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Suzie- too perfect, Angelica- too bastardized?

posted 20 years ago by VIETgrlTerifa
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I'm procrastinating on an essay I'm supposed to be doing, so I thought I would post something that gets on my nerves.

Does anyone else think they over-do the character of Suzie in this show? Yes, she's talented, nice, and has a good personality...but geez, enough already. There is nothing wrong with this character at all. It seems that Suzie is ALWAYS in the right, and they use Angelica just to show it off. In the show, everyone absolutely adores Suzie and kiss the ground she walks on.

To me, the camp episode was what made it way over-the-top. Let's recap. Everyone thinks Suzie is robbed of the lead, and they had to make Angelica 100 percent talentless just to show off how good Suzie is. She then saves the horrible show from being really awful, and some weirdo adults who are watching a show at this camp want to ask Suzie for an autograph while not even humoring Angelica. They even go the extreme to give Angelica an evil look as if she's done something horrible to them...other then being bad in a bad show.

I was just wondering if anyone else is just tired of the way they make Suzie absolutely perfect, while giving Angelica no breaks by making her always in the wrong. I don't know about you guys, but one of the best things about the original Rugrats was that Angelica was an extremely good schemer and that she would have gotten away with a lot of things if she was just a bit more careful. Now, she's just a superficial moron with no redeeming qualities who's plans always go wrong (even when she's not doing anything wrong...like the episode about getting rid of the cafeteria cook...she was RIGHT, the guy was AWFUL).

Anyways, just a thought on a show that really shouldn't even be analyzed that deeply, but I couldn't help it.

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

I see what you mean. Suzie is far from perfect and Angelica is not exactly vicious. But at the same time, I think it shows how everyone admires Suzie because she's a kind, thoughtful person and Angelica is narcissistic and selfish.

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[–] adfan95 10 years ago

I don't think she was a ditzy blonde in All Grown Up at all personally, I think that she remained her sarcasm and intelligence from Rugrats and at times was extremely logical. She felt and acted like a proper teenage girl and was still the most clever and most human in the whole entire show, just like Rugrats. The only difference is that she's a little nicer than she was in Rugrats, but remained her personality although alot more boy-crazy (Angelica wasn't always boy crazy but at times flirted with other guys and often crushed on a few). An example of a dumb blonde stereotypical character is Penny from the Big Bang Theory, who is the worst character in the entire show specifically for that.

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[–] rosepetals334 8 years ago

Compaired to Angelica, yes, I now see that Susie was too opposite. But I think that was the point of Susie's character to be the opposite extreme of Angelica's character...I think the two are supposed to clash. They don't get along, but they can occasional learn from and work together, they are just rivals.

The more personalities you have the less boring you are!

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I think Disney should've bought Angelica as the new villain.