Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26235944-20150608025717/@comment-24399666-20151105193233

99.59.124.62 wrote: Elizebeth in "The 4400" could do powerful things when she was still in the womb, then she grew up over night and had emense powers while turning to the future people on the dark side. Very simalar scenario.

Then Adria in "Stargate SG1" also grew up overnight and exspressed unlimited power for the Ori who were trying to take over the universe.
 * sigh* Yeah...

I really, really hope they don't go this route with Diana. Or if they do, that they at least have her mental and emotional development reflect her chronological age. But writers never, ever seem to do that in rapid-aging arcs, and it completely destroys the show for me, because it makes it impossible to suspend disbelief.

I mean, I could handle it with Adria, because she was basically an Ori, so she probably had knowledge of things like the universe and the English language and how to tie her shoes and all of the intricacies of human existance that it takes children years to learn, when she was born. But that's not the case here; if Diana rapidly ages, there's no in-universe explanation for knowing things beyond her chronological age, when she had no time to learn them. You can't just skip developmental stages. It's one thing to have her body age. It's another thing to have her skip stages of learning and yet somehow still know stuff.

So, to sum up, I've resigned myself to Diana having a rapid-aging arc, but my hope is that either a) it's still slow enough that we can buy that she knows things beyond her age because she picks up on things unusually fast, even for a child, or b) she rapidly ages in body, but not in mind.

Anyway... I'm actually not really sure what you were responding to, so I'm just responding to what you wrote here. Apologies if it's out of context.