Yeah, bringing it back to Kit, he's going to look about 40 by the time this film drops, still playing 18, but really only being 21...bro the whole point of the show is that it's a fantasy it's a comic it's not realistic it's cute vibes aspirational family friendly western and more diverse version of a "boys love" manga/anime genre story. like the point of a show isn't always realism. boys love genre stuff has a very big female audience just like heartstopper, and it shares some genre conventions:
(they're teenagers; they're at school; there's a class/status difference; love basically at first sight; personal struggles.)
and yeah from my queer male perspective a nice story on a big global platform about queer kids isn't a bad thing but it honestly can be weird cause like why arent they fucking but it's cause it's gotta be family friendly to do what it's tryna do. and yeah we are all on here so we're prob horny but there are queer people w lower sex drives.
and with the adaptation it's always weird to do a coming of age story that's serialized cause actors get older in between and the story is still them being kids and the actors are like trapped in that.
it's not that dramatic tho dam.
Blame the smoking, the gym addiction, the genetics and the harrowing effects of going to war(fare training for 6 weeks)