"Mother and Child Reunion, Part 2"
aka, "Emma meets a guy in a chatroom"
Episode 2, Season 1
Original Air Date: 10/14/2001
Main Storyline Character: Emma Nelson
This is a two-parter because all the boring scenes of the parents looking at class reunion pictures just COULDN'T FIT INTO ONE EPISODE!
Let's get started...
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"Mother and Child Reunion, Part 1"
"Mother and Child Reunion, Part 1"
aka, "Emma meets a guy in a chatroom"
Episode 1, Season 1
Original Air Date: 10/14/2001
Main Storyline Character: Emma Nelson
A bit of background...
As the original series took place in the eighties, I assume the new series' writers were like "Hey, what can we have the first episode center around that is new and fresh and hip?" That was "computers." Yes, computers. When I was in middle school, there were static websites and not much interaction online. No Youtube, no Facebook, no MySpace even. Just lists of websites like Virtual Bubblewrap that made your dreams of popping virtual plastic bubbles come true. There were chat rooms and comment sections on sites and blogs, but the internet was nowhere near where it is now, a mere 12 years later.
So yes, the writers decided "lets do an episode about evil chatrooms" because that was a big danger (read: Degrassi Big Dangers are not the same as Big Dangers For Real People) at the time. Imagine chatting with someone you don't even KNOW! No, you can't Google (try Altavista) their profile because all that information wasn't out there in the cyberwebz yet. You just had a name and you type-chatted away with them, no Skype (didn't exist) so you couldn't see their face. Think of all the 90s shows that had episodes of kids getting sucked into video games! This was the real-life version of that ridiculous notion. This was the state of TV in the early 2000s.
Enough background....let's get on with it!
aka, "Emma meets a guy in a chatroom"
Episode 1, Season 1
Original Air Date: 10/14/2001
Main Storyline Character: Emma Nelson
A bit of background...
As the original series took place in the eighties, I assume the new series' writers were like "Hey, what can we have the first episode center around that is new and fresh and hip?" That was "computers." Yes, computers. When I was in middle school, there were static websites and not much interaction online. No Youtube, no Facebook, no MySpace even. Just lists of websites like Virtual Bubblewrap that made your dreams of popping virtual plastic bubbles come true. There were chat rooms and comment sections on sites and blogs, but the internet was nowhere near where it is now, a mere 12 years later.
So yes, the writers decided "lets do an episode about evil chatrooms" because that was a big danger (read: Degrassi Big Dangers are not the same as Big Dangers For Real People) at the time. Imagine chatting with someone you don't even KNOW! No, you can't Google (try Altavista) their profile because all that information wasn't out there in the cyberwebz yet. You just had a name and you type-chatted away with them, no Skype (didn't exist) so you couldn't see their face. Think of all the 90s shows that had episodes of kids getting sucked into video games! This was the real-life version of that ridiculous notion. This was the state of TV in the early 2000s.
Enough background....let's get on with it!
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