Sweet Valley University #2 Love, Lies, and Jessica Wakefield

[rhitroadkill]

This story might benefit from the A plot, B plot, C plot format to keep it all straight but there are so many plots and a lot of them intertwine. And I am recapping as I read. So we’ll just plow straight through.

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[ryanstiles4me]

Duh. You only use EXTRA STRENGTH condoms when you really, really don't want to get all AIDs-ed up. Regular strength are when you don't really care if you get AIDs or the clap or whatever.

:D

[ext_83967]

LOL @ the condom strength. Don't they know that if you wear two at once, you're twice as safe?

The University plots are insane. It's like, if you skip three books ahead there are a ton of different characters and everyone has new boyfriends/girlfriends. And at least two people will have died.

I'm at uni now, and all we really do is go to class, do part-time jobs, and get drunk occasionally.

[kakeochi_umai]

Tom tells her about his hunch about the screwiness in the athletics department.

Oh! Oh wow! I had no idea this was how Elizabeth and Tom began! This means that her play in #40 is from the Mallory Pike school of "fiction". Lllllllame. No wonder Hildy called her a semitalented bore!

[kakeochi_umai]

(Lauren Hill)

I always thought this was a ripoff of Lauryn Hill's name - when did she debut? *wikis* hmmm, looks like it was just a coincidence.

[Tom] had had an accident and no longer played football as a result.
What? WHAT?! This isn't mentioned when he goes back to football the following year!!! IIRC he's just like "I don't want to work in journalism anymore because Elizabeth dumped me, and as any character who breaks up with a Wakefield no longer exists we need a convenient way for me to exit stage right...why did I quit football again?"

Also, I love how Liz ate God knows how much crap at Caseys and The Dairi Burger and didn't gain weight at all, and now suddenly she's chubbed up. I might start sticking my nose into everyone's business too, if it burns as many calories as that!

the Pi Beta Phis told her that they weren’t going to pledge her because she seemed more like Theta material.You mean because they sussed that she didn't actually care about the issue so much as the shininess of her halo? I like these people

[skittlebox]

Tom himself didn't have an accident, but he'd wanted his family to come watch him play and they had a car accident and all died on the way. When he was told half-way through his game, he quit.

[kakeochi_umai]

I still don't remember any mention of it when he got back into it later - I don't remember him thinking about his family, I just remember him going "Hmmm, why don't I go back to playing football so I can be conveniently written out?"

[mochaloca85]

That was about the time I quit reading SVU. Tom found out that his dad that had died in the car accident was really his stepfather (his mom was already pregnant with him and Mr. Watts married her and gave Tom his last name. Similar to Lila's original origin). Liz found his birth dad who then hit on her. Tom was so excited to have a family again that he broke up with Liz for "being jealous that he was happy with people that weren't her" and decided that he was going to go back to being "Wildman Watts." And the best way to do that, he decided, was to go pick up football and and hook up with his little half-sister's cello teacher.

*Note: This is what I do instead of studying for my 4 mid-terms, tomorrow. I'm so obsessed.

[versipellis]

I kind of love this story arc in an 'oh gods, why' way. Poor Liz. Her college experience really is spectacularly awful.

[rhitroadkill]

It was kind of nice to see her get to campus and struggle. It actually added a bit of dimension to the books. It would have been more in character for the ghostwriters to have Liz and Jessica arrive on campus and every single person fall at their feet and crown them Queens of the School on their first day. That not happening is actually a positive thing in my opinion.

(Of course, there were still some who threw themselves at Liz and Jess' feet and declared them Queens of the School, but it wasn't *everyone*. :-P )

[versipellis]

That's true, actually; I found College Girls really sad when I read it but I was kind of impressed too XD