Comments | bsc_snark: #47 Mallory on Strike, Chapters 6-10

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#47 Mallory on Strike, Chapters 6-10

Mar 08, 2008 17:04

Mallory on Strike, Part Deux

Chapters 1-5

Recap: Last time, on All My Children, we learned that St. Mallory the Martyr was being overburdened by chores and homework, and was struggling to write her prizewinning Hardy Boys yaoi lemon short story for Young Authors Day. And awaaay we go!

( Dance around the castle and then clean your room! )

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deathbytamarind March 8 2008, 22:47:57 UTC

I cracked up at Fight the Power and the inclusion of the video.

glitterberrys March 8 2008, 23:35:07 UTC

it's not as if an eight-year-old would already know the rule about wearing shoes outside, right? None of this could have possibly been Buddy's fault at all. Nope.Seriously. I see that attitude a lot, though. Kid gets hurt, parents immediately blame a teacher/caregiver. Kids are smart enough to know the rules when they're told the rules, and should get in trouble for breaking them even if they get mildly hurt. Not anyone's fault but theirs ( ... )

ilovejunk March 8 2008, 23:44:28 UTC

I agree, I really like Mrs. Barrett. It seems like the more lax parents in Stoneybrook (I almost put Springfield, I'm mixing up my fictional towns here!) are the most reasonable. Actually, I think if there's one thing AMM did well in this series, it was portraying a lot of different parenting styles. Some of the parents, like Claudia's, are really authoritarian and controlling, while the Pikes and Barretts are more lasseiz-faire. (I just took child development, which makes this series extra fun to snark ;D)

lozbabie March 9 2008, 05:37:34 UTC

I can't remember exact deails, but if Kristy was the one watching Karen and Andrew, she should have known what they were doing. The kids should never have been NEAR the car, especiy with brillo pads. Something like that is something you supervise.

glitterberrys March 9 2008, 05:40:09 UTC

She had an emergency, though - Louie cut his foot open and ripped part of the pad off, so she was calling the vet, and was running around trying to keep him from bleeding and to keep David Michael from freaking out. Meanwhile, Karen snuck inside and took the Brillo without asking. The kids DID have permission to wash the car, but she decided the sponges weren't working well enough.

I thought it was really obnoxious for Watson to blame her - I mean, she's thirteen first of all, and secondly, he ACKNOWLEDGED that it was an emergency and her energy was focused there for a few minutes, but it was still her fault for...not having eyes in the back of her head, I guess.

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lizwinlove March 8 2008, 23:42:27 UTC

Kristy can have last minute, non-Cult organized jobs dumped on her at the last minute, but when Wendy does it, Jessi has a coronary dumps all over her in fear of the evil tyrant K. Ron

That doesn't sound like cultist behavior at all. Nuh-uh, nope. /endsarcasm

najika21 March 9 2008, 00:09:34 UTC

Hehe, Hardy Boys yaoi. You know somewhere someone has done this.

I really felt for Mallory during chapter 8. Spending the day with 5 hyper kids is not my idea of fun either.

irishgypsie March 9 2008, 02:07:34 UTC

What's "yaoi"?

ilovejunk March 9 2008, 02:26:09 UTC

In short, boy-on-boy love. People looove to write yaoi fanfics with strange pairings...

ifandonlyif March 9 2008, 00:25:10 UTC

okay your snark inspired me to reread the book, and i just had to type up possibly one of the best, most dramatic passages in the entire series. i'm almost hoping that it was written as a mockery, but it furthers our assumptions that the bsc is indeed a cult:

(mallory has asked to be demoted because of the whole buddy barrett incident and because she needs time to work on her story)

"I don't know when I'll be able to take another job," I said, my voice getting tighter and louder. "So please demote me. If you don't, I'll quit!"

There. I'd said it. Jessi gasped in horror. Mary Anne's eyes instantly filled with tears. Claud dropped the candy bar she was unwrapping onto her lap and stared at me, openmouthed.

"Quit?" Stacey and Dawn repeated in barely a whisper.

Kristy sat very still. No one had ever voluntarily quit the BSC before. It was unthinkable.

ilovejunk March 9 2008, 01:28:46 UTC

I love the bit with Claudia dropping her candy bar. Only unthinkable drama could ever cause her to let go of candy! ;)

air_and_angels March 9 2008, 01:55:51 UTC

I homed in on that detail too! In my mental movie theatre, the candy bar fell in slow motion and landed with a reverberating THUDDDD. The candy bar drop heard around the world.
I guess Claudia's lap shouldn't really go thud if you drop things on it, but it was dramatic.

kakeochi_umai March 9 2008, 04:17:52 UTC

I guess Claudia's lap shouldn't really go thud if you drop things on it

You give Claudia and her fashion sense too much credit.

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