Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-23.119.172.116-20140111065306/@comment-13965604-20140111161113

Ethood1999 wrote: It's either he retconned the current year in the timeline to 2013 (from 2011, where it should be), or it's just a situation where you have to use suspension of disbelief and not worry about what year everything is taking place in. I'm not sure why that's how it is, because I feel like this is a show where time is very important to understanding the storyline, but whatever.

Also, I don't think it would be hard to keep them in high school. The first season encompassed what, a few weeks span? Same with the second season? If there wasn't a 4 month gap between Season 2 and 3, right now we'd still be in their sophomore year, for at least a few more months. And assuming they start school in September in Beacon Hills, S3A only occupied about a month span since at the start of 3B, it's not even Mischief Night/Halloween yet. I don't think we have to worry about the characters graduating too fast, Jeff Davis could easily extend their junior year to at least 3 more seasons, and then there's their senior year.

Except who is going to buy a 34 year old as a high school senior? Crystal Reed is already 28, do you really think she's going to be able to pull of teenager much longer? Heck, I'm even starting to doubt the "teenage boys" on the show as teenagers, and they're only around 22. Suspension of disbelief as to age can only last so long, that's why other teen centered shows like One Tree Hill had to age out their actors and have them get real things like jobs and marriages. If keeping teen and highs cool related was what they wanted, they should've created a more rotating cast, like each season being a different group of kids coming to terms with werewolf-hood with one tying element, like Derek going around and trying to help them or something. But setting us up with a "solid" cast like this puts a timeline on teen hood. Or they could've given it another name that wasn't teen specific.