inge
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Post by inge on Nov 8, 2006 16:39:50 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's about the same morning...
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 11, 2006 13:18:15 GMT -5
Other people in the community have mentioned before that in earlier books, Jessi said she didn't want to dance professionally, she just really liked to dance, but as we know, in later books, what she wants more than anything is to be a professional ballerina. So I was surprised when I reread #14: Hello, Mallory a few months ago and discovered there was actually a double inconsistency: in this book, she wants to be a pro, by #16, she is saying she doesn't want to be, and then in later books, she's all about being a professional ballerina again.
From #14:
From #16:
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macca
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Post by macca on Nov 11, 2006 15:56:33 GMT -5
^ hmmm... now that IS strange. Maybe Ann didn't want to encourage little girls learning ballet to put all their hopes and dreams into becoming professional (because really, what are the odds?) but to just enjoy dancing. However, BSC land is known for inconsistencies, so occasionally this lesson was forgotten and when the ghostwriters took over, they just assumed Jessi was all about professional dancing.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Nov 13, 2006 11:24:27 GMT -5
Awhile back, I think I posted that Abby had said in one of her books that Mary Anne had lived in Nebraska when she was little, not Iowa. Well, Mary Anne herself got it wrong in "Mary Anne and the Playground Fight."
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Post by liss31d on Nov 14, 2006 12:18:17 GMT -5
In Starring the BSC, there was an inconsistency in one paragraph! Mallory says to Jessi that at least Jess's going to be an Indian in the play, so she can keep an eye on her brothers and sisters and then suddenly says "So if you're a pirate-" ;D
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macca
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Post by macca on Nov 14, 2006 23:34:03 GMT -5
Okay, reading Farewell Dawn and have spotted several mistakes/inconsistencies already.
Mallory has brown eyes? Since when?
In Chapter Four, Mallory is apparently babysitting for Nicky, Margo and Claire as the triplets and Vanessa were invited to a friend's pool. But when Mallory and the kids are invited over to the Hobart's place, both Vanessa and Margo come "thundering up the stairs"
Not an inconsistency, but a mistake. Soccer is not referred to as football in Australia. At least, not that I've ever heard. Football generally refers to rugby or AFL.
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Post by liss31d on Nov 15, 2006 0:32:52 GMT -5
Yeah soccer is usually referred to as football here in the UK and mainly around Europe. Sometimes we do call it soccer, but football's the more common name for it. Along with the mystery of Tiffany Kilbourne being 11, implied to be more "sophisticated" than the BSC and babysitting for the kids in the neighbourhood along with Shannon, she suddenly became 10 with the BSC sitting for her and pretty childlike, she has another one to join her - Jay McNally! In Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever, Jay is 11, same age as Mal and Jessi and yet in kristy and the Best Kid Ever, the BSC are sitting for him!
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jen
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Post by jen on Nov 15, 2006 4:27:01 GMT -5
Tiffany being 11 is possibly the most annoying inconsistency. Argh! There are some books where she's 10 and some where she's 11, but no matter what age she is, she is still being sat for. What happens if there's a book where she's 11 and Mal or Jessi sit for her? That hasn't happened, has it? Can someone please write that as a fanfic? And Jay McNally was 11 as well? Ugh. I admit, I haven't read that one that often... Not a big favourite.
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Post by claudiascandystash on Nov 15, 2006 4:32:31 GMT -5
The emphasis on the Stacey-perm, and then having her hair straight in all the coverart pisses me off too- especially in SS7, where there is an entire chapter on Stacey going to the mall to get a new "dibble" perm for the dance, and how great it looks.......but then the picture of her and her mom in the car has her with straight hair! ARRRRRGH
What always got my panties in a bunch when I was a kid was Mary Anne's hair. They always talk about how her dad USED to make her have to wear her hair in pigtails, and now she is allowed to choose her own style (within reason). Then why the f*ck does she have pigtails on almost every cover, if it was such a big hairy deal for her to talk to her dad about not wearing them?
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jen
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Post by jen on Nov 15, 2006 4:50:40 GMT -5
Hehe, maybe it turns out she actually liked the pigtails? Or maybe it's just because the artists had to somehow show us which one is Kristy and which one is Mary Anne. And I never noticed Stacey's hair in SS7 With perms, does your hair go really big and puffy? Or are there curls? Or is it curly, frizzy puff?
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macca
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Post by macca on Nov 15, 2006 6:28:32 GMT -5
IIRC, she used to whine and complain about having to wear her hair in braids. Maybe unbraided pigtails are less "immature"
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Nov 15, 2006 8:28:29 GMT -5
If you look for consistency between a BSC book and its cover, you are likely to drive yourself to insanity. I mentioned it in another thread -- AMM's biography says that the cover artist makes a point to check the details of the scene being drawn for the cover so that everything matches, but apparently Hodges Soileau never bothered to read chapter two, because he didn't seem to realize that Dawn had white-blonde hair, Claudia's hair was very long, and Jessi was a girl.
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gabbie
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Post by gabbie on Nov 15, 2006 9:17:45 GMT -5
So I was reading "Hello Mallory" the other day. Mallory says something along the lines of "all of us Pikes have dark brown hair". But later her hair is definitely reddish-brown.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 15, 2006 12:03:04 GMT -5
One thing that drives me insane is that so many of the Chapter Twos say that Mary Anne's dad used to make her wear her hair in pigtails. No, he didn't. He made her wear her hair in braids. Braids and pigtails are two different things.
Braids, damnit, braids.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Nov 15, 2006 12:20:52 GMT -5
^maybe it was braided pigtails. How Pippi Longstocking-ish Jen, my sister used to get her hair permed all the time and it would come out curly. Pretty tight curls, but then my mom would get her hair permed and it'd just be kinda fluffy, which is how i picture Stacey's.
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