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impyWhat time is it? Adventure Time! Gif spam time! Today we feature the two biggest/best reasons to get yer duff over to wherever you watch such things and start ODing on The Carrie Diaries.
But I didn't like SatC!
That's probably a good thing since this doesn't line up with that at all aside from the very start where nu!Carrie says "Before there was sex..." These are the adventures of young Carrie and young Carrie isn't half as annoying as adult Carrie.
But I loved SatC!
Then get on board already. Geez.
...But why?
Sigh.
My favorite two characters on the show happen to be Dorrit (Carrie's previously unheard of little sister) and Maggie (the blunt but incredibly loyal friend). I gather not everyone feels this way. Not everyone can kiss my ass because the absolute moment Maggie shows up on screen, it is love at first sight.
Seriously, the third best character on this show? Maggie's collection of sweaters.
I might even say that the sweaters are better than Dorrit except Dorrit has excellent taste in pets.
I'm too headache-y to go through and cap all the fabulous sweaters Maggie wears but luckily Tumblr has taken it upon itself to showcase quite a few:
(I actually don't love this one but the picture cracks me up.)
♥
If her sweaters (particularly that first one) aren't enough and you want more reasons to love her, let me give you a few.
1) Maggie is flawed and on paper is a fairly typical stereotype (only girl in a family of boys, parents are only together because they're Catholic and can't get divorced, emotionally stunted due to family, and acts out by sleeping with someone other than her boyfriend). When the identity of that someone else is discovered and used as blackmail by our bitchy character in the hopes of getting Carrie to stay far, far away from what bitchy Donna wants, Maggie instead comes clean to Carrie so that the blackmail can't get between them.
2) Maggie is also willing to throw down for her friends:
3) When her boyfriend gets wind of her cheating and subsequently breaks up with her, you feel bad for her. (And not just because said boyfriend is slowly coming out of the closet but she's about the only person unaware of this.)
Completely superficially, she and Dorrit are both two of the only characters who ever manage to give me 80's vibes. (Mouse does, too.)
My love for Dorrit is a bit simpler. Going in, my expectations for Carrie were pretty low. (I find Adult!Carrie to be tedious at the best of times.) Having an antisocial little sister with an overabundance of eyeliner? What's not to love?
But it goes beyond that. Dorrit makes a valid point when she says that Carrie's broken just about every rule of the house and still gets rewarded even though, when you think about it, Dorrit's been the more reliable sister all season. Logic!
Or the way she acts out when everything of their (recently deceased) mother's is automatically given to Carrie first, even if Dorrit herself might want it.
(I love the one moment you see Dorrit blissfully happy and then how it's ruined by the fact that her father slept through the entire thing.)
Also, Dorrit points out the simple fact that when her mother died, Dorrit found herself alone. Carrie was always closer to her father which was fine since Dorrit had Mom, but without Mom the balance shifted completely out of her favor. Which is something I find particularly true in families with two parents and two kids.
Also, Dorrit shoplifts a hamster. ♥
But I didn't like SatC!
That's probably a good thing since this doesn't line up with that at all aside from the very start where nu!Carrie says "Before there was sex..." These are the adventures of young Carrie and young Carrie isn't half as annoying as adult Carrie.
But I loved SatC!
Then get on board already. Geez.
...But why?
Sigh.
My favorite two characters on the show happen to be Dorrit (Carrie's previously unheard of little sister) and Maggie (the blunt but incredibly loyal friend). I gather not everyone feels this way. Not everyone can kiss my ass because the absolute moment Maggie shows up on screen, it is love at first sight.
Seriously, the third best character on this show? Maggie's collection of sweaters.
I might even say that the sweaters are better than Dorrit except Dorrit has excellent taste in pets.
I'm too headache-y to go through and cap all the fabulous sweaters Maggie wears but luckily Tumblr has taken it upon itself to showcase quite a few:
(I actually don't love this one but the picture cracks me up.)
♥
If her sweaters (particularly that first one) aren't enough and you want more reasons to love her, let me give you a few.
1) Maggie is flawed and on paper is a fairly typical stereotype (only girl in a family of boys, parents are only together because they're Catholic and can't get divorced, emotionally stunted due to family, and acts out by sleeping with someone other than her boyfriend). When the identity of that someone else is discovered and used as blackmail by our bitchy character in the hopes of getting Carrie to stay far, far away from what bitchy Donna wants, Maggie instead comes clean to Carrie so that the blackmail can't get between them.
2) Maggie is also willing to throw down for her friends:
3) When her boyfriend gets wind of her cheating and subsequently breaks up with her, you feel bad for her. (And not just because said boyfriend is slowly coming out of the closet but she's about the only person unaware of this.)
Completely superficially, she and Dorrit are both two of the only characters who ever manage to give me 80's vibes. (Mouse does, too.)
My love for Dorrit is a bit simpler. Going in, my expectations for Carrie were pretty low. (I find Adult!Carrie to be tedious at the best of times.) Having an antisocial little sister with an overabundance of eyeliner? What's not to love?
But it goes beyond that. Dorrit makes a valid point when she says that Carrie's broken just about every rule of the house and still gets rewarded even though, when you think about it, Dorrit's been the more reliable sister all season. Logic!
Or the way she acts out when everything of their (recently deceased) mother's is automatically given to Carrie first, even if Dorrit herself might want it.
(I love the one moment you see Dorrit blissfully happy and then how it's ruined by the fact that her father slept through the entire thing.)
Also, Dorrit points out the simple fact that when her mother died, Dorrit found herself alone. Carrie was always closer to her father which was fine since Dorrit had Mom, but without Mom the balance shifted completely out of her favor. Which is something I find particularly true in families with two parents and two kids.
Also, Dorrit shoplifts a hamster. ♥
