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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Jul 29, 2008 9:26:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I liked that too. ;D And even when she gave up on the television crew she STILL gave Mallory a dark look like it was her fault. I wish Claudia would have completely ignored Kristy's desperate attempts to get on her show. Or when Mallory first brought it up, Kristy's like "Great! The BSC can have our holiday party at your house! Think of the publicity!" And everyone else is like "........." I thought that was really rude of her to invite herself over and she thinks there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I loved the part when she was offering babysitting discounts to Mr. Henry - talk about desperation. I haven't read the WSTO one in awhile...how did Claudia cope with Kristy ruining her show like that?
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 29, 2008 20:26:29 GMT -5
Well, Kristy had a brilliant idea in the end, of course. If I remember correctly she scrapped her dumb play idea (which she auditioned with) and her and the Arnolds did a Jeopardy game that was popular with the listeners.
Claudia's reasoning behind keeping Kristy was that Kristy would never leave her alone until she did. Um, yeah. She's Kristy.
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Post by anzuhana on May 17, 2009 13:48:07 GMT -5
It would have to be Logan. He's sexist (IMO) and how he acted towards Mary Anne in the FF series made me dislike him in both series. Dawn is a close second, though (in the regular series).
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Post by zoar3 on May 17, 2009 14:59:01 GMT -5
Like others have said, most all the characters (like real people) have some less than ideal trait about them. Overall, my least favorite vote still goes too Dawn. Very early on, I found her character refreshing. Though I never cared for how she really did replace "Kristy" to Mary Anne in most books. I still wish we had seen more of K and MA's so-called best, best friendship. Back to Dawn, she seemed to tailor her views to suit herself. At heart, I don't think she really did care about animals rights. Her in your face message about not eating red meat (but it being okay to eat fish, chicken, turkey dogs--I guess those weren't 'real animals' to her:( along with her anti junk food sermons, got very old, very fast. As I've said before, not exactly the most positive or smartest way to share your opinion.
Abby, is my second least favorite. I agree with whoever said that by the time she came, she was simply so unecessary. Shannon should have simply taken Dawn's place or as I recently thought of didn't Gordon Brown and Barbara Hirsch two people who MA befriended have some baby-sitting experience? Perhaps they could have simply been extra associate members.
As a kid, I, too liked MA, but am now re-thinking that as well. Kristy is still my favorite overall.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 17, 2009 16:55:12 GMT -5
I was rereading Dawn and Too Many Sitters, and in the first chapter she's like "I am deeply committed to animal rights." No you're NOT, Dawn, when there's a past book (Disappearing Dogs) that emphasizes how you don't eat red meat because you don't like it, not because you care about the animals. I don't know why this sort of thing gets my blood pressure up. Maybe because in both instances she was so annoying. "You may laugh at me for my beliefs. Go right ahead, I don't care." "It's not that I hate animals. But you have to admit, some are kind of useless." Uggh.
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Post by zoar3 on May 17, 2009 17:08:37 GMT -5
Booboobrewer, that's it exactly! I believe I even said something similar in the thread "Dawn's Vegetarianism" a long while back.
As a young kid and even teen I did eat bacon (with scrambled eggs and in grilled cheeses) as well as McDonald's fish filets. I also never then claimed to be a vegetarian or that much into animal rights. I was much more into and involved in environmental rights though in retrospect imo, both are imminently connected. Anyway soon after entering college I realized that for me it was plain wrong to eat meat and now, years later, in my early 30's, I still no longer do so. It's one of my goals to one day be completely vegan.
As for Dawn, she's so caught up in flaunting and taunting that I doubt she even knows her true, core beliefs and the reasons for them!
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Post by Amalia on May 17, 2009 22:58:36 GMT -5
^ I know it seems as if the whole "being an individual" just means that if a group likes something then she likes the opposite. A lot of people go to dances; she goes "stag." A lot of people eat meat; she doesnt'. I just thought that it was simply a coping mechanism for her for dealing with the move to Connecticut.
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Post by zoar3 on May 17, 2009 23:35:26 GMT -5
I never thought of that, but quite possible, Amalia. Perhaps that's why she was so embittered at times about it. Her passionate beliefs seemed to make her more unhappy than happy! I think Sharon for whatever reasons truly was into health foods and limited meat. Jack, don't remember if he ate meat or not. Jeff, I think he fell into all three categories. (Health food, limited meat, but also junk food). His eating habits never defined him the way they did Dawn. Truly how she ate=her main description! Thrown in she loved ghosts and bingo you have Dawn Schafer. Well not quite but you guys get the idea.
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Post by Kylie90210 on May 20, 2009 21:41:12 GMT -5
I always got the feeling with Jeff it was more about the fact that that was how he was raised, then what he really wanted.
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Post by zoar3 on May 30, 2009 22:15:27 GMT -5
I just re-read Dawn and the Halloween Mystery yesterday. Near the beginning Dawn makes the crack (sorry for my sarcasm) about how it's okay with HER if Jeff eats candy on Halloween because he mainly eats healthy stuff. Toward the end of the book, she once again displays as m0drnmoonlight said on the last page of the "Things that annoyed you most about the girls" thread, 'her holier than thou attitude' by proclaiming that Jeff had managed to convince his health-food loving family to disband their principles for one day a year. I.e. Sharon and now Carol got honest to goodness chocolate for the trick or treaters! I'm shocked Dawn "allowed" the poison in her house. At least, lol, Dawn politely accepted her winning chocolate statue saying she'd send it to Claudia. Wish we could have have read about C's reaction to getting that in the mail in fact.
On a different Jeff note, in Snowbound, once his plane finally arrives, he regales his mom and Dawn with his adventures at the WA hotel. He mentions that for breakfast that morning he ate "hash browns, french fries, and toast!"
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Post by sugarandspicexx on Jun 3, 2009 4:20:50 GMT -5
I'd have to go with Abby, I guess. The only 2 books I've read with her in them are Kristy & Dirty Diapers and Dawn and too many sitters. So, I never really got to know her or warm to her too much. And she's sort of annoying until near the end of dirty diapers.
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Post by kleb on Oct 7, 2009 10:46:36 GMT -5
Shannon, I really disliked her in Shannon's Story. But She never seemed like she was nice enough.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 7, 2009 18:15:58 GMT -5
I probably responded a few times already, but I just noticed that I never actually voted. I voted for Stacey. She just bugs me so much in her later books. I don't like Jessi cause she's boring as hell, but she generally doesn't irritate me the way Stacey does.
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Post by dawnnjackiefan on Dec 26, 2010 23:23:40 GMT -5
Mine is Claudia. She's the one I have the least in common with. I think she's flaky, but not in a loveable way. I also can't stand her dumbness and how she insisits on spelling the words wrong and having bad grammer in the notebook entries. As someone said in one of the books, she's a little hard to get to know and I also think she's touchy. I never liked her.
I'll always love Kristy because like the girl on the videos says she makes me laugh because she's so bossy (I'm not THAT bossy!) and I love her crazy schemes for business and other things.
I think in the later books, probably from Stacey and the Cheerleaders onwords, Stacey became less loveable and sweet and more snobbish.
Dawn I relate to the most because I'm kind of a hippie and I also love reading about California, which I've never been (I'm from New York).
I don't like Logan, but thankfullt, we don't see him that much ;D!
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Post by wiggir13 on Apr 10, 2011 15:53:05 GMT -5
I voted for Abby just because I felt like her character was brought in at the end (like some tv shows bring in some new person) to save the series but I just never got to know her.
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