Talk:The Rugrats Theory/@comment-25276468-20140807140620

Maybe it's because I'm skeptical...but I doubt it's possible to be bipolar and schizophrenic at the same time. Plus, imagine a schizophrenic on narcotics like LSD...(oh God).

As for the pasta itself, I find it very overrated. Sure, the idea of the babies being met with a tragic fate and the onlooker imagining what their lives would be like is pretty interesting, but are we really supposed to believe that the adults would blithely go along with Angelica's fantasies? If some child came up to you and started going on about her ongoing playtime with an aborted fetus (quick little side-rant: how would anyone explain abortion to a three-year-old?), a stillborn, and a kid involved in an accident, the immediate reaction wouldn't be, "Oh, there she goes with her wild stories!" No, I bet they'd send Angelica to a hospital, or have a child psychologist examine her at the very least.

Plus, there were a lot of Rugrats episodes where she wasn't even involved at all. How did she come up with all of that? Did she just lay in bed and imagine all of this happening? If Angelica was more of a main character in the episodes aside from the four aforementioned babies, it'd make a little more sense. However, considering the episode count she has compared to the other characters, some things really don't add up.

Those are flaws others have pointed out before, but here's the main thing about this theory that grinds my gears: it's trying way too hard to destroy your childhood. I understand that since more characters joined the show's cast later on (Dil, Kimi, et cetera), the original author wanted to cover their backstories, too. However, if s/he just left it at what happened to the four babies, then the rest could be left to interpretation. Sometimes, less is more. Here, it's trying so hard to ruin every single aspect of Rugrats and ''All Grown Up! ''that it's almost laughable. Kira was a hooker? Dil's retarted because Angelica beat him? Susie created Rugrats in commemoration of Angelica? Oh, give me a break. Maybe this is more of a subjective point-of-view rather than an actual flaw, but when you're trying too hard to shock the reader as much as you can, it becomes more choppy and less credible.

I'm not one for rating systems, but I'd probably give the Rugrats Theory a 4/10. It's an interesting idea, but not well thought-out.