Okay so the influx of Daria thread recently(?) finally motivated me to get off my ass and watch it. Maybe I’m just zoomer scum but its bad? Not in a daria-is-bitchy way but in a the-jokes-arent-funny-story-isnt-entertaining way. I know i’m missing the main context, IE being an American teen in the 90s, but its still bad. Very, very bad.
Its bad. not good
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why are they eating lasang
Yeah it doesn’t work outside of its time. Also it’s one of the few shows where the MC is supposed to be the antagonist of their own story.
Zoomers were a mistake
It's Monday
You kind of had to be there. It was very much a product of its time but doesn't really work if you're not watching it after High School in 1999.
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It's Helen's turn to cook and frozen lasagna is all she ever cooks.
What's Daria's cup size? Larger or smaller than Quinn?
I'm 24. I liked it. It has certain charm.
I think it might have started out as a cost-saving thing to only draw one thing in dinner scenes but they turned it into a gag later.
Looks like about the same size as Quinn but on a larger frame.
your like two months late
Comparable.
However, I suspect that Daria will develop along the lines of Amy, while Quinn will either stay thin like Rita if she's childless or more like Helen if she has kids. (I have now cursed myself to having someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of the "what it" pictures will come along now and object to such notions.)
This. Amy is basically adult Daria, as that episode tried really hard to convey. She'll be an attractive thirty-something virgin that hides her figure behind Christmas sweaters and neckerchiefs.
Smaller than Quinn the episode where she & Quinn are brides maids the joke was she was more falt chested.
Were you watching it with the original soundtrack or the generic songs from the DVDs and streams?
I like it, but it's definitely not meant to be watched marathon-style. The setting is too depressing.
Yeah, but I think it's just relative. The same cup size on a larger frame will look smaller by comparison.
I never cared for Daria back in the 90s. I only watched it because I was waiting for some other show.
Will Daria and Quinn grow closer as they enter adulthood? Split apart like their mother and her siblings? Is there any of Jake's hot mess in either of them?
Given the latter half of the last season, I am hopeful that they'll learn from their mother's mistakes, and have a better relationship than they did.
All I'm reading is you have shit tastes and probably a virgin.
The way you write is grating. 2/10.
as a 22 year old who only watched this show last year i can say that it's aged poorly. like a lot of what it was doing was probably edgey or counter culture for it's time but like a lot of what daria was judged for is totally normal today. it's a 6/10 and then like a 4/10 in the later seasons
but the last season is the best one
Excuse me
I'm rewatching it and I'm just now noticing how weird the digital animation is. There's a lot of zooms and pans that looks really bad, and it's really obvious in a lot scenes that the characters are walking in place while the background behind them is moving.
lol yea thats the only real issue. the writing is top notch, albeit more serious.
the one with the 50s guy is probably the funniest episode of the whole series
Trent is based. Trent's sister is best girl.
Daria is worst cunt in the show. But that was the point.
i stopped paying attention when i started to get bored around 3rd season. streaming it is not the way to go.
I love the 50s guy. But season 4 and 5 are really handicapped by how bland Tom is. He really doesn't have much of a personality besides "kind of agreeable guy who the writers think is witty but it actually kinda grating."
He's like Randy from That 70s Show.
It's "dated" but so is just about everything. I don't see how that's much of an obstacle unless you're incapable of appreciating anything other than the utmost contemporary. It's far from incomprehensible.
>tom was bland
yea i think that was the point. most people i discussed this with saw a bit of their 17yo selves in him tho
You've got it. Also, the fact that some of it is "dated" makes it even more relevant today. Remember when Jake worked at a tech startup? Bunch of young weirdos. Company got rich because of venture capital and stock valuation. Tons of meaningless marketing buzzwords. The company doesn't even seem to actually serve a purpose. All that stuff was rooted in the dot com bubble era but it fits in perfectly with modern Silicon Valley.
>the dot com episode
another last season classic
I'd argue he's distinctive because he isn't a dumb asshole like almost every character.
He exists to elicit reaction from Daria so I wonder if they deliberately wanted to avoid anything extreme in him like they didn't want the audience to particularly like or dislike him.
They actually addressed the lasagna thing in one QnA around 98-99
This show is actually frustrating to watch. Literally nothing happens in each episode. It's just lots of walking and talking then talking while not walking then some more walking. There is no plot every time, nothing to overcome, no antagonist, nothing. Just Daria talks about some shit, Jane agrees, they eat pizza then the episode is over.
How is this peak 90s writing?
Seinfeld is peak 90s television and it's a show about nothing. Boomers and zoomers think everything has to MATTER for some reason.
Seinfeld isn't literally about nothing, "show about nothing" is simply how they described the lack of a hook.
>Seinfeld isn't literally about nothing
Neither is Daria.
>Maybe I’m just zoomer scum but its bad?
I hate it how zoomers use question mark when they're making a statement.
>I ORDER YOU TO HATE
>I POST VAGUE SUSPICION TO MAKE ALL ARGUMENT AGAINST ME A CONSPIRACY
Wow, go be decapitated in hell, fanatic faggot
>I’m just zoomer scum
This could have summed up your post.
Who the fuck tailored her dress?
Bridesmaid dress. They're supposedly designed to have a uniform looks across all particular sizes and body types but they are notorious for not doing so.
The gag is that Daria is shaped just differently enough that the seamstress can't make the dress fit correctly, so she stands out.
Seinfeld still had episodic plots like George needing the rye bread snuk back into the house, Kramer needing to kidnap Elane's neighbor's dog, or Jerry trying to get a jacket back from Italian performers.
Daria does not even have that much. It's literally just two people having regular casual conversation and that's it. At least Seinfeld conversations were a comedy bit with a punchline each time.
The seamstress would need to be incompetent in order for that to happen. All her dress needs is to be taken in at the sides and for her to stick a pair of falsies in; and that assumes that Daria wasn't fitted before the dress was made. Granted, it'd be entirely within character for Daria to leave out the falsies just so the dress would look terrible on her.
It's more of a character study than anything else. She's a person who sees herself as an iconoclast but who comes to realize she's not so different after all. Those kind of character-based shows are not usually about moving forward so much as not losing ground.
I dread the new show. She'll probably be written with all of the annoying character traits that made her an antisocial icon without any of the things that humanized her character. (Think Daria without "The Misery Chick," "Through A Lens Darkly," and "Boxing Daria" to take the edge off of the edgy girl.)
In case you didn't get it.
dear god what a mistake of a character
the episode where she got her belly button pierced was hot
Does that imply most 17 year olds are bland?
>doesn't really work if you're not watching it after High School in 1999
Yes it does, I watched Daria in early 2000s in Russia and loved it.
I tried rewatching it a bit ago and introducing it to a friend, and I really couldn’t get him into it either. I think my problem may have been trying to watch it in chronological order. I’m thinking the first season might be kinda weak in retrospect and the show takes a bit to pick up steam.
Daria's attitude is just no longer relevant or believable in our era. I don't think a zoomer would be able to relate to the situations Daria experienced on the show.
But my friend I tried watching it with is a millennial like me, he remembers the 90s and he still didn’t like the show.
His mind is no longer in the right place, he has been taken over by the new millennium and forgot the spirit of the 90s
Well, of course. Russia is 10 years behind the US culturally-speaking. So in 2005, American tv from 1995 is new, hip, and culturally relevant.
It was interesting that even the "cool" aunt was a fucking mess.
Where can you watch this show with the original audio?
Amy was just fine. She may still have some issues with her sisters but that is not abnormal, to which most people with siblings can attest.
I really do believe it's the sienfeld effect.
For it's time it was some cool unique slice of life shit. Edgy teen girl sarcastic af as the main character coming of age, that's it. Kinda feministy, calls shit out, jokes just a lil better than the same beevus and butthead. It was a cartoon for teens not kids which wasn't common at all back then. Most cartoons were action packed pre teen shit or if for adults some eXtreme crude humor.
>Smart, sarcastic teen in a white-bread suburb cracks wise against her sick, sad world, learning about herself and making friends despite her antisocial tendencies.
It’s not nearly as edgy now because the world in itself is much more edgy. You only have to look at the latest entertainment to see that what we would consider “shock and awe” then is just boring to people who have become desensitized to it when they have everything PUNCTUATED! FOR! EMPHASIS!
It’s a character study disguised as sardonic social commentary. It just may be too subtle for some people.
>durr durrr i am mature adult i cant have my writing express emotion that makes it easier to read
>AnimeToon.TV
>culturally relevant
Except that we don't have high schools, cliques or suburbs.
The later half is awful, Daria just droves me up the wall with how unreasonable she is
>2.93mb
Is this a joke?
The long third season is the weakest. It's full of dumb sitcom stuff like "dad tries to impress the new boss" and "two people who dislike each other go on a car trip"
>Kinda feministy
How? It even mocks a shallow man-hating shrew by putting dumb shit in her mouth that's actually quite fashionable today.
but that's the point; she isn't the "fact and logic" demigod she seems to think she is.
Sure they make fun of one extremest feminist but they also mock incles with the nice guy nerd hitting on every woman and whining about girls not liking him. Daria, Jane, Helen and Jodie all say standard feminist women are equal and get offended by the men when they are talked down to. Not to mention every boy is an idiot except token black guy and her bf. At least some of the girls had personality but every guy was an idiot.
I'm fine with it cause I don't got a chip on my shoulder about feminism in shit. Like whatever women are equal fine. But it's just funny seeing Yea Forums bring up Daria as some waifu when she'd verbally mace any dude from here if they ever got 10 feet near her. Even her boyfriend is a feminist. If he was a real dude yall would call him a basedboy cuck.
Damn kids. This show brings me right back to picking mall foodcourt nachos out of my braces
Most people in real life are bland. But it's the job of a good writer to distill the interesting parts out of real life into something interesting. If you had a movie that's nothing but a guy going to work for a week and coming home and watching TV until bedtime that'd be relatable, but it wouldn't be good writing.
search for the Daria Restoration Project
>Maybe I’m just zoomer scum
You should have stopped right there and closed your post.
>every guy was an idiot
Not Mr. DiMartino, Jodie's dad, the guy Daria met at the wedding, the boy from the gifted school (not an idiot, just an asshole), Chuck (not an idiot, just a creep), Quinn's tutor, Jane's dad, the dad and son from Helen and Jake's hippie friend group, the homeschooled kid Daria almost dated, Helen's coworker Eric, the male holidays...
I suppose. It would be a comfy watch with some relaxing music though.
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This was considered edgy in my day, kid. Now being a moral, clean cut, white Conservative with an intact family is edgy.
You're not a zoomer. You're a millennial adult about to be over the hill in a year.
Hey, man.
Life wasn't easy in the 90s if your last name was Morgandorfer.
Especially if you missed your stop because somebody was standing on your neck.
>Now being a moral, clean cut, white Conservative with an intact family is edgy.
maybe feminists ARE ruining star wars
True. You have barns, snow, and beets instead.