards tilly that does not go unnoticed by cricket. this can be attributed to the fact that cricket is the “trouble-maker” child and is considered more challenging to parent compared to the calm and docile-natured tilly. however, there are times where bill is straight up just rude to cricket (i.e. in the movie where he says cricket has stupid ideas, when he only calls tilly cute even after cricket says he is too, etc.) and while each situation should be reviewed from every perspective, the sentiment left behind remains the same. this could honestly contribute to crickets behavior as he knows he will never receive the same level of admiration that bill has for tilly.
conversely, the extreme angelical lense bill has over tilly also has its own negative effects as it leads her to feeling pressure to continuously seek approval and causes unstable internal self image when she fails to appease him (i.e in the episode where she is babysitting cricket or the episode where she finally rebels after bill reprimands her.)
the behavioral aspects aside, i wonder if the unplanned pregnancy of cricket could contribute to the slight resentment there seems to be from bill towards cricket and even that episode further shows the strain between cricket and bill as you can see from crickets reaction in that final episode of season 4.
it should be said though that i don’t think bill is an entirely bad parent or character for that matter and it is just observations i have made. please lmk what yall think about their dynamics and if they could agree or no