[ SECRET POST #3479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3479 ⌋

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[Lifetime's UnReal]


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[X-Men movies. Charles/Erik]


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[Andrew Zimmern vs. Anthony Bourdain]


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[Secretary]


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[Stardew Valley]


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[Notre Dame de Paris (French Musical)]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

MTE. It's one thing if characters to look young, but they all seriously feel like high schoolers. I even remember one character (Abigail?) saying she had homework to finish.

[case]

Luckily the doctor guy is kind of nerdy and adorable so I don't mind getting the character to marry him but I'd feel really weird otherwise.

Which is kinda funny because for all everyone says SV is better than HM, HM never had that problem. Even in the original if the marriage NPCs were living with their parents and stuff, they still felt like they could be anywhere from 18-35 or so. Definitely not like, 16 and doing high school homework. In SV they all feel like teenagers and then there's Mr. Mustache the weird loner over 30. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if it were revealed he's canonically 19 or something with how everyone else is. AND THEN YOUR CHARACTER IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE CHILDREN WITH THEM aaaaaaaaaa)

DA

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I can't really see this at all o.o I didn't befriend every single character, but I don't see what's so teenage about them? You have the guy who works as a programmer and is embarrassed about living in his mom's basement for so long, Abigail is taking online college classes IIRC, Leah moved away from a settled life with a partner to find happiness, Elliott just looks... too buff to be a high school kid and Haley runs a household with her sister. The art style also doesn't have the problem that stuff like Grand Bazaar had where you felt like you were romancing preschoolers.

Re: DA

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Their personalities. The issues they're concerned with, what's important to them, their total lack of any kind of long-term view on life. It screams high school to college at most, where everything seems important because they lack the perspective of anything besides their personal bubble - are you close to 30 or over 30? To me, it's really, really obvious these characters are nowhere near my age range (and if they were, I'd run away from most of them).

The art, at least for the female characters, DOES have a huge problem where everybody looks the same age, and the age is "18-22/college." When you can't tell that the mothers are older than the daughters due to anime sameface syndrome, it's a problem. Elliot I'll grant looks older, yeah, but his personality is like a manchild that never grew up.

A: sob the way they TALK yeah like
A: reading the scripts
A: someone worried about staying in house being like not just
A: I'm embarrass!!
A: but more like reflective and worried and
A: comparing what other people his age are doing
A: and thinking about where he can go with this / he's getting older what about life goals
A: did he focus too much on career and now he doesn't know how to socialize like
A: I can see that for someone a bit older
A: usually people who are older are vaguely conscious like late twenties the uhh
A: 'they don't have the freedom / flexibility they did when younger they need to be a little serious now'
there's a distinct
A: 'a phase in my life has passed'
Case: i am going to add that
Case: can i quot eyou
A: sure HAHA
A: like I KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THIS in this age range

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

I see! Thank you for explaining. :) If you don't mind elaborating a bit more, did you ever have this problem with HM? The love interests there don't really scream maturity to me either?

Re: DA

[case]

It's not really about maturity - someone can be clearly 40 and totally immature and charming about it. It's more like all the subtle age markers that consistently point younger.

I was talking about the original HM, where arguably the characters were shallower. But you had a lot of the possible marriage candidates still (like the SV ones), living with their parents. But they still had a sort of more authentic small farm town feel where children taking over their parents' small family businesses and running them during the day was expected/a given, so they could have been 18 (starting young), or they could have been 30 and doing the same thing (have been for a while). SV kind of misses that in trying to make all their characters more modern and talking about homework or studies and making you help them make moral decisions about basic things like telling the truth or not or whether their band will totally take off bro yea!1!... which is relatable to millennials, I guess, but definitely places them as an age category below "working adult." (As in, "adult that's been working a while" not fresh out of college intern/trainee)

(Also there are some really, REALLY cringey moments in SV where like THE GUY'S MOM WALKS IN ON YOU and asks what you're doing. Straight out of a teen movie. Nope nope nope nope Edit: Or the one where the Dad tries to warn you out of his little girl's life because you might get in the way of her budding career and stuff, aaaaa)