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Post by booklover85 on Apr 25, 2017 23:34:15 GMT -5
I prefer Mallory when she was still a client. She didn't get treated like crap as much and she seemed to act more her age than as a BSC member.
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Post by mallorypike on Apr 26, 2017 6:18:01 GMT -5
Yes, definitely a baby sittee. She and Jessi should've been baby sittees all along until maybe halfway through the series (50s-80s).
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Apr 29, 2017 11:44:50 GMT -5
Baby-sitee, Mallory seemed cute as a client more than an actual sitter.
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 29, 2017 17:59:47 GMT -5
The girls respected her more as a client than they did as one of their peers.
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Post by booklover85 on Apr 29, 2017 21:26:51 GMT -5
The girls respected her more as a client than they did as one of their peers. You're right. The girls treated Mal more as a equal when she was a client rather than as a club member. |
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Post by mallorypike on Apr 30, 2017 1:03:23 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true, which is weird because clients and sitters aren't usually considered as equals.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 30, 2017 18:22:01 GMT -5
I liked seeing Mal's transition from sat to sitter. Imagine if she had stayed the sulky eldest Pike kid. She gave us so much to snark on  |
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jun 22, 2021 22:09:10 GMT -5
I wish we had more opportunities to see Mal being sat for.
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Post by cnj on Jun 22, 2021 23:07:12 GMT -5
No, I liked Mal being a baby-sitter...she and Jessi were mature and were too old to be babysat.
And no, the other BSC did not "mistreat" Mallory...I don't know where some people get that.
I think all the BSC except maybe Shannon and Abby were occasional butt-monkeys at one point or another.
In Mary Anne's Makeover and Dawn's Family Fued, Mary Anne was butt-monkeyed quite a lot.
When Kristy first moved to McLellen Court, Shannon and her sisters butt-monkeyed Kristy mocking her clothes.
Poor Stacey emded up butt-monkeyed quite a bit by Laine and her clique before she left NYC.
So, Mal was not the only one who was butt-monkeyed in the series.
Thay said, I think many...although not all...eleven-year-olds are mature enough to baby-sit.
So, I'm glad Mal and Jessi didn't stay forever clients...that would have been dull and unrealistic.
I love reading about mature pre-teenagers and teens and about patents who allow their kids to mature.
So good to not see helicopter parenting in Stoneybrook.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jun 23, 2021 13:28:18 GMT -5
The girls respected her more as a client than they did as one of their peers. Honestly sometimes it read that way. |
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Post by cnj on Jun 25, 2021 4:12:56 GMT -5
The girls respected her more as a client than they did as one of their peers. Honestly sometimes it read that way. It never read that way to me...I never saw any real instance of the other BSC girls "mistreating" Mallory or disrespecting her in any way, so I wonder where some people are seeing Mallory as this chronic "victim." |
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