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Post by zoar3 on Oct 19, 2010 13:19:20 GMT -5
I know it's been mentioned many times how it wasn't the best of choices both Sharon was to allow Dawn to use those 100 watt light bulbs as was Dawn to use them to begin with. But why in the universe would Sharon not only buy such an old, falling apart house that was at least as Dawn said in ened of many repairs, but NOT have a home inspection done first?! The whole fire would never have happened and most likely neither would either of them living there in the first place.
Mary Anne was sure mean to Dawn. I never really took in MA's comment of "I don't know" as an answer to Dawn's question if the two of them will be eating lunch together the next day. I take that to mean had the fight ended, MA would have washed her hands of Dawn. Now, most of you know what I think of Dawn a lot of the time. However rude is rude that MA really was.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 19, 2010 17:24:25 GMT -5
I've mentioned in a different thread that I thought Sharon made an irresponsible purchase with the farm house. I have to sympathize with Dawn though. I hate dimly lit rooms too.
Dawn was 100% the pursuer of the Dawn/Mary Anne friendship. Mary Anne would have sat alone like a personality-free bump on a log until the end of time if she hadn't made up with K/C/S.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 19, 2010 19:39:25 GMT -5
^Sharon really did. It also made know sense why she was even interested in such a house. It's not like Sharon was into home construction or enjoyed (that we know of) being handy around the house. Maybe it was another "scatterbrained" choice? I don't care for darkish places either.
Good point. After all MA did say that she had never made a friend entirely on her own.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 8, 2010 19:22:31 GMT -5
I felt bad for Mary Anne when she sat by herself at lunch but I liked reading about how she and Dawn became friends. I liked reading about Mary Anne drinking tea with Mimi while they talked about whether or not Mary Anne is mature and how she could convince her dad that she is mature.
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Post by candykane on Nov 9, 2010 11:43:32 GMT -5
Dawn was 100% the pursuer of the Dawn/Mary Anne friendship. Mary Anne would have sat alone like a personality-free bump on a log until the end of time if she hadn't made up with K/C/S. Haha, you're probably right. "Personality-free" made me LOL. On an unrelated note, I always thought it was funny how Mr. P thought Mary Anne's name was Mary Lou. Mary Anne probably would have been too afraid to speak up and correct him if Jenny hadn't done it herself. |
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 9, 2010 14:25:57 GMT -5
I wonder how long the "fight" would have lasted if Dawn had not come into the picture? Something that I always have thought about was if Dawn had not been a character and so conveniently available when MA "needed her help most" with Jenny P, would MA have called either K, C, or S? I wish we had gotten to find out. I'd hope MA and whoever she called would have been grown up enough to put aside their "fight" to help one another, but you never know.
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 9, 2010 20:08:45 GMT -5
I wonder how long the "fight" would have lasted if Dawn had not come into the picture? And the opposite--if the fight had never happened, I wonder if any of them would have befriended Dawn? Who would she have hung out with if not for the club, etc. Interesting... |
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 9, 2010 23:53:36 GMT -5
^Talk about interesting, BooBoo, good question. I wonder if Dawn might have latched onto one classmate the way Mal did Jessi or if she might have seen some of the BSC girls baby-sitting next door for Jenny and eventually had struck up a convo with them (maybe eventually joining the BSC)? Lol, if the latter, every time Mrs. P called afterwards, the narrator would have to stop and say the "one positive thing about the P's is that they helped make Dawn a club member."  I also wonder if the Shillabers. C/S's lunch group, along with other secondary characters would have been more prominent had the fight gone on. |
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 10, 2010 18:47:33 GMT -5
I pictured Dawn gravitating towards the co-ed Claudia/Stacey table eventually even without the BSC connection. She could have been a few notches cooler if she hadn't met Mary Anne. I used to think it would have been funny if Dawn was a Cokie Mason type who Mary Anne hated, but Richard and Sharon still got together.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 11, 2010 11:54:18 GMT -5
^Or if neither Dawn nor Mary Anne knew the other until one day at the supermarket or mall, Sharon and Richard ran into one another.
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Post by candykane on Nov 11, 2010 13:24:43 GMT -5
^Or if neither Dawn nor Mary Anne knew the other until one day at the supermarket or mall, Sharon and Richard ran into one another. That would have been interesting, too. In a small town like that it probably wouldn't be too long until they ran into one another. I wonder how MA and Dawn's friendship would have evolved then? |
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 11, 2010 20:58:35 GMT -5
^I would have loved to read about a more spur of the moment (public place) reaction from Richard and Sharon upon randomly meeting. Or, if Mary Anne and Dawn had realized each other's last names earlier. Even if Dawn had introduced MA to Sharon the first time by saying "Mom, this is my friend MAS." (Dawn just said MA). Richard only knew Dawn as "Dawn."
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 8, 2011 12:34:52 GMT -5
Has anyone else noticed how Mary Anne narrates a lot of books where the BSC fights?
(Mary Anne Saves the Day, Mary Anne's Makeover, Mary Anne and the Playground Fight, Mary Anne in the Middle)
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 8, 2011 16:19:50 GMT -5
Maybe because she's supposed to be the sensitive mediator of the group...
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 9, 2011 18:38:18 GMT -5
I have pretty "spiritual sensibilities", and the more I think about it, the more I feel how "fated" the way Mary Anne and Dawn originally met was. Mary Anne was at a low; on the outs with her best-friends and all of a sudden Dawn shows up! They had never seen each other before and "coincidently", Dawn moved to Stoneybrook a few days prior (I don't really believe in coincidences, I would rather use the term synchronicity).
Dawn becomes Mary Anne's crutch and a new friendship develops. Interestingly enough, had the BSC not been in a fight, I don't think Mary Anne and Dawn would have become AS GOOD of friends. I think the fight was essential in order to develop the plot the way it developed.
Also, I think the fight was RIDICULOUS -- but what else is new in BSC fight land?!
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