Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26261400-20150518183531/@comment-25926288-20150527215900

Ruby ridinghood wrote: Rainarooo wrote: But how old is Jared Gilmore now? The writers should start writing him as a teenager, not a kid. I think the season finale is a good start. Being a teenager is the same as being a kid. I don't think the writing as a kid or teenager is that relevant currently. The more pressing matter is giving him friends and a storyline that's truly his own and stop him only being in his mothers' love lives, lol.

They already gave him some typical kid stuff, such a video games and even some more mature stuff like driving way back in season 3b.

I agree writing a teen and a kid isn't that different, especially since he's on the younger side of that spectrum. If they can't find something for them to do, that effort is wasted potential. I mean they write Belle as a short skirt, high-heeled sleepy woman with borderline no self-respect, or abused. It isn't an age issue 25 or 67, but the issue with how she's used in the plot.