Hi, Nora! Welcome to the comm. As you watch, feel free to page back on the episode discussion posts and respond on the episodes in question if you'd like. :)
Your interpretation of this did occur to me: that's what I meant when I wrote "Maybe the show was just being early-80s-accurate in the fact that they found a way to get home by themselves and weren't completely freaked out by that." I mean, I was around myself and living in the U.S. at the time (Paige and I are contemporaries), so I'm aware of how different things were back then for kids! But in "Trust Me" there was more going on than just that--their mother had been due to arrive to pick them up and they simply didn't show up. At Paige's age, I wouldn't have thought a thing of being left alone at night, but if my mother had just not showed up to pick me up and left me to get home by myself, I would have been both worried and angry.
Also...I don't want to spoil for later episodes, but suffice it to say that this does come up eventually. :)
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timeasmymeasure
Re: Americans' children
Date: 2014-03-28 12:38 pm (UTC)Your interpretation of this did occur to me: that's what I meant when I wrote "Maybe the show was just being early-80s-accurate in the fact that they found a way to get home by themselves and weren't completely freaked out by that." I mean, I was around myself and living in the U.S. at the time (Paige and I are contemporaries), so I'm aware of how different things were back then for kids! But in "Trust Me" there was more going on than just that--their mother had been due to arrive to pick them up and they simply didn't show up. At Paige's age, I wouldn't have thought a thing of being left alone at night, but if my mother had just not showed up to pick me up and left me to get home by myself, I would have been both worried and angry.
Also...I don't want to spoil for later episodes, but suffice it to say that this does come up eventually. :)
-J