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[impy]

D1 Favourite sitter: Dawn
D2 Least favourite sitter: Kristy
D3 Favourite regular book: The Ghost At Dawn's House
D4 Least favourite regular book: Kristy's Worst Idea
D5 Favourite mystery: Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic
D6 Least favourite mystery: Jessi and the Jewel Thieves
D7 Favourite super special: Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation
D8 Least favourite super special: BSC in the USA
D9 Favourite minor character
  Okay, my answer for this could also be used as the answer for #11, so I'll go with the next person in line. As an adult I've come to appreciate Janine Kishi tremendously. But everyone's going to mention her. I'm not sure this is my actual second in command answer, because Janine is awesome, and who doesn't love Mimi or Frodo Pike?

But during my more recent readings, especially of the books I only read maybe once or never at all (the end of the series), I've actually come to really feel for Alan Gray. Given my brief foray into the Friends Forever series, I gather this was intentional. However it works just as well in the regular series. Alan has this weird sort of arc, if you can call it that. He's introduced as the goof every class has. But, like Winston over in SV, he's allowed to date the main characters so long as it's never anything serious. He has a thing for Kristy for awhile and movie Alan likes Dawn, and I want to say he went out with someone else before winding up with Claud in the FF series. Thing is, he starts out a bit annoying, but relatively three dimensional for a background character.

And then things go to hell pretty fast. Alan and Kristy feud in a way that in ANY other series would end with them dating. He's annoying and if Cokie isn't fucking with the BSC, and it ain't a mystery or Cary hasn't appeared yet, you know it's Alan. Hell, it's probably STILL Alan if the others are in the mix and if it isn't? Kristy sure as hell thinks it is.

But I guess as the series started to wind down, glimpses of the old Alan come through. Alan realizes that he's gone way too far in the past and that changing so that anyone notices he's changed is going to be damn near impossible. He's hurt when he's seen as nothing more than a joke, and an annoying one at that, and my big ol' softie heart feels bad for him. I swear, the one two punch of Stacey's Movie and the Stolen Hearts mystery is enough to make me want to smack someone into giving Alan a hug.

I like that Alan (and Pete) actually seem to realize they're in hell. They're forever 13, forever in middle school, and for Alan, he's going to forever be seen as a jackass because he's had like twenty years of being a thirteen year old boy and after the first couple, you really gotta think outside the box. Which results in no one really liking or trusting you.

And then he tries to change in a series that would never fully allow it. (And it didn't. He had to wait for a spin off that never really took off.)

So, Alan may not be my actual favorite minor character, but I find him way more interesting than I probably should or ever did as a kid.

D10 Least favourite minor character
D11 Favourite sitting charge
D12 Least favourite sitting charge
D13 Favourite parent
D14 Least favourite parent
D15 Favourite BSC fight
D16 Favourite BSC love interest
D17 Favourite BSC organised event
D18 Favourite vacation spot
D19 Favourite Holiday Book
D20 Favourite couple in the book
D21 Favourite couple not in the book (as in who you wanted to get together but didn't)
D22 BSC member or minor character you could see yourself being friends with
D23 Favourite Friends Forever
D24 Least Favourite Friends Forever
D25 Moments/Scene from the books that sticks out to you the most
D26 Favourite Claudia outfit
D27 Favorite Stacey outfit
D28 One thing you learned from the BSC
D29 Favourite BSC 'villain'
D30 Biggest 'that wouldn't really happen in real life' moment


It's cold. I need a shower and to put away the enchiladas. Yummers! But they were huge so I couldn't have more than one. Which is just as well because they taste even better reheated. ^___^

Comments

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

LJ keeps eating my replies! D: I hadn't read that one and when I was halfway through, LJ went down, down, down. Woe! But now I have something to read in a bit. Yays!

I... have no memory whatsoever of TV Alan. *blinks*

[luxken27]

It's also at FF.net, just in case LJ continues to flake: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6369978/13/