I just realized that there are less than 92 hours left until the final episode of Season 3 airs. I was wondering, what do y'all do while waiting for the new episodes to premiere next February (besides write fanfiics that are often better than what I've seen from the show's creative team)? I know our lives won't be held in suspended animation (no pun intended), but what do you folks talk about in the meantime?
Hey, some of us haven't reached the end yet! Channel 5 are now about 3 or 4 episodes behind! Despite wots-her-name promising it would be a new episode last week, we've had another two weeks of Season 1 repeats. The only silver lining is that I'd only previously seen these via the Daria Warehouse, so I now have the chance to see them properly, and I guess we will *eventually* get to see the rest of Season 3, though ford knows when. Channel 5 seem determined to make the most of the rerun freebies they screwed out of MTV as the price for not premiering any more Season 3 episodes. It's kind of sad though, I rather enjoyed the experience of seeing something first whilst it lasted. I can see why you Americans are so addicted to getting everything first and then making the rest of the world wait a couple of months. It's a sort of power craze thing I think.
As to what we will find to do when new Daria episodes aren't coming out, well I've managed to post 60 messages to atd in the last fortnight, and none of them have been about a current episode. The last time I discussed a current episode was on July 28 when I commented on Lane Miserables. And I can keep this up indefinitely, as can most people on atd. Only the wusses stop posting when Daria stops being shown.
Damn right! (Although I will admit to discussing current Daria eps recently, I've also talked about just about any/everything else.)
We're in this for the Long Haul.
BTW, are we ever going to have that big get-together in England to drink a lot of beer and watch Daria eps? Then, of course, we could all get into a knock-down drag out fight about which eps to watch. ;-)
rich.
Quinn: People are so weird!
Daria: Some are weird. Some are just astonishingly self-centered and deceitful.
On the mountaintop, [email] (Cricket) spake thusly:
Name it. We'll talk about it, and if we've already discussed it we'll discuss it again, dammit, 'cause there's always new people waiting to present a different view that could send the conversation spiraling into something totally different than last time. And there's always the discussion of old episodes, although that rarely happens. (Sometimes during the off-season I have to look and see what newsgroup I'm on, LOL.) And going over stuff with a fine tooth comb.
Outside of ATD, I use the time to pick up the shattered pieces of my life and practice my Sandi and Manjula impressions, and commit Simpsons episodes and songs to memory. Oh yeah, and there's always people to convert to the Holy Church of Darianism.
-Mindy Rabid Fangirl Extraordinare
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I watched ThroughALensDarkly again today, twice. (And once the day before yesterday.) I was toying with the idea of turning the soundtrack into an mp3 as the amount of atmosphere generated by the incidental music make me feel it might work as a "radio play".
Such pathos can only be found on atd.
Do you have info on this? I was never able to find out anything about the theology of Darianites, so I decided to start my own church. But so far I only have the "St Daria" page up on my website. I have some half- finished gospels somewhere though that I really must get round to uploading.