Wild Fleurs

One that usually bugs me is when a book has characters list their favourite movies or tv shows not just in a character watched this show world building kind of way but when it’s done as a way of give a character personality

I think there’s a difference between saying a character enjoys music or a character loves this specific band or watches this popular show

I understand using Lana and Jen (and it’s a “family” show so they probably didn’t want to dig too deep into it) and they did great but Regina was 17/18 when she got married to a man 3x her age and Emma was still 17 when she got pregnant with Henry. I think visually seeing teenage girls, children actually, in those scenarios would’ve brought more of a shock.

EDIT cause I still want to rant about it:

The reason for this post is because I had decided to actually sit down and watch the seasons all the way through instead of hopping around to my fav episodes so I hadn’t actually rewatched some the the storylines/visual choices since I myself was a teenager.

I don’t even think I clocked the implications of a child (honestly even if she was 18 I’m calling her a child despite the “legal” label because she’s still much too young) marrying a much older royal man because when I was 14/15 all I saw was Lana’s face. And because of the show’s ‘family’ premise they would never have been able to go into detail regarding how she actually would’ve been treated in that marriage (child bride, “he has no “male heir”, “consent” logistics, she’s stuck in that marriage for years completely isolated, etc).

Similar thing with Emma’s relationship/pregnancy storyline with Neal. Now I’m a bit fuzzy on his age timeline but I do know he’s quite a few years older than her and she’s 17 when she gets pregnant with Henry. She’s a literal child when they meet with no stability. But 14/15 year old me just saw Jen with glasses and a ponytail. If I had saw her child actress that was used in season 4, I might’ve clocked how young she really was because even though I was told how young she was, I didn’t fully grasp it.