Channel 5 showed Fair Enough today. I thought it was generally good but there didn't seem to be a proper ending, the various subplots just fizzled out or dissolved into chaos. Highlight perhaps was I actually heard Andrea for the first time, though I still didn't see her. I thought more could have been made of Quinn's performance, it all ground to an abrupt halt the moment it started. It would have been better if Quinn and Kevin had got to perform together on stage and then Brittany could have thrown a fit when they have to kiss. And we never found out what happened when Stacey called up that guy for another date. All in all it felt like the episode stopped halfway through. There should have been another half hour of it but instead we got a fade to black as night fell.
I suppose someone's probably noticed this before, but anyway at the start of the episode when Daria is working in the library, it shows her notebook briefly, and this is what she's written:
ROBBER BARONS
Late 19th c./early 29th c.
Cornelius Vanderbilt - railroads - "The public be damned"
John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie - steel
Exploitation then philanthropy
Interesting econo-political comment. I guess this fits in with the later Robin Hood stuff etc. too.
As the Official Fair Enough Propoganda Guy of The Daria Online Community, I will again voice my opinion that Fair Enough is the funniest Daria episode ever. There were at least a dozen great lines. When Mike come's back, it had BETTER get an "A"
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:40:42 +0000, Shez wrote:
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Uh-oh, someone just put me in a position of responsibility! The day has suddenly turned sinister...
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I have a different view. I think that leaving to our imagination the events that led to Brittany's chosen route "to" the Fair with Kevin was much more subtle than showing her throwing a wobbly.
Did we need to? She was really a foil to the Fashion Club members (their shallow concern, their stock answers) and to create tension on the Ferris [?sp] wheel.
Always leave the punter wanting more!
Among the many highlights for me were the rapidity with which Helen and Jake were abandoned as soon as the family got in the gate; "Blame that on dyslexia!"; "Put head cold water."; and the information that flowed from the information booth once Daria & Jane took it over. I liked the episode. I thought I saw Andrea in the b/g or m/g of one shot; and I didn't see barelegged Jane, so my "running gag" theory is blown right out the water!
Ah, you crazy Brits and your expressions... I can't let this one go by without an explanation, Martin. :)
I think the "barelegged Jane" thing is simply an overseas animation mistake. I agree with your ideas on this ep... It just looked like a bunch of stuff that happened. Don't get me wrong, it -was- funny, just not what we've come to expect from a standard "Daria" episode.
It's an expression that was common, ISTR, among fairground people, and made its way into the light entertainment industry (epspecially Music Hall - "Vaudeville" in US English). It's an admonition not to take any risk of an audience becoming bored, but to finish the show, or move them out of the sideshow tent, while they still want to see more.
Punter = customer, especially a member of an audience. Formerly with overtones that the one using the expression has little respect for the customer so described. Also means one who makes a risky investment, or places a bet, or is the victim of a con artist, or who purchases the services of a prostitute.
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Yes, someone explained that the work of Rough Draft Korea was not of the standard one might desire, and that another firm was used for the second series. Pity, though, it was a nice hypothesis while it lasted. 8-)
Thank you, on behalf of all us Ugly Americans(tm) who just thought that the punter was the guy the coach sends in on 4th down to punt the (American) football. Very similar to a football goalkeeper in England after he makes a save.
You might have gotten the wrong impression here. Rough Draft Korea (RDK) does 95% of the animation work on "Daria," with the rest (only 1 or 2 Season 1 eps) done by Plus One Animation. While the "Barelegged Jane" phenomenon crops up in RDK's work every now and then, on the whole, RDK does a damn fine job.
I can see how the expression I quoted could be confusing.... 8-)
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Oops. If Dejanews had been responding, I'd have double-checked this, but it wasn't, so I didn't, and embarrassed myself in consequence. It's working again now. (Maybe I should increase the setting for keep_local_copies?). Thanks, Chris, for the courteous correction, and apologies to RDK.
Actually, I thought I'd said it was Plus One Animation that had done that. (In fact, IMFMSM (if my failing memory serves me), they did all of the animation for Season One.) RDK took over in Season Two-- you can also tell that the style of the drawings is a lot smoother and streamlined in Season Two, as well-- but who was responsible for that: MTVA, who did the storyboarding, or RDK who did the animating? Can I get an assist from someone who knows? Please?
As I said in my previous post, RDK does very good work-- you can check out their other toons on Cartoon Network (Cow & Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory, and the Powerpuff Girls-- I'm sure they do more than that, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head.) And if you don't get CN, complain, complain, and complain to whomever you can. ('Cos where else can you see "The Gary Coleman Show?" *shudder*)
tongue firmly planted in cheek, rich.
Daria: Sorry, with all of this animation, I thought I was on Nickelodeon for a moment.
I think that that was sort of the idea. The episode, like "Daria Hunter," was chaotic because that's how life can be sometimes. Also, not every episode needs to shed light on the charaters' development, or have some important message-- sometimes you just want to see something funny. If every show always ended the same way, with the same neat denoument tying up all of the loose ends, it would get static and formulaic. If you've seen the X-Files, you'll know what I mean about leaving things hanging, although they *way* overuse the device, IMO. (TXF drives me nuts in that they never seem to resolve *anything*, so I stopped watching it a long time ago.)
The other thing about "Fair Enough" that I loved was the abundance of really funny lines, like "Get away from me, you howdy-doody-looking creep!" and "Now do I look desperate enough to you?" and "must stick head cold water" and so on...
There was also the underlying theme of the glorification of violence in the Middle Ages-- almost everyone either gets hit with a turkey leg, dunked, bludgeoned by Mr. D. or Sam & Chris, hit with books (Kevin and Brittany in the library), etc., etc., even Helen and Linda practice their archery
Ah, but the point was the total humiliation of Quinn. Not Brittany.
Oh, come now, he never called her back. You should know what happened when she called him back.
See what I said, supra. Of course, YMMV.
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Jane: You know, I don't know why people say we have a bad attitude.