Let the kids in Skam be wrong, they are teenagers and they act like teenagers
You know what I hate about this entire fandom? I don’t know if I already wrote this, but it is definitely something that’s on my mind since last year with the beginning of all the remakes and more so this year, and the thing is: the people in this fandom expect the teenagers portrayed in the show to be basically saints that do no wrong, always right, always on point. If we had that, this wouldn’t be a TV show that portrays actual teenagers but it would be a show about a utopistic land which we don’t actually have.
You all expect the characters to apologize for every little thing that they do (yes, sometimes I expect that too), to never say something wrong, to always do what’s best even if, when you were the age portrayed, you definitely didn’t know what the best was. You expect this show to be something that comes out straight out of your head and you get mad when it doesn’t happen because the authors are not in your heads. You don’t like whatever changes that happen that is appropriate for the culture they are portraying and you want changes in something that goes with your culture but not with the show that you are watching.
You criticize the teenagers portrayed so much on the things that you now know are wrong, but I want to know, how many of you didn’t said fucked up stuff when you were from the age of 15 through age 18 (and more)? I know I did. I did say some REALLY fucked up stuff but I learned from it, I learned not to say some things because are wrong and harmful, I learned not to do things that were bad. The point of growing up is that you learn from the mistakes and become each day a better person, but somehow, you expect teenagers portrayed on a TV show to already be perfect. From the beginning, Skam was there to portray the youth, it was there to show young adults learn, and become better, and understand, but it akso showed them to make mistakes that later lead to grow up.
If you want to watch a show with characters that are perfect, well, I don’t think this is the show for you.
