[ SECRET POST #4463 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4463 ⌋

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Comments

[greghousesgf]

what I never understood is why so many media aimed at little kids has characters that are teenagers.

[(Anonymous)]

For more marketability. Kid superheroes are cool to 3-6 years olds. Teen superheroes are cool to 5-12 year olds.

[greghousesgf]

what about teen characters who aren't superheroes but are clearly marketed to little kids (Archie for example)?

[(Anonymous)]

This is completely anecdotal but when I was a kid I would only watch shows with kids that were older than me because I thought older kids were cooler. Maybe that's a popular enough sentiment that it attracts audience?

[(Anonymous)]

When I was 8-10 I couldn't WAIT to be in high school and I daydreamed about it a lot. Being a teenager seemed like an epic adventure in and of itself. So I read a lot of Archie comics, Sweet Valley High, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, I think this nails it.

[kaijinscendre]

For live action, it is because teens are easier to film logistically.

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking along the lines of this. Legally too, I know there are different rules for filming with different ages and kids have very limited filming hours.

[(Anonymous)]

As a background extra I will three thousand percent vouch for the truth of this. When you film with kids it gets complicated really fast. There's all sorts of strict rules about guardians and mandatory break times and maximum work hours per day (plus things you can and can't film, of course). An I am intensely in support of all of those rules and regulations (there should really be even more of them, honestly) but it's a huge inconvenience for the production to work around.

Plus, apart from all of that, even with the most professional child actors everything takes so much longer. They goof around more. They take longer to be ready to focus. Most of them forget their lines a lot more than most adult actors do. Most of them don't take instruction as well as adult actors so you need to do more takes to nail it. And if you're filming a group of kids (as opposed to just one kid amid a bunch of adults) all of that becomes exponentially more true. And I would never in a million years speak critically of a kid actor for being a kid. It's genuinely amazing how much skill and focus and work ethic a lot of kid actors have (more than I have, that's for sure). But I mean, they are in fact kids, and no matter how skilled and professional they are, when you're filming with kids you know it's gonna be a long day.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, the kids grow up very fast, so making a live action series will be a constant race against time and shit, now the main character actor hit puberty early and everything is screwed. With movies, yeah, it was popular enough for a sequel but the kids all grew up so...

[(Anonymous)]

Because they can relate. It's not super old (18 and up), so they don't think of them as adults, which is a very amorphous, mysterious condition when someone is very young as they often have trouble understanding 'adult' decisions and actions. So it's an age they can imagine themselves as, but also, it's older and those characters get to do more things.

[(Anonymous)]

It's aspirational.

[(Anonymous)]

Kids like to fantasize about being teenagers and teenagers like to fantasize about being adults. Also, a story that you can project your future self into is more fun than a story you can only project your past or technically-present-but-nearly-past self into. Gives you something to look forward to. When I read Harry Potter my childhood was far enough in the past that I didn't project myself into the kids' adventures, but think about all those kids who were disappointed when they turned 11 and didn't get an invitation to wizard school.