You Shouldn't Start Heartstopper from the Third Season...

[@slm_766]

I agree that you should not start with season 3 of Heartstopper
for some of the reasons you discuss in the second half of your post.
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But I cracked up when I read your "hunches" based on the "last time on" provided by Netflix:
"I watched the like the thing that Netflix gave me that was like previously on or
whatever, it was like 8 minutes or 11 minutes or something, so I basically know
what was happening.
It doesn't seem super complicated" 😀
"okay here's here's season one and two of Heartstopper ... " I haven't even started them."
"so um you got a kid . . . Charlie and you got a kid named Nick ... "
*** [In episode 1 YES, those 2 are introduced]
[---- BUT also 3 other key characters (ages 15-16), as well as 1 antagonist/miscreant(age 16); also, 2 important secondary characters (adults who act as advisors). ]
"Nick is a super popular jock boy,
*** [Sort of. (Is generally liked; is generally quiet}; (Star player on the school's rugby team)]
"and
um Charlie is not that --- he's our familiar dweeb little ...skinny guy"
*** [Not exactly. ]
[He is the only out gay boy in the school (having been outed the year before)]
[More often referred to as a Nerd, instead of 'dweeb'. (Good at all school subjects, especially math)];
[can run way faster than anyone else in his PE class)]
*** [Nick is 16 and in Year 11
(it's a fictional, all boys school (near Kent));
Charlie is 14 and in Year 10. ]
"it's based on a comic book"
*** [Yes, a web comic and graphic novel in book format;
the author/illustrator wrote the scripts based on her original texts]
"so every now and again it has a little bit of a handdrawn animation over the top of it"
*** [Yes (or some digitized versions)]
" which is like a window dressing but doesn't really do anything"
*** [Nope]
"okay just on a hunch it seems and um it's it's ...."
"it's a slowburn will they won't they"
*** [NOPE]
"initially Nick gets asked out by a girl "
*** [Initially? If you mean that is how the story of season 1 starts -- NOPE.]
"and he says yes "
*** [yes]
"and then they start to go out"
*** [NOPE]
" and then he's like no I didn't want to do this I felt peer pressured into this"
*** [Yes. right away]
"then he starts to have feelings for Charlie
*** [That late in the story? NOPE]
"and then maybe they have a kiss at the end of season one"
*** [[" *** A *** KISS"? [NOPE]]
*** [ " END of season one" (as the season finale?) [NOPE]]
🤣
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>>>>>> I agree with you that without learning about the characters as 'people'
(in season 1 (and learning more backstory in season 2)) ---
Season 3 loses meaning and impact.
So ... Yeah,
*** You Shouldn't Start Heartstopper from the Third Season... ***

[@slm_766]

PS:
There are approximately:
5 gay characters;
2 bisexuals;
2 transexual people;
2 non-binary people;
possibly 3 asexual people;
1 questioning (possibly lesbian);
and 15 or more straight people,
(who are named -- some key characters, some secondary.)

[@StinishedIt]

This is amazing. Never have I received such a thorough roast delivered with such joyful eye rolls. The moral of the story is don’t watch a show from the third season for sure.
~Reuben

[@slm_766]

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