the Rachel Berry style comparison was actually genius. They definitely could’ve styled Claire as the modest overachiever without making her look like a mom lol
I wonder if they styled her like that because she was very top heavy and it was a ‘teen show?’ U notice in the blue outfit she’s STACKED so they maybe didn’t want her to look ‘too mature’ or have intense cleavage so they went to the FRUMPY old white lady section and still aged her. Notice how a lot smaller chest girls wear lower tops etc I’m plus size and on tv the ‘fat girl’ always would wear long pants and have the go to fat girl arm covering cardigan on any teen show as well. Maybe they couldn’t hide Claire’s cleavage well in the teen styles? That’s my guess It’s funny cuz they did that whole boob job story line with her too 😂 And back to GLEE they gave Mercedes the default always have a long sleeve : cardigan : jacket fat girl clothes but at least they picked cute stuff.
Fiona should've kissed Holly J instead it would have hinted at her coming out later and would have caused just as much tabloid drama. Honestly the marketing for the show that point so manipulative and exaggerated. I remember season 10s teaser included Sav screaming in frustration then you watch the show and it just because Adam breaks his headlight. Lol we dont need twincest this ain't Elite
Facts and they ruined it by having her mom be another horrible accent cartoon villian type like Super Mario I mean Mr Delrossi lol like her mom didn’t come off like a real person 😂
When you were talking about how ugly Claire's outfits were, I immediately thought..."but she looked fire when she had that fight with Drew..." ...AND THEN YOU INCLUDED IT SAYING THEY KILLED IT WITH THIS OUTFIT THOUGH. I appreciate you. I feel validated. Lol
i always was a semma fan but sellie is better because semma had that stupid trope of good girl trying to save the bad boy. sean and ellie just vibed more and understood each other. they both had complicated family life, and they both were unproblematic and chill. honestly the whole relationship was chill. They wanted what was best for each other in a genuine way not an appearance way. unlike emma who wanted sean to act a certain way to protect her image. but you cannot lie when sean bit emma’s lip in the car, that was hot 😂😂
@@Ashley-qu1bc I KNOW. Even though Esme wasn’t at graduation you’d think it would be her. That was like when Fiona was named valedictorian but like 10 episodes prior she told Imogen her grades were mediocre. Katie definitely should have been valedictorian. Holly J was the last realistic one.
Anya’s storyline was the best because the way she handled her addiction felt realistic , Anya becoming her own person I really liked her because she made a name for herself while struggling.
Totally agree on not really loving Sean and Emma. Like they dated in grade 7 and they're the "endgame" ship of the fandom? I do think that Sean was Emma's best boyfriend but I honestly think Ellie was better for him. I also think Jimmy and Ellie would have been a cute couple but they had to have her infatuated with Craig.
You nailed it. People only ship Emma and Sean because he was the best of her boyfriends, but Emma was always just about Emma. Ellie and Sean were the better couple.
We should unpack how the model minority trope was the norm for some characters, but not others. Look at Manny, for example. She just might be the first character of color on tv I remember seeing who had such a varied journey, going through a ton of stuff and coming out amazing and fulfilled. I feel like she went through pretty much every type of scandal and while it was never explicitly stated, the differences in how she was treated compared to others was…interesting, to say the least. On the other end, Alli and Sav both dealt with familial and cultural pressures, but I feel like the show runners took their time to build that journey for them and show different paths for them that ended in both being happy, successful, and also matured from it.
people are so weird about the kiss and the "twincest". it served an important purpose in the storyline way more than if she slapped holly j, and it's one of the only degrassi plots that actually *went there*. the fact that fiona's character came through it unscathed and wasn't written off, even becoming a much bigger character, shows that they demonstrated it well without pushing too far. also i agree about anya but they refused to write any serious interests or ambitions for her outside of LARPing they literally did her so dirty edit: also okay what are we talking about with riley a lot of the violence you showed were when he was taking steroids, he did have anger issues but they show on screen that he's progressed through anger management with peter and others and he literally flees a scene at one point to avoid beating up a security guard kicking him and riley out of a construction area. by the end of his time on the show he was a sweetheart himbo and best friends with anya i just don't understand these takes
i love anya! i really appreciated how down to earth and real her storylines were :) also i like her friendship w riley a lot idk they brought out a good side of each other
So actually, the actors dressed themselves. If you look it up that’s what made the show seem so authentic. So when talking about Claire, that was actually from her wardrobe
(The cast of Degrassi wore their own clothes and did their own hair and makeup, which is believed to be one of many factors that helped the show feel so authentic) i just googled this because i heard that they actually dressed themselves and if that’s the case Claire didn’t know how to dress herself 😅
I never understood why people liked Zoe Rivas. She couldn't even act, and I mean that's literally her backstory, she was an actress and started to study at Degrassi and NONE OF HER CRYING SCENES WERE GOOD. She was evil, manipulative, boring to watch, boring as a whole and when people call her "iconic" I honestly barf. I would rather have Frankie, Lola, Maya, Emma, Holly J, Paige and so many other girls and them being problematic than to ever have to deal with Zoe Rivas making a scandal of everything that is not even remotely close to be related to her. She was, by far, the worst and never developed anything on the show.
zoe sucked in general and i hate everything about her storylines (pls could we have a good lesbian storyline for once ever) but i did think she did a good job in the end of Unbelievable (the hitting Luke calling him a rapist "there's nothing else i can do!" part)... i just wish that storyline had changed what kind of character/person she was, not lead into degrassi nudes lol
@@kat251 Hence why I said she never developed herself. Too out of this world, way too attention seeker. She never changed her behaviour and every time she got to be the star of something, I completely disagreed with her decisions. After the Bus Crash accident, she shouldn't have been elected. Period. The only reason why she got such position was because the actress herself was close friends to the producers and had a rich daddy. Nothing about her character was good, nothing about her at all were good
I feel like Imogen and Jack weren’t a good relationship. Communication is a big part of relationships and every time Jack and imogen talked about something important it will turn into a big fight. I’m not saying that every time you have a disagreement with your s/o you need to break up, but with imogen and Jack it was different. I do think that imogen was still hurting a bit from her break up with Fiona because they clicked so well and she wanted that with Jack. But we learn that Jack is closed off and doesn’t really like talking about her problems. Like her not wanting to in a relationship with just Imogen. If imogen hadn’t said anything she would just been a poly relationship that she didn’t want in the first place.
10:04 yes please make a sellie video! Ellie most likely would have been much more bearable if Sean went back to her. Plus, he wouldn't have gotten expelled and gone to jail.
PLEASE make a whole video about Sean and Ellie! Emma and Sean were a very cute middle school couple, and I would have loved to see them grow up and just be great friends. When they got together, Ellie and Sean were perfect for each other. Then the writers just really threw them both under the bus as the seasons went on.
finally! I’m so OVER the ZIG HATERS! As someone who was in foster care and ran away at 16/17 got an apt at 17.5 etc his whole character is relatable! Children who grew up with Mom and Dad or a stable single mom don’t get his story or growth! I appreciated his house hopping kicked out storyline! It’s so hard to graduate while goin thru all that! I may have been in foster care but I never went to that house I hopped around with ppl from school a lot like ZIG! I always thank the writers for his storyline as it’s WAY MORE REAL then the attempt with KC and the group home we saw for 3 seconds They could’ve really given KC a true group home storyline but they dropped the ball in so many ways. As someone who was in group homes he would’ve had no time to knock up Jenna and u can’t just go home when ur mom calls the group home was no realistic at all they could’ve had way more Degrassi kids in there as realistically the boys his age in that home would also go to Degrassi and he can’t just be comin and goin as he did. It was a TOTAL WASTE of the reality of those homes. He also would NOT have had a cell phone the list goes on. So when zig came it was a breath of fresh air Myself and many others ran away from foster and group homes and floated around all they HS. Zig being so naive lacking society common sense with stuff etc cuz he always focused on survival is ACCURATE ! When zig had a stable home like with Mya he wasn’t in survival mode and could mature and grow smarter. The fact he had no help with getting collage together I could go on all day ACCURATE that feeling where everyone else goin off and u feel embarassed cuz no one prepped u for SAT or application ACCURATE I never got the college exp cuz my high school experience was like Zigs. So yea if anyone read this long comment just know us homeless:couch surfing high school kids love his storylines
I personally like and cared for Riley. He wasn't the typical girly fem gay boy like most characters are, and for me that's a huge problem. If you're gay, you automatically have to be girly in TV and I dislike that. Marco was a huge character and I really liked him, but Riley was way more surrounded by straight guys who were not even close to be remotely sensitive towards others. And I disliked him having only Zane as a love interest, because Zane was indeed forcing him out, no matter how much I liked his personality and actor, he was forcing Riley out. Now a days, Riley's actor is not even acting anymore, and apparently he is the homophobic guy. Idk, but, to be honest, it's like the character's whole story arc was actually indeed true.
@@bajanyaoikaizer6902 Zane was his love interest, Peter literally took advantage of a drunk girl and was friends with lots of homophobic people and lets not forget he made other friends even when he was friends with Riley, and the lifeguard was an adult and more importantly his lifeguard teacher so that's off the charts (let alone creepy as fuck). They were trying to help, but they were the only ones. Throughout Holly J's story, for instance, she had multiple help from lots of other characters, some of which stayed friends with her for a long time. Riley had Zane and Anya, but even Anya was closest to many other characters and like I said, Zane was trying his best to force Riley out.
I actually felt like Zane was very pushy about Riley. I'm not going to say Riley was perfect, he wasn't but Zane's civility shit was annoying. Also we never really got to know much about Zane or how he was outside of his relationship to Riley. I saw someone state that due to them being in different points in their life in regards to their sexuality and it inevitably clashed
On the topic of twincest, I personally feel that Fiona being a lesbian was a way to circumvent her admittance that she was in love with Declan. In so many of their earlier episodes, Fiona just had to do anything to keep her claws in him. She licked the rim of Holly J's coffee cup. She was the first one to join him on stage after he won that award. The line of "Boyfriends are temporary; brothers are forever." GURL, WUT?
Riley gave i'm straight but lowkey i like guys but cant come to terms for being gay so when he gets caught or people talk about it that are saying ''hey its fine if you like guys'' he goes all HULK and is like ''I DON'T LIKE GUYS IM NOT GAY '' like okay honey not what the sheets said last night but oh well..... and speaking about spinner he was the most relatable because nothing defined him and he overcame what happened to him and i feel like he developed in a more kid to teenager to hey i'm growing up and i can realize my faults kinda way where others kinda did that but not really in the way where its realistic
It’s funny y’all liked the blue top/pencil skirt combo on Clare. Yes it made her curves look fantastic but it was giving secretary. Who wears a peplum top and heels to school at 18? They were so good at doing the preppy girl look for Holly J so I don’t know where that expertise went when it came to Clare 😂
Spinner had the best character development hands down , he was the best but yeah . I wished they could’ve talked more about Terri storyline i missed her after what Rick did to her.
honestly i’d love to see a semma and sellie video omg i feel like this is one of the biggest arguments about this show and how sean comes back for emma and not ellie and in the end emma ended up with spinner like that whole dynamic and development would be interesting to dissect
Honestly a lot of degrassi’ POC characters were way more interesting than the white ones. Also, the writers have a major problem with letting their POC characters exist without a white counterpart (i.e. Ali and Clare, Manny and Emma, Jimmy and Spinner, Marisol and Katie, Hazel and Paige, Danny and Derek, Liberty and JT, etc.) it’s like if they don’t have a white best friend they’ll just fade into the background (what they basically did to Liberty after JT died)
Hard agree. Especially with Hazel/Paige and Marisol/Katie. It was like Marisol and Hazel couldn't have a storyline unless their white best friend was involved at some capacity while Katie and Paige had tons of storylines that had nothing to do with Hazel or Marisol. And they gave them little to no personality too. If you were to ask me to describe either of them I would say mean girl cheerleader and that's it. We didn't get to see their home lives or really deep dive into their interests or anything like that.
@@kameryn2918 exactly! Like when they revealed that Hazel was Somalian. They could’ve done a lot with it. On her wiki page it says that her family fled during the civil war there and her dad was a soldier. They could’ve had another episode that deals with that, like maybe her dad has ptsd and it’s starting to really affect her life. Idk, degrassi wastes so much of its POC character’s potential
There are a lot of hotties who've walked the halls of Degrassi (Eli, Sean, Winston, etc.), but, in my opinion, the cutest is Declan. The guy is GORGEOUS! 😍💖 And I'm not too crazy about him as a character, but I can't deny his looks.
@@reeses_unicorn I saw the movie "Passchendaele" in theatres and Landon Liboiron was in it. He had a small role as an enemy soldier who gets killed by Paul Gross' character early on in the movie, and his eyes remained with me throughout.
@@cheshirerose2001 I kinda get it and i also don’t cause they were cute at first but then it became very clear that they are NOT a match at all lmao most of their breakups were just them not being able to communicate well with each other and it became worse as the years went by. Their relationship in season 6 just felt incredibly forced to me and i firmly believe even if sean hadn’t enlisted and they had gotten married instead they wouldn’t have had a peaceful marriage anyways. They were just so out of touch with each other and were from two completely different worlds (which isn’t always a bad thing, in fact it’s one of my favorite couple tropes) but it just didn’t work well with them
I think it would’ve been interesting if Fiona kissed HOLLY instead of Declan and people could chalk it up to her wanting attention so she can still come out the next season
the more i watch degrassi the more i realized sean and emma didnt have much chemistry i do think theyre very popular bc of the good girl/bad boy trope ellie and sean shouldve had more scenes.
Paige had her moments of being terrible but she also had her moments of being a stand out. When Emma got her period, yes Paige was still kind of mean but she gave her a pad and a little support. She went on the date with JT and told him he was a good date and if circumstances were different (again not that nicely) she'd go out with him again. When Ashley tried to make over Terri, Paige is the one who told her to back off. She was the one to push Terri to not believe Rick after he abused her. She pushed Ellie to get help for her self harm. Everyone says Paige instigated the bullying against Rick, when really it was mostly Emma, and everyone followed suit. Paige stopped Spinner on two separate occasions from attacking him, first when he pulled Rick out of his mom's car and then behind the Dot after Jay hit him and asked who was next. You can see Spinner stepping forward but Paige holds him back. She also looks really uncomfortable with them physically assaulting him. She also gets up to tell him that what happened at the knowledge bowl was awful. He was not going to go through with his plan after that but then Spinner and Jay lied about Jimmy. She tried to help Ashley with her dad, but Ashley threw chocolate milk in her face. I mentioned on the first video how Paige worked to get Alex to work towards something throughout their relationship. When Alex first mentioned she and her mom were struggling financially Paige offers to lend her money but Alex turns her down. She brought Alex to her house to take care of her after Chad knocks her over the coffee table. She was there for Hazel after Jimmy got shot. She was there for Marco after he came out. She took responsibility for wrecking Dean's car. Even taking Spinner's crap while she was working to pay him back. Yes, there were a *LOT* of times she was unnecessarily mean but there were a lot of a times she got dumped on by people even when she was being nice. The main problem is that when they ran out of real stories for Paige they just assassinated her character. They did the same thing with Alex. They destroyed Paige and Alex (and all of Alex's progress) because Deanna was leaving. That's just bad writing.
I thought about it now i think Rick could have been used more if all the bad things didn't go down he was a good character before you know but if just kept going after the you know what he could have stayed or just blacked holed
One plot line I don’t get from the show was when Ali sent Bianca’s nudes. Like if it was season 8/9, before her own nudes were sent out, I definitely think it’d make sense. But this was at least 2/3 seasons later and I personally think it was uncalled for. I think maybe she could have texted a nerdy guy that she wanted to have “relations” with him from her phone, maybe meet in the parking lot where everyone could see it. Or something that is embarrassing, but not against the law or her characterization at that point,
I know no one likes him, but Drew is definitely my problematic fav and Paige is my problematic fav as well lol and Spinner is ABSOLUTELY the best Degrassi character hands down.
I know I didn’t just hear “I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that Spinner is the best character overall” because just no. Spinner literally humiliated Paige when she was working at the movie theaters which she was doing to pay for the damages to his car. He humiliated her in front of their friends and it got so bad that their friends told him to stop because they thought he was taking it too far. He never once sympathized with her when he found out that she got sexually assaulted. I know Paige wrecked his car and she went to a party hoping to flirt with the guy that she liked when she was still with Spinner but she was R@ped! A little compassion wouldn’t have hurt. And he was incredibly homophobic towards Marco. I get character development but there are definitely better characters with better storylines. He was just not it.
@@nysclips Yeah but every character was able to develop from terrible decisions that they’ve made. That’s personally my favorite part of this show but that doesn’t make Spinner the best character when there are tons of characters in this show.
Naw…Zane was the villain. Point blank. Riley was upfront that he was not ready to come out and Zane could not ACCEPT that. He would take Riley back time and time again but Riley would never say he was going to come out at this date and time…so why keep getting with him? It was clear that was a deal breaker for Zane so stop dating him. Zane thought he could change Riley by being passive ALL OF THE TIME. It was so exhausting and I was happy Riley ended it the way he did, but even then, Zane tried to just push him to come out. Nahh, that’s a form of a manipulation at its finest
I agree. I don't like Riley but yeah Zane should not have left the door open to keep picking the relationship back up when he knew Riley wasn't ready. Yes his parents should have accepted him, but it's obviously not easy to deal with being disowned.
Fiona and Holly J should have gotten together. Could create tension since she would have dated both Declan and Fiona, would have had her struggling of what it means to be bisexual and explored what happens when best friend move to something more and how that line can get so blurry
I literally love Anya. She’s been one of my faves from the start but I didn’t love her coke addiction/clueless about her life path storyline. I agree about Paige. I hate her character. I’m so confused as to why people love her but hate on Ashley so hard like what did Ashley ever do that was half as bad as Paige. Also no one ever focuses on the fact that she low key verbally abused Alex.
Can we get a part 3 lol my friend is afraid to text it so I will he likes Rick he thinks if no one bullied him and if Terri never went back to him he thinks Rick could have been a good character since he believes the actor did such a good job he thinks Rick could have been good
I feel like I shouldn't say it, but I agree. It feels like there was a lot to his character and they could've really worked with that. Showing him really getting the help he needs and becoming a better person.
@@reeses_unicorn for real if everything went well I could see something good for him if Jimmy forgave Spinner and Jay I could see the gang forgiving Rick
Rick and Jimmy's friendship was actually really cute right before the prank, they were learning a lot about each other and how other people see things. And then everything went to shit for Rick right after one thing finally went right. I always felt bad for Rick and Jimmy and wished Jimmy got to Rick first.
Though it's great that Degrassi got rid of Declan and Fiona's twincest storyline, it would have been really interesting to see. Anya was cool, she should have gotten more storylines. Paige should have been dropped by her friends, like of course Hazel(who definitely deserve better) and I guess, Marco
Omg I talk all the time about how Clare dressed like an executive at school and people are always like “business casual was the style in the 2010s” I don’t care 😂 this girl was wearing peplum blouses and heels to 12th grade. Her season 12 wardrobe was much more her age and way cuter than any of her other looks.
Fair but also like can you imagine the sensational enemies to lovers that Paige and Manny could have been? Especially if it happened post Mr Oleander. Not to mention Emma would have flipped her lid when she found out.
i saw someone do this last vid so ima do it here & write my opinions too djwkdjw: 1. i think this one is silly LMFAOO but it makes sense… like what was the purpose if it was just never talked about again 😭 2. PLS HER OUTFITS EVERY EPISODE WAS BAD like she had so much potential it was insane 3. i am the #1 holly j defender idc she became one of the only reason i could tolerate the show at some point. but i do agree about her relationship with the coynes being the big reason for her development cause those two really changed the way she presented herself and her views. & YESS the trio i love them 3. yupp anya deserved much more. there were points where she annoyed me but like who didn’t . i’m glad she like became more confident and knew her worth & ngl idk if i liked her relationship in the end with whatever that one’s jock name is but i do know i was cheering for it a bit cause i was hoping anya could change him for the better LMFAOO 4. zig was attractive but because the class just annoyed me so easily i didn’t pay much attention, tbh i think jake got to me the most and dallas and connor had my heart WOW CONNOR IS BEAUTIFUL 5. wait that’s so true i didn’t realize we never got our bops 💔 AND OMFG i watched degrassi next class years before i watched tng and is that craig…. 6. i forgot about her 😭 but i was so ready to throw something at my tv during that scene cause are you serious?? like have common sense 7. no. they were not going to be a good match 😭😭 I LOVE PAIGE AND ALEX and i hate that it was ruined 8. personally paige is the most like degrassi character there can be- like she was selfish while not being selfish SWEET BUT A BITCH she did everything everyone did but in a very lowkey way idk i think she was a good representation of having character development while also staying the same cause that’s possible like the old her never actually left ?? idk if it makes sense but i did end up liking her at some point but some things aren’t excused like her verbal abuse 9. riley pissed me off so much like i understand you are struggling but violence towards support was just hard to watch & justice for zane 10. i loved sean and ellie but i don’t remember if i rooted for endgame ?? & i am a big fan of sean and emma cause im a sucker for og couples like those have my heart (most of the times) but ngl if i dig deep in the difference between sean and emma and sean and ellie , it could possibly change ouu i forgot about the cheating you’re right 😭😭 11. i love and hate zoe tbh she was another paige for me. some scenes i can LOVE her and the next i can be like fuck her cause my gosh she had no limits & THATS THE WORD they are my problematic favs , manny on top 12. this is true omfg the girls never had a break in this show and it was very specific with who did and this was one of the cases 13. tbh i always forgot those two were brothers like i have opinions on them very separately 14. i haven’t watched next class in a while but i saw a tiktok a while ago similar to this comment and from what i can remember , i agree now. when i first watched it i was really young so i didn’t like her but now i understand her character much more 15. i love spinner like he had his times but he became just a comfort character for the whole fandom 16. yeah it was always rebranding and this rebrand was just more noticeable
loved anya but hated how she ended up in the army. she literally falls for military propaganda while at her lowest (coked up in a club bathroom with no prospects) and just decides she’s going to join. it was silly
I like Riley, but I think more with Zyan, who’s one of my favorite Degrassi characters. I also think it’s because I came in after he was coming out and got better. I’m not a big fan of self hating non-straight characters, which I think does ruin Riley a bit, but I feel like he was more unique than say Tristian, who was very snotty and very rude when he came in. Also, I think Holly J. needed to be called out in her first couple of seasons, because she was really mean; I don’t agree with how Ali bullied her in talking about harming Holly, especially bringing her hair color into it, but she barely got people to turn on Holly, which means she definitely needed a wake up call to be better.
@@pleaseshutup7053 Yeah, I think he had a pretty good character, but he didn’t get a storyline with Riley not in it or at least not the biggest part of it. Similar to Hazel as well, though she did get one.
I personally disagree with the Riley and Zane part. Riley ( imo ) played a closeted jock very well, his hated for himself came out on others but he did try to get help. Zane was constantly coming back to Riley KNOWING he wasn’t ready but getting mad when he wouldn’t come out. It wasn’t a fair relationship to either of them but Zane had no right to get mad when Riley just wasn’t ready. I do wish they could’ve gotten a true happy ending though. They brought out the good in each other.
I just found your channel while looking for something else lol. I subscribed, I like these opinions and takes. I'm only a minute into this video, but I will say that I think I read somewhere that they were planning on taking the twincest storyline a bit further in season 10 but Declan's actor got a cast in Terra Nova, which didn't end up doing well anyways lol. I'd have to dig for that source because it's been a while
The thing about Paige is that she was bad and the show really didn't make any apologies for it or give her some redeeming storyline. You can't dismiss her evilness like every other character. In contrast everyone else was trying to be good or wanted to be seen as good. That is what people really like she was bad (borderline evil) and truly didn't care if you thought so.
Dang Connor had one of the best glow ups cause 😍 and I think we were conditioned to think Sean & Emma belonged together because we got to see the start of their cute little romance
i so agree about semma vs sellie, when sean and emma were happening again in s6 i was just tired of it and i didn’t get the appeal. I would definitely love a sellie video, they had so much more potential than what we got left with. i would have preferred that over the ellie and craig mess we got.
That was yall underrating Manny. She was always top tier for me... The fact that Cassie Steele and I are the exact same age and I had it bad for her since watching season one when it first came on has nothing to do with it 😅
Not only was Paige sleeping with spinner behind Darcy back. when Terri was at the dance paige danced with Terri crush (Spinner) when she already knew that was Terri crush..
if you do another degrassi opinions here's mine! i actually think Ashley is very well written. is she likeable? no! but i think she's a very good character, everything she does makes sense for her. also, i really liked how she struggled as a female musician being overshadowed by the men around her (craig stealing the songs she wrote for his album, jimmy becoming more popular than her on their song), i think it's really realistic to how women are treated in different industries irl. i really think it was crappy how she took Jimmy off her song, but it makes sense with what she'd been through.
the Rachel Berry style comparison was actually genius. They definitely could’ve styled Claire as the modest overachiever without making her look like a mom lol
Agree, the school girl uniform looks were honestly the best looks Claire wore. Just give it more color and nice prints and BAM best fits!!!
I wonder if they styled her like that because she was very top heavy and it was a ‘teen show?’ U notice in the blue outfit she’s STACKED so they maybe didn’t want her to look ‘too mature’ or have intense cleavage so they went to the FRUMPY old white lady section and still aged her. Notice how a lot smaller chest girls wear lower tops etc
I’m plus size and on tv the ‘fat girl’ always would wear long pants and have the go to fat girl arm covering cardigan on any teen show as well. Maybe they couldn’t hide Claire’s cleavage well in the teen styles? That’s my guess
It’s funny cuz they did that whole boob job story line with her too 😂
And back to GLEE they gave Mercedes the default always have a long sleeve : cardigan : jacket fat girl clothes but at least they picked cute stuff.
we deserved to see paige explore her sexuality more than just being with alex,, same with miles being with just tristan
Fiona should've kissed Holly J instead it would have hinted at her coming out later and would have caused just as much tabloid drama. Honestly the marketing for the show that point so manipulative and exaggerated. I remember season 10s teaser included Sav screaming in frustration then you watch the show and it just because Adam breaks his headlight. Lol we dont need twincest this ain't Elite
The way Elite got away with that storyline still baffles me lol
They dressed imogen better than Claire and I will never forgive them for that
idk if this has been mentioned yet but i feel imogens storyline is not talked about enough with her dad it was so depressing.
Facts and they ruined it by having her mom be another horrible accent cartoon villian type like Super Mario I mean Mr Delrossi lol like her mom didn’t come off like a real person 😂
maya matlin’s discography not being on Spotify is a crime
When you were talking about how ugly Claire's outfits were, I immediately thought..."but she looked fire when she had that fight with Drew..."
...AND THEN YOU INCLUDED IT SAYING THEY KILLED IT WITH THIS OUTFIT THOUGH.
I appreciate you. I feel validated. Lol
i always was a semma fan but sellie is better because semma had that stupid trope of good girl trying to save the bad boy. sean and ellie just vibed more and understood each other. they both had complicated family life, and they both were unproblematic and chill. honestly the whole relationship was chill. They wanted what was best for each other in a genuine way not an appearance way. unlike emma who wanted sean to act a certain way to protect her image. but you cannot lie when sean bit emma’s lip in the car, that was hot 😂😂
That was before Ellie became a terrible pick me, but totally agree
Manny and jay is one my most favorite Degrassi ships it’s so funny how they ended from a fake relationship to a real one on the show
I just posted about that same thing!
They should’ve kept Angela and continued her story with joey in the later season, instead of making a whole new character and naming her tori
she came back and auditioned for the role so they casted her since they thought she did the best
Joey didn’t want to do the show anymore
Zoe was not a problematic fav she was a criminal 😭
I try to block out the “degrassi nudes” storyline I hate it so much lol
How did she become valedictorian after degrassi nudes. HOW WAS SHE NOT EXPELLED?
@@Ashley-qu1bc Degrassi was always so unrealistic with their valedictorian picks lmao
@@Ashley-qu1bc I KNOW. Even though Esme wasn’t at graduation you’d think it would be her. That was like when Fiona was named valedictorian but like 10 episodes prior she told Imogen her grades were mediocre. Katie definitely should have been valedictorian. Holly J was the last realistic one.
@@kameryn2918 I’m pretty sure Connor was valedictorian too
Anya’s storyline was the best because the way she handled her addiction felt realistic , Anya becoming her own person I really liked her because she made a name for herself while struggling.
I would’ve liked a deeper storyline on Alex and Jay’s relationship on when and how they got together
Totally agree on not really loving Sean and Emma. Like they dated in grade 7 and they're the "endgame" ship of the fandom? I do think that Sean was Emma's best boyfriend but I honestly think Ellie was better for him.
I also think Jimmy and Ellie would have been a cute couple but they had to have her infatuated with Craig.
You nailed it. People only ship Emma and Sean because he was the best of her boyfriends, but Emma was always just about Emma. Ellie and Sean were the better couple.
We should unpack how the model minority trope was the norm for some characters, but not others. Look at Manny, for example. She just might be the first character of color on tv I remember seeing who had such a varied journey, going through a ton of stuff and coming out amazing and fulfilled. I feel like she went through pretty much every type of scandal and while it was never explicitly stated, the differences in how she was treated compared to others was…interesting, to say the least. On the other end, Alli and Sav both dealt with familial and cultural pressures, but I feel like the show runners took their time to build that journey for them and show different paths for them that ended in both being happy, successful, and also matured from it.
people are so weird about the kiss and the "twincest". it served an important purpose in the storyline way more than if she slapped holly j, and it's one of the only degrassi plots that actually *went there*. the fact that fiona's character came through it unscathed and wasn't written off, even becoming a much bigger character, shows that they demonstrated it well without pushing too far.
also i agree about anya but they refused to write any serious interests or ambitions for her outside of LARPing they literally did her so dirty
edit: also okay what are we talking about with riley a lot of the violence you showed were when he was taking steroids, he did have anger issues but they show on screen that he's progressed through anger management with peter and others and he literally flees a scene at one point to avoid beating up a security guard kicking him and riley out of a construction area. by the end of his time on the show he was a sweetheart himbo and best friends with anya i just don't understand these takes
i love anya! i really appreciated how down to earth and real her storylines were :) also i like her friendship w riley a lot idk they brought out a good side of each other
We needed more Paige and Alex. Mostly just Alex!
So actually, the actors dressed themselves. If you look it up that’s what made the show seem so authentic. So when talking about Claire, that was actually from her wardrobe
(The cast of Degrassi wore their own clothes and did their own hair and makeup, which is believed to be one of many factors that helped the show feel so authentic) i just googled this because i heard that they actually dressed themselves and if that’s the case Claire didn’t know how to dress herself 😅
I never understood why people liked Zoe Rivas. She couldn't even act, and I mean that's literally her backstory, she was an actress and started to study at Degrassi and NONE OF HER CRYING SCENES WERE GOOD. She was evil, manipulative, boring to watch, boring as a whole and when people call her "iconic" I honestly barf. I would rather have Frankie, Lola, Maya, Emma, Holly J, Paige and so many other girls and them being problematic than to ever have to deal with Zoe Rivas making a scandal of everything that is not even remotely close to be related to her. She was, by far, the worst and never developed anything on the show.
I respect this!
zoe sucked in general and i hate everything about her storylines (pls could we have a good lesbian storyline for once ever) but i did think she did a good job in the end of Unbelievable (the hitting Luke calling him a rapist "there's nothing else i can do!" part)... i just wish that storyline had changed what kind of character/person she was, not lead into degrassi nudes lol
@@kat251 Hence why I said she never developed herself. Too out of this world, way too attention seeker. She never changed her behaviour and every time she got to be the star of something, I completely disagreed with her decisions. After the Bus Crash accident, she shouldn't have been elected. Period. The only reason why she got such position was because the actress herself was close friends to the producers and had a rich daddy. Nothing about her character was good, nothing about her at all were good
i heavily agree with you. i genuinely think she’s awful and her acting is also some of the weakest in the show for sure.
Honestly, I love Sean and Ellie… and weirdly love Emma and Spinner (they deserved a less rushed storyline)
Esme was my problematic fave.
I feel like Imogen and Jack weren’t a good relationship. Communication is a big part of relationships and every time Jack and imogen talked about something important it will turn into a big fight. I’m not saying that every time you have a disagreement with your s/o you need to break up, but with imogen and Jack it was different. I do think that imogen was still hurting a bit from her break up with Fiona because they clicked so well and she wanted that with Jack. But we learn that Jack is closed off and doesn’t really like talking about her problems. Like her not wanting to in a relationship with just Imogen. If imogen hadn’t said anything she would just been a poly relationship that she didn’t want in the first place.
10:04 yes please make a sellie video! Ellie most likely would have been much more bearable if Sean went back to her. Plus, he wouldn't have gotten expelled and gone to jail.
PLEASE make a whole video about Sean and Ellie! Emma and Sean were a very cute middle school couple, and I would have loved to see them grow up and just be great friends. When they got together, Ellie and Sean were perfect for each other. Then the writers just really threw them both under the bus as the seasons went on.
Zig is cute and Connor glowed up for sure
But to me Eli is the cutest but that’s probably because I love emo boys
Sean was kinda cute too
Oh Eli was hot
@@nysclips I was so jealous of Clare tbh
@@cheshirerose2001 same 😂
Haha, Eli was the reason I started watching the show in the first place. xD 💖
@@reeses_unicorn I want a guy like Eli (minus his toxic traits of course)
finally! I’m so OVER the ZIG HATERS! As someone who was in foster care and ran away at 16/17 got an apt at 17.5 etc his whole character is relatable! Children who grew up with Mom and Dad or a stable single mom don’t get his story or growth! I appreciated his house hopping kicked out storyline! It’s so hard to graduate while goin thru all that! I may have been in foster care but I never went to that house I hopped around with ppl from school a lot like ZIG! I always thank the writers for his storyline as it’s WAY MORE REAL then the attempt with KC and the group home we saw for 3 seconds
They could’ve really given KC a true group home storyline but they dropped the ball in so many ways. As someone who was in group homes he would’ve had no time to knock up Jenna and u can’t just go home when ur mom calls the group home was no realistic at all they could’ve had way more Degrassi kids in there as realistically the boys his age in that home would also go to Degrassi and he can’t just be comin and goin as he did. It was a TOTAL WASTE of the reality of those homes. He also would NOT have had a cell phone the list goes on. So when zig came it was a breath of fresh air
Myself and many others ran away from foster and group homes and floated around all they HS. Zig being so naive lacking society common sense with stuff etc cuz he always focused on survival is ACCURATE ! When zig had a stable home like with Mya he wasn’t in survival mode and could mature and grow smarter. The fact he had no help with getting collage together I could go on all day ACCURATE that feeling where everyone else goin off and u feel embarassed cuz no one prepped u for SAT or application ACCURATE I never got the college exp cuz my high school experience was like Zigs. So yea if anyone read this long comment just know us homeless:couch surfing high school kids love his storylines
I personally like and cared for Riley. He wasn't the typical girly fem gay boy like most characters are, and for me that's a huge problem. If you're gay, you automatically have to be girly in TV and I dislike that. Marco was a huge character and I really liked him, but Riley was way more surrounded by straight guys who were not even close to be remotely sensitive towards others. And I disliked him having only Zane as a love interest, because Zane was indeed forcing him out, no matter how much I liked his personality and actor, he was forcing Riley out.
Now a days, Riley's actor is not even acting anymore, and apparently he is the homophobic guy. Idk, but, to be honest, it's like the character's whole story arc was actually indeed true.
@@bajanyaoikaizer6902 Zane was his love interest, Peter literally took advantage of a drunk girl and was friends with lots of homophobic people and lets not forget he made other friends even when he was friends with Riley, and the lifeguard was an adult and more importantly his lifeguard teacher so that's off the charts (let alone creepy as fuck). They were trying to help, but they were the only ones. Throughout Holly J's story, for instance, she had multiple help from lots of other characters, some of which stayed friends with her for a long time. Riley had Zane and Anya, but even Anya was closest to many other characters and like I said, Zane was trying his best to force Riley out.
Anya is one of my faves !
I actually felt like Zane was very pushy about Riley. I'm not going to say Riley was perfect, he wasn't but Zane's civility shit was annoying. Also we never really got to know much about Zane or how he was outside of his relationship to Riley. I saw someone state that due to them being in different points in their life in regards to their sexuality and it inevitably clashed
On the topic of twincest, I personally feel that Fiona being a lesbian was a way to circumvent her admittance that she was in love with Declan. In so many of their earlier episodes, Fiona just had to do anything to keep her claws in him. She licked the rim of Holly J's coffee cup. She was the first one to join him on stage after he won that award. The line of "Boyfriends are temporary; brothers are forever." GURL, WUT?
But it really comes of as that her brother was the only man good enough for her.
@@lasloapollo4312 Exactly!
I'm glad someone else is saying how hot zig is and that Sean and ellie was the superior pairing
Riley gave i'm straight but lowkey i like guys but cant come to terms for being gay so when he gets caught or people talk about it that are saying ''hey its fine if you like guys'' he goes all HULK and is like ''I DON'T LIKE GUYS IM NOT GAY '' like okay honey not what the sheets said last night but oh well.....
and speaking about spinner he was the most relatable because nothing defined him and he overcame what happened to him and i feel like he developed in a more kid to teenager to hey i'm growing up and i can realize my faults kinda way where others kinda did that but not really in the way where its realistic
It’s funny y’all liked the blue top/pencil skirt combo on Clare. Yes it made her curves look fantastic but it was giving secretary. Who wears a peplum top and heels to school at 18? They were so good at doing the preppy girl look for Holly J so I don’t know where that expertise went when it came to Clare 😂
I don’t like Zoe, but the filming her and Zig thing was ICONIC AF LMFAO I love the MESS
Spinner had the best character development hands down , he was the best but yeah . I wished they could’ve talked more about Terri storyline i missed her after what Rick did to her.
And it was actual development he went from bully to Ahole to bigger Ahole to lost to Darcy changing him to growing up
i would love a SELLIE video
I ship Sellie harder than Semma. Also I love Anya. She’s adorable and funny and she deserved a better ending
honestly i’d love to see a semma and sellie video omg i feel like this is one of the biggest arguments about this show and how sean comes back for emma and not ellie and in the end emma ended up with spinner like that whole dynamic and development would be interesting to dissect
In the shorts Sean had Ellie tattooed on him
I would love to watch a video of you ranking the seasons from the show, I love your videos!💖
That’s actually gonna be my next video!!
Honestly a lot of degrassi’ POC characters were way more interesting than the white ones. Also, the writers have a major problem with letting their POC characters exist without a white counterpart (i.e. Ali and Clare, Manny and Emma, Jimmy and Spinner, Marisol and Katie, Hazel and Paige, Danny and Derek, Liberty and JT, etc.) it’s like if they don’t have a white best friend they’ll just fade into the background (what they basically did to Liberty after JT died)
Hard agree. Especially with Hazel/Paige and Marisol/Katie. It was like Marisol and Hazel couldn't have a storyline unless their white best friend was involved at some capacity while Katie and Paige had tons of storylines that had nothing to do with Hazel or Marisol. And they gave them little to no personality too. If you were to ask me to describe either of them I would say mean girl cheerleader and that's it. We didn't get to see their home lives or really deep dive into their interests or anything like that.
@@kameryn2918 exactly! Like when they revealed that Hazel was Somalian. They could’ve done a lot with it. On her wiki page it says that her family fled during the civil war there and her dad was a soldier. They could’ve had another episode that deals with that, like maybe her dad has ptsd and it’s starting to really affect her life. Idk, degrassi wastes so much of its POC character’s potential
@@gracethompson7153 A PTSD storyline with her dad would have been such an interesting watch. They really did drop the ball with Hazel.
There are a lot of hotties who've walked the halls of Degrassi (Eli, Sean, Winston, etc.), but, in my opinion, the cutest is Declan. The guy is GORGEOUS! 😍💖
And I'm not too crazy about him as a character, but I can't deny his looks.
His eyes 🥰
He was very handsome
@@Margann1987 I know! 😍 When I think about him, his eyes are the first thing I think of.
@@reeses_unicorn I saw the movie "Passchendaele" in theatres and Landon Liboiron was in it. He had a small role as an enemy soldier who gets killed by Paul Gross' character early on in the movie, and his eyes remained with me throughout.
STOP LMAO! Not Scarlett Johanson dancing to Maya singing! Plssss 😭😭😭 ( ok back to the videoo lmao)
Please do a Sean and Ellie video!
please PLEASEEE make the sellie video i prefer them over semma as well and i would love to see ur view on them
Semma is so overrated
I don’t get why people like them so much
@@cheshirerose2001 I kinda get it and i also don’t cause they were cute at first but then it became very clear that they are NOT a match at all lmao most of their breakups were just them not being able to communicate well with each other and it became worse as the years went by. Their relationship in season 6 just felt incredibly forced to me and i firmly believe even if sean hadn’t enlisted and they had gotten married instead they wouldn’t have had a peaceful marriage anyways. They were just so out of touch with each other and were from two completely different worlds (which isn’t always a bad thing, in fact it’s one of my favorite couple tropes) but it just didn’t work well with them
Bruh they styled Claire so bad it hurt lol
I think it would’ve been interesting if Fiona kissed HOLLY instead of Declan and people could chalk it up to her wanting attention so she can still come out the next season
Spinner is my man my man my man!!
the more i watch degrassi the more i realized sean and emma didnt have much chemistry i do think theyre very popular bc of the good girl/bad boy trope ellie and sean shouldve had more scenes.
Hot take: Paige and Spinner made no sense as a couple and didn't need to be together.
I also hated that couple
6:25 no but I kinda agree though about this story line…. I Can see it….
Paige had her moments of being terrible but she also had her moments of being a stand out. When Emma got her period, yes Paige was still kind of mean but she gave her a pad and a little support. She went on the date with JT and told him he was a good date and if circumstances were different (again not that nicely) she'd go out with him again. When Ashley tried to make over Terri, Paige is the one who told her to back off. She was the one to push Terri to not believe Rick after he abused her. She pushed Ellie to get help for her self harm. Everyone says Paige instigated the bullying against Rick, when really it was mostly Emma, and everyone followed suit. Paige stopped Spinner on two separate occasions from attacking him, first when he pulled Rick out of his mom's car and then behind the Dot after Jay hit him and asked who was next. You can see Spinner stepping forward but Paige holds him back. She also looks really uncomfortable with them physically assaulting him. She also gets up to tell him that what happened at the knowledge bowl was awful. He was not going to go through with his plan after that but then Spinner and Jay lied about Jimmy. She tried to help Ashley with her dad, but Ashley threw chocolate milk in her face. I mentioned on the first video how Paige worked to get Alex to work towards something throughout their relationship. When Alex first mentioned she and her mom were struggling financially Paige offers to lend her money but Alex turns her down. She brought Alex to her house to take care of her after Chad knocks her over the coffee table. She was there for Hazel after Jimmy got shot. She was there for Marco after he came out. She took responsibility for wrecking Dean's car. Even taking Spinner's crap while she was working to pay him back. Yes, there were a *LOT* of times she was unnecessarily mean but there were a lot of a times she got dumped on by people even when she was being nice. The main problem is that when they ran out of real stories for Paige they just assassinated her character. They did the same thing with Alex. They destroyed Paige and Alex (and all of Alex's progress) because Deanna was leaving. That's just bad writing.
Maya's songs are all covers of an artist called "Shobha" if you're looking for the actual recordings! @shobhamusic
I thought about it now i think Rick could have been used more if all the bad things didn't go down he was a good character before you know but if just kept going after the you know what he could have stayed or just blacked holed
Not Okay by Maya Matlin will always be fucking iconic
Anya supremecy! I relate to her so much. The writers did make me made tho with her dr*g storyline
One plot line I don’t get from the show was when Ali sent Bianca’s nudes. Like if it was season 8/9, before her own nudes were sent out, I definitely think it’d make sense. But this was at least 2/3 seasons later and I personally think it was uncalled for. I think maybe she could have texted a nerdy guy that she wanted to have “relations” with him from her phone, maybe meet in the parking lot where everyone could see it. Or something that is embarrassing, but not against the law or her characterization at that point,
The way I NEED Drake to do a song using Tell me liessssss 🎶
I know no one likes him, but Drew is definitely my problematic fav and Paige is my problematic fav as well lol and Spinner is ABSOLUTELY the best Degrassi character hands down.
drew is my problematic fave too lol
@@nysclipshe means well but he is a tad bit impulsive 😢
can we have part 3??
i’m sorry but zoey is the next class equivalent to paige 💀
I know I didn’t just hear “I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that Spinner is the best character overall” because just no. Spinner literally humiliated Paige when she was working at the movie theaters which she was doing to pay for the damages to his car. He humiliated her in front of their friends and it got so bad that their friends told him to stop because they thought he was taking it too far. He never once sympathized with her when he found out that she got sexually assaulted. I know Paige wrecked his car and she went to a party hoping to flirt with the guy that she liked when she was still with Spinner but she was R@ped! A little compassion wouldn’t have hurt. And he was incredibly homophobic towards Marco. I get character development but there are definitely better characters with better storylines. He was just not it.
@@liaspeaks2582 Oh yeah that too. I knew he did something else that was awful I just couldn’t remember so thank you for reminding me.
That’s the point. The fact that he was able to develop from all of that.
@@nysclips Yeah but every character was able to develop from terrible decisions that they’ve made. That’s personally my favorite part of this show but that doesn’t make Spinner the best character when there are tons of characters in this show.
And it was his and Jay's lie that got Jimmy shot.
aislinn is such a pretty girl they did her so dirty w her hair and outfits omfg
1:56 IM CRYING
I thought it was just me Ricardo Hoyos is so gorgeous 😭😭😭
He is!!!
imo zane is the best looking character 😭 I may be biased cause I love his actor tho
Naw…Zane was the villain. Point blank. Riley was upfront that he was not ready to come out and Zane could not ACCEPT that. He would take Riley back time and time again but Riley would never say he was going to come out at this date and time…so why keep getting with him? It was clear that was a deal breaker for Zane so stop dating him. Zane thought he could change Riley by being passive ALL OF THE TIME. It was so exhausting and I was happy Riley ended it the way he did, but even then, Zane tried to just push him to come out. Nahh, that’s a form of a manipulation at its finest
I agree. I don't like Riley but yeah Zane should not have left the door open to keep picking the relationship back up when he knew Riley wasn't ready. Yes his parents should have accepted him, but it's obviously not easy to deal with being disowned.
Fiona and Holly J should have gotten together. Could create tension since she would have dated both Declan and Fiona, would have had her struggling of what it means to be bisexual and explored what happens when best friend move to something more and how that line can get so blurry
Yes that would be cool if Fiona and Declan were NOT brother and sister. Like Holly J is moving up and down that family tree😅😅😅😅😅
I love both Zoe and Anya ♡ Also Zig hands down was the cutest Degrassi boy!
I literally love Anya. She’s been one of my faves from the start but I didn’t love her coke addiction/clueless about her life path storyline.
I agree about Paige. I hate her character. I’m so confused as to why people love her but hate on Ashley so hard like what did Ashley ever do that was half as bad as Paige. Also no one ever focuses on the fact that she low key verbally abused Alex.
Spotify has the Degrassi takes Manhattan soundtrack
Can we get a part 3 lol my friend is afraid to text it so I will he likes Rick he thinks if no one bullied him and if Terri never went back to him he thinks Rick could have been a good character since he believes the actor did such a good job he thinks Rick could have been good
oddly enough i agree with that
@@05spring right I feel like it's wrong but right
I feel like I shouldn't say it, but I agree. It feels like there was a lot to his character and they could've really worked with that. Showing him really getting the help he needs and becoming a better person.
@@reeses_unicorn for real if everything went well I could see something good for him if Jimmy forgave Spinner and Jay I could see the gang forgiving Rick
Rick and Jimmy's friendship was actually really cute right before the prank, they were learning a lot about each other and how other people see things.
And then everything went to shit for Rick right after one thing finally went right. I always felt bad for Rick and Jimmy and wished Jimmy got to Rick first.
Though it's great that Degrassi got rid of Declan and Fiona's twincest storyline, it would have been really interesting to see. Anya was cool, she should have gotten more storylines. Paige should have been dropped by her friends, like of course Hazel(who definitely deserve better) and I guess, Marco
I reckon Clare's wardrobe was great. Start to finish.
Emma was the WORST character next to Ashley
Omg I talk all the time about how Clare dressed like an executive at school and people are always like “business casual was the style in the 2010s” I don’t care 😂 this girl was wearing peplum blouses and heels to 12th grade. Her season 12 wardrobe was much more her age and way cuter than any of her other looks.
I liked how she dressed in season 9 and 10. After that her style went downhill
Fair but also like can you imagine the sensational enemies to lovers that Paige and Manny could have been? Especially if it happened post Mr Oleander. Not to mention Emma would have flipped her lid when she found out.
Claire’s fits were Lularoe , she really was Emma. Poor girl lol
Sean and Ellie were the best couple who made sense!! In the chemistry was always there!
i saw someone do this last vid so ima do it here & write my opinions too djwkdjw:
1. i think this one is silly LMFAOO but it makes sense… like what was the purpose if it was just never talked about again 😭
2. PLS HER OUTFITS EVERY EPISODE WAS BAD like she had so much potential it was insane
3. i am the #1 holly j defender idc she became one of the only reason i could tolerate the show at some point. but i do agree about her relationship with the coynes being the big reason for her development cause those two really changed the way she presented herself and her views. & YESS the trio i love them
3. yupp anya deserved much more. there were points where she annoyed me but like who didn’t . i’m glad she like became more confident and knew her worth & ngl idk if i liked her relationship in the end with whatever that one’s jock name is but i do know i was cheering for it a bit cause i was hoping anya could change him for the better LMFAOO
4. zig was attractive but because the class just annoyed me so easily i didn’t pay much attention, tbh i think jake got to me the most and dallas and connor had my heart WOW CONNOR IS BEAUTIFUL
5. wait that’s so true i didn’t realize we never got our bops 💔 AND OMFG i watched degrassi next class years before i watched tng and is that craig….
6. i forgot about her 😭 but i was so ready to throw something at my tv during that scene cause are you serious?? like have common sense
7. no. they were not going to be a good match 😭😭 I LOVE PAIGE AND ALEX and i hate that it was ruined
8. personally paige is the most like degrassi character there can be- like she was selfish while not being selfish SWEET BUT A BITCH she did everything everyone did but in a very lowkey way idk i think she was a good representation of having character development while also staying the same cause that’s possible like the old her never actually left ?? idk if it makes sense but i did end up liking her at some point but some things aren’t excused like her verbal abuse
9. riley pissed me off so much like i understand you are struggling but violence towards support was just hard to watch & justice for zane
10. i loved sean and ellie but i don’t remember if i rooted for endgame ?? & i am a big fan of sean and emma cause im a sucker for og couples like those have my heart (most of the times)
but ngl if i dig deep in the difference between sean and emma and sean and ellie , it could possibly change
ouu i forgot about the cheating you’re right 😭😭
11. i love and hate zoe tbh she was another paige for me. some scenes i can LOVE her and the next i can be like fuck her cause my gosh she had no limits & THATS THE WORD they are my problematic favs , manny on top
12. this is true omfg the girls never had a break in this show and it was very specific with who did and this was one of the cases
13. tbh i always forgot those two were brothers like i have opinions on them very separately
14. i haven’t watched next class in a while but i saw a tiktok a while ago similar to this comment and from what i can remember , i agree now. when i first watched it i was really young so i didn’t like her but now i understand her character much more
15. i love spinner like he had his times but he became just a comfort character for the whole fandom
16. yeah it was always rebranding and this rebrand was just more noticeable
i also love zoe like she kept it interesting
oh and don’t forget my queen esme
Who said Craig was the cutest!? They need to be arrested immediately
😂😂
loved anya but hated how she ended up in the army. she literally falls for military propaganda while at her lowest (coked up in a club bathroom with no prospects) and just decides she’s going to join. it was silly
I like Riley, but I think more with Zyan, who’s one of my favorite Degrassi characters. I also think it’s because I came in after he was coming out and got better. I’m not a big fan of self hating non-straight characters, which I think does ruin Riley a bit, but I feel like he was more unique than say Tristian, who was very snotty and very rude when he came in. Also, I think Holly J. needed to be called out in her first couple of seasons, because she was really mean; I don’t agree with how Ali bullied her in talking about harming Holly, especially bringing her hair color into it, but she barely got people to turn on Holly, which means she definitely needed a wake up call to be better.
The biggest miss is zayn not being his own character
@@pleaseshutup7053 Yeah, I think he had a pretty good character, but he didn’t get a storyline with Riley not in it or at least not the biggest part of it. Similar to Hazel as well, though she did get one.
I’m here for the Drew hate. They tried to redeem him by making us feel sorry for him with his stories but I never cared. Lol
Sean x Ellie 🥹🩷 that hand holding scene just sold me PLEEEEASE DROP THAT SEAN/ELLIE VIDEOOOO
I personally disagree with the Riley and Zane part. Riley ( imo ) played a closeted jock very well, his hated for himself came out on others but he did try to get help. Zane was constantly coming back to Riley KNOWING he wasn’t ready but getting mad when he wouldn’t come out. It wasn’t a fair relationship to either of them but Zane had no right to get mad when Riley just wasn’t ready. I do wish they could’ve gotten a true happy ending though. They brought out the good in each other.
I just found your channel while looking for something else lol. I subscribed, I like these opinions and takes. I'm only a minute into this video, but I will say that I think I read somewhere that they were planning on taking the twincest storyline a bit further in season 10 but Declan's actor got a cast in Terra Nova, which didn't end up doing well anyways lol. I'd have to dig for that source because it's been a while
The thing about Paige is that she was bad and the show really didn't make any apologies for it or give her some redeeming storyline. You can't dismiss her evilness like every other character. In contrast everyone else was trying to be good or wanted to be seen as good.
That is what people really like she was bad (borderline evil) and truly didn't care if you thought so.
SEAN AND ELLIE SEPARATE VIDEO PLEASE 🙌🏻
Dang Connor had one of the best glow ups cause 😍 and I think we were conditioned to think Sean & Emma belonged together because we got to see the start of their cute little romance
i so agree about semma vs sellie, when sean and emma were happening again in s6 i was just tired of it and i didn’t get the appeal. I would definitely love a sellie video, they had so much more potential than what we got left with. i would have preferred that over the ellie and craig mess we got.
That was yall underrating Manny. She was always top tier for me... The fact that Cassie Steele and I are the exact same age and I had it bad for her since watching season one when it first came on has nothing to do with it 😅
I had the biggest crush on Riley so I loved Riley character
hot take esme is the bisexual bpd icon i needed
3:13 my gf literally my fav I love her sm
Not only was Paige sleeping with spinner behind Darcy back. when Terri was at the dance paige danced with Terri crush (Spinner) when she already knew that was Terri crush..
Loved this video. And I definitely agree, Zig was the hottest guy on Degrassi
if you do another degrassi opinions here's mine!
i actually think Ashley is very well written. is she likeable? no! but i think she's a very good character, everything she does makes sense for her. also, i really liked how she struggled as a female musician being overshadowed by the men around her (craig stealing the songs she wrote for his album, jimmy becoming more popular than her on their song), i think it's really realistic to how women are treated in different industries irl. i really think it was crappy how she took Jimmy off her song, but it makes sense with what she'd been through.