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Recently been getting into this show... from the previews there was no way i thought.. that i would like it but as usually happens that proves wrong and i like what i thought i wouldn't.

never seen the first degrassi so this next generation is my first step into the world of degrassi.. it's a bit heavy on the drama with alot of heavy topics but that's not always a bad thing if done right... the show i just watched was pretty deep with the one kid coming out and telling his best friend he was gay and what kind of reaction that type of thing has.. makes you think about it a bit more.. how hard that must be.

anyway any fans? also was the first generation better? would it be a good blind buy on dvd for the first season?

it airs alot on the N channel or Noggin or something like that for anyone don't know.. also my so called life airs on that channel at 5am teus.- fri.

What's it aboot?


nah, I'm just messing with you. I just wanted to say Aboot. Kevin Smith did a guest spot on the show sometime back and it was pretty interesting. Over all it's a melodrama for teens up north. Enjoyable if I flip through the channels and nothing else is on.

Let me just be the first one to say that your thread title is misleading if you are talking about the Next Generation show.

I used to watch the original when I was a kid but I find it now that it hasn't aged very well. I don't know if I would recommended it to someone as a blind buy for the DVD set.

well not really misleading as i'm talking about the whole thing.. both.

if canadian schools are really like this.. canada must be an insane asylum and i thought america was bad.

Tonight's aired episode was really deep and emotional.. something about school shootings that always gets to me.

anyway if anyone happens to catch it rerun later in the night check it out... very moving episode.

gotta feel for rick... i hate bullies.

Actually, Rick was introduced in the third season, and he was abusive to his girlfriend Teri (no longer on the show, friends with Paige and Ashley). At one point after getting back together, he pushed her and she ended up hitting her head on a rock and was in a coma for a while.

After leaving school, Rick returned and received nothing but torment from the kids. This constant bullying led to the shooting. I'm not condoning either his actions or the other kids on the show, but I think it is important to mention that both his actions and theirs were slightly more complex than teasing.

This show is filled with melodrama but it has its moments when it is really strong, and that episode was definitely one of them. I haven't seen the Junior High episodes yet so I can't comment on those.

Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High > Degrassi: The New Generation

I own both series' first seasons on DVD and Degrassi Junior High blows the first season of The New Generation away and then some. While both are cliched Canadian teen melodramas that are train wrecks to watch, there's something about Degrassi Junior High that makes it a better show than it's spinoff...

I can't place my finger on what it is...

Oh yes, I know what it is. It's likeable characters.

Degrassi TNG is amazing and wonderful. I've really gotten into it since its first season. While I've read tons and tons about Degrassi Jr. High and High I've never gotten the chance to see them. The episodes sound great when reading and I feel like I know the characters already. I'm just wondering if its a good enough blind buy, it is pretty pricey everywhere but the internet.

I love DEGRASSI !!! I probably like the older shows more than the next generation but thats only because I grew up with the first cast. I still think TNG is great. The characters are all wonderfully written and acted. Plus its always cool to see some of the previous cast pop up on TNG. For example, when Wheels showed up or when Emma went to find her brain damaged dad, shane. Its good to know that they still respect and make reference to the "old school". Does anyone know if the new season is starting next month or what?

I would like to see that "Schools Out" Degrassi movie come out on DVD. That was the one where Wheels was drunk and wrecked the car with Lucy.

The original series from many years ago was fantastic. It started out as Degrassi Junior High and then the name was changed to Degrassi High as the kids got older.

But the new series Degrassi The Next Generation seems kind of dumbed down by comparison.

The original series was Kids of Degrassi Street.

Oh wow! I didn't know that.

Thanks!

They must have been really, really young then, I guess.

Indeed. I don't think that any characters were brought forward (maybe one or two) but some of the same actors were used (if I recalled correctly).

The only one that I remember is Wheels.

Wasn't Rick a part of DJH for a while? I can't really remember it very well.

Staci Mistysyn , Caitlin in DJH and NG, was also in Kids but different character name.

Stacie was in [b]Kids...[/i] as Lisa Canard. Wheels was in it under a different name, Griff. Alex (the nerdy Greek entrepreneur kid) was also in "Kids...", as was the obese girl named Nancy (the over-achiever, who was seen occasionally in the later series). I think those are the only four actors from the repertory who were carried over, except for the (last name) Talbot guy, who was a mainstay in Kids, but only appeared in the first couple of episodes of Junior High. The actor was recently acquitted in two separate cases here in Toronto, one an assault, the other a beating death.

I haven't watched the new series at all. From clips and previews, it doesn't appear to have the same edge as the previous ones.

Right, Griff, I remember him. God that was a long long time ago...

Thanks for the clarification in regards to Wheels/Griff. I remember watching an episode of Kids with Griff and the Crosswalk guard ages ago.

Griff/Wheels was an ass way back then too

All the way with Stephanie K !

This is just a reminder that the kevin smith episode that he did for degrassi (there's one next week and the week after as well) is airing tonight at 8 on the N! (digital cable or satilite)

Noggin?

its one of those nickolodian networks on digital cable. (its also known as The N!