Yeah, the "Father's Day" episode in particular highlights that, in fact as does almost any interaction with her father.
What's nicely done is you can see how both of them got to be the people they are simply from a few conversations between them; her father isn't portrayed as a malevolent or even particularly bad (which is a relief) just... thoughtless and in retrospect regretful of how he ignored his daughter, but has no clue how to fix things (and the one time he does, it all goes wrong and it's not his fault). He was a man prepared to throw any amount of money at his daughter to make her happy, but not time or show affection. And at the same time, Pizzazz values nothing but craves attention, ANY attention though one gets the feeling she would have loved to have been shown affection by her father but it's too late. It's all very sad, but well handled.
All praise to Christy Marx for giving us characters who actually have their own character to interact. I adore the Misfits dynamics in particular.
If you want to see a rant sometime, push my hotbutton about Jerrica's positively Kryptonian levels of dickishness in stringing along Rio the way she does.
I was also always disappointed that we ended up with Riot getting more backstory (good though it was) in a single episode than Rio got in 65 (Christy has mentioned she had plans for that too, a story which would have featured the runaway kids of Haven House again, and Rio boding with a disaffected kid there, and us discovering that the real reason Rio hates lying and deception so much is that his father was an alcoholic who had made him too many promises he'd failed to keep, like the kid has)
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There are very few things in life which can't be improved by a Misfits number.
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What's nicely done is you can see how both of them got to be the people they are simply from a few conversations between them; her father isn't portrayed as a malevolent or even particularly bad (which is a relief) just... thoughtless and in retrospect regretful of how he ignored his daughter, but has no clue how to fix things (and the one time he does, it all goes wrong and it's not his fault). He was a man prepared to throw any amount of money at his daughter to make her happy, but not time or show affection. And at the same time, Pizzazz values nothing but craves attention, ANY attention though one gets the feeling she would have loved to have been shown affection by her father but it's too late. It's all very sad, but well handled.
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If you want to see a rant sometime, push my hotbutton about Jerrica's positively Kryptonian levels of dickishness in stringing along Rio the way she does.
I was also always disappointed that we ended up with Riot getting more backstory (good though it was) in a single episode than Rio got in 65 (Christy has mentioned she had plans for that too, a story which would have featured the runaway kids of Haven House again, and Rio boding with a disaffected kid there, and us discovering that the real reason Rio hates lying and deception so much is that his father was an alcoholic who had made him too many promises he'd failed to keep, like the kid has)