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Cuckoo for coco puffs
Nov. 17th, 2008 03:42 am...I just figured out what NaNo for this year should have been. For me, anyway. SVH from the non-Wakefield perspective. But Impy, they did that shit Senior Year! To which I say:
Dude, SY does not count.
SY does not count because to really, truly be part of the Valley, we need more than the fastest/worst alcoholic recovery of all time.
We need evil doppelgangers, mildly annoying doppelgangers of dead girlfriends who Died Tragically, at least two occasions where a gun is presented as more than a fashion accessory but doesn't actually do anything other than shoot a B list character or Steven Wakefield, psychos falling in love with one or both of the Wakefield twins, the Droids, Todd and Liz doing the "are we/aren't we dance", Jessica forgoing the obvious evil plan for something incredibly stupid and failing in her plan, but ultimately reaching her goal, D-list characters getting thrown under the bus in a possibly literal situation depending on the level of psychosis at the time...
We need the pool push, the Todd punch, the complete and utter disregard for continuity as a whole, Lila being Lila, vampires, and at least one run in with either a ghost/werewolf/or some other creature that Should Not Exist. We need brushes with the law that prove that the SVPD couldn't catch a killer if the killer ran straight to the police station, drenched in the victim's blood, had video tape of the crime being committed and confessed right then and there, just to walk two feet out of the police station and wait for them in the road... right after they announced this brilliant plan. We need someone to do a drug of any persuasion, have a really bad reaction, and hopefully DIE or horribly disfigure a small child or something.
If you do not have the above, you, my friend, do not have Sweet Valley.
SY does not count because to really, truly be part of the Valley, we need more than the fastest/worst alcoholic recovery of all time.
We need evil doppelgangers, mildly annoying doppelgangers of dead girlfriends who Died Tragically, at least two occasions where a gun is presented as more than a fashion accessory but doesn't actually do anything other than shoot a B list character or Steven Wakefield, psychos falling in love with one or both of the Wakefield twins, the Droids, Todd and Liz doing the "are we/aren't we dance", Jessica forgoing the obvious evil plan for something incredibly stupid and failing in her plan, but ultimately reaching her goal, D-list characters getting thrown under the bus in a possibly literal situation depending on the level of psychosis at the time...
We need the pool push, the Todd punch, the complete and utter disregard for continuity as a whole, Lila being Lila, vampires, and at least one run in with either a ghost/werewolf/or some other creature that Should Not Exist. We need brushes with the law that prove that the SVPD couldn't catch a killer if the killer ran straight to the police station, drenched in the victim's blood, had video tape of the crime being committed and confessed right then and there, just to walk two feet out of the police station and wait for them in the road... right after they announced this brilliant plan. We need someone to do a drug of any persuasion, have a really bad reaction, and hopefully DIE or horribly disfigure a small child or something.
If you do not have the above, you, my friend, do not have Sweet Valley.
