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daniellafromage in 1bruce1

SVH Super Stars: Enid's Story

Oct 23, 2007 18:41

Check it out: Sweet Valley Primary School! Would you be willing to move to South Africa in order to send your child there? Apparently the school's motto is "ad perfectum", and even though I know how it translates, I can't help but feel that it's the sort of motto that the Sweet Valley ghost-writers might have chosen, just for the way it looks.

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super star, sweet valley high, major continuity errors, oh jeffrey, winter break, underage drinking, recapper: daniellafromage, enid "alex" rollins

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somedaygirl October 23 2007, 18:20:42 UTC

Oh, I totally buy Jean West and Sandra Bacon as lesbians --

And you give the ghostwriters too much credit.

daniellafromage October 23 2007, 18:22:14 UTC

Oh, I'm sure I do, but how do you mean?

air_and_angels January 10 2008, 00:33:40 UTC

That userpic is glorious.

sharkbytes October 23 2007, 18:34:51 UTC

LOL, great snark! I never read this one, because my bias against Enid ran SO DEEP that I refused to buy her book. "Enid sucks" summed up my feelings perfectly, haha. Now, I kinda wish I had--I never realized what a crappy friend Elizabeth is, or what a shady past Enid had.

I can't stop laughing at the fact that Jess gave her the palm tree sunglasses. I'm convinced it was part of her plan to make Enid look like more of a loser, lol.

My guesses: the entire cast of one-off characters who feature in the series, the manuscript of Cardenio, thirteen shoes (none of them matching), the treasure of the Sierre Madre, Todd's personality, and $53.68 in loose change *snickers* That's probably completely accurate!

daniellafromage October 23 2007, 18:53:30 UTC

Thanks! This book was pretty dull up until the drinking-and-marijuana chapter. I SQUEAKED when I realised what was happening.

roseability_ October 23 2007, 18:50:13 UTC

Is this the one where Enid gives her father a keyring with a picture of her on it so he'll think of disapproving face and not drink-drive? Or was there another thrilling story of Enid?

I've just remembered that Enid became an alcoholic in SVU! Some decent continuity! She fell in love with the guy on the student hotline, named 'T-square', not realizing that it was her friend she hadn't thought twice about. He didn't realize it was her because she went by Alexandra at college; on the phone she called herself Enid. I guess they eventually got together - I stopped reading. You'd think they'd recognize each other voices though.

daniellafromage October 23 2007, 18:56:21 UTC

It is! That was admittedly a pretty funny moment, but I was too busy being outraged about Enid laughing at her father the burn victim to recap it.

And that's a really good point! Man, now I don't know whether I should give the ghost-writers kudos for continuity or assume that making her an alcoholic again was a happy coincidence that they never really thought about.

kakeochi_umai May 16 2009, 04:25:45 UTC

There was continuity, I think - I remember when she was trying to get back on the wagon and going through withdrawal symptoms she thought something to the effect of "This is like when I was trying to overcome my drug addiction in high school...WAIT! IT'S THE SAME THING!" and realises that she can do it because she's done it before.

esc_key October 23 2007, 20:14:37 UTC

Ha. Whenever we played the SVH board game no one wanted to be Enid either. I think she was just dull. Also her name is ugly. So no one wanted to be her.

he treats the whole thing as a joke and "grabbed Elizabeth in a melodramatic embrace, bending her back over his arm". Hee. Jeffrey is charming.
I so retroactively love Jeffrey.

.. I wish he would get the hell over Liz though. Note to Jeffry: She sucks!

ENID TAKES THE JOINT. SHE SMOKES IT. THEN BRIAN OFFERS HER SOME BOURBON (because he's forty-eight years old?) AND SHE DRINKS IT.
Wait. I'm confused. She took drugs and her heart didn't instantly explode? And she drank alcohol and didn't get in a car crash? Are you sure this is Sweet Valley?

daniellafromage October 23 2007, 21:20:31 UTC

I know, right? I nearly fell out of my chair, I was so shocked!

whataboutjen October 24 2007, 04:23:33 UTC

Wait! A car crash was had and the car exploded!

zippyladoodles October 24 2007, 09:16:22 UTC

Ah, but she didn't go into a coma and have a personality transplant!

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avantgardening October 23 2007, 21:33:56 UTC

I feel like the only person that's always liked Enid (both her AND her name). I think I have a penchant for plain, bookish girls.

I hated her when she became Alexandra, haha.

daniellafromage October 23 2007, 21:42:07 UTC

Oh, gosh, me too! Because Sweet Valley needed another shallow party girl...?

zippyladoodles October 24 2007, 09:16:46 UTC

I preferred Enid to the Alexandra character she became!

kakeochi_umai May 16 2009, 04:53:14 UTC

I wouldn't say she was ever my favourite character, but I never disliked her. Also, Enid>Liz on account of she doesn't feel the need to meddle in everyone else's lives (and after just watching as much as I could possibly take of a Japanese TV show with a character exactly like Liz - I called her Diz because she sucks at her job but has Liz's personality - I have all the more appreciation for geeks who just get on with it instead of going around single-handedly saving the soul of every single person in the entire fucking town.)