Abby and the Secret Society Part 3

[alula_auburn]

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[egadthearchaeo]

Claudia knows about the Cold War but WWII is beyond her....what? Also, Jim and David were lovers, you've convinced me (maybe Jim seems less concerned than he should be because David is a ghost and is still visiting him? I think the book has rotted out my brain). I still think the BSC is secretly in charge of Stoneybrook and have brainwashed the police, I can't explain the complete incompetence otherwise. Everything in this book was complete wtfery. I just don't understand how any of it made sense to Ann, the ghostwriter, or the editors. How did this get published? Also, who rigs the brakes of a car and doesn't consider the possibility that it might kill the driver? How did Armstrong even know what David was up to (considering apparently no one else could figure it out for 20 years, and the only reason that the BSC figured it out was because of the boys' trophy remark). Once again, why didn't David just tell Jim all of this instead of doing this completely stupid and overtly complex egg hunt? And how are those old golf

[lippian]

I've got one: if they're such an eeeeeeevil sekrit society, why didn't they just murder the reporter on the private premises and bury his body in the maze? Or if you buy that they "only meant to scare him," why not lock him up somewhere in the country club and torment his kneecaps with golf clubs for a couple of days? Isn't that way less of a gamble than messing with the brakes just to see what will happen?

[egadthearchaeo]

Yeah, I know, there's about a dozen different ways the secret society (and really, how secret could it have been since everyone seems to have heard rumors of it) could have handled the situation, all of which would have made a ton more sense than this book. I still am boggling that the guy is only getting an assault charge-for causing someone's death. Does no one at Scholastic know how reality works?! I would at least expect manslaughter but I guess that would tarnish the innocence of the BSC books then. I kind of want to see a fanfiction where somehow David and Jim (is his name really Jim Johnson-really Scholastic?!) can get back together (I guess I want to see David bought back to life somehow because considering this plot and the complete flanderization of a character who was barely in the series in the first place-why the fuck not?) because they seem like they would make a cute couple and it would also make the BSC world considerably more interesting.

[lippian]

He went into hiding from the cult. He's probably hiding behind a storage shelf in the bomb shelter. He's been down there sucking back Ovaltine for thirty years... or maybe the bomb shelter has a backdoor, so he went down there, hid the plans, escaped out the back, navigated the maze, and moved out to California where he became some character Dawn knows. Someone write this?

And I love the maze. The country club has a maze. Sure. Why not? And of course the plans are hidden in the maze and not on the golf course or in the fancy dining room or someplace that it's normal for a country club to have. They're in the maze, the existence of which is not questioned even after the secret society has retained the caretaker to care for the maze for decades. It's like if the secret society had been headquartered in a library instead and they happened to have a racquetball court and nobody thought that was odd. Or if they'd been inside of a medieval castle which had an arcade. "Where do you think the secret plans are, Abby?" "I don't know, Kristy,

[egadthearchaeo]

The best part of the maze element is that the bomb shelter was on the blueprints for the house. Seriously, the bomb shelter is on the blueprints and absolutely no one thought to check it at any point. Furthermore, Caludia Claudia is the one who figured out the bomb shelter on the blueprint. Claudia. Not the architect. Not the police officer (surely he must have had access to the blueprints before this?). Claudia. It just amazes me how many people must have had no critical thinking skills for the past thirty years to make this plot work. And the writers want us to buy this as plausible

[lippian]

I'm actually surprised they didn't do this, considering they brought back Karl Tate the Richest Man In Stonybrook and Mr. I Am A Top Secret Agent Whose Kids Keep Blowing My Cover To Their Babysitters.

Incidentally, where is your avatar picture from? Whenever I read your posts I randomly picture you in my head as being one of those two people talking, which I assume isn't right.

[egadthearchaeo]

The two characters are from the mini-series Tin Man. It was a pretty good miniseries for the SyFy network, and even though it's not really that superb I kind of adore it in a cult film kind of way. Tin Man was basically a reinterpretation of the Wizard of Oz. This is my favorite non-cannon pairing for it (I just did a google search to find the actual picture itself). The one in front is Glitch, and the one behind him is Cain

[egadthearchaeo]

Also, the Top Secret Agent character made my head hurt. None of any of that dude's story arc made any sense. And the fact that the BSC somehow a)becomes involved in something like that and b) doesn't have any repercussions for figuring out an undercover agent's identity or for any of their role in the first mystery makes me facepalm. I seriously just don't understand. I can't grasp how any of the grown adults at Scholastic have this much of a lack of common sense or reality.

[lippian]

To be fair, the sitters didn't really out the Top Secret Agent; his son did. He told his girlfriend to give the money to him because his dad was a Top Secret Agent. That's hardly the BSC's fault.

[egadthearchaeo]

I suppose. Still, I would think there would be some sort of consequence to them knowing about it. I don't suppose seeing a mystery realistically written while keeping the BSC's ages in mind would have been too much to hope for?

[alula_auburn]

Haha, all the comments while I was gone over the weekend make me feel vidicated in conveying how NOTHING in this book made sense. NOTHING.

But I will be very pleased if I can claim a tiny bit of BSC fanon for Jim Johnson, David Follman, and the Love Which Dare Not Speak Its Name in Stoneybrook.

[egadthearchaeo]

Your snark was awesome. And yes, you can claim that. I think there needs to be a fangroup for those two or something.