bsclover18
Junior Sitter
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Post by bsclover18 on Oct 3, 2008 15:13:00 GMT -5
Watson does seem to like to shop for birdbaths. I love Emily Michelle...she's so adorable!
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bscmad
New To Stoneybrook
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Post by bscmad on Oct 11, 2008 10:08:29 GMT -5
The Pikes, they're just so repeptitive in their personalities and what happens when they are sat for!
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bsclover18
Junior Sitter
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Post by bsclover18 on Oct 11, 2008 12:19:13 GMT -5
^It's true. They do so many plays and talent shows that it isn't even funny!
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Post by toshemeup on Oct 12, 2008 8:07:59 GMT -5
I forgot as well how much I hate "Lovely Ladies," too! It's such a highly controlled game that it seems like it's no fun! Oh, those Thomas-Brewers! Taking games that should be fun and sucking the enjoyment out of it (I'm really talking to Karen, here!)
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Post by greer on Oct 15, 2008 0:06:04 GMT -5
I feel that way every time I try to play any kind of game with my little brother or sister though. I think kids that age just like weird, highly-controlled games of pretend. Like today my brother tried to engage me in a pokemon battle, but he wouldn't let me choose my own pokemon or anything. He chose the pokemon for me and what attack I used and he won every time.
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Post by cokiemason on Oct 24, 2008 1:55:50 GMT -5
Definitely the TB's... not so much DM and EM but KAREN! What an annoying kid...
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 7, 2008 8:39:22 GMT -5
I think the concept is kind of fun, depending on who's "directing".
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 7, 2008 12:59:08 GMT -5
^It's never fun if you're Andrew. All he ever gets to play is the bellboy or a pet monkey.
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Post by toshemeup on Dec 13, 2008 3:15:45 GMT -5
I think I figured out why the Pikes featured so heavily as the series went on. As the BSC added more and more members, it was probably harder to get all of them into the book. Babysit for the Pikes, that takes care of two sitters in one chapter. Everyone has a babysitting chapter without making the book any longer.
See, somedays my brain actually does some work! I just wish it was actual work, not theories about the BSC...
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Post by greer on Dec 13, 2008 20:07:09 GMT -5
does everyone have a sitting chapter in each book?
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Post by cokiemason on Dec 14, 2008 23:03:13 GMT -5
I didn't know they all did either... I guess it makes sense. you KNOW how busy those girls are!
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Post by Kylie90210 on Dec 14, 2008 23:31:04 GMT -5
I think they may have... your theory makes sense toshemeup!
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Post by toshemeup on Dec 15, 2008 6:11:38 GMT -5
The theory makes sense, but I'm not sure now that I can prove it. I just pulled a few books at random and not everyone has a sitting chapter, but each book I pulled didn't have the Pikes as a sitting chapter, either. I'm only seeing three sitting chapters on average. Oh, well... I still like the theory, every sitter has to be in the book in some way, sitting for the Pikes is still an easy way to have everyone be part of either the A or B plot.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 15, 2008 19:40:33 GMT -5
I hate the random sitting chapters, Pike or non-Pike. You can tell when a chapter is just thrown in there to give a sitter or two some book time. There are seven main characters. If someone doesn't fit into the storyline of a book it's not like anyone should miss them anyway. I think you're right about the Pikes because once the Barretts-DeWitts merged they were used a lot too.
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Post by featherearrings on Dec 18, 2008 12:04:31 GMT -5
I have to agree with the T-B family, but mostly because I never liked Karen and I liked Andrew even less. And Kristy usually sat for them and she was probably my least favorite sitter. I guess the Pikes were overused too, but I always liked them so those chapters weren't usually me wanting to put my head through a stone wall.
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