Earlier in the year, I ordered Season 1 on DVD through Amazon.com. I watched the first four episodes and then stopped, until this past week. I must've been really bored (you can't just watch Daria all day, can you? ...maybe you can...)
I remembered this show being absurd and silly when I first saw it. Watching it again, the feeling hasn't changed. It has the propensity to be extremely clever at times, and really stupid at other times. Or at least the english dub does; I have no idea what the original was like. Apparently they sent this show across the Pacific with no script-just the animation-so the dubbing team had to come up with their own script. It has to deal with the pitfalls of being dubbed in the 90's and aimed at an American children's audience, and a lot of the original jokes probably wouldn't work too well over here, so that doesn't help.
Overall, I do appreciate it for what it is. It has its moments, and it's a good dosage of nostalgia for me. Although sometimes I think I am probably not a very harsh critic when it comes to my childhood cartoons. I would say it ranks below Ducktales, Gummi Bears, or Talespin, but ahead of the abominations that were: Any Super Mario Bros. cartoon; Captain N: The Game Master; or the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Hell, it probably ranks above the Saturday Morning Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon show.
What do you think? Anyhoo...
Wuv, Yer Mom
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