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Watching this show as a teen then as an adult is like an experiment.

posted 12 years ago by daughterofolaf
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I was 15 when this show originally aired, same as Angela. I remember becoming obsessed and just feeling like it was the most accurate and real portrayal of what it was like to be a girl and my age. I totally understood Angela and all her emotions and felt she was so right about things.

Then I re-watched it when I hit my 30's and I still feel it is absolutely true to life and realistic except now I'm like wow, drama queen! Everything is the end of the world to her. I still love the show but my perspective has changed SO much. It's hilarious and part of life I guess. Now I feel bad for my mom and how dramatic I was at times. :)

But still, I think it is one of the best shows ever in terms of portraying what I (and I'm sure a million other girls) felt like at that time in life.

"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."

[–] mysprouts-740-813856 12 years ago

I was 17 when the show came out and totally identified with it (late bloomer). I watch it now as a mother of a teen daughter and can identify with patty.

Minus the technology we now have, I'd say Angela chase is a pretty accurate portrayal of my daughters so called life. ;-)

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[–] VerucaPepper 10 years ago

I missed it when it came on. I just watched it as a mother of a teenager, and feel more for Angela. I hated the parents, especially the mother. She was supposed to be pretty? She looked like a man once she cut her hair. And the father was just looking to cheat. Anyway I feel like the show would have been so much better without the parents storyline.

[–] daughterofolaf 9 years ago

She was supposed to be pretty? She looked like a man once she cut her hair.

Well that's nice. It's very unfortunate that this is what you took from the show and that the extent of your thoughts amount to nothing more than petty personal insults about someone's appearance.

And the father was just looking to cheat.

Clearly that is not at all true because he never did cheat on Patty. Granted, there was a huge unknown at the end of the series with his business partner but since the show ended at that point we will never know what may have happened. If he were "just looking to cheat" then he surely would have been doing exactly that all over the place but he wasn't.

There was a whole sea of feelings, conflict, events and circumstances that led to him feeling these things. I am amazed that anyone can be so short-sighted as to completely miss all of that and chalk it up to "he was just looking to cheat," especially when he never cheated on her. 

"Your petty vengeance fetish will have to do withOUT Mr. Groin!"

[–] thenmadewild 8 years ago

It's weird because I'm 29 and randomly decided to try watching this recently (had always heard good things) and watching it was almost uncomfortable. The whole time I was like "was I really THAT ridiculous?" (about the main character), and "Am I really going to turn out like that?" (about the mom). The show made me feel like I was in this strange, in-between place. It just felt so real and plausible to the point it made me squirm! I will probably watch the rest even so. I think if I'd seen it when I was younger I would have LOVED it right away though.