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pauraque_bkMore people than I expected cared that I made a post. Maybe I will post some other things.
I guess I never posted about book 7 or about movie 5.
Book 7 was mostly boring to me because essentially everything that I believed would happen came to pass. My dad, who had never read any of the books or seen any of the movies, asked me how it ended. I said, "Harry defeats the evil wizard". He was like, "No way, you mean the evil wizard doesn't destroy the world? I'm shocked" or words to that effect. So, yeah.
It's not JKR's fault, it just means her plot was coherent enough that people devoted to analyzing it came up with an accurate prediction of most aspects of the final book, and she didn't get all contrary and intentionally do the opposite of what made sense.
The other thing that made it boring to me was that whole middle section that was actually boring, where they were camping or something and Harry couldn't decide what to do. Writing about indecision is intensely captivating when the result is Hamlet, but not everyone can really pull that off.
As for Peter, I'll take it. Granted she compressed into a sentence what I would have read a whole book about, but it was there, I'm not complaining.
I think I was annoyed when I first read the epilogue, but now I find it absurd enough to be hilarious. I mean what kind of a fucked up fandom shout out was that, are we supposed to be offended or amused? In a way it comes off as this bizarre flourish like AND NOW I AM DONE WITH THIS SHIT SO THERE!
My recollection of movie 5 is vague. I saw it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_hannelore at the 3D IMAX. They don't do the whole thing as 3D, just the end bit, which made it rather surreal. I remember finding it unbearably funny that they made Dumbledore a frost mage and Voldemort a fire mage, though you probably had to be there. Then there was something about Lucius that we also thought was too funny for words, but I don't remember what it was. Though I guess Lucius is always funny.
Oh... didtheatresm go somewhere that she can be found?
ETA: OMG I FORGOT THE BEST THING EVER ABOUT BOOK SEVEN
which was that And Just Plain Wrong happened in it. i mean omfg omfg jkr I forgive everything.
I guess I never posted about book 7 or about movie 5.
Book 7 was mostly boring to me because essentially everything that I believed would happen came to pass. My dad, who had never read any of the books or seen any of the movies, asked me how it ended. I said, "Harry defeats the evil wizard". He was like, "No way, you mean the evil wizard doesn't destroy the world? I'm shocked" or words to that effect. So, yeah.
It's not JKR's fault, it just means her plot was coherent enough that people devoted to analyzing it came up with an accurate prediction of most aspects of the final book, and she didn't get all contrary and intentionally do the opposite of what made sense.
The other thing that made it boring to me was that whole middle section that was actually boring, where they were camping or something and Harry couldn't decide what to do. Writing about indecision is intensely captivating when the result is Hamlet, but not everyone can really pull that off.
As for Peter, I'll take it. Granted she compressed into a sentence what I would have read a whole book about, but it was there, I'm not complaining.
I think I was annoyed when I first read the epilogue, but now I find it absurd enough to be hilarious. I mean what kind of a fucked up fandom shout out was that, are we supposed to be offended or amused? In a way it comes off as this bizarre flourish like AND NOW I AM DONE WITH THIS SHIT SO THERE!
My recollection of movie 5 is vague. I saw it with
_hannelore at the 3D IMAX. They don't do the whole thing as 3D, just the end bit, which made it rather surreal. I remember finding it unbearably funny that they made Dumbledore a frost mage and Voldemort a fire mage, though you probably had to be there. Then there was something about Lucius that we also thought was too funny for words, but I don't remember what it was. Though I guess Lucius is always funny.Oh... did
theatresm go somewhere that she can be found?ETA: OMG I FORGOT THE BEST THING EVER ABOUT BOOK SEVEN
which was that And Just Plain Wrong happened in it. i mean omfg omfg jkr I forgive everything.
