Dawn's California friends

[liss31d]

When I read BSC books with Dawn's California friends in it like Dawn on the Coast, California Girls, Dawn and the We Love Kids Club, Dawn and Whitney, etc... it makes me feel kinda uncomfortable and sad because I know what's going to happen to them in the California Diaries. Even Dawn, who in her first book said that she didn't miss Mary Anne and the others and is not into babysitting anymore... didn't anyone else feel like this reading BSC books after CD books?

[sotypical42483]

I haven't read any of the CD series yet, unfortunately, so the only exposure to Dawn's CA friends I've had is through the FF series (just read Welcome Home, Mary Anne, which features a lot of Sunny) and the regular series. I really did like Sunny in the FF book, though.

Dawn really said she didn't miss MA? How sad!

[macca]

sotypical42483 said:

Dawn really said she didn't miss MA? How sad!

And how totally un-BSC...

I tend to look at the Cali Diaries books as completely seperate from the traditional BSC. Yeah, I know they're technically the same characters and all, but there's no resemblence to their original place in the series at all.

[liss31d]

I find the idea of putting BSC members into the California Diaries pretty amusing as I couldn't imagine them in those situations. I mean imagine Mallory at Mrs Krueger's party... v odd situation ;D! I know they're different books from the BSC, but it's still sad reading the BSC series when Mrs Winslow is mentioned when you know what her fate will be... also that they'll ditch Jill completely for not being "mature" enough (which is amusing considering Dawn's behaviour in Stacey vs. the BSC), and the horrible problems Maggie and Sunny will face when they seem so carefree in the BSC with their We Love Kids Club and health foods... also the strange fact that Dawn seems to have no resentment towards Richard but a great amount of resentment towards Carol. Wonder why that is.... She didn't want them to have a baby and yet in Mary Anne and Too Many Babies, she was desperate for one.

But then Dawn did go a tad psychotic in CD, saying she didn't miss her old friends (despite the fact that they threw about a million parties for her, bought her health food, took her on a million trips abroad with them, but nah none of that matters to "wholesome" Dawn :, moaning about her Mum being on the other side of the country (well you chose to leave her Dawn : and being whiney in general. Then Jeff who was all desperate for Dawn to live with them says he wishes he was an only child... the Schafers can be a tad hard to please with their selfish ways (yes Sharon taking your kids across the country in the middle of the school year away from their father is such a selfless move :

[ktag]

I've never read the CDs, and I'm not sure I want to. Are the situations just darker, or would you say they're actually out of character?

[macca]

also that they'll ditch Jill completely for not being "mature" enough (which is amusing considering Dawn's behaviour in Stacey vs. the BSC),

I never understood that. Why not have Jill diaries instead of Amalia diaries or even Ducky diaries? Is it normal for 16 yr old boys to have only 13 yr old girls as friends?

Had to laugh, though, when in one of the books - I think it was Dawn Diary 1 or Sunny Diary 1 they were snickering at Jill's sparkly unicorn sweatshirt. Mallory would've thought it was SO dibble and her parents wouldn't have let her wear it ;D

and the horrible problems Maggie and Sunny will face when they seem so carefree in the BSC with their We Love Kids Club and health foods

Yeah, I have to admit it was sad when one of the girls brushed off the WLKC, claiming it had been "defunct for months now"

But then Dawn did go a tad psychotic in CD, saying she didn't miss her old friends

I think it was just so the BSC didn't play much of a role in the Cali Diaries. I think they wanted them totally seperate but figured they'd better make at least ONE reference to Dawn's Stoneybrook past.

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I loved the California diaries although some part of it shocked me. Like right, dawn said she doesn't miss Mary anne.

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You know, now that I think about it, I never actually associated CD Dawn with BSC Dawn- the two series, and the characters were completely separate in my mind. I guess it is depressing thinking of how everything's going to end up, and how it used to be, so it's just more pleasant to me to keep them separate from one another.

I enjoyed both of the series for different reasons. California Diaries really appealed to my young teenage self just as I was starting to grow out of the BSC... d**n, I only ever got my hands on two of them, I'd love to see what happened throughout the rest of the series!

[macca]

^ I've got about nine of them, but I really really REALLY want the books I'm missing. They're so impossible to find, though

[claudiascandystash]

I have all but the last one....and it drives me insane, lol.

Believe it or not, I actually found 2 of them in a used bookstore in Tazmania of all places, while at a conference last year. How random was that?

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I never read CD, but they seem so dark! Is something bad happening in them? To Dawn? Does her dad and Carol have a baby? I don't mind spoilers, so if someone wants to give me a bit of a resume of those book, I would appreciate. Thank you

[otempora541]

I read the CD along with the BSC, so I agree with everyone who is sad reading like that, because you know what's going to happen.

Random question- book 23 makes it seem like Dawn was never friends with Jill and Maggie before the WLKC, and yet the portrait has her playing with the girls and talking to, before Sunny was ever in town. WTH?

[greer]

That's always bothered me too. Ghostwriter error, like always. They should have hired fans as continuity editors.

[Penny Lane]

Oct 22, 2006 20:37:23 GMT -5 macca said:

also that they'll ditch Jill completely for not being "mature" enough (which is amusing considering Dawn's behaviour in Stacey vs. the BSC),

I never understood that. Why not have Jill diaries instead of Amalia diaries or even Ducky diaries? Is it normal for 16 yr old boys to have only 13 yr old girls as friends?

Had to laugh, though, when in one of the books - I think it was Dawn Diary 1 or Sunny Diary 1 they were snickering at Jill's sparkly unicorn sweatshirt. Mallory would've thought it was SO dibble and her parents wouldn't have let her wear it ;D



Yeah, I have to admit it was sad when one of the girls brushed off the WLKC, claiming it had been "defunct for months now"

But then Dawn did go a tad psychotic in CD, saying she didn't miss her old friends

I think it was just so the BSC didn't play much of a role in the Cali Diaries. I think they wanted them totally seperate but figured they'd better make at least ONE reference to Dawn's Stoneybrook past.

I don't think it's that unusual that someone who is on the other side of the country wouldn't miss their friends as much as they expected, or really at all. There is usually a period of adjustment, but then it's like "oh, out of sight, out of mind" There are calls and such, but people move on and grow.

I thought it was hilarious how Dawn was all offended by the sparkly sweatshirt, even though she had no problems wearing a Disney shirt in public in Stacey and the Bad Girls.

[greer]

^Wasn't that MA or Kristy who wore a Mickey Mouse shirt, not Dawn?

I agree with your assessment of how much people miss others when they move. I look forward to being able to hang out with them again, but usually I am pretty focused on my new life and new friends.