#if they'd spent 4 seasons making Marie look like an actual teen then it would have been 100% obvious

[ks-caster]

Can I just add (i think I've already ranted about this actually) that Marie's been late 20s/early 30s playing a teenager (4 seasons) and then an early 20s adult (1/2 season) nearly the whole time we've seen her in this role.

Then she went into the anomaly (a 33 year old actress playing a 23 year old character) and came out 10 seconds later in the same scene as a 33 year old actress playing a 33 year old character. But the only major difference i saw was she had an extra 8 inches of hair, had taken a bath and did her eyebrows. Those visible changes accounted for maybe a year of aging - they didn't suggest 10.

We didn't know that she was supposed to have aged 10 whole years for half a season and all the time between the end of 6 and the start of 7. Does Marie look early thirties? Sure! Are we as the audience used to suspending disbelief (as most of us have been out whole lives watching adults play children) and seeing Octavia as 16-23 for seasons 1-6? Also yes.

This also came on the heels of season 6's drastic hair and make-up changes for Echo, Raven and Octavia. They all got “dolled up” with no explanation at the beginning of season 6 - and upon rewatch and looking at pics side-by-side, early S6 Octavia has been made up to look a little younger - in comparison to mid/late season 6 Octavia. But since it just seemed like the women who weren't going to get any agency in the season several characters all got “beautified” for no discernible reason, that wasn't really noticeable until I went looking for it.

If I wasn't watching this season and I was seeing GIFs of that same actress at her same age playing mom to someone who was clearly only around a decade younger, I'd have me some freakin' questions too. I barely kept up with it and I watched live.

hey the 100 fans, is there an actual believable reason (via time anomaly shenanigans) that Octavia and Hope look like they’re roughly the same age? or is it just because they couldn’t age Marie up? because honestly it’s making it impossible for me to really buy the whole mother/daughter dynamic