TV High school

[zodiac_sign]

I've finally caved to the wishes of my friends and watched Glee for a bit. What never fails to get my attention is how different TV high school looks comparing to real life high school. They always chose people that are too good looking for that age-range and most of the time don't act like real high schoolers at all

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[shannon730]

Well, it's been over twenty years since I was in high school so maybe it's changed...well it has changed and not for the better. The problem is that it's people my age writing about people your age and they no longer have a clue what it's like to be your age., because you guys live in a completely different world than we did at sixteen.

That said from the teenagers I do know, no real teens and high school are nothing like TV high school. Not everyone is pretty...but that's true of all TV...the world is not populated with only pretty people. Or at least all the good guys aren't always pretty, good people can be unattractive. Teenagers aren't usually truly confident, they'll put on a show for friends but you're all constantly worried about about being accepted and doing the right thing for your social group. Not al, that's not fair, some learn early that what others think doesn't matter, I did. I do believe some kids would take the moral high ground about cheating, not necessarily stop others though just stay uninvolved (don't watch the show so no idea what the circumstances were).

To be fair though, from the little bit of Smallville I saw I don't think they were trying to be a normal high school, at least I hope not since everyone on there looked at least thirty. Dawson's Creek though I'm pretty sure was, but I never watched it.

As for Glee, I do watch it. For your own sanity don't try to make it fit a regular high school or normal teenagers. Don't try to find any sort of cohesive plot. Don't expect what plot that does accidentally make it's way into the show to make sense or to be followed through to a conclusion. Just watch for the pretty "teenagers" singing the nice songs that aren't half bad. Enjoy that the show has a disabled person, gay people, an overweight person, and a transgender person, without fucking up how they handle that too badly...and that they aren't shying away from having those characters. Just don't take any of it seriously and you'll like it a lot more. And you know, try not to think about the fact that Puck looks closer to thirty than the sixteen he's playing.

[zodiac_sign]

Very true, in TV land everything is populated with pretty people. But I think they're starting to try and break that mould.

What kind of school did it have to be in Smallville?

And as for Glee I don't watch the whole episode because that's a little bit too much singing for my taste and not enough plot. Although sometimes it's pretty funny. Usually when Puck says something, or I look at his hair :P He may not exactly look like sixteen but I think he got that petulant man-child-teenager thing down pat. And he is sort of cute.

Do you like Glee, because I've read that the show took a bit of a nose dive and is now a bit soap opera-y?

[shannon730]

I liked Glee in the beginning, well maybe the middle, I didn't like the first season. Now it's a bit too contrived even for Glee. But I like it for what it is, just ridiculous escapism television. It's bad TV and always will be. As I said they can't follow a plot through to save their lives. But yes, the last couple seasons being part in Ohio ans part in New York have been bad. The new students sucked, they're fine now though and it's back to what's left of the original cast...which includes very little of who I liked. I'm just a masochist and will watch until the end or there are too many shows in that time slot for me to record it.

And what I meant about Smallville is that they were more concerned with casting pretty people and writing the "superman" story, or what they were passing as the superman story, than they were about any high school realism.