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A short animated pilot, "[[Sealed with a Kick]]", was created by with Karen Disher as production designer and Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil as writers. The pilot was never aired and was never intended to be a completed cartoon. The animated characters are not colored, with different voices for main characters (like Kevin). Disher's designs of the main characters would further change between the time of "Sealed with a Kick" and the airing of the first new episode, and some parts of the characters were altered: Daria became less proactive in the series, for example. |
A short animated pilot, "[[Sealed with a Kick]]", was created by with Karen Disher as production designer and Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil as writers. The pilot was never aired and was never intended to be a completed cartoon. The animated characters are not colored, with different voices for main characters (like Kevin). Disher's designs of the main characters would further change between the time of "Sealed with a Kick" and the airing of the first new episode, and some parts of the characters were altered: Daria became less proactive in the series, for example. |
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A vast library of music clips were used during the show, which Eichler told Paste was down to MTV having "access to all this great free music". Lewis added that MTV wanted music added to the show as it was one of the few shows not based on 'music' at the time, and they tried to find more obscure and diverse clips - something helped by how bands were "dying" to get on MTV in the 1990s. |
A vast library of music clips were used during the show, which Eichler told Paste was down to MTV having "access to all this great free music". Lewis added that MTV wanted music added to the show as it was one of the few shows not based on 'music' at the time, and they tried to find more obscure and diverse clips - something helped by how bands were "dying" to get on MTV in the 1990s. A [https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2016/08/10/daria-had-greatest-weirdest-soundtrack-tv-history 2016 SBS article] would praise this music as "a perfect time-capsule of this liminal time in music, with the last vestiges of grunge and what MTV wanted us to call "alternative" rubbing up against skater punk, increasingly commercialised hip-hop and British invasion bands... the program gave equal weight to early music from then-fledgling acts such as Eels, Space, Mazzy Star, Garbage and Kula Shaker, as it did to cheesy oldies from the likes of Journey and Van Halen that bled through FM radio at the time, throwaway RnB like Genuwine's "Pony" and million-selling sludge by Alice in Chains." |
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On the ''Complete Animated Series'' DVD, Glenn Eichler says that developing the characters in the first seasons was "open season" and there wasn't as much planning "as people believe", with the show developing haphazardly. In the same feature, [[Anne D. Bernstein]] said the writers were left to develop "naturally", with little interference from MTV. In interviews with [[Kara Wild]], Bernstein said she had to "make up a ton of stuff" about the ''Daria'' characters for the ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'' book as that type of background material hadn't been created beforehand ([[Peggy Nicoll]] would do the same for [[The Daria Database|the second book]]). |
On the ''Complete Animated Series'' DVD, Glenn Eichler says that developing the characters in the first seasons was "open season" and there wasn't as much planning "as people believe", with the show developing haphazardly. In the same feature, [[Anne D. Bernstein]] said the writers were left to develop "naturally", with little interference from MTV. In interviews with [[Kara Wild]], Bernstein said she had to "make up a ton of stuff" about the ''Daria'' characters for the ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'' book as that type of background material hadn't been created beforehand ([[Peggy Nicoll]] would do the same for [[The Daria Database|the second book]]). |
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In terms of Daria's personality, Eichler [https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/18709/1/why-this-generation-needs-a-daria told ''Dazed'' in 2014] that "David Felton, says Daria is me in a skirt. I don’t know. She has certain aspects of my personality, but I don’t care. I didn’t care. And I still don’t care much about what people think of me." ''Dazed'' noted Eichler did share Daria's deadpan. In talking to ''Vice'' for the 2017 oral history, both Abby Terkhule and Tracy Grandstaff took the same view (Grandstaff: "Daria really was a 40-year-old man living in Bloomfield, New Jersey"). |
In terms of Daria's personality, Eichler [https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/18709/1/why-this-generation-needs-a-daria told ''Dazed'' in 2014] that "David Felton, says Daria is me in a skirt. I don’t know. She has certain aspects of my personality, but I don’t care. I didn’t care. And I still don’t care much about what people think of me." ''Dazed'' noted Eichler did share Daria's deadpan. In talking to ''Vice'' for the 2017 oral history, both Abby Terkhule and Tracy Grandstaff took the same view (Grandstaff: "Daria really was a 40-year-old man living in Bloomfield, New Jersey"). |
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