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Yeah, that's what I would say. It's always been classified as YA, particularly when the kids start off as young kids and eventually grow as the series progresses. The series was meant for a generation to grow into them as it went along, which is why they get progressively darker with each book. It's not a coincidence. It just became enormously popular among kids and adults alike, to the point they had to acknowledge the adults in the room by publishing versions of the books with covers for adults, so as to not embarrass older readers that they were reading YA. At around the same time, YA became way more popular. We got the original versions with the original UK artwork in Canada, and they were definitely targeting the YA crowd.
As for HBO & HBO Max, kind of a moot point as some markets don't have that distinction and everything HBO/HBO Max is lumped into the HBO umbrella.
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The YA catalog is very confusing; although they normally target ages 12 to 20, there are a lot of erotic books in there too.
10 year olds are not young adults.
14 year old readers do not lust after being 10 year old heroes who get the ten year old love interest.
YA = Post puberty, no responsibility.
Google backs me up.
Only the Harry Potter Books 4 through 7 are YA.
It's the trajectory the stories take that make them YA. And due to Harry Potter's success, YA as a genre kind of blew up in popularity with other authors getting in on the game.
Arn't we talking about season one of a new TV show about 11 year olds?
^ I was under the impression that we were talking about the books rather than the TV series, although it's kind of hard to not talk about the books given the series is 'supposed' to adapt the story more closely.
I guess it really depends on how many seasons the TV series gets.
Yep, it does. Personally I have my doubts about them being able to achieve the desired results before abandoning the project. It's going to have more weight the more it progresses.
Yeah, I've been wondering that too. I mean as far as a series go, it's fairly unique to be spanning such a wide age-range and I don't think I've ever come across another example. I'm assuming this is what you mean.
I was at work a few days ago and I said that this blonde dude looked like a Malfoy and he replied "Thanks! yeah, um, they're the hot one's right?"
Bad has to be sexy since Cinderella (1950).
Bad has to be sexy since Cinderella (1950).
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I suppose to a lower degree lots of shows focused around kids sort of do that. Malcolm in the Middle, Wonder Years for example focuses on kids being kids early on but towards the end they start focusing more on teenager stuff. "Stranger Things" also but I think in that case, the teens were suppose to e still younger than they looked in the final couple of seasons.
The characters grow and grow up throughout the series. Going from childish hijinks to fermenting rebellion
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The young kids in The Waltons grow to adulthood or at bare minimum their late teen years during the nine-season run of that series. Just about all of them are doing and saying far more mature things by the end of that show than they were doing in Season 1, and the Waltons home was full of many adults by the final episode being shot.
Good thing he had the maturity and sophisticated writing of Galactica 1980 to help save his career!
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