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what’s up????

 I reactivated my main account after like 4 years & thought I’d pop in on this one just to say hello. 

So HELLO!

I’m 31 now. Got engaged this year. Work in publishing. Still watch Degrassi and participate in some discussion over on the subreddit. My username is huncamuncamouse. 

Hope you’re all doing wonderful and staying healthy in these strange times

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I just stumbled upon your page and your username seriously cracked me up LOL I love it

hahaha thank you darlin’! 

[scabiez]

but if we’re gonna talk great degrassi bands, paige michalchuk and the sex kittens was without a doubt the best one

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it’s raining in ohio and you’re making me emotional

[vortexxcindy]

tell me lies is my favorite song to come out of degrassi

[blacktinabelcher]

Mine is can’t keep my hands off of you by downtown Sasquatch

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never forget when i made my best friend an hour long cd of all of the songs performed by the degrassi cast (original cast only). i’m a thoughtful gift giver.

(fav song is definitely mr. nice guy)

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you were right about the lola + masturbating plot omg

I AM ALWAYS RIGHT

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a little holiday trolling. shouldn’t he be watching something a bit more age appropriate?

(I know Stohn didn’t star in it, but Brogren retweeted)

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literally the prime example of that one kid who graduates but still hangs out at the high school and is only friends with people who haven’t graduated yet and you mostly feel sorry for them and make fun of them on social media…

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I’M BACK AND I STILL HATE MUNRO CHAMBERS

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degrassi next class

don’t get me wrong, there is nothing about this that looks good--other than what was a quick, possibly implied masturbation-in-the-shower scene?? 

it’s nice to see the new cast members look like actual teenagers. not as awkward as the originally generation, but over-all less glamorous and sterile. (zig’s muscles are too much and ridiculous tho) and i appreciate how multi-ethnic the new cast is!

not sure if i have the patience/time/energy to watch.i still don’t really think this show should have been revived, but lt seems like a much-needed step in the right direction

[zoerivas]

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the most egregious degrassi blackholing of the new generation was definitely wesley, in my opinion

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hey i was wondering if you could tell me why dave got blackholed? like i saw a tag about sexist tweets but i dont really keep up with the cast tbh

I think the sexist tweets had a lot to do with it. If you search Jahmil French, the actor’s name, in the tags then you could probably find out more. People were pretty thorough in documenting his tweets and they definitely made Jahmil look bad. However, I’m not sure if that had anything to do with being blackholed. Andre Kim has also posted some questionable tweets and as far as I know, he’s still on the show. I never liked Dave’s character at all and based on what I’ve seen from other people, he wasn’t a popular character. Degrassi will sometimes just give up on a character that hasn’t really caught on. It’s a lazy habit, regardless of the reasons why.

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on terri, toby, time stands still, and the degrassi black hole

i’m not exactly sure why christina schmidt left degrassi, or if there was a specific reason why toby was demoted on degrassi (i suspect it’s because he never really did blossom into a ‘leading man’ type), but i think that had the show utilized these characters more following the school shooting, some really interesting things could have happened on degrassi.

i’ll say that i think the show did a great job handling the aftermath of the shooting because it wasn’t a plot point that vanished–we saw sean deal with the traumatic event, witnessed a great change in emma, spent multiple seasons of spinner seeking redemption, and jimmy struggling to come to terms with his disability. in more recent seasons, with the notable exception of cam’s death, events never have such a great, direct, and lasting impact on events in future episodes let-alone in future seasons.

essentially, i think the show’s writing and ability to sustain a storyline was at its peak, but a few characters were sadly lost in the shuffle, namely terri and toby. these characters were always neglected: relegated to taking abuse from ashley and standing in the shadows of their more popular friends. but after the shooting, we barely saw them again. in terri’s case, she was gone for good.

but both had very important relationships with rick. people seem to forget that toby was also confronted with the gun in 'time stands still,’ even if he wasn’t explicitly the target. he witnessed his friend’s DEATH while confronting the possibility of his own. and of course, rick beat and emotionally abused terri. i was re-visiting “time stands still” the other night and i kept wondering whose duty it was to tell terri that her ex boyfriend, the young man who put her in a coma, had crippled one of her best friends and had been killed in the standoff (since questions remain whether sean shot rick or rick accidentally shot himself). even though rick had hurt her immeasurably, he was still her first boyfriend–the only boyfriend she’d had at that point. she cared about him a lot, and i wish we could have spent some time with terri as she made sense of everything that happened since rick put her in a coma. i’m not sure if she was at the same hospital that jimmy wound up staying at, but it would have been inspiring to see two people injured by rick band together, recover, and try to forgive rick.

and although the show teased us at the end of 'time stands still’ that we’d see a lot of toby’s reaction to the shooting and death of his friend, we never saw that at all, save a few scenes at rick’s funeral that focused more on building JT’s character than exploring toby’s loss. it really would have made a lot of sense for toby to have had the main POV after the shooting because if you recall, toby has always cared a lot about jimmy, idolizing him as an older brother figure and admiring him as a more worldly friend. i could see toby feeling very guilty about mourning and caring for rick, since rick was responsible for crippling someone he cares so much about and threatening other friends.

but instead, we never saw terri again, and shortly after season 4, we scarcely saw toby as anything more than an accessory to jt or liberty. but isn’t it interesting to think about how the show might have been different in focusing on these characters instead of or in addition to those it revolved around following 'time stands still’?

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I had forgotten about this, but i’m so glad I wrote this

[thischarmingdevil]

what do you mean the food network can’t pick up hannibal

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i’ll take what i can get at this point & i would love to see hannibal kill guy fieri for his rudeness

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one the one hand i am 2000% mourning the fact that hannibal got cancelled today, even though this season has been a bit slow so far

but on the other, i started Salem today and i heard really good things about it

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summer 2015

or, how can i piss off munro chambers’ fans this week?

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Uh.. how do you feel about Degrassi moving to Netflix? Do think the show will gain more fans? Do you think the whole thing will fail miserably and Degrassi will be cancelled again?

I guess I’m not surprised that they’re moving it to Netflix. At first I thought it was a good move for the show because  I thought they could push the envelope, get away with more now that they don’t have to answer to networks’ standards. But if it’s still airing on tv in Canada, it will probably still have to be watered down. I also thought that maybe they’d get rid of the entire cast and start from scratch, which could have been a good opportunity for the show just have a fresh start because God knows the show has its problems right now. But of course they’re keeping the cast... I guess I feel like not enough about the show sounds like it’s changing. Over-all I feel pretty indifferent about the show’s move to Netflix.

Honestly, I don’t really see the show gaining more fans unless they substantially change the show, and as I mentioned, it doesn’t sound like it’s happening. I don’t see the show really winning new fans, but I see people my age who watched the show as teens and maybe stopped catching up and becoming nostalgic for the show, then binge watching it. That doesn’t mean they’d be fans of the show necessarily--just that they’re kind of passively watching it.

I don’t think it will fail miserably because we know that there will be a built in audience--Degrassi’s present and past fans. But I don’t see this being a success at the level of Orange is the New Black or anything like that. A lot of the show’s problems are because the writers/producers are STUBBORN. They force character and storylines down viewers’ throats even when things aren’t working. Rather than admitting that something isn’t working--which as a writer, I know is a key part of the process--they just seem to say “oh well” and keep going with it. They’re keeping so much of the same cast that I don’t see this being or feeling like a different show at all. More of the same spells bad news for Degrassi.