How you picture them in your head...

[Deleted]

Yeah, Watson does not=hot.

[sotypical42483]

I have never heard of anyone picturing Watson as hot until now. Dawn's dad? Sure. Watson? Hmm... isn't he balding? Maybe that's in my head... but he does seem old enough, I would put him at like 48 or so? Which is weird because Karen and Andrew are 6 (or 7) and 4. Now I'm confused.

[inge]

Yeah I never thought of that, he might actually be younger than Elizabeth... but I'm sure he is bolding

[sugarmonkey]

Yeah, I know it's strange, but I just ignore all descriptions and picture him as trim and fit with great hair. Looking younger than he really is.

[Amalia]

I had always pictured him to be old because he was an executive at the company, and I always imagined that it would have taken him quite a while to reach that position.

[sotypical42483]

^I always assumed he inherited his position from his dad or something. Or moved up very quickly because of family in the company.

[claudiascandystash]

^ same here. The fact that he grew up in the "big house" to me points that he is from money, so he likely didnt claw his way to the top.

I always pictured him as balding and paunchy- and completely unattractive. Likely because I am going off Kristy's descriptions, lol.

[hitzpink]

I never pictured Watson as the roly-poly type. I see him as tall and lanky, with thinning hair.

I agree with sotypical, I think the cover of Dawn on the Coast is one of the best depictions of Dawn and I picture her looking like that. Stacey is hard because I never know what exactly her hair looks like. I know she gets it permed, but I don't see her with those tight spiral curls that were popular in the 80s. Oh, I definitely picture Mallory like movie Mallory. I LOVED movie Mallory! She was so cute.

[Deleted]

I always pictured Watson kind of like hitzpink does... tall, lanky with thinning hair... also kind of nerdy with glasses and a shirt. For some reason I pictured Richard Spier in a similar way.

When I began reading the books I wasn't 100% sure what a perm would look like because it was the first I'd heard of it! On several of the UK covers Stacey was illustrated as a girl with shoulder length, wavy-ish blonde hair and a very pretty face- I imagined her with that face and longer, more curly hair. The annoying thing about the UK covers was the amount of different illustration styles that varied from book to book- they could look COMPLETELY different from one to the other, which kind of annoyed me at the time as I wanted to have as accurate an image of them as possible.

[sparklymouse]

Until recently I wasn't aware that they used actual models for the covers, but now I can see where they switch girls. Jessi is the most obvious to me. She started out looking way too old and darker skinned, then she had bad side bangs and a big nose (that model must have had a breathing problem because Jessi's always kinda sneering with her mouth open), and finally she looked younger and cuter with her hair always in a bun.

[starrynight]

I didn't know that they used models until I read one os those "letters from Ann" in the back of the new cover books, where she said that once Mary Anne got her hair cut, the girl who modeled as her was going to have to wear a wig. I can totally see that, because Mary Anne's hair looks like a cap in most of her covers beyond book 60, when she first gets it cut.

[Deleted]

I always pictured Watson as sort of an older, grey haired man with a sort of dignified air. Not hot exactly, but pretty good looking. I never really picture him roly-poly (I know he has heart problems late in the series, but I still just assumed he wasn't in great shape, not really that you could tell by looking at him), but sometimes I made him bald. usually though, I gave him grey hair.

[starrynight]

I always pictured Watson like he was described in the book: balding, glasses, probably medium height and not exactly fat, but not exactly skinny, either. It totally threw me off when I saw the BSC movie and they had some tall, thin guy with a full head of hair playing Watson.

[ktag]

starrynight said:

I didn't know that they used models until I read one os those "letters from Ann" in the back of the new cover books, where she said that once Mary Anne got her hair cut, the girl who modeled as her was going to have to wear a wig. I can totally see that, because Mary Anne's hair looks like a cap in most of her covers beyond book 60, when she first gets it cut.

I had no idea. So people actually had to do those lame poses? But the models must grow right? Did they switch models every year or just try to fake it? Or did they just get people who were done growing, hence them looking really old in some of the covers?

And is that why Stacey never had a perm and Dawn's hair wasn't lo-o-ong?

[sotypical42483]

Wait, what?! The girls on the picture of the books are real people?! All of them?! On all of the covers?! I'm so confused. They look like drawings of people... they can't be real people can they?

<<< there's no way that's a real little girl.