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Old 03-24-2006   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by amchow78
Hmm ... storyline correlations between Degrassi Old School & Degrassi TNG? Maybe I can provide some for you:

1)As I mentioned in another thread, Emma's two parter on bulimia ... Degrassi J.H. covered it first with Kathleen Mead! The difference is that they actually showed Kathleen inducing the bulimia vs. Emma doing it behind closed doors and coming out wiping her mouth with a napkin! Also, in the DJH, they also show Kathleen with laxatives as another way of losing weight hardcore style!

2)Manny's pregnancy and subsequent abortion ... it's better equated to Erica Farrell on Degrassi High! As a summer camp counsellor Erica had "relations" with a guy counsellor ... but she got pregnant ... and contrary to what her twin sister and her church thought about abortion being wrong, she still went through with it!

3)Joey and Craig correlation ... the love triangle! If you recall in the "Holidays" two parter, after Craig loses both Ashley and Manny, Joey consoles Craig by talking about his two timing with Caitlin & "some girl named Tessa Campanelli" and how they both found out! This occured in the movie "School's Out"!

4)Emma & Caitlin ... Much like Old School Caitlin, Emma (the early season version) was the "social cause" girl, fighting for causes such as boycotting the caf, etc.! Similarily, Caitlin was a cause girl who fought for such causes as keeping Spike @ Degrassi despite Degrassi ordering her to leave ... or when she was soliciting signatures for a petition (or as Caitlin called it, "a letter of protest") to keep Ms. Avery @ Degrassi High!

Those are the only comparisons that come to mind ...

Yes, they are similar, but things like that happened in my school too, but weren't copying anyone. :P... I know all those episodes, I'm just saying there ins't much more that they can do. In high school there is always pregnacies, eating disorders, love traingles and everything...... I just dont think they could have made up new things... what else happenes in high schoool? I think they were just trying to show how and new generation deals with it.

I forgot tessa got pregnante.... Joey never even knew though.. So actualy that comparison is really good, because both girls got an abortion...
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