livvy
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Post by livvy on Jul 6, 2020 12:23:49 GMT -5
Unlike the original tv show we get to see the parents of the BSC. They're more involved. Who's your favourite ? I'm liking hippy Sharon Porter way better than book Sharon! And I also have a soft spot for TV Richard. He's pretty sweet to the girls.
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Post by secondhandshoes on Jul 6, 2020 12:44:36 GMT -5
Maybe it’s because the parents are suddenly my peers, but I loved most of them and that they played a bigger role in the series. I love how human they are. In the books and the original tv series, they just kind of existed because Ann M. Martin figured that the girls needed parents and it wouldn’t appeal to kids to read about them. They were more nuanced and I understood their motivations more...which could be chalked up to great writing or my own old age.
I loved Elizabeth and how she wasn’t as perfect as she was in the books, original series, and movie. She definitely has flaws and goes toe to toe with Kristy and sometimes lets her get the best of her, just like real parents do. She was also a little judgmental in regards to Richard and Sharon, which is also a very human quality that we wouldn’t have seen in the book series.
I found myself oddly rooting for Richard Spier and kind of loving him, which is weird because as a kid his character reminded me so much of my own overprotective father (does that mean I have daddy issues?!). I think Marc Evan Jackson brings some humor and softness that wasn’t there in the book, along with the writers kind of showing us there’s more to Richie.
Watson was also a bright spot. I didn’t mind him in the books but I could take him or leave him. I liked TV Watson’s determination to make Kristy like him.
This is long, but I just really liked the parents. It was nice to see them as characters and they interacted with each other, and the other girls nicely.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Jul 6, 2020 16:03:55 GMT -5
I think Netflix was smart to give the parents a storyline. The series might appeal to kids, but they know a large portion of people tuning in will be middle aged women for the nostalgia. Casting Alcia Silverstone was smart too, though I didn't recognize her right away and then I was a bit upset about my own old age, lol. Marc Evan Jackson is always welcome on my screen as well. He's a great pick for Richard!
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 6, 2020 21:25:24 GMT -5
I didn't think Alicia Silverstone added anything. If anything it was a distraction because she is literally the only actor in this who I am familiar with. I liked that Elizabeth (Liz? I don't think so.) seemed to know/have a social network with a lot of the town.
I thought Claudia's parents (her mom in particular) were a lot more modern and casual than I pictured. Sometimes when reading the books I felt like no one in the Kishi house ever cracked a smile.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 6, 2020 22:50:53 GMT -5
I think I was more invested in the parents arc lol. I love that we see more with Sharon and Richard. I really wish that we had Dawn and Mary Anne finding the yearbooks on screen rather then them being mentioned.
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livvy
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Post by livvy on Jul 7, 2020 4:51:44 GMT -5
I didn't think Alicia Silverstone added anything. If anything it was a distraction because she is literally the only actor in this who I am familiar with. I liked that Elizabeth (Liz? I don't think so.) seemed to know/have a social network with a lot of the town. I thought Claudia's parents (her mom in particular) were a lot more modern and casual than I pictured. Sometimes when reading the books I felt like no one in the Kishi house ever cracked a smile. Thanks for calling me middle aged . |
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 7, 2020 8:36:01 GMT -5
I didn't think Alicia Silverstone added anything. If anything it was a distraction because she is literally the only actor in this who I am familiar with. I liked that Elizabeth (Liz? I don't think so.) seemed to know/have a social network with a lot of the town. I thought Claudia's parents (her mom in particular) were a lot more modern and casual than I pictured. Sometimes when reading the books I felt like no one in the Kishi house ever cracked a smile. Thanks for calling me middle aged . Sorry, I don’t know what you mean. |
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 11, 2020 0:07:22 GMT -5
^it was Penny Lane’s post Livvy was referring to. Btw, hi Penny Lane!
Watson is really throwing me off because he seems younger and more active than book Watson. When I think of Watson I think of a man sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper and going antiquing on the weekends.
I am also throw watching Alicia because I identify her so much with my childhood—watching her in Clueless—which came out the same year as the BSC movie.
Richard is creeping me out with his booming voice and sitting in the dark, lol.
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jessi82
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Post by jessi82 on Jul 14, 2020 3:50:25 GMT -5
The parents seem so young compared to how I imagined. I alway picture John Kishi for example as the 'Grumpy old Asian Man' who is in all the Facebook memes and Watson always reminded me of Alf from 5he Australian soap home and away so it was strange seeing him as a youngish man. Then I could just be old.
Richard is also drawn in a more sympathetic light. I remember not liking him in the series but in the books I don't mind him. I also have a feeling that in Keep Out Claudia Richard will know Mrs Lowell maybe through work. They aren't friends and don't know about each other's personal lives. After the BSC discover she is racist and feel helpless Mrs Lowell will see Richard with Mary Anne and behave like Mrs Lowell and Richard sees what it is and calls her out
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