oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by oldhickory on May 2, 2011 11:51:48 GMT -5
^ i love the "to be continued" also. to this day it seems wrong to read this one without reading wicked stepsister immediately afterwards :]
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Post by wiggir13 on May 2, 2011 20:18:25 GMT -5
I loved the to be continued too! It let the story develop more!
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Post by candykane on May 6, 2011 9:04:58 GMT -5
^ i love the "to be continued" also. to this day it seems wrong to read this one without reading wicked stepsister immediately afterwards :] Agreed. Even though I've read both of them countless times, they should always be read back to back!
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Post by zoar3 on May 6, 2011 10:35:51 GMT -5
It's too bad there wasn't a second "2 -part" BSC book.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2011 13:55:01 GMT -5
I don't think it'll be much of a surprise to say that I really love this book, haha. However one thing that irritates me every time is Mary Anne and Dawn taking over half the guest list by inviting their friends. I'm really surprised that even semi-relaxed Richard didn't put up more of a fight about it actually being an intimate event.
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Post by zoar3 on May 25, 2011 15:52:51 GMT -5
^Didn't Mary Anne and Dawn (for all intents and purposes) make up the entire guest list themselves? I remember them saying to Sharon and Richard something like, "Oh we'll just invite our friends (they named the BSC Members) and maybe both of you will want to invite a coworker or someone?" Wasn't the total less than 20 people?
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Post by candykane on May 26, 2011 8:03:05 GMT -5
It was very small and dominated by the BSC (and Jeff, who got to invite the triplets). I never thought much of it since Richard seems like he wouldn't have a lot of close friends, and Sharon hadn't lived in CT for years. Most friends she knew from way back then probably didn't live there anymore, or she'd drifted apart from them after all those years and wouldn't have invited them anyway.
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Post by wiggir13 on May 26, 2011 9:28:41 GMT -5
That is probably very true! I can imagine Richard having a friends from work table or something but I can't see him as a go and hang out with the guys type of person. Sharon is so scatterbrained she may have forgotten who her friends are!
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Post by zoar3 on May 26, 2011 11:46:16 GMT -5
^Good points. It just almost did seem as though they agreed to a wedding for MA and Dawn rather than for themselves. I actually thought (if just a family ceremony) was what they both truly wanted, that's what should have happened. Maybe that could have been the beginning (a better one) of establishing them as a family).
Lol, to Sharon "forgetting her friends." If at least one friend from CA had come that could have been interesting. I did get the impression that Sharon, by moving to CT, was making the choice to leave all things CA behind so maybe she wouldn't have wanted anyone from there. Then again, the whole move to me made little sense. Aw, Richard. As a fan of his, I hope he had at least one good buddy.
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Post by wiggir13 on May 26, 2011 18:20:34 GMT -5
Maybe he and Watson can go grab a beer or something!
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Post by zoar3 on May 26, 2011 19:43:27 GMT -5
I think there was a fanfic once where Elizabeth and Richard were close(r) friends. I could see Richard "checking Watson out" for Elizabeth. Sigh, I still, will always wish, Richard had married Elizabeth. I think there's only one started fanfic story where Kristy and Mary Anne try to get them together. Does anyone know of any others?
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Post by sparklymouse on May 26, 2011 20:21:43 GMT -5
I do not get an Elizabeth/Richard pairing at all. I pictured him peering out from behind his window blinds in disgust over how rowdy the Thomas kids next door were. Not that they actually were rowdy, but his Mary Anne sounded like a Stepford daughter in comparison.
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Post by wiggir13 on May 26, 2011 20:55:38 GMT -5
I would have loved a Richard/Elizabeth pairing! I think maybe it's because I wanted Kristy and MA friendship to stay the way it was and Richard marrying Sharon destroyed it!
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Post by zoar3 on May 26, 2011 22:48:40 GMT -5
I agree compared to the lively and more fun-sounding Thomas kids, Mary Anne would seem like their total opposite. If she never made any type of friend on her own before Dawn than the above is even more true. Wiggirl. I agree completely. I also always thought it odd that in Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise when Elizabeth remembers a 10- year old Kristy trying to set her up with the mailman, there was not one additional "memory" of Kristy trying to do so with Richard. Unless Richard pre-Sharon was completely withdrawn, much more like the greiving husband portrayed in Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic, I don't see him as never watching the girls play with Elizabeth. Surely they had backyard get togethers sometimes? That's just another reason I was so disappointed in the lack of early year information in Kristy's portrait. I don't think MA was even mentioned, was she?
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Post by anzuhana on May 27, 2011 9:08:38 GMT -5
I think the Elizabeth/Richard pairing came from Mary Anne and Kristy being best friends and Mary Anne thinking of Elizabeth as a mother figure. It's like if Mary Anne can think of Elizabeth as a mother, then the Thomas kids could think of Richard as a father since their own father abandoned them.
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