London Calling
Jan. 1st, 2003 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyIn my quest to read as much cheese as humanly possible, I frequently indulge in catching up with the Sweet Valley series. Particularly the high school and college [but not senior year so much] years. Moan, groan, and run screaming, but to me there's something comforting about the books. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that I've been reading them since I was in the fourth grade, and have fond memories of them, nor could it be the fact that for ages I swapped books with my friends. No, none of that. :p
Anyway, over the holidays I bought myself the first two books in the Elizabeth spinoff of the uni series. I don't know what I was expecting, but a little continuity might have been nice. You'd think after 4 and a half years of Charmed I would know better than to expect any continuity in anything. Ever. You'd think wrong.
But I digress.
The books revolve around the sensible twin [ha!], who has found her sister Jessica and her then boytoy Sam kissing. Since Lizzie was all ready to sleep with Sam [her first. aww.], she's triply pissed off. So she does what all good girls in a frantic panic do: She takes the car, ditches her sister and her now ex, and runs for the airport intent on flying to London for a semester abroad. Yeah, yeah. I can ignore the incredible leap of faith it requires for me to believe she'd actually leave the country because Jess tried to swipe her boytoy [like that's never happened before...] on the basis that when you're all ready to sleep with someone [and it's a big deal for you], your emotions are all out of whack and you can be pretty psychotic. I can accept that.
It's what happens once she gets to London. She's completely overwhelmed and apparently in this universe, she's never been to London, despite the fact that in HS, she went to London with her darling twin and chaos ensued. She's been to France in the same series. But with the references to her job in the Senior Year books, I assume they're trying to synch up that reality with this one. Alrighty...
So Liz is overwhelmed by how huge London is. Sure, I can see that. Yet she acts like she's never been to a huge city before. This is, btw, the straw that broke my ability to leave my disbelief at the door. In the same series [SVU] she went to New York City. Pretty much on her own. Having never been to London, I can't say how much the two have in common, but I can say that they both have language barriers going for them. As a tourist in NY, you'll be hard pressed to find someone you can understand, either due to thick accents or perhaps their inability to speak English. Which is no problem for them since everything and it's sibling is in approximately 400 other languages as well. :p
The point is, she shouldn't have acted like she was some tiny little country mouse lost in the big city.
I could have accepted all the continuity flubs if the writer was new. But they're not. It's the same person who wrote the entire SVU series, or is at least credited with having done so.
Grr. Argh.
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So yes, I assume that was extremely boring for anyone who isn't me. But, these things happen. Next I'll bitch about VC Andrews and the ghost writer who has apparently run out of steam and needs a better editor. *coughHudsonseriescough*
Anyway, over the holidays I bought myself the first two books in the Elizabeth spinoff of the uni series. I don't know what I was expecting, but a little continuity might have been nice. You'd think after 4 and a half years of Charmed I would know better than to expect any continuity in anything. Ever. You'd think wrong.
But I digress.
The books revolve around the sensible twin [ha!], who has found her sister Jessica and her then boytoy Sam kissing. Since Lizzie was all ready to sleep with Sam [her first. aww.], she's triply pissed off. So she does what all good girls in a frantic panic do: She takes the car, ditches her sister and her now ex, and runs for the airport intent on flying to London for a semester abroad. Yeah, yeah. I can ignore the incredible leap of faith it requires for me to believe she'd actually leave the country because Jess tried to swipe her boytoy [like that's never happened before...] on the basis that when you're all ready to sleep with someone [and it's a big deal for you], your emotions are all out of whack and you can be pretty psychotic. I can accept that.
It's what happens once she gets to London. She's completely overwhelmed and apparently in this universe, she's never been to London, despite the fact that in HS, she went to London with her darling twin and chaos ensued. She's been to France in the same series. But with the references to her job in the Senior Year books, I assume they're trying to synch up that reality with this one. Alrighty...
So Liz is overwhelmed by how huge London is. Sure, I can see that. Yet she acts like she's never been to a huge city before. This is, btw, the straw that broke my ability to leave my disbelief at the door. In the same series [SVU] she went to New York City. Pretty much on her own. Having never been to London, I can't say how much the two have in common, but I can say that they both have language barriers going for them. As a tourist in NY, you'll be hard pressed to find someone you can understand, either due to thick accents or perhaps their inability to speak English. Which is no problem for them since everything and it's sibling is in approximately 400 other languages as well. :p
The point is, she shouldn't have acted like she was some tiny little country mouse lost in the big city.
I could have accepted all the continuity flubs if the writer was new. But they're not. It's the same person who wrote the entire SVU series, or is at least credited with having done so.
Grr. Argh.
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So yes, I assume that was extremely boring for anyone who isn't me. But, these things happen. Next I'll bitch about VC Andrews and the ghost writer who has apparently run out of steam and needs a better editor. *coughHudsonseriescough*
