Over the hills and far away in alt.tv.malcolm-in-themiddle, Mediajock came
to play...
> Be that the case, I think this may be explained by highlighting some
> season 4 occurrences you may not have seen yet.
>
> At the beginning of Season 4, Malcolm was finally given an age - it was
> 14, as he was entering his freshman (first) year of high school.
> (Actually nowhere in script dialogue did anyone come out and say he was
> 14 - it was merely implied, plus other show press did say it.)
Indeed, this I understood. From this also, we know that in the previous
season, Reese is
> Since then, an episode called "Forwards Backwards" aired here on Dec. 1,
> 2002 that focused on Malcolm getting grounded for his birthday after
> suc***bing to Reese's constant pestering. Since the birthday came after
> he was of freshman age, we can assume that he turned 15 and thus the 4+
> year interval between him and Dewey can still hold.
But surely this would make Dewey between 10 and 11 for this season, which
is not the 11-12 required for him to be in middle school ?
It just seems strange for them to make an error such as this. I have also
been impressed with the continuity they've kept in this programme. Sure
they make the odd mistake but compared to others, they really do pay a lot
of attention to detail. It surprises me that this is a bit of a grey area,
unless I'm missing something else :-)
> Remember also that you can't totally rely on given ages - especially
> from the first few seasons. I don't know how much pre-show press you
> all got over there before MITM debuted, but early promotionals here had
> Malcolm being billed as a 9 year old. That would have rendered Dewey
> all of 5, which we know has to be wrong.
I think that was down to the fact that the pilot script lists Malcolm as
being 9 and Reese 11, which was before the actors were cast for those
roles. Dewey as a five year old is wrong, indeed. As you said, and also by
the fact that Malcolm is learning to drive in season 4, he must be 14 at
the start of the season, and 15 as the season progresses. Dewey is four
years younger: thus 10-11 age range.
Still one year out for middle school. Maybe he's as bright as Malcolm and
they've let him jump ahead a year :-)
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