"Eddie Bernard" <spambox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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
Actually, you didn't totally make a mistake here. Reese went for his
license/;earner's permit in Season 3, rendering him at least 15.
> > 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 :-)
Do we know in what month...hold on, let me start over:
Dewey know in what month Dewey's birthday falls? ;)
I think that would be key - because if Dewey turned 11 BEFORE Malcolm
turned
15, the continuity would hold. We don't know from the "Flashback"
flashback
whether Malcolm turned 4 before or after Dewey was born.
OTOH, maybe writers changed hands and such microdetails weren't kept up
with, or they just didn't think that a lot of viewers would really catch
on
and they'd get away with it. (Though if that was the case, surely the
"Wilkerson" experiment would prove that wrong...)
I guess you have to think in months and not just whole years, since
mathematically that could make the difference. There is a hint as to when
Dewey's birthday is, but that comes way late in Season 4 and I don't want
to
give too much away for all you who haven't had the privilege of seeing it
yet.
> > 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 :-)
Or maybe Hal/Lois forgot his exact age/birthday when registering him for
school and set it up a year when filling out the forms, something they may
be fixing to reveal in a future episode. ;)
(I don't know of any plans for such a thing but it sounds like something
they would do...)
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