Post by BRONTE on May 24, 2024 22:44:20 GMT -5
It's a good thing in the long run that The Babysitters Club series is no more; Ann M Martin and her ghostwriters all have retired; and not a moment too soon. Regarding Dawn and Mary Anne as stepsisters more than friends, they could have done so much more with that, but instead they just missed so much that it wasn't funny; while simultaneously trying to do something that has never been done before in literature; it just fell flat with how much Mary Anne and Dawn were best friends and got along great when they were classmates, but once their single parents married and they moved into one house together; somehow, suddenly they hated each other without much explanation. So instead of getting something you're going to see maybe on Lifetime the reader ended up with something you're going to maybe see on an episode of COPS, because face facts, if Dawn hadn't moved back to Palo Alto when she did or the series continued the books longer it wouldn't be too long before Mary Anne and Dawn ended up getting violent with one another when the police have to be called. They also retired before the readers of the books realized how frequently they made all the female characters the bad guys and the mothers are written in a negative stereotype meanwhile the fathers are either next to perfect or completely absent and for their sake; I guess that's a good thing.
What we do know is that The Babysitters Club is now available in a TV series on Netflix and possibly LIFETIME if you're in New York, and then I guess that's it. It didn't get picked up again, so there's not much interaction unlike the books.
Sharon and Jack had a toxic relationship to be frank. It was Jack's fault too that the marriage failed, instead of outright admitting to the reader that he's having affairs, they just gloss over it and admit he'd been lying where he was going at night and staying out with friends......Why not just come out and say it, and once and for all, let a divorce be daddy's fault for the reader? Honestly, Jack Schafer could have been a drug addict, child molester, rapist, liar, thief, embezzler, serial killer/mass murderer who only kept Sharon, Jeff, and Dawn alive because those were his wife and kids and he developed a soft spot for them after he murdered everybody else's wife and kids and the pre-teens who are reading these books would still clamor that he's the better parent than Sharon and the better person than Sharon; just because he didn't force his kids to move. Okay, Whatever. Moving is a part of life, but whatever. Meanwhile, had they made both Mary Anne and Dawn more likable and enjoyable to read about; nobody would be all that upset about fictional people moving away; they'd understand that Sharon needed to move the kids to Stoneybrooke for Dawn to join The Babysitters Club and if Dawn is going to be Mary Anne's stepsister then she can't be married to Jack anymore she has to divorce him so that she's free to marry Richard Spier. That's the logic on how life goes. Meanwhile, we don't get any parental drama except what's glossed over by the writers back and forth, so that's a shame. That means we won't get the drama that Lifetime or Netflix offers on paperback; no drama back in forth. As long as you ignore the Super Special book, BSC In USA the only time in the whole series where Jack and Richard meet in person; there is no issues where Jack Schafer moves to Stoneybrook and heads to a divorce lawyer's offices to get custody laws for his kids in Stoneybrook and specifically asking for Richard Spier, and Richard has to pretend that he doesn't know who Jack is to the whole office; but he knows and he knows what Jack is doing; then on his smoke break with his secretary he admits to her, "I pretended I didn't know who he was or what he wanted but I did! I went to high school with his ex-wife, she was my prom date, my girlfriend for awhile long before she met him. She moved away for college and then moved back to Stoneybrook and we picked up our relationship again, this time I didn't let her get away, so I married her." The drama there really just writes itself doesn't it, the downside is that it's ending with Richard Spier committing suicide isn't it? Something tells me that he's just sensitive enough to do that; meanwhile, don't expect to see that happen on Netflix because they decided not to renew the series; better that be left to fanfiction drama, am I right? Talk about the path not taken!
What we do know is that The Babysitters Club is now available in a TV series on Netflix and possibly LIFETIME if you're in New York, and then I guess that's it. It didn't get picked up again, so there's not much interaction unlike the books.
Sharon and Jack had a toxic relationship to be frank. It was Jack's fault too that the marriage failed, instead of outright admitting to the reader that he's having affairs, they just gloss over it and admit he'd been lying where he was going at night and staying out with friends......Why not just come out and say it, and once and for all, let a divorce be daddy's fault for the reader? Honestly, Jack Schafer could have been a drug addict, child molester, rapist, liar, thief, embezzler, serial killer/mass murderer who only kept Sharon, Jeff, and Dawn alive because those were his wife and kids and he developed a soft spot for them after he murdered everybody else's wife and kids and the pre-teens who are reading these books would still clamor that he's the better parent than Sharon and the better person than Sharon; just because he didn't force his kids to move. Okay, Whatever. Moving is a part of life, but whatever. Meanwhile, had they made both Mary Anne and Dawn more likable and enjoyable to read about; nobody would be all that upset about fictional people moving away; they'd understand that Sharon needed to move the kids to Stoneybrooke for Dawn to join The Babysitters Club and if Dawn is going to be Mary Anne's stepsister then she can't be married to Jack anymore she has to divorce him so that she's free to marry Richard Spier. That's the logic on how life goes. Meanwhile, we don't get any parental drama except what's glossed over by the writers back and forth, so that's a shame. That means we won't get the drama that Lifetime or Netflix offers on paperback; no drama back in forth. As long as you ignore the Super Special book, BSC In USA the only time in the whole series where Jack and Richard meet in person; there is no issues where Jack Schafer moves to Stoneybrook and heads to a divorce lawyer's offices to get custody laws for his kids in Stoneybrook and specifically asking for Richard Spier, and Richard has to pretend that he doesn't know who Jack is to the whole office; but he knows and he knows what Jack is doing; then on his smoke break with his secretary he admits to her, "I pretended I didn't know who he was or what he wanted but I did! I went to high school with his ex-wife, she was my prom date, my girlfriend for awhile long before she met him. She moved away for college and then moved back to Stoneybrook and we picked up our relationship again, this time I didn't let her get away, so I married her." The drama there really just writes itself doesn't it, the downside is that it's ending with Richard Spier committing suicide isn't it? Something tells me that he's just sensitive enough to do that; meanwhile, don't expect to see that happen on Netflix because they decided not to renew the series; better that be left to fanfiction drama, am I right? Talk about the path not taken!