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Mr. Doctor:
Since there was quite some talk about this wonderful show from the 90s in the pointless thread... and considering that I just finished watching all the series and both films a few days ago. It feels just right to open a thread and discuss! I watched the series when I was too little so I didn't give it much thought and stopped caring for it. But I gave it another try at 17 and I got hooked like never before. I could definitely relate to the feelings and opinions of most characters (not only the main characters) and I saw most of the things in the show in real life (although in a bit more "normal" scenario most of the time).

So yeah....


--- Quote from: Welu on 18 Aug 2012, 10:47 ---I actually find Trent very hard to figure out. Although formerly being a teenage girl with a bloke like him around has a lot to do with that. Some of the stuff he says and does towards Daria is super confusing, which I'm sure is intentional from a storyteller point of view but a character motivation point of view is baffling.
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Trent was a weird guy indeed. I still can't figure out if he at some point really liked Daria or just found her cute and liked her as a sister. Considering how oblivious he could be, I'm betting for the later one.

EDIT: But now that I remember... He did say once "If you were a few years older we could go out sometime". Which led me to believe that he would have liked to be with her but she being in highschool kind of turned him off(?) and just started to playfully joke around the subject when he was alone with her.

Kugai:
Daria did have a crush on Trent and, at one stage, I think he somewhat returned it but I think it settled into more of a friendship - Kinda big brother little sister - by the end of the series if memory serves.

I think Fandom spent more time pairing Daria with Jane or - in the case of one story I know of - Jane with Quinn.

Then there was the Daria/Tom/Jane arc.

Welu:
I've only started watching the fifth season.

I think the moment that cemented, "What is he at?" for Trent for me was the dialogue he and Daria had at the end of the episode where he failed on helping her and Jane with a school project. The conversation seems obviously meant to be the writers going, "This relationship would not work." but then after it Trent kisses Daria on the cheek. Although she doesn't blush or anything so I assume it's meant to show her feelings for him being gone.

The two do seem close in friendship and supportive of each other. The highschool thing could turn him off or maybe he just knows what Daria is like and a relationship with her would be more complicated that what he wants. I can't really see him being as sensitive to her ethics and beliefs as Tom is without pulling a, "Fix The Guy" type thing.

I'll stop there. I think I could write an essay on this stuff just about Daria and Trent off the top of my head.

VonKleist:
Lol I just rewatched all of it.

The conversation between Trent and Daria sums up their relationship during the whole series.
Itīs about something completely different but the subtext is, as both seem to understand, their "thing" throughout the story, bringing the unspoken things to a close.

Mr. Doctor:

--- Quote from: Welu on 19 Aug 2012, 13:47 ---I think the moment that cemented, "What is he at?" for Trent for me was the dialogue he and Daria had at the end of the episode where he failed on helping her and Jane with a school project. The conversation seems obviously meant to be the writers going, "This relationship would not work." but then after it Trent kisses Daria on the cheek. Although she doesn't blush or anything so I assume it's meant to show her feelings for him being gone.
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Absolutely love that scene. Quite a brilliant break-up without being a break-up. I do believe that both understood very well what they were talking about between the lines. To me: Trent's kiss is just a way of biding farewell to the subject and tell her to move on.

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