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\\SVHSY: Why do they hate you so?;Ah, yes, the one everyone seems to hate; Sweet Valley High: Senior Year. My second favorite. Why does everyone hate it so? The main arguments I've heard are: 1. It disrupts the continuity of the series.
Allow me to retaliate. 1. Continuity! HAH! What continuity? If you threw that against the originals you would read in Double Love that Todd had recently moved to Sweet Valley, yet he was there the whole time in Twins. And how is it the twins are 12 in sixth grade and 16 in eleventh. That's five grades and four years. Is this mathematically possible? Only if Liz and Jess and their entire grade were skipped a grade. 2. If you think the Liz-Todd relationship wasn't fucked up in SVH, you need to be in therapy. Seriously. The Liz-is-ever-so-virtuous-and-pure-but-she-gets-caugh-up-in- the-passion-of-the-moment-and-cheats-on-todd-in-every-other-book-thing got old real quick. She needed a new male love-interest that was, you know, interesting. Devon Whitelaw was the most interesting, but that went absolutely nowhere. 3. Each series is about a different main group of characters surrounding the twins. And each series has a cast which is unique to it. So why is it that SVHSY gets knocked for doing the same thing that each other series did? And the fact that they changed the characters. They did change the characters, yes, but they changed them in accordance to their surroundings and circumstances. They weren't unbeleivable changes (with the exception of Jade Wu, who went from being the conservative daughter of an extremely overbearing Chinese man and a ballerina and was a grade lower than the twins, to being in their same grade, wild, and divorced parents). SVHSY was a new twist on an aging and tiring series. It expanded Sweet Valley's reign by four years and won over a whole new fanbase. It was more realistic (not completely, but there weren't psycho's and serial killers trying to kill the twins every few books). And it added a whole new cast of likeable characters to the SV populous. I don't understand why people dislike it so much. |
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