It is a crime of late canon that Ken/Jess lasts for such a short period of time. These two are so cute together! They deserved more normalcy and Jessica not being Jessica and dumping him for an unworthy guy. Right? They deserved a good long run before Jessica went full Jessica, dammit. As it is, it's what, two arcs? Boo! Booooooooo. I suppose I must comfort myself with the fact that the cheerleader mini is one of the better ones (even if I hate Heather so, so much).
I was giggling through this whole section because it is *SO* 1990s YA. OMG - so cringey and unrealistic, and yet, so scandalous! And I don't know about you, but plenty of girls at my school were having sex and the kids to prove it, so it's even weirder than written, if that makes any sense. Oh, it definitely is so of its time and I love it for that. And yes! One of my HS memories is the math class where I don't remember any math but I remember the teacher taking attendence one day and being told that one of the girls was out because she was having her baby and that prompted a discussion about adoptions and how other girls in the class had dealt with it.
It gives him way more credit than he deserves, IMO. I can totally buy them going to Sweet Valley with the whole fake-kidnapping--for-ransom scheme already planned, but him also planning the whole Jessica bit? Nah. He's a pedo-grooming asshole, but he's not a sociopathic genius... It was his one moment with the braincell! And everything thereafter was just him assuming he was just too brilliant for words. I'd say everyone got a chance with it, but obviously Detective Sam did not, and I'm not really sure Alice and Ned got to do more than wave at it as it flew through the house.
but I don't think he can do this and be smart enough to have engineered *everything* right from the start. That's fair, but I still like the idea of him intentionally braining Jessica with that Frisbee. :p
THAT'S the Jessica we all know and love!! It makes me want to go back and read early canon again, LOL. Right?! Liz and Sue are both dithering about how to go about it and Jessica's already putting on the voice and has a plan. Do not fuck with Jessica Wakefield when she's feeling competent, people. Ask early Bruce how well that works.
She knew about his portrait of her, but I'm not clear that she'd seen any of this other work, at least as the books went by. Their story was changed so much it's stupid. Part of me wants to go flip back through the others to see and part of me doesn't want to bother because if the ghosties can't keep things straight, why should I? One more possible retcon for our boy Robby and poor Lila. Sigh.
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Right? They deserved a good long run before Jessica went full Jessica, dammit. As it is, it's what, two arcs? Boo! Booooooooo. I suppose I must comfort myself with the fact that the cheerleader mini is one of the better ones (even if I hate Heather so, so much).
I was giggling through this whole section because it is *SO* 1990s YA. OMG - so cringey and unrealistic, and yet, so scandalous! And I don't know about you, but plenty of girls at my school were having sex and the kids to prove it, so it's even weirder than written, if that makes any sense.
Oh, it definitely is so of its time and I love it for that. And yes! One of my HS memories is the math class where I don't remember any math but I remember the teacher taking attendence one day and being told that one of the girls was out because she was having her baby and that prompted a discussion about adoptions and how other girls in the class had dealt with it.
It gives him way more credit than he deserves, IMO. I can totally buy them going to Sweet Valley with the whole fake-kidnapping--for-ransom scheme already planned, but him also planning the whole Jessica bit? Nah. He's a pedo-grooming asshole, but he's not a sociopathic genius...
It was his one moment with the braincell! And everything thereafter was just him assuming he was just too brilliant for words. I'd say everyone got a chance with it, but obviously Detective Sam did not, and I'm not really sure Alice and Ned got to do more than wave at it as it flew through the house.
but I don't think he can do this and be smart enough to have engineered *everything* right from the start.
That's fair, but I still like the idea of him intentionally braining Jessica with that Frisbee. :p
THAT'S the Jessica we all know and love!! It makes me want to go back and read early canon again, LOL.
Right?! Liz and Sue are both dithering about how to go about it and Jessica's already putting on the voice and has a plan. Do not fuck with Jessica Wakefield when she's feeling competent, people. Ask early Bruce how well that works.
She knew about his portrait of her, but I'm not clear that she'd seen any of this other work, at least as the books went by. Their story was changed so much it's stupid.
Part of me wants to go flip back through the others to see and part of me doesn't want to bother because if the ghosties can't keep things straight, why should I? One more possible retcon for our boy Robby and poor Lila. Sigh.