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Welcome to the 1st My So-Called Life Appreciation Thread.
Hailed as the first teen show “to get adolescence right” and one of the most acclaimed series on TV during its brief run from 1994-1995, My So-Called Life pioneered the modern teen drama and made a star out of 15-year-old Claire Danes. Ostensibly centering around the trials and tribulations of high schooler Angela Chase, My So-Called Life actually expanded to include everyone in its protagonist's orbit, from school friends to extended family, and gave its stellar ensemble cast ripe material to work with during its too-short life.


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"This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do."
- Angela Chase

“School is a battlefield, for your heart. So when Rayanne Graffe told me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. 'Cause she wasn't just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life.”
-Angela Chase

Once upon a time there lived a girl. She slept in a lovely little cottage made of gingerbread and candy. She was always asleep. One morning she woke up and the candy had mold on it. Her father blew her a kiss and the house fell down. She realized she was lost.She found herself walking down a crowded street, but the people were made of paper, like paper dolls. She blew everyone a kiss good-bye and watched as they blew away.

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"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly. I always imagined I'd fall in love nursing a blind soldier who was wounded in battle. Or maybe while rescuing someone in the middle of a blizzard, seconds before the avalanche hits. I thought at least by the age of 15 I'd have a love life, but I don't even have a like life."
-Angela Chase

"I have all these dreams where I know exactly what to say. Then you tell me... you know... that you forgive me."
-Jordan Catalono


“I became yearbook photographer because I liked the idea that I could sort of watch life without having to be part of it. But when you're yearbook photographer, you're, like, never in the picture."
-Brian Krakow

“Apparently Delia Fischer smiles at everyone. She probably comes from one of those small towns where everyone's friendly and smiles at you for no reason. I hate that type of town.”
-Brian Krakow



"There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you in this way that other people can't because they've seen you change. They've let you change."
-Angela Chase

“It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you? And, I mean, this whole thing with yearbook -- it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book”"
-Angela Chase



"People throwing themselves at people is, like, the basis of civilization."
-Rayanne Graff

"Did you ever try to protect someone so much that it, like, hurt?"
-Rickie Vasquez

"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth -- that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me."
-Angela Chase

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My So-Called Classmates:

1) Ruby_Slippers
2) walkin' with a ghost
3) *CopperBoom*
4)PiCkLeS4dAwSoN
5)B.Chambers
6)Lazy
7)Wicked Witch of the East
8) Enigma
9) Burning Up A Sun
10) she.is.not.you
11) Pey_23
12) faith grows old
13) buffygirl_uk
14) jessica3311
15) Lelly
16) V-Nessa
17) Jamie Choate
18) Hermione Weasley

[walkin' with a ghost]

add me please

BEST. SHOW. EVER.

That is all.

[*CopperBoom*]

Definitely add me. It was cancelled way too early!

[Ruby_Slippers]

Added!

I agree. This show was beautiful.

[walkin' with a ghost]

My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, "How was that drive-by shooting?" You don't care how it *was*, you're lucky to get out alive.

I love this quote, its writing like that that really made this show prolific

[*CopperBoom*]

Thanks for adding me and yes the writing on this show was amazing. It's way better than half of the teen shows on the air now.

[Ruby_Slippers]

I love that too.

Almost every line is like poetry.

[PiCkLeS4dAwSoN]

Please add me.

Brian/Angela, FTW!

[Ruby_Slippers]

Added!

No Jordan fans?

[B.Chambers]

Add me?

I Jordon and Angela.

[Ruby_Slippers]

Added!

Jordan Catalano was a cutie!

[Lazy]

Please add me!

Such a fantastic show

I know many people like Angela/Jordan but my favorite was always Angela/Brian

[Ruby_Slippers]

Well now we know Brian and Angela would have gotten together.

[Wicked Witch of the East]

Can I be add please? I absolutely adore this show. It was so well written, amazing character, and the perfect actors to play them.
A while ago I was watching VH1 and they were showing this special of the teen stars of the ’90 and there was Wilson Cruz talking about playing a gay character on TV and how it was for him to relived thing he experienced himself. I think the great think about this show was that you had teen playing teen, you had writers exploring what the felt. Sadly the networks didn’t treasure it and let it go. By far on of the best teen shows ever.

[Lazy]

Originally Posted by Ruby_Slippers (View Post) Well now we know Brian and Angela would have gotten together.

I remember reading something about that. Too bad we never got to see it.