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Post by lovelylemontree on May 29, 2006 16:21:48 GMT -5
The Complete Guide To The BSC has her listed as "early-sixties". You'd think the ghostwriters would each have an enormous binder with detailed information of every character ever mentioned. At least then they'd be able to avoid such stupid little mistakes.
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Post by macca on May 29, 2006 19:31:42 GMT -5
^ also, if Granny is only in her fifties and Dawn's mother is 42 (ref: MA Saves the Day)... well, you do the math! Those things don't happen in BSC Land!
Early sixties is much more realistic.
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Post by starrynight on May 30, 2006 16:33:26 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, I have so many of these! Let's see how many I can remember: - Squirt's favorite toy was both a red plastic fish and a blue plastic fish - Kristy mentioned her father moving to CA and getting remarried in "Kristy's Great Idea," but then he goes and gets married again in "Kristy's Big News." I guess he COULD be on his third marriage, but I'm guessing not. - Mary Anne has, at different times, said she barely remembers her mother or doesn't remember her at all. Also, in "MA Saves the Day," she says her mother has been dead for almost 11 years. Since Mary Anne was 12 at that point, her mother would have died after her 1st birthday. Well, in "MA and the Secret in the Attic," it says that she spent her first birthday with her grandparents in Iowa. Something's off.... -Speaking of Mary Anne's grandparents, she was also sent to live with them in Nebraska as well as Iowa. I think I remember reading that it "Abby's Twin," but I could be wrong.
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Post by ktag on May 30, 2006 17:33:19 GMT -5
I wondered about that too, but they explained it away in Kristy's Portrait. He and his "California wife" had split up. So, yes, he did marry three times. It's a wonder he could keep finding women to take him.
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Post by macca on May 30, 2006 18:37:28 GMT -5
He obviously had some charm... after all, Elizabeth kept popping out his kids with reckless abandon!
Another inconsistency - I'm currently reading Everything Changes, the first of the Friends' Forever series and Claudia claims she's "never been stuck on an island before"... uh, what about Super Special #4???
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Post by ktag on May 30, 2006 21:30:19 GMT -5
Too bad Claudia doesn't remember it, it was such a learning experience for her. Gabbie Perkins learned what a mural was in #26, but had to be told again in #35. Guess she's not perfect after all!
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Post by macca on May 30, 2006 22:18:04 GMT -5
In a couple of books, it's mentioned that Mallory and Jessi are only allowed to wear "small gold balls or tiny gold hoops" despite the fact that in Mallory and the Trouble with Twins, one of Mrs Pikes' conditions for Mallory being allowed to get her ears pierced was that she didn't stick to tiny gold balls and hoops, because after all "what's the fun in having pierced ears if you can't wear snake fangs from time to time"...
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Post by starrynight on Jun 1, 2006 12:23:15 GMT -5
Jessi and Mary Anne both have reading glasses sometimes, and others they don't. It was mentioned at one point that Mary Anne got contacts to replace the glasses, but seriously...does anyone actually DO that? You'd spend ages taking them in and out every time you needed to read something. Also, Mallory's hair color changes from chesnut brown, to reddish brown, to flaming red in various books, and there's always the ever popular mistake from #30 and #31....Dawn gives Mary Anne a "now we're sisters" present at the end of #30, but in #31 it was Mary Anne who had given the gift and Dawn was trying to save up for one.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jun 1, 2006 13:53:56 GMT -5
Jessi and Mary Anne both have reading glasses sometimes, and others they don't. It was mentioned at one point that Mary Anne got contacts to replace the glasses, but seriously...does anyone actually DO that? You'd spend ages taking them in and out every time you needed to read something. Ha, I just made a comment about that on the BSC LJ.
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Post by ktag on Jun 1, 2006 16:06:44 GMT -5
She actually got contacts? Wow, Mallory must be burning with envy. They barely ever even mention Mary Anne with glasses, so I don't know why she would need contacts. I have no idea whether people actually use reading contacts. Most people I know are nearsighted.
Just a little thing, but in Dawn & the Older Boy, Mary Anne says she read about the play from Jessi and Kristy, but it should have been Jessi and Dawn.
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Post by starrynight on Jun 1, 2006 16:17:50 GMT -5
Jessi's name is occasionally spelled "Jessie," but that might just be a typo.
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2006 19:13:15 GMT -5
Jessi only had those in the beginning of the series, when she was also going to get braces. Then they obviously decided to make Mallory the sole awkward "ugly duckling".
I've noticed that too, but I'm sure it's a typo. Just like how occasionally they refer to something Dawn said... in Dawn's book. Funny that they refer to themselves in the third person! ;D
That was incredibly stupid, because both books were (apparently) written by Ann. Can't she remember one book to the next?
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Post by ktag on Jun 3, 2006 3:02:20 GMT -5
So Dawn's really generous and Mary Anne's a b*tch? ;D
Sometimes Claudia has Nancy Drews lined on her bookshelf, but usually she has to hide them? I would guess maybe she has a few out that her parents know about and just hides all her new ones, but then Janine makes a comment about knowing about the books once, so that means Claudia officially shouldn't have any?
Jessi doesn't want to dance professionally, but Jessi hopes to be a professional dancer some day. Why can't they even keep track of this simple chapter two stuff?
Dawn calls Charlie "Sam" in #31.
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Post by macca on Jun 3, 2006 6:16:20 GMT -5
In the early books, Jessi seemed to be a somewhat talented ballet dancer who enjoyed going to classes, but who's life didn't revolve around dancing. They always made a point of saying that Jessi doesn't want to dance professionally. Then, as the books progressed, Jessi became a passionately dedicated ballerina who dreamed of nothing more than a career on the stage.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jun 3, 2006 11:04:06 GMT -5
In Kristy's Great Idea, they mention the Pike's cat, Sarge. We never see Sarge at the Pikes' in any books. In Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter, Mallory says that they've never had a pet. In at least one later book, it is mentioned that the Pikes used to have a cat. I guess some ghostwriter or somebody remembered Sarge from #1, but that still doesn't jive with Mallory saying in #22 that they had no pets before Frodo.
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