Starring the Baby-sitters Club! Part 4!

[road_baby]

Hey, lovelies! How's everything going? Sorry about not getting this up sooner. I was just practicing in photoshop for the day I get me a scanner. So, I was just listening to podcasts and coloring. These few chapters are kinda boring especially after the hilarity of the last ones. But it does have its moments. Well, let's go!

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[shatisarockgod]

You were this close, Sam--lmao, exactly

[road_baby]

And yet the Barrett kids are the ones labeled 'impossible'. Go figure

All the kids the BSC labels as problems, Jackie/Jenny/the Barretts, are actually good kids. Just look how Jackie is handling his role in the play. He's humble. He listens. Karen has been a demanding brat since the auditions. I always say, Karen's bad behavior wouldn't be a terrible thing, kids can be brats, if she wasn't rewarded all the time for it. No one ever tells her to behave. They always just laugh it off like she's just too cute to be bratty. And it doesn't work! I don't know what Ann was thinking with writing her that way because she's the most hated character in the series. No one wants to read about an unrepentant brat who always gets her way!

[the1812overture]

It's been an aggravating few days. I'm glad for a new snark.

'gorgeous and sophisticated and funny and smart and popular'

I've never known a teen boy to use two of those words to describe a girl. Hot, yes, gorgeous, no. Sophisticated? Um no. The other three, yes.

He asks Charlie for advice and he tells him to show his friends that Stacey is cool and they have fun together.

I don't believe for a second that another high-schooler would say this about dating a MIDDLE-schooler.,

Dawn can be an annoying tampon but Jackie will get kicked out for being afraid.

Dawn's and Karen's asses are overly-kissed.

She tells him that if his friends are really his friends they won't care if he's dating a middle schooler. He realizes that's true and they make up.

I disagree. There's a lot of difference between being 15 and 13. But she's not even talking about a 13-year-old, just a middle-schooler.

Who would be comfortable with their 15-year-old friend dating, oh, say, a sixth-grader who is 11?

they say they made up a rain dance and

[road_baby]

It's been an aggravating few days. I'm glad for a new snark

Aww! Thanks! I'm glad to have helped!

THAT IS NOT HOW INDOOR SPRINKLERS WORK!!!

That's what I thought! I always thought that was weird. But Ann doesn't know anything so we always get weird worlds like this.

Claud is extremely supportive of people making different eating decisions

Yeah, that's really decent of her considering how Dawn treats anyone who doesn't eat the way she does. And Claudia is really thoughtful with letting the BSC use her room. There have been times where someone will come early and hang around her room when she's not even there. Like you said, Claudia has her faults but she's pretty generous.

[fairest1]

okay I'm thinking Mal's screw-ups were due to the fact that she was stuck doing half the work of making costumes for the entire cast within a narrow time frame with no experience in costume design so she's probably had to forego sleep for the past few weeks to get them completed.

Sorry, still stuck on the improbability of having to make costumes from scratch for every single character and not requiring any demonstration of sewing ability before deciding who's stuck with half the workload.

Poor Jackie. He just went a little too far when moving past his fear of the costume; even so I'd say his screw-up was more reasonable than Dawn's deliberate mangling of the text.

Thinking about it, Claudia was always supportive of those who didn't eat the same stuff as her. She'd always have sugar-free snacks on hand at meetings for Dawn and Stacey.

[the1812overture]

You're right about Mal. I'm a professional, and the time frame and amount of work expected would make me panic and freeze up. She's a kid whose never shown more than very basic sewing skills, and that's being generous.

[road_baby]

okay I'm thinking Mal's screw-ups were due to the fact that she was stuck doing half the work of making costumes for the entire cast within a narrow time frame with no experience in costume design so she's probably had to forego sleep for the past few weeks to get them completed

That's fair and I'm sure that's logically what would happen. But I don't think it was Ann's intentions because we all know she hates Mal and just wanted to put her down. I think she just wanted Mal to be humiliated and yelled at.

[fairest1]

Ugh. It's just one of those moments where I step back and set aside the fact that these girls are more well-traveled at 11-13 than I am at 32, set aside the fact that they've probably solved more crimes than some members of the Stonybrooke police department, ignore the fact that their parents think 11 is old enough to watch two younger siblings for the long weekend, and remember Mal is 11 and costume making is a thing usually done by grown-ups with some kind of training. What the hell do you expect of an 11-year-old? Honestly she'd have done a good job if the crocodile costume was made from cardboard, poster paint, and an old green bathrobe.

[danidee92]

They tell him if he doesn't stop screaming when he sees him, they'll kick him out of the play. Oh, I see. Dawn can be an annoying tampon but Jackie will get kicked out for being afraid

[road_baby]

You're right. Neither Dawn nor Karen get told they can be replaced but Logan and Jackie get scolded. It drives me crazy that Logan was punished for a spot of immaturity but Karen got rewarded for hers. Doesn't Ann know that when a kid throws a temper tantrum you don't give them what they were screaming for? She was either a really spoiled child or wanted to be one.

[andromeda331]

You're right. Neither Dawn nor Karen get told they can be replaced but Logan and Jackie get scolded. It drives me crazy that Logan was punished for a spot of immaturity but Karen got rewarded for hers. Doesn't Ann know that when a kid throws a temper tantrum you don't give them what they were screaming for

[andromeda331]

She says Mary Anne yelled at her for not doing her job and that Cokie accused
her of the same thing. Gee, ya think maybe you're not doing your job, Einstein?

LOL! Maybe you should listen Mal.

Anyhoo, Jackie is excited because they're having a dress rehearsal and he gets
to miss school. That's so damned cute.

He's a really cute kid.

I remember the thrill of getting to get out of class for whatever reason.
It was one of the greatest childhood joys

Me too.