Continuity errors happen. Especially when an editor is in charge of more than one series.
I was skimming through Addy's wedding quilt. It takes place after changes for Addy. But Sarah is at school!
Continuity errors happen. Especially when an editor is in charge of more than one series.
It happens even more in Samatha. Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia at first edition of Samantha under the PC puplications they got married in April which makes sense that in Happy Birthday Samantha that her Birthday in May makes sense that Agnes and Agatha would then be her reltives...but oops someone was not paying attention to something as the newer books of Samantha say that the wedding was changed to June making the story not match up. I am still wondering why they changed it myself, but three times the charm? In Samantha Saves the Wedding again Gard and Cornelia then get married sometime it looks in the winter. Such a quotes on page 22 Uncle Gard uses "...get to Mount Bedford and back, especially in this icy weather." page 23, "Sleet slashed at the windshield." there are others but I am just putting in a few making no question that in takes place in winter. Then again as anyone who has bought the Bridesmaid Accressiories knows that frist the wedding takes place at Gard and Cornelia's place in New York in the Bridesmaid Accessiories it takes place at Grandmary's. There is enough changes in that event to make you wonder, "How many times did people have to get married back in 1904 anyway?" [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
I also think Samantha's books have more continuity problems. It's amazing they are as close as they are, though. This is how many people have written her books (only counting ones that are stories):
Susan S. Adler
Sarah Masters Buckey
Dottie Raymer
Maxine Rose Schur
Valerie Tripp
I kind of felt like the characters changed...Samantha and Nellie don't seem very consistent throughout the books. Nellie's character changes a lot from a timid and shy girl to a very outspoken person in her most recent book. I won't say what she does since I don't want to ruin the book for anyone. It will be interesting to see which side they chose to represent in the movie version. I hope Nellie is the shy Nellie since then she is much different than Samantha, and that's what makes their friendship so special. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Although I really like Valerie Tripp's writing and she invented my favorite character (yay Molly!), I wish they had assigned a different character to each person so that each book could be written by the person who created the character. When you write about someone you almost become that character, and it was probably hard for the authors to take a character someone else had developed and go from there. It's more fun to be able to develop that character on your own. For example, I think Janet Shaw has written most of Kirsten's books, and her character seems really consistent in all of the books.
<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 08, 2004 01:07 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>
And I completly agree with you Melissa! You always know how to put whats on everyone's mind! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I really like Ms. Tripp but what's with the 4 different authors?? You only need 1 to write the series of six books with like, 4 or 5 chapters. But dont get me wrong, it is hard to write AGs since we all have high expectations for them to be pretty historically accurate.
<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 08, 2004 09:35 PM: Message edited by: MicheleG ]</font>
I though Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia got married in March.
The author I enjoyed most with Sam'a books was the first one, Susan S. Adler. Her Samantha was tomboyish, curious and imaginative, who just figures out what the world is really like and selflessly pushs herself to make a difference. In the latter books she seems more preocuppied with other matters. The second author, Rose Maxine Shuchr (sp?) seemed to focus on Cornelia while making Sam seem kind of bratty, and brings in elements of commercial christmas. The last, Valerie Tripp did fine, but I hated how she brought Nellie in at the very end, and sometimes I have to suspend my disbelive to read Changes for Samantha.
Unfortunally, through actions like retiring the play dress to make room for outfits that are fancy and a bit to mature for a nine-year-old, AG has focused on the "clothes loving" part of Sam, because thats what sells her. Also, Nellie's clothes have very stong visual appeal while at the same time none of them are in a book, and there is no dress from when Nellie was poor.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It wasn't until Samantha was already grown that children started having their own fashions. In Samantha's time, children's clothing was still, for the most part, copies of their parents. Sam's outfits are in no way "too mature" for her character. They're right on the money.Unfortunally, through actions like retiring the play dress to make room for outfits that are fancy and a bit to mature for a nine-year-old
I rember telling Robin about Samantha when I noticed someone new writting her last short story. "For a girl who is supposed to be an orphion she has sure got a lot of people saying there her mother. I don't wonder too much about the many authors in the "core" serise it makes sense that Samantha was most likley the frist of the AG books Susan Adler probably was asked to write two and then they added a third and needed a new author and then Valerie Tripp finshed it up and decied to continue with the short stories and Nellie's book. Nellie was Susan Adler's carticter I find it hard to write for someone elses charticer (belive me I have tried)I really applaud people who can do it.
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