thoroughly unscientific wondering.
Aug. 23rd, 2012 02:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthSo, no one on Teen Wolf has a living sibling, right? (Isaac had an older brother? And Chris had Kate, and Derek had everyone.)
Which got me thinking about whether anyone in teen shows ever has a sibling. The only other show I could think of at first was Saved By The Bell, which also no. The original 90210 had Brenda and Brandon, clearly. Were there siblings (actual legal and/or biological ones) on The O.C.? Buffy had Dawn? We can talk about grown-up shows, too, but there might reasonably be offscreen sibs (ETA - that got autocorrect to "sins", which also true) there.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some blindingly obvious examples. (I am not forgetting SPN, for the record, but I'm not sure how I'd characterize that, and they were both college-aged or older). Did, uh, One Tree Hill have siblings? Oh, Dawson's Creek! Pacey had his brother, and then Jack and Andie.
Am I right that it's mostly only children who get written in these things? (of which I am one, but I'm the only one of my close friends or coworkers who is, so I'm curious about the demographic mismatch, like "all" tv shows being set on the coast)
I can imagine it being a preference for narrative and/or casting convenience, so that you don't end up in a soap opera recasting situation. Or like the location thing, that writers don't know or can't or think noone cares about mirroring realistic distributions.
Yes, I needed to ask this at 2am.
Which got me thinking about whether anyone in teen shows ever has a sibling. The only other show I could think of at first was Saved By The Bell, which also no. The original 90210 had Brenda and Brandon, clearly. Were there siblings (actual legal and/or biological ones) on The O.C.? Buffy had Dawn? We can talk about grown-up shows, too, but there might reasonably be offscreen sibs (ETA - that got autocorrect to "sins", which also true) there.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some blindingly obvious examples. (I am not forgetting SPN, for the record, but I'm not sure how I'd characterize that, and they were both college-aged or older). Did, uh, One Tree Hill have siblings? Oh, Dawson's Creek! Pacey had his brother, and then Jack and Andie.
Am I right that it's mostly only children who get written in these things? (of which I am one, but I'm the only one of my close friends or coworkers who is, so I'm curious about the demographic mismatch, like "all" tv shows being set on the coast)
I can imagine it being a preference for narrative and/or casting convenience, so that you don't end up in a soap opera recasting situation. Or like the location thing, that writers don't know or can't or think noone cares about mirroring realistic distributions.
Yes, I needed to ask this at 2am.
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Date: 2012-08-23 04:04 pm (UTC)