![]() ![]() You can't get active gymnasts in these roles - they'd have to give up competing to film and other non-actor options would have been post-NCAA athletes who are much older and also don't look like teenage elites. I think everything you wrote is completely valid and a good point - the show infantilized way too many issues and it drove me bonkers.īut for generic scenes that had nothing to do with bodies, or growth, or etc, it used to drive me insane how many show watchers would complain that their bodies weren't "gymnastics accurate." Now for an actual value-add comment: I have the opposite complaint to make. I know this adds literally zero value to your post, but her name was Payson, not Payton. The actresses chosen were all conventionally very pretty and not going through any awkward phase, but I still remembered thinking how cool it is that tweens/young teens now have shows they can watch where the characters actually look and act their age. One of the things I loved about the Baby Sitters Club reboot (I had to watch it because I was obsessed with the books as a tween) was that the 13 year old characters weren't written as if they were years older and they were played by actual 13/14 year old actresses. 15 year old me would have been laughed out of a bar, not served a cocktail. But it really fucked me up when I was an awkward teenager and the girls "my age" on TV were played by hot twenty-somethings and were able to walk into bars/clubs unquestioned. I totally get the argument that adults are better able to advocate for themselves and the reasoning of preferring adult actors because they don't need to do school on set and there are less restrictions on how long they can film for. Yeah, this is what gets me about this issue as well. Like wtf is he just walking around pretending to be random people? If they had the ability to get him on set why not have him play himself when it would make more sense. Then in season two they have Karolyi play a character on an episode, but he’s not playing himself even though he’s the most famous coach ever and he 100% exists in the tv universe. In the first season Bela Karolyi is mentioned and his shitty coaching is remarked on (this was in 2010 so less was publicly known about the abuse). I know it’s a silly hill to die on by this show is so inaccurate so often that I’m kind of sick of it now (along with the constant relationship crap).Įdit: I know nobody’s gonna see this edit but I just can’t right now. There aren’t very many non crappy gymnastics shows so it matters more when the decent one out there messes up. I know tv shows are factually wrong all the time and teenage representation in tv is pretty bad but it just makes me mad that when It actually matters what the actors look like, they don’t pull through. We compare ourselves to the media we consume so when these comparisons aren’t equal they can do real harm (to self image, esteem, etc). ![]() Actual teens don’t get much representation on the shows they watch and it’s a problem outside of this show. It doubt it feels good to see an adult say they’re like you and are at the same place in life when they’re not. I just think it’s harmful to portray adults as prepubescent teens when the audience is prepubescent teens and older. ![]() ![]() I feel like the show jokes around with these serious problems but never actually says anything meaningful. Not to mention it was only mentioned in one episode and immediately resolved (so far, I’m in season 2 of 3). Overtraining to the point of starting puberty late is a real issue in gymnastics and I really wish that they had taken it more seriously. People who haven’t gone through puberty don’t look like adult women, they look like more like children and should be portrayed as such. I can understand if they were to say that she’s already had her period but doesn’t get it anymore and had a growth spurt because she wasn’t training. The show is ignoring the actress and not putting any actual thought into its actions. The shows acts as if Payson hasn’t gone through puberty at all. All of the characters have boobs and curves that wouldn’t be there if they hadn’t gone through puberty. So there’s this whole plot point in the gymnastics tv show Make it or Break it about puberty and how Payson (the character in question) hasn’t gone through it yet. ![]()
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