Mary Anne's Book Part 2

[alula_auburn]

Part the Second-The Tea Party

Mary Anne begins this section by saying that at age six, she had four very important people in her life: Richard, Kristy, Claudia, and Mimi.  Therefore, she didn’t mind very much not having a mother until. . .the tea party.

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[shatisarockgod]

Did you know they made a 4th Anne movie? I know it might be a case of falling into a black hole for a lot of Anne fans because Megan, Jonathan, Schuyler weren't in it. I'm not sure if they just weren't approached to be in it. Might've been a case of being approached and thinking the project sounded crappy/not worth doing. When I was younger I loved the first two Anne movies. I was so excited about a 3rd one coming out and I admit I was disappointed with it to start with. It grew on me though. The 4th one---I just couldn't watch it all the way through. I probably turned it off after the first 10 minutes tbh.

Idk why this keeps on happening. I realize it's the money angle. But if you're basically shitting all over a series and you're not picking up new fans for that particular movie, what's the point? I'd want to do something that reflects my work in a positive manner instead of having everybody think I'm so desperate that all I can do is go back to old projects to screw them up.

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[carey_pontmercy]

I read the summary and it sounds depressing as fuck. What's the target audience for an Anne of Green Gables movie where Gilbert is dead and Anne is apparently secretly not an orphan, anyway?

[lippian]

That's just stupid. Why can't they do movies of the other books in the series? Rilla of Ingleside was haunting. I loved it.

[alula_auburn]

This. And I'd still swoon over a decent adaptation of The Blue Castle or the Emily books.

(IIRC, Kevin Sullivan has basically bought up all the rights to everything LMM, but he doesn't seem to actually like the books after Anne of Green Gables very much.)

[queenhyprshadow]

[carey_pontmercy]

When I was in elementary school, I usually knew when somebody had dead or divorced parents. Kids would mention that kind of thing, plus I'd see other people's families at honor roll assemblies or overhear my mom talking to somebody else's mom on a field trip. I only remember two kids who'd lost a parent, though, while divorce was so common that I was always halfway convinced that my own parents would split up sooner or later. I wasn't actually worried about it, but I'd idly wonder when it would happen.

I took an after-school ballet class as late as third grade and I wore a blue tattoo.

[julietvalcouer]

Even at serious ballet studios (ie, not multi-discipline type places, but ones aiming to get their older kids into the big schools and companies) for SEVEN-YEAR OLDS? On the first day you'd maybe have the kids try the positions, with the full understanding they're not going to remember all five tomorrow, the idea of plie and releve, maybe try a few stretches, MAYBE a couple steps across the floor...you don't want to overwhelm the kids their first day!

And Richard is apparently the only decent parent in Stoneybrook. (Well, Mimi too as quasi-parent/parent surrogate.) Mrs. F's total inability to figure anything out about Mary Anne's situation certainly explains somewhat how Kristy got some idea that she can deal better with kids than the adults around her.

[alula_auburn]

I think Ann probably saw one ten-minute film clip of a formal ballet class for older children or even young teens or something and extrapolated it to EVERYTHING. Right down to banging a big stick.

[kakeochi_umai]

So not that I heard rather a lot about the US presidential election or anything, but I read "The Tea Party" in a rather a different way from how it was intended.

Mary Anne is fascinated by bookish Janine’s ability to read and walk at the same time ... She attempts to teach herself to do so
Missing from the story: the part where Claudia and Kristy yell at her that she's an evil traitor and Mary Anne cries, repents and never does it again.

God, I want to slap Mrs Effing Asshole Bitch. Also, Richie looks way hot in that tea party pic.

I think this means she's actually more successful at fighting back tears at age six than she will be at thirteen. I don't even know what that says about her psychological development.
Yeah, as someone who cries easily myself, I so do not buy that someone who cries over anything and everything in the other books was able to hold back tears through an ordeal like that.

And props to Richard, at least, for trusting and respecting Mary Anne enough to believe she knows the difference and not try to talk her

[alula_auburn]

LOL, shockingly, she defects even further in the next part! And there is no shunning! It makes one wonder what happened.