impy: Claudia and Stacey from The Baby-Sitters Club at the beach (just beachy)
impy ([personal profile] impy) wrote2020-01-13 01:46 am
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BSC blather.

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So, was anyone going to tell me that the graphic novels were making Logan Bruno decidedly not white or was I just supposed to stumble across that on the internet for myself?

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, you do you, boo. I am woefully behind on my graphic novels (and I'm currently pissed as fucking shit at Amazon for unrelated business) but it does kind of pose a problem.

Jessi's intro storyline leans heavily on the fact that Stoneybrook is shocked, shocked I say, that Jessi's family is black in their very, very white community. Logan not being white (to say nothing of the background characters there) kinda means this shouldn't be a thing... but it's also very much part of Jessi's story. So. Whatcha gonna do, books?



Finally, where the hell is my Netflix BSC show? I have been waiting impatiently for what feels like forever! Kristy Thomas would never keep me hanging like this. :P
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[personal profile] luxken27 2020-01-25 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
So my Unpopular Opinion is that they are making all of the love interests black so that they can leave out Jessi altogether. I was already mad that they brought on Mal so early, because Mal and Jessi were a unit in the OG canon, and the more I read the graphic novels, the more I started to fear that Jessi was just not going to be a Thing in GN world. Seeing first Toby, and now Logan, are black in the GNs only reinforces this fear.

But I can't say that very loud because I'm sure this opinion makes me some sort of racist.
Edited 2020-01-25 01:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] impy 2020-01-25 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Mal needs Jessi! Never have I related more to someone than I did when Mal was all "but who will be my BEST friend?" right before Jessi appears.

Also, who will dance to meetings?
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[personal profile] luxken27 2020-01-25 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It will be interesting to see if they still send Stacey back to NYC, especially since they are randomly skipping books. That's the only way they'd bring Jessi on board, I think, but even then, how are they gonna justify replacing a 13-year-old with an 11-year-old? The whole point of taking on the junior officers as a unit was that 2 sixth-graders were needed to replace 1 eighth-grader.
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