Well, no. I pretty much, um, don't watch TV. (We don't even have a way to get broadcast television.) Instead, I wait until it comes out on DVD (or sometimes I obtain it through, um, other means), have Best Beloved watch it, and then sort of get a "best parts" version from her. (Sometimes this means whole episodes, or even - as with Life on Mars - most of a season. Sometimes this means a five-minute summary. Best Beloved is awesome at getting me through TV canons; without her, I'd never see any TV at all.)
Yes, there are lots of twenty-something actors playing sixteen-year-olds, but they believably act like teenagers to me.
Interesting. See, in the "all about me" post I've never actually posted, I quantify my general fandom preferences. Like, I know I prefer for the characters to be older rather than younger. And now I wonder - is that solely because I find older characters more interesting? (Because, in general, I do. But I can think of specific cases where I find younger characters just as interesting, and usually those are a) books that are b) very well-written.) Or is it also because the way younger characters are presented is often so very, painfully unrealistic, especially on TV?
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Well, no. I pretty much, um, don't watch TV. (We don't even have a way to get broadcast television.) Instead, I wait until it comes out on DVD (or sometimes I obtain it through, um, other means), have Best Beloved watch it, and then sort of get a "best parts" version from her. (Sometimes this means whole episodes, or even - as with Life on Mars - most of a season. Sometimes this means a five-minute summary. Best Beloved is awesome at getting me through TV canons; without her, I'd never see any TV at all.)
Yes, there are lots of twenty-something actors playing sixteen-year-olds, but they believably act like teenagers to me.
Interesting. See, in the "all about me" post I've never actually posted, I quantify my general fandom preferences. Like, I know I prefer for the characters to be older rather than younger. And now I wonder - is that solely because I find older characters more interesting? (Because, in general, I do. But I can think of specific cases where I find younger characters just as interesting, and usually those are a) books that are b) very well-written.) Or is it also because the way younger characters are presented is often so very, painfully unrealistic, especially on TV?
*ponders*
Perhaps FNL would be a good test for this.
*ponders further*