It certainly wasn't Ready Or Not or Flash Forward, but the Baby-Sitter's club series wasn't awful either.
Though the show didn't use story lines from the books, the actors more then made up for it. They may have looked a little older then they were portraying, but they hardly looked any older then the girls that portrayed the characters in the awful movie that followed.
I do believe that Ann M Martin was happy with this series as compared to the movies. She may have made more money with the movie, but the series; to me anyway was more realistic and more age appropriate.
I do wish they had stuck more to the plots of the actual books, but I understand that they may have wanted to try a different route to draw in more readers.
Though the show didn't use story lines from the books, the actors more then made up for it. They may have looked a little older then they were portraying, but they hardly looked any older then the girls that portrayed the characters in the awful movie that followed.
I do believe that Ann M Martin was happy with this series as compared to the movies. She may have made more money with the movie, but the series; to me anyway was more realistic and more age appropriate.
I do wish they had stuck more to the plots of the actual books, but I understand that they may have wanted to try a different route to draw in more readers.