Did anyone else find Jodie SO annoying
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Absolved — 12 years ago(January 15, 2014 01:02 PM)
I found her annoying, but not for the reasons mentioned her. Her being such a an overachieving goody-goody (with a near Pollyanna persona), and simultaneously angry about having to be that way, was off-putting to me. When she went off about having to be "Queen of the negroes" and the "perfect" role model for other black kids at school, I couldn't help but think that she had an annoyingly exaggerated opinion of herself. And her inability to stand up to her horribly pretentious parents and their OTT expectations made her a coward IMO.
That being said, you have to give her some credit for being the only one who could go shoulder to shoulder in confrontations with Daria, and accurately call her out when she needed it. -
trixie-k-88 — 12 years ago(February 17, 2014 08:59 PM)
The funny thing about her character is that I think they were trying to poke fun at casual racism or the "token black kid thing" whenall they were doing was reinforcing it. If anything they exacerbated it because Jodie's personality is often based on her race. I don't think there are any episodes where she has a significant part where she isn't talking about being black. I mean if you wanted to ACTUALLY integrate a cast of charactersit would help if you didn't constantly have them pointing out like "LOOK I'M BLACK! You didn't forget did you? Because it's annoying being the only black kid. AND I AM BLACK!"
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Illyngophobia — 10 years ago(October 06, 2015 01:52 PM)
I didn't find her annoying, but I am disappointed that she didn't have a lot of episodes where she had some form of a plotlinelet alone one or two where it's focused on her.
I would have loved to see a few about how she's tired of trying to live up to her parents' standards of perfection or add development with her relationship to Mack; sort of like what they did with Kevin and Brittany, where they had quite a bit of centered episodes and had their own episodes (like A Tree Grows in Lawndale if that counts).
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MovieGem — 10 years ago(October 08, 2015 09:34 AM)
BUT, I did like Jodie for the most part, b/c she was the neutral character. I actually liked that she brought up racial issues instead of being passive or overlooking things.Her parents were pretty extreme though lol. I liked Mack, he should have had more scenes.
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sweetprincessplacebo — 10 years ago(November 04, 2015 06:18 PM)
I loved Jodie, and she represented the life of many Black kids in an all white place. I definitely felt the same way she did, and it was crazy at the time I was a kid to hear EXACTLY what I felt. As far as her complaining they ALL complained, Daria complained about how everyone was stupid, Jodie made observations about being the only Black person and having friends to who lacked the empathy to even consider what they said to her. Considering how annoyed all of you were with her, can you wonder why all the real Jodies didn't like being the only Black person.
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VIETgrlTerifa — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 07:36 AM)
I recently rewatched the entire series plus the two TV movies, and I found Jodie and Mack were even more relevant now than they were in the 1990s. It also helps that I'm a lot older in 2016 than when Daria first aired, but I was taken aback at how forward-thinking the show was in some of the lines they gave Jodie and Mack. Maybe it's not forward-thinking but lack of significant progress.