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Darlene is AWFUL!!!

posted 4 years ago by Caeli (102)
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I can't believe that Darlene would be so rude as to tell her grandmother how to spend her own money. Not only that, but advocating for her snotty, ungrateful, undeserving daughter over her respectful son who has actually earned his spot in that coding camp. Just because her daughter is a fuck up is no reason to hand her $5000. If anything, Harris should see how hard work and manners are rewarded instead of just expecting things to be handed to her. Then to go behind her grandmothers wishes and try to steal that money a day before she is no longer power of attorney is disgusting behavior. What have they done to one of my favorite characters? Just awful.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

I kind of agree with you. They have crossed over the point where Darlene is too familiar with the insults into being verbally abusive and just mean, and after a while it is not funny. I guess that is their style now. I don't know if it always was because I never used to watch the show. Now I kind of like it ... except for that.

[–] Caeli (102) 4 years ago

What you said about Darlene being too familiar with the insults and offending her family is right on point. I don't remember which season it was in but, in one of the later ones, after she returned home from college to visit she was making pointed comments about how her family was spending some inherited money too irresponsibly, and called them all embarrassing. So, she has kind of been like that since season 7 or 8, I can't remember which. Maybe season 6? But at the end of that episode Dan put her in her place saying: "It's one thing if your making fun of all of us but since you've been to school, it's like you're making fun of us and not you." That's not his exact words, but it is the gist of them. Her family felt like she was no longer part of them because she was moving on to bigger and better things. When that episode first aired, I remember thinking they were jealous of her. Which I couldn't understand. I grew up watching Roseanne. And I was only two years younger than Darlene. So, she was like, my role-model. But I could not understand why two parents who swear they want to enhance their children's life by half, would be so hateful to a daughter who is accomplishing that goal. And that's why I hate this "Conners" revisionist bullshit.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

Well said. I like the Conners though. They are surely going to have problems getting things right after Barr left, but she is so weird, she is no able to really do the show. A good thing about the show is that they can veer on a dime if they want or if they see, and I bet they got the message. Darlene's character is going through menopause or something maybe. There are complexities in this simple show that sometimes pop up when you least expect them.

[–] Caeli (102) 4 years ago

Also, I should tell you, that if you never watched the original show, you should. it is so much more poignant to the zeitgeist of the late '80's to the early 90's. Not only that, but it was way ahead of it's time. Surpassed only by Married With Children.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

I liked the Roseanne when it came out ... respected was more like it, because I was so involved with work I did not get much chance to watch the show, but I thought it was smart and on point. I thought Married With Children was mostly offensive, but it was kind of funny. I like the Modern Family or whatever it is called better, and it is not to see the wife here on the Conners.

[–] Caeli (102) 3 years ago

Married With Children was the most funny in the first 2 or 3 seasons when Al and Peggy still enjoyed each other as spouses. Bud was still pathetic, but, Kelly wasn't the idiot bimbo she turned out to be. In the first seasons the family actually loved and enjoyed each others company. But they all fell prey to the sit-com curse. All of their short-comings were magnified to a ridiculous degree. So Kelly became a clueless bimbo, instead of a street smart girl, Bud became a disgusting, vile, sexual harasser, and Al became a woman hating prick. And even though in the first seasons Peggy would take care of the house and cook dinner for her family, she became a bon-bon eating couch potato. It's the early seasons I'm nostalgic for. They didn't do them as well as Roseanne, but, for us white trash families, we loved them just the same.

I don't know how old you are, (and I won't ask), but I grew up with these families. And they were more relatable than The Seavers or The Tanners. (Growing Pains and Full House)