Post by BRONTE on May 24, 2024 23:36:10 GMT -5
I wonder how much of The Babysitters Club the ghostwriters were allowed to change? I'm not talking about Mary Anne's Makeover here; nor am I talking about introducing a new character or teacher. I'm talking about a more permanent edition from story to story. I guess we'll never know. I admit, that kind of sucks, but it's a better mystery than anything that they ever cooked up. Learn something new everyday with me. Instead of random continuity issues, what if one of the ghostwriters wanted to change someone the reader was familiar with and completely discontinue them through killing me off, do they just write them out do they have to go through Ann first, or not?
If you read The Babysitters Club, you might actually think that death is just meant for Mary Anne's mother Alma and Claudia's grandmother Mimi. No way can death happen to anyone else at any other time right? Imagine if one of the ghostwriters wanted to write out an established character for a death; say for instance, they wanted Jack Schafer to die in Palo Alto California, and with the death of Dawn's father, now Dawn and Mary Anne connect on a deeper level as they grieve; ['Hey grief has no expiration date/Mary Anne may have been a baby when Alma died that doesn't mean she isn't allowed to grief her at 13 years old, and I always found it disrespectful how quick they were to introduce Mary Anne's mother as dead before we learn her father raised her alone, before we read anything about her; like they couldn't wait to tell us her mother died when she was a baby and she never got one day with her, and never once bothered to ask anything about her until the mystery book Mary Anne And The Secret In The Attic: Seriously? That's just bad writing; sexist and mean too.'] But I digress. Since Jack Schafer isn't a main character and he isn't a member of The Babysitters Club either; I chose him to be on the slab, so how would he die, he could die of a fall, murdered, drug overdose, heart attack, stroke, in a car accident, some kind of suicide, hell, they could even give him a hero's death if they wanted like he saves a gaggle of kids from certain danger but loses his life in the process; take it or leave it, the list goes on just pick a way for him to die, pick one! Then it has to be enforced, give him a funeral, bury him or cremate him meanwhile, every book after the one where he dies if it has to mention him, talk about him in the past tense instead of the present tense, make it stick.
Can the ghostwriters just make a radical change like that to the series or do they have to go through Ann M Martin first?
If you read The Babysitters Club, you might actually think that death is just meant for Mary Anne's mother Alma and Claudia's grandmother Mimi. No way can death happen to anyone else at any other time right? Imagine if one of the ghostwriters wanted to write out an established character for a death; say for instance, they wanted Jack Schafer to die in Palo Alto California, and with the death of Dawn's father, now Dawn and Mary Anne connect on a deeper level as they grieve; ['Hey grief has no expiration date/Mary Anne may have been a baby when Alma died that doesn't mean she isn't allowed to grief her at 13 years old, and I always found it disrespectful how quick they were to introduce Mary Anne's mother as dead before we learn her father raised her alone, before we read anything about her; like they couldn't wait to tell us her mother died when she was a baby and she never got one day with her, and never once bothered to ask anything about her until the mystery book Mary Anne And The Secret In The Attic: Seriously? That's just bad writing; sexist and mean too.'] But I digress. Since Jack Schafer isn't a main character and he isn't a member of The Babysitters Club either; I chose him to be on the slab, so how would he die, he could die of a fall, murdered, drug overdose, heart attack, stroke, in a car accident, some kind of suicide, hell, they could even give him a hero's death if they wanted like he saves a gaggle of kids from certain danger but loses his life in the process; take it or leave it, the list goes on just pick a way for him to die, pick one! Then it has to be enforced, give him a funeral, bury him or cremate him meanwhile, every book after the one where he dies if it has to mention him, talk about him in the past tense instead of the present tense, make it stick.
Can the ghostwriters just make a radical change like that to the series or do they have to go through Ann M Martin first?
