Why Jodie is the Most Tragic Character in Daria

I related hard to Daria because she’s heavily autistic coded. I really enjoyed the business loan episode because it felt like an examination of Daria’s privilege. Daria is shirked and sidelined but she isnt reduced to her race and whilst her family is ish… the level of pressure on Jodie by her family feelings like adultification trauma. The fact that her dad is pushing her to go to crestmore …. when she just wants to be somewhere she won’t be tokenised. I’m not black and I don’t want to claim I understand her spevific struggles but I did relate to the themes of parental pressure. She was a great character. Mac felt… slept on. He was a jock and had numerous voice actors. He just seemed to be ‘there’ to occasionally be a sounding board for Josie. He had got 0 growth ark compared to other backgroundish characters, even Kevin, Tiffany and Chuck got more nuance.

I haven't seen this show since I was a teenager and I believe alot of these nuisances passed over my head. With 30 year old eyes holy hell I need to re-watch this show.

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I always thought that Jodie was the most mature out of all of the characters.

The biggest pitfal of model minorities, is that no matter how hard you try, people will still be prejudiced and racists

I always wished that there was some more focus on building the Daria and Jodie friendship so that we could get more of her.

Think about it, Jodie had the BEST eyes.

My usual principle is not to reserve any sympathy for any rich people or their spawn, but I definitely make an exception for Jodie

People used to call me Daria in elementary school. 🙃

BRO this is FIRE. i love listing to your opinion and observations.

Where the hell is my Jodi show.

5:30 I think the magic is neither are correct. There's not a one size fits all approach that works for everyone. Race involved or not.

Jodie's parents are conservative?! Please show some evidence because I never got that impression at all.

They need to bring back Daria to see what they have become after highschool

12:29 omg this scene 🥹🥹😭😭😭🥹🥹😭😭
Omg this video makes me wanna watch Daria

I liked the story of Jodie going to a black college. I’m white and every school I went to had very few black people. When I graduated from middle school and high school my handful of black friends went to predominantly black high schools and colleges. I remember them telling me about how excited they were to go be with more black people. My initial reaction was a little bit hurt tbh, which I’m not saying is right it was just my initial feeling. They were all super cool smart people and I’m from Philadelphia but I went to a high school that was super conservative and in Virginia. Even if my private school in Philadelphia didn’t have a ton of black people I was used to having black people around at least in daily interactions, Philly is a very diverse city. I REALLY appreciated the presence of black people and felt safer politically when I moved to Virginia where most students were extremely conservative.

It made me sort of feel bad about myself that my black friends in middle/high school didn’t feel welcome or wanted in a white setting. I can’t remember perfectly now but how they explained all their feelings to me about how they didn’t want to feel like their blackness made them stand out really impacted me and made me aware of how much I have never had to feel that way in my life.

So after years of hearing this sentiment in real life hearing that Jodie on Daria wanted to go to a school with more black people made me happy and I was rooting for her to get to go there. It made me feel like the show writers talk to actual black people.

I’m not claiming to be a perfect white woke liberal by any stretch but sadly this was one of the first times I heard a real everyday kind of sentiment that black people had personally expressed to me reiterated on TV.

Hearing this kind of stuff from black people has really inspired me in life to try to push myself out of my comfort zone culturally.

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Another WELL DONE character commentary

Hard to believe that anyone would suggest that the Daria series was "woke". I'd have thought that it was an anti-woke show; to the point where it wouldn't even be shown today.

I always thought Jodie was one of the weaker characters in the series. No real development at all, she was just kind of there as the token overachiever. Even in the movie she fails to convince her parents to let her choose which college she goes to and Mack has to do it for her. Her entire personality is 'I'm sad because society expects too much of me' and she's just kind of a crappy person. She jumps down Daria's throat at the mere suggestion that she might have a character flaw. She goes behind Daria's back and applies for the wizard scholarship without telling her. The only reason I felt any sympathy for her at all is because her parents had such high expectations of her, and that's just reinforcing her only character trait. It's a shame because so many of the other characters have great development arcs and grow as people. Obviously a story needs some static characters, but Jodie felt like a missed opportunity to me. At least she got to have more of a personality than just 'Don't call me Mack-daddy'.

10:09 Another Velma situation 😀😁😂

I love the character of Jodie while being smart and Daria's friend, is an antithesis to Daria's beliefs, making the idea that being smart doesn't make your beliefs the be all and there are many perspectives. Daria is one of my favourite comedy shows from my childhood and there is not a character from the cast I dislike (Except Perhaps Tom).