Abby and the Secret Society Part 3

[alula_auburn]

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[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.

I like your idea that he was hiding from the cult. Maybe he was in witness protection this whole time, and that's why Johnson was unconcerned (he knew that once Armstrong was caught, David could come out of hiding). Please don't subject him to Dawn though, aren't enough people already her victims? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that would have wound up as a BSC mystery at some point. The BSC find out where David has been in hiding, tell him that Armstrong's been caught, and reunite him with Jim, and they all walk off into the sunset. Considering all of Scholastic's complete lack of research and common sense into anything having to do with law enforcement procedure, I could totally see that happening in one of the mystery books. And I think this has become my new head cannon.

[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.

I kind of get the feeling that if the series had kept going, they might have bought David back for one of their mysteries. Granted, his character probably would have been completely flanderized (which, considering his lack of character development in the first place I would have found impressive). In a way, I'm kind of glad they never did because if they had they probably would have destroyed what little characterization he had and probably would have dashed any possibility of a pairing between David/Jim. There's still fanfiction though, and if I ever get up the willpower I might make a fic for those two.

[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?