1) The dialogue is what really drew me in, and what keeps me coming back. 2) Something I didn't appreciate until later: No one's family is really truly Doing It Right, but they're all trying in their own way, when we see the students interacting with their parents. 3) Tom! I like Tom. I also still ship Daria/Tom quite a bit, even though I was iffy on the whole love-triangle thing and figured, given that, that they'd probably break up before the end of the series. But from an intellectual standpoint, they really understand each other. 4) Related to that, the show let the characters grow up and change over the course of the series. It wouldn't have worked as well if everyone had stayed in the same place they were in the first season. 5) The musical episode, corny as it is, makes me laugh every time.
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Date: 2011-08-25 05:42 pm (UTC)2) Something I didn't appreciate until later: No one's family is really truly Doing It Right, but they're all trying in their own way, when we see the students interacting with their parents.
3) Tom! I like Tom. I also still ship Daria/Tom quite a bit, even though I was iffy on the whole love-triangle thing and figured, given that, that they'd probably break up before the end of the series. But from an intellectual standpoint, they really understand each other.
4) Related to that, the show let the characters grow up and change over the course of the series. It wouldn't have worked as well if everyone had stayed in the same place they were in the first season.
5) The musical episode, corny as it is, makes me laugh every time.