• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    It’s just grown ass adults playing high schoolers, and all they do is fuck, do drugs, abuse and assault and kill each other, and be depressed.

    Now I don’t think the premise is inherently bad, but I just hate how that’s ALL they do. Like every person is a horrid piece of shit, except for Lexi and Ethan. It seems like their lives are a never ending stream of drama that I don’t see why they didn’t just bump the setting to college where some of the actions are more fitting (e.g. in college they don’t give a fuck if you fail classes and you can hang around on campus and no one will kick you out. But somehow they’re doing a bunch of heroin and coke and other hard drugs and they seem perfectly fine in high school and no one bats an eye or questions their grades or kicks them out of school. You can also fuck and party endlessly without caring about responsibilities unlike high school). Like I think most of them are canonically in sophomore or junior year of high school lol.

    • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      8 months ago

      it’d be better than what they’re doing now but pretty much all unis will put you on probation if you get below a certain GPA for a semester (usually a C or D average), and then expel you if you don’t get above that the next semester (unlike public HS, which will make you do counseling but usually can’t expel you for failing, you just wont grad)

      plus half of the characters wouldn’t even go to or get into college. maybe Rue lives with her mom doing nothing but often crashes at Jules’/Lexi’s dorm?

      maybe they could cast them for their actual ages and play friends/acquaintances/roommates in their mid 20s. i guess there’s less structure in that tho