JJ Abrams -- Are you a parent?

I'm just wondering after reading this interview with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves:

So the secret that we had was that the monster was a baby. Having just been born it was going through separation anxiety and had no idea where its mother was and was freaking out and was in a completely foreign place, didn’t understand a thing and that that would be sending it into a kind of infantile rage. Which was very frightening, but the thing that was also frightening to me was the idea that not only was it going through an infantile rage but, because it was suffering from this separation anxiety, it was spooked. It was really afraid.

Because if so, you are familiar with baby rage, and for that, I salute you. I'm a veteran of baby rage, and I have to say that if BD was as big as Cloverfield and as cranky (which she can be at times -- despite her normally sunny disposition), I'd also be scared shitless too -- and not just because of the massive diapers that would need changing.

Baby rage is nuts -- it's earsplitting screams, tantrums and unrestrained unhappiness gone amuck. Until you satisfy the desire, there's nothing but misery being rained down from the heavens. It can be exhausting at times.

Why yes, I remember those days clearly. Why do you ask?

What's funnier for me is knowing that all poor Cloverfield wanted was its mommy -- and maybe its lovey and a bottle -- and the entire crisis could've been averted.

That being said, now that there's talk of a sequel, it better be about Cloverfield's momma protecting her baby. If you think a baby tantrum is scary -- think of the mother's wrath.