Talk:I'm a Good Girl, I Am/@comment-26008176-20150319221249

Hmm... There is something about this series that, as much as I love PLL, it sort of gets to me.

I mean, I don't like the fact that Sara Shepard has these high school girls living as if they are rich 25 year olds (more so in the books than in the show) who are out of their parents' houses. Their lives were just painted too unrealistically for any teenage girl to be able to relate to any of the Liars on a larger scale. I mean, they take expensive vacations with their boyfriends, they have sleepovers with them on the show, they date guys much older than them (heck, Spencer ended up dating the same doctor on TWO separate occasions in the books while she was still in high school, imagine the age difference along with the fact that she was a minor!). And somehow they all have parents who happen to be okay with all this because considering that in the books none of them had jobs, one can only assume that mommy & daddy always paid for everything. It seems like it's too much.

I think the show (and the books) would have been better suited if it revolved around five college girls instead of high schoolers. In other words, 18-22 year olds as opposed to underage girls (for most of the books and series, I know some of the Liars are 18 now). And they could have still been wealthy girls from Rosewood who lived the lives that Sara Shepard & Marlene King are making them out to be living & instead of them living with their parents, they could have been living in dorms or renting an apartment together on or off-campus. That would have explained the amount of freedom they have as independent girls living outside their parents' mansions. Not only could the series have appealed to more 20 year olds, but the characters would have still been young enough to appeal to a wide teenage audience. And a lot of things would have made more sense as adults rather than teenagers.

I don't know why Sara Shepard nor Marlene King decided to go that route instead of having them be high schoolers as opposed to college freshmans at least, but those are just my thoughts. Had to get them out somewhere, might as well do it here, lol.