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Just watched first episode, should I continue?
posted by D-magicSTAFFMOD on April 21, 2017 at 7:33 PM
So I watched first episode and I have mixed feelings, more towards negative, and I want to know if it's worth my time continuing watching this. I don't usually like teenage high school dramas, almost always they are filled with stupid teens and their stupid problems. So if it is just a story about cyber bullying, teen suicide and coping with grief, while providing an insight about teen life and their high school problems, I prefer to skip the rest of it. I recognize the intrigue of the chosen story telling form and some mystery in expectation of revealing secrets, but if the general story will not rise above "I am special, here is my teen life adventures full of cute boys and romance" level, I am not interested.
Reply by tmdb13060682
on June 6, 2017 at 8:48 PM
Incorrect. Teenage suicide rates have remained steady for fifteen years.
More importantly, younger groups have had consistently lower suicide rates than middle-aged and older adults.
afsp.org
Reply by Jana
on June 6, 2017 at 9:01 PM
I don't have the numbers here because it's 4 am and I should be sleeping, but I did mention in my post that I didn't write only about the US. Or at least, it was implied. The show is on Netflix worldwide you know. I'm pretty sure the problem exists everywhere.
Reply by tmdb13060682
on June 6, 2017 at 9:17 PM
Nope.
World Health Organization statistics show teenage suicide rates among European females has remained steady since 1965. Teenage suicide rates among European males has remained steady since the late eighties.
Reply by Jana
on June 6, 2017 at 10:50 PM
Well in any case, I said kids kill themselves every day over this so throw numbers around if you want, I bet I'm right. And to be honest, statistics has no place here anyway. One is always one too many.
Reply by tmdb13060682
on June 7, 2017 at 9:21 PM
Nope.
One is the smallest integer.
Reply by Jana
on June 8, 2017 at 12:08 AM
Oh please, take your quasi-intelligent bs somewhere else and try and pick up some eq along the way.
Reply by tmdb13060682
on June 8, 2017 at 6:43 AM
Quasi-intelligent? You've made nothing but false statements.
Find some facts and get back to me.
Reply by Jana
on June 8, 2017 at 8:33 AM
What false statements? I never wanted my post to be about facts and statistics, YOU did that. So you didn't care for the show, you're entitled to your opinion, but you saw my post and that sentence and just had to pick it apart into numbers and figures. I hope you're not a parent.
But since you started it. If you're as good with words as you are with numbers, I wrote: kids kill themselves every day over this (you took for granted I spoke about America, how arrogant and very very sad at the same time). Now, today there are approximately 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 living on the planet. Wouldn't it be plausible to say that everyday, somewhere in this beautiful but cruel world, someone suffers the same fate as Hannah? And I didn't even need a chart.
Putting a stop to cyber bullying might be a utopia but it certainly doesn't make it easier with reactionists and red tapists like you.
Reply by tmdb13060682
on June 8, 2017 at 6:24 PM
Alright. My apologies.