I have noticed this before , but I was watching it last night and saw a moment which to me seemed too OTT and a 'what a fat girl would do in a bar' moment,
she ends up in the wrong bar and sulkily asks the bar tender for a packet of crisps,...then adds "And a coke ...full fat!!!'
I'm a big girl myself, and been around a lot of other big girls, although i don't think you have to be to get that nobody does that, in a bar having a night out.
It seemed unnecessarily offensive almost like a parody, I'm sure in more than one episode she passes out from like ...5 minutes of P.E or whatever, , and in the episode after Grantly dies the first scene is Audrey looking pitifully in Rhi's direction going "aw Poor Rhiannon she's comfort eating".
And i think one of her early episodes where they wondered why her personality was so abrasive unlikeable, instead of what could have been a good look into what it's like to be growing up in care, give her a good, fleshed out backstory it became about she's defensive about being fat, audrey forces her to go jogging and she passes out. ...
I feel if an Ethnic, LGBT etc teen was made such a stereotypical 2d character people would be more offended and like a sufferer of anorexia would be granted deeper story lines, i do feel as if Rhiannon was almost purely created as a figure to poke fun at. And on a programme about young people, watched by young people in a country which a high level of overweight teens its irresponsible to portray them in such a 2D sense?
AIBU?
I know this is the wrong board lol.