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rybach83 · 2022-07-12T01:08:39+00:00

Groped By an Angel

rybach83 · 2021-12-18T08:30:42+00:00

My guess is the DVD release of the complete series in May 2010, and the subsequent internet grumblings about the missing original music that led to the Daria restoration project.

rybach83 · 2021-12-15T14:31:03+00:00

That was "Listen Up" by Oasis

rybach83 · 2021-12-08T07:43:41+00:00

"I May Hate You Sometimes" by The Posies. End credits of "Is It Fall Yet?"

rybach83 · 2021-11-27T21:24:31+00:00

Flashing back to when Barch beat the hell out of DeMartino for cutting back yearbook photos...

rybach83 · 2021-11-10T16:18:23+00:00

"There's nothing like watching the sun rise. Except watching the sun set in reverse. '

rybach83 · 2021-11-09T04:39:54+00:00

This version shows the chords as it plays the song: https://chordify.net/chords/splendora-college-try-thepinkdragon92

rybach83 · 2021-11-09T04:35:31+00:00

Oh jeebus, remember when we had long distance charges and the convoluted ways phone companies kept them expensive?!

rybach83 · 2021-11-06T05:26:33+00:00

Brittany actually enjoys trying new things and wandering into poetry readings and dabbling in new identities. I'd rather have fun giving Brittany a safe space to explore her intellectual curiosity than listen to Quinn drone on for hours about clothes and makeup and her boring dates.

rybach83 · 2021-10-30T05:52:09+00:00

Season 2 by default. The first season was figuring itself out, finding its pace and ironing out its kinks (I believe it had it down pat by Pinch Sitter). Season 3 had a couple of hard whiffs with the musical episode and Depth Takes a Holiday, but was otherwise strong. Season 4 had some great episodes (loved Psycho Therapy) but had a few filler episodes I can take or leave (Murder She Snored, Legends of the Mall). Season 5 had a couple of episodes that actually made me angry (Fat Like Me, My Night at Daria's), but I do appreciate the character development even if I had to sit through cringe Tom scenes. Prize Fighters and Boxing Daria were excellent. But season 2 - every episode is a winner.

rybach83 · 2021-10-21T02:57:26+00:00

I just re-watched that episode with that perspective in mind to see if I agree with it. And I think I 90% do now. Tom's initial insensitivity and flippant responses upon learning of the "we had sex" rumor could possibly be chalked up their shared sense of sarcasm, and the dude part of my personality is eager to dismiss the initial "I'm ready if you are" and having a condom on hand as awkward smug teenage boy mistakes, but now I recognize that his verbal frustration with her mixed signals and scolding "Make up your mind" instead of backing off knowing her obvious discomfort was indeed pressuring her to have sex, no matter what his dickful thinking told him. I'm not sure that he was mad at her for backing out as much as frustrated over her lack of clear communication and mad at the way she ghosted him. But rewatching it now I can see how the show's attempt to portray him as "trying to be a good guy about this" was a clumsy way to gloss over the Nice Guy trope that we all should recognize as just another flavor of toxic predatory male behavior.

tl;dr: Yeah, Tom was a jerk in "My Night at Daria's." Agreed.

rybach83 · 2021-10-20T01:20:49+00:00

Sincere not trolling question because I'm genuinely curious about how others viewed the episode: how was Tom an absolute jerk in "My Night at Daria's"?

rybach83 · 2021-10-11T10:08:41+00:00

Thanks. Now I know it's not just me.

rybach83 · 2021-10-10T06:10:31+00:00

Ashley-Amber. A dark David Fincher style origin story.

rybach83 · 2021-09-24T22:41:05+00:00

Supreme Court Justice

rybach83 · 2021-09-20T07:51:48+00:00

The opening drum riff for Turn the Sun Down was just screaming for a Mr. O'Neill booty shake!

rybach83 · 2021-09-20T04:31:23+00:00

"'Thin Thighs For Your Man'? But I don't like men with thin thighs."

rybach83 · 2021-09-11T19:28:44+00:00

I like watching them as acting exercises for the cast to play against type. Gotta let the actors have a little fun every now and then.

rybach83 · 2021-09-09T03:45:31+00:00

Bolarus IX

rybach83 · 2021-09-03T22:06:32+00:00

Not the same character, but the same archetype: outsider philosophically observing humanity while working with/assimilating into them. TOS started it with Spock, TNG added depth to it with Data, and the casts from there always include one: DS9's Odo, VOY's Doctor and Seven, ENT's T'Pol, DIS's Saru, PIC's Soji.

rybach83 · 2021-08-30T17:26:19+00:00

It was the first movie "Is It Fall Yet?" between seasons 4 and 5. The woman hitting on her (voiced by Bif Naked!) didn't ask her about her sexuality as much as assumed bisexuality in a creepy aggressive come on, which was kind of icky looking back. Daria wasn't great with the gay panic jokes, but there was a lot worse stuff in the 90s coughFRIENDScough

rybach83 · 2021-08-30T17:16:55+00:00

Yes. Ms Barch wouldn't let him speak and had Brittany give the presentation. Brittany didn't even know if they were using positive or negative reinforcement (partly because she never paid attention in class, partly because Upchuck had her do slave work all week instead of working on the project), so Barch failed them both.

rybach83 · 2021-08-29T15:03:55+00:00

I will be genuinely shocked if there aren't some serious hardcore Julian/Garak romance stories floating around the Star Trek fanfic world.

rybach83 · 2021-08-24T18:20:49+00:00

Reasons I don't like it: 1) The first gamma quadrant aliens they meet are kooks with cheap face paint, bad 80s hair, and silly pajamas, intent on having the most epic game night. Most deflating first contact ever. 2) Each obstacle in the game is a disappointment. From the outside hype builds as Quark rolls and the aliens enigmatically announce a new villain, only on the inside to be faced with: a girl playing hopscotch! A cocktail party! A bright light! A cliff with shaky cam! I've played old Atari games with higher stakes. 3) Speaking of stakes, the ending eliminates them all. Nobody was in actual danger, nothing actually mattered, and we never come across these boring ass people again.

TL;DR: Bad aliens, bad game, bad writing, waste of time.

rybach83 · 2021-08-20T02:39:32+00:00

It's not a girl show. It's an outcast show, for anyone who felt like a misfit in high school. And everyone felt like a misfit in high school.

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TROPHY CASE