Sanuk wrote:
**Spoiler Alert**
I watched Season 1 and 2 in the Philippines with my wife and daughter and thought it was very well done. My daughter loved El. They just immigrated to Canada and on our trip from Vancouver to Ontario, we mostly camped and on the nights we stayed in a hotel or B&B, we would watch Season 3. I didn't like it as much as the first 2 seasons but they both did and now looking forward to Season 4.
I was reading how the writers changed the script mid-season regarding the romance between Steve and Robin. They were originally meant to be a couple but then changed it to her being lesbian. I thought that for that age group, why do they have to change the original plan?
Yeah, I thought it was a bit to pandering. To me it seemed to be written in to check all the boxes. It was more that the lesbian thing was on top of the inter racial relationship in the group. Absolutely nothing wrong with either situation, it just came off heavy handed with it in the show, making a social statement, rather than being organic. The relationship between Lucas and Max seemed natural, organic.
In comparison, after all the teen angst build up and romance tension between Steve/Robin, to toss in "oh, i'm a lesbian" at the end of it, was awkward and a let-down of where they had taken that relationship all season.
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