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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 19, 2008 18:02:38 GMT -5
Boxcat #17, Mystery Behind the Wall, was actually quite realistic. It was also (if you can't tell) my favorite and one I reread many times.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 19, 2008 20:20:39 GMT -5
^ I love that one, too. ;D As for realistic, though, I agree that it is plausible but so is anything. Unfortunately, I've never found a mystery behind a wall or in an old diary and no passages in my house, either. ;D
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 19, 2008 20:51:05 GMT -5
How can you say that "anything's plausible" when there's this thread all about how unrealisitic most of the BSC is?
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 19, 2008 22:12:06 GMT -5
-The fact that the BSC performed double duty as their own Scooby Doo team and solved mysteries better than the cops, and the cops would look to them for answers. Was it Sgt. Johnson who was BFF with them? I forget which book it was, but they want to be there to watch him interrogate a suspect lol. -The way some of the kids don't act their age. Gabbie is two and is more mature than Claire Pike. My cousin's 2 and can't talk with such a wide vocabulary as her. -Again, the kids being so well-behaved that any kids who were a bit of a handful were deemed demon children and "omg the worst kids ever!!!!!". I taught 4th grade in Sunday School, and those 9 and 10 year olds were so hard to control! -How it seems wherever they go in Super Specials, they always end up babysitting. Aren't they supposed to be on vacation for crying out loud?
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Apr 19, 2008 23:04:28 GMT -5
^ Agree with all your points, m0drnmoonlight, especially the first one. I know they go into the interrogation room in Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph - probably others as well. I know someone said that there is a mystery (one that I never read, though) where the police actually ask one of the girls for help (Kristy, I think the person said?) Um, wtf?
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Post by lionessblack on Apr 20, 2008 1:15:12 GMT -5
- Jessi looking after Becca and Squirt for a whole WEEKEND alone. WTF?! Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey, I thought you knew better. My mom wouldn't leave me alone with my 10 year old sister when I was 17 years old for ONE NIGHT (I think that's how old we were. Now, maybe my mom is just really overprotective, but still...) My mom was really overprotective too. I think I was 13 and my sister was 17 the first time we were allowed to stay overnight (one night) by ourselves. But we live just down the street from my grandmother, and staying the night there was often a treat since she would get us whatever food we wanted and would rent us movies, so it's not like we were feeling untrusted or something by not being able to stay home alone prior to that.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 20, 2008 21:32:01 GMT -5
-How it seems wherever they go in Super Specials, they always end up babysitting. Aren't they supposed to be on vacation for crying out loud? This always, always bothered me. No matter how much I liked baby-sitting, I would want a break from all those kids when I went on vacation. The girls practically never did. I love when Kristy and Jessi are just like "no thanks" in NY, NY, when they're faced with the Harringtons job.
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Post by candykane on Apr 21, 2008 12:44:27 GMT -5
Remember when Claudia and Terry went to the fancy restaurant in SS #5? Claudia mentioned that they were dressed up like all the other restaurant patrons, but the only difference was that she and Terry were about thirty years younger than everyone else. Why a couple of 13-year-olds would want to go to a restaurant requiring a dress/jacket and tie and the whole menu is in a foreign language is beyond me.
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Post by greer on Apr 21, 2008 15:08:36 GMT -5
^but he was so sophisticated! he liked woody allen movies!!
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Post by Penny Lane on Apr 21, 2008 15:10:25 GMT -5
^That kind of reminds me of the movie "Life with Mikey" when David Krumholtz's character takes Angie out to a restaurant and acts all sleezy. I'm not entirely sure why I suddenly pictured that scene. Probably because it is completely absurd and hilarious.
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Post by ashley868 on Apr 25, 2008 19:53:48 GMT -5
I don't really find it strange that eleven year olds were baby-sitting in this book only because that was the age I started to baby-sit/ I do find it unrealistic that Jesse was left in charge for a weekend though. I usually baby-sat for people in my neighbourhood and had my moms cell number just in case I needed her, or my sister. Although I find it strange when an eleven year old baby-sits a ten year old as some mentioned. I think the oldest kid I watched at that age was eight, the youngest was three. I baby-sat babies but it was with my older sister only. Once I actually did 'baby-sit' when I was ten but it wasn't technically baby-sitting since the parents were home, but they paid me to play with their daughter in her room while they reorganized the downstairs, and they told her to be good for her 'baby-sitter.'
I do find Mariah and Gabbie unrealistic though. The same with Claudia's spelling. I can understand her being bad at spelling but they go overboard in the books. She spells people's names wrong at times.
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Post by crazychick10793 on Apr 25, 2008 20:24:06 GMT -5
how about in Baby sitters on board or whatever it was when Karen went to get her earplugs before she goes swimming and on her way back to the pool she went and got a manicure and a glass of soda and charges them to her cabin?what place would let a 6/7 year old do that? and the waiter just did what she said without questions.i mean,again,who would just serve a 6/7 year old that was alone and said "charge it to my cabin"?
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Post by candykane on May 2, 2008 13:04:41 GMT -5
It was irresponsible of Kristy to let Karen go back to the cabin by herself. One of my nephews is 6 going on 7 and there is no freakin' way I'd ever let him do that if I was taking care of him. And yeah, would a cruise ship just let some little kid charge stuff like that, no questions asked? I doubt it.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 2, 2008 13:50:46 GMT -5
^ I have no idea, never having been on one. But the ships are huge fuel consumers! Let's face it, almost no one ever uses an ocean liner for transporting people anymore. The whole cruise industry is a frivolous hog of oil. Discourage anyone you know from taking cruises and don't do it yourself!
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Post by greer on May 2, 2008 20:27:09 GMT -5
I've never been on one either; i get seasick.
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