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This morning I woke up and, completely unpremeditated, signed up for polybigbang because apparently wanting to do a blackout in Cliche Bingo isn't good enough for me, oh no, if I'm not spending my summer writing a Doctor Who season then the insanity has to leak out in other ways. I'm not particularly worried about the bigbang, though, because [a] I have three months, [b] it's a story I've had in my head since ... April? anyway and it's already at about 4000 words, and [c] the last time I wrote F/K/V it went waaaay over 10000 words, so this is not actually particularly daunting.
When I say "this morning," though, I mean "less than an hour ago" because I sensibly set my alarm to give me about eight hours of sleep but still wake me up with some of the day still left after I went to see midnight HBP last night. I could've made the 3AM post going Woo guys it was kind of awesome! but instead I'm making the noon post that is slightly more coherent.
Now, I've only read Half-Blood Prince twice in my life, once when it first came out and once when it was part of my reread prep for book seven. I remember enjoying it the second time, especially because rereading the first few books had given me the faith that JKR's seemingly useless stuff was actually clever foreshadowing. Alas, Deathly Hallows dashed all my hopes and dreams except for that one about Dumbledore being actually a manipulative jackass and also canonically gay, because I like those sorts of things. Anyway, this is all in aid of saying that my bias about these films tips in various ways depending on how emotionally invested I am in the corresponding book -- so I loathe the third film and love the fifth one, for instance. For HBP, I nearly didn't remember the goddamn story and although the movie was kind of a refresher course, I only really noticed the quite reasonably missing Gaunts ... and I suppose the fight at the end. Seriously, the Death Eaters all snuck into Hogwarts just to make sure Draco did what he was told? LAAAME.
I'm pretty sure there should be a Things Wot I Didn't Like section, but if so it is the same old tired section and mostly consists of me being angry about how the films treat Ron: at the very end, for instance, Hermione and Harry are standing in the Astronomy Tower having a Moment while Ron just sits on the steps far away. And it's a consistent dynamic but I hate it, because although I am kind of in love with Harry and Hermione's One True Friendship and, say, their ability to be sad and supportive at each other when various Weasleys are not snogging them, that is not the goddamn trio dynamic I am looking for. So obviously I still care about this a little.
Also I suppose most pointless inclusion of Remus/Tonks ever? Movie!Lupin mostly makes me want to sulk in a corner and demand my fandom back anyway, but ... at least it did not set off my This Is Wrong and Skeevy alarm? (I am now at home with my Remus/Tonks dislike as a separate entity from my old Sirius/Remus shipping, but I'm not going to get into it because that's a whole other rant, and also something I obviously still care about a little.)
Oh yes, and baby!Tom Riddle was so obviously evil that it was kind of ridiculous. Except that it was equally ridiculous in the book, as I recall, so it's not really a fault of the film. And the Inferi inMoria that coastal cave thingy did not look like an army of corpses, for which I was kind of grateful because CORPSES, but on the other hand they looked like an army of Gollums, which was a little stupid.
I did like nearly everything else, though. Slughorn, for instance, was exactly the right amount of completely skeevy without actually coming off as a child molester or something; Dumbledore was exactly the right amount of asking Harry to do all sorts of shitty stuff and kind of obviously knowing that one day posthumously he'd have to ask Harry to sacrifice himself, while still being genuinely likable and kind of epic. Also LUNA! Luna is still absolutely amazing and pitch-perfect and I love her to death. And gosh, I kind of loved all the We're Sixteen And We Have Hormones!! stuff. I loved, for instance, that when Hermione was angry with Ron for making out with Lavender, she didn't ATTACK HIM WITH BIRDS THAT LEFT SCRATCHES FOR WEEKS, just kind of voiced her displeasure by having them hit the wall next to him. (I often suspect JKR of not understanding when violence STOPS BEING FUNNY.) I kind of loved that I really believed Harry and Ginny of being ... older and more cognizant than everyone around them, possibly? and therefore drawn to one another. That's kind of all I want from Harry/Ginny, by which I mean that I really want them to bond over having both survived Voldemort. Although ... the bit where she kneels down to tie Harry's shoe was kind of ridiculous. Like, "I know we haven't kissed yet but I'm thinking of skipping right to blowjobs" ridiculous.
Meanwhile the friend with whom I saw it is a Harry/Hermione shipper and comes from the Weasley-bashing Slytherin-loving side of the fandom tracks, which was ... interesting. I can think Snape is awesome with the best of them and my Black family love kind of extended to the Malfoys too, but I was also of the One Big Happy Weasley Family camp back in the day, and my inner fourteen-year-old thought the Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione was aces. The audience was great, though. They "n'aww"d a lot of the Harry/Ginny stuff, and also some of the Ron/Hermione stuff (although movie!Ron is mostly there to be laughed at, safdskd grr). And despite being a great audience and cheering at the beginning and having good reactions the whole way through, at the end they were dead quiet. No applause, even. I don't know if it was because everyone was half-asleep, or because we all needed bathrooms, or because it was just that downbeat. Probably a combination of all three.
Anyway, pretty good, would be willing to see again when fully awake; and it did make me want to watch the other films again too, so it probably did its job.
MUCH more importantly, I've now seen at least two separate places that Paul Gross and CKR are apparently goofing around on the Gunless shoot and bewildering everyone with their old due South inside jokes. I mean, really, "We spent a long time together on 'Due South' so that stuff keeps coming back, all these stupid things we used to do on 'Due South' we started doing again on set. And of course, nobody knows what we're doing and I think we look like fools." dsksddsf I don't even know what to do with that. Besides have more joy in my soul for that one quote than for a whole two-and-a-half hours of Harry Potter. And I'm sure Gunless will be rubbish but that absolutely doesn't matter.
Now for breakfast and Tin Man! Because going indiscriminately through CKR's entire oeuvre is a perfectly valid way to spend my day off, but also because I'd been vaguely meaning to watch it before I knew CKR was in it anyway.
When I say "this morning," though, I mean "less than an hour ago" because I sensibly set my alarm to give me about eight hours of sleep but still wake me up with some of the day still left after I went to see midnight HBP last night. I could've made the 3AM post going Woo guys it was kind of awesome! but instead I'm making the noon post that is slightly more coherent.
Now, I've only read Half-Blood Prince twice in my life, once when it first came out and once when it was part of my reread prep for book seven. I remember enjoying it the second time, especially because rereading the first few books had given me the faith that JKR's seemingly useless stuff was actually clever foreshadowing. Alas, Deathly Hallows dashed all my hopes and dreams except for that one about Dumbledore being actually a manipulative jackass and also canonically gay, because I like those sorts of things. Anyway, this is all in aid of saying that my bias about these films tips in various ways depending on how emotionally invested I am in the corresponding book -- so I loathe the third film and love the fifth one, for instance. For HBP, I nearly didn't remember the goddamn story and although the movie was kind of a refresher course, I only really noticed the quite reasonably missing Gaunts ... and I suppose the fight at the end. Seriously, the Death Eaters all snuck into Hogwarts just to make sure Draco did what he was told? LAAAME.
I'm pretty sure there should be a Things Wot I Didn't Like section, but if so it is the same old tired section and mostly consists of me being angry about how the films treat Ron: at the very end, for instance, Hermione and Harry are standing in the Astronomy Tower having a Moment while Ron just sits on the steps far away. And it's a consistent dynamic but I hate it, because although I am kind of in love with Harry and Hermione's One True Friendship and, say, their ability to be sad and supportive at each other when various Weasleys are not snogging them, that is not the goddamn trio dynamic I am looking for. So obviously I still care about this a little.
Also I suppose most pointless inclusion of Remus/Tonks ever? Movie!Lupin mostly makes me want to sulk in a corner and demand my fandom back anyway, but ... at least it did not set off my This Is Wrong and Skeevy alarm? (I am now at home with my Remus/Tonks dislike as a separate entity from my old Sirius/Remus shipping, but I'm not going to get into it because that's a whole other rant, and also something I obviously still care about a little.)
Oh yes, and baby!Tom Riddle was so obviously evil that it was kind of ridiculous. Except that it was equally ridiculous in the book, as I recall, so it's not really a fault of the film. And the Inferi in
I did like nearly everything else, though. Slughorn, for instance, was exactly the right amount of completely skeevy without actually coming off as a child molester or something; Dumbledore was exactly the right amount of asking Harry to do all sorts of shitty stuff and kind of obviously knowing that one day posthumously he'd have to ask Harry to sacrifice himself, while still being genuinely likable and kind of epic. Also LUNA! Luna is still absolutely amazing and pitch-perfect and I love her to death. And gosh, I kind of loved all the We're Sixteen And We Have Hormones!! stuff. I loved, for instance, that when Hermione was angry with Ron for making out with Lavender, she didn't ATTACK HIM WITH BIRDS THAT LEFT SCRATCHES FOR WEEKS, just kind of voiced her displeasure by having them hit the wall next to him. (I often suspect JKR of not understanding when violence STOPS BEING FUNNY.) I kind of loved that I really believed Harry and Ginny of being ... older and more cognizant than everyone around them, possibly? and therefore drawn to one another. That's kind of all I want from Harry/Ginny, by which I mean that I really want them to bond over having both survived Voldemort. Although ... the bit where she kneels down to tie Harry's shoe was kind of ridiculous. Like, "I know we haven't kissed yet but I'm thinking of skipping right to blowjobs" ridiculous.
Meanwhile the friend with whom I saw it is a Harry/Hermione shipper and comes from the Weasley-bashing Slytherin-loving side of the fandom tracks, which was ... interesting. I can think Snape is awesome with the best of them and my Black family love kind of extended to the Malfoys too, but I was also of the One Big Happy Weasley Family camp back in the day, and my inner fourteen-year-old thought the Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione was aces. The audience was great, though. They "n'aww"d a lot of the Harry/Ginny stuff, and also some of the Ron/Hermione stuff (although movie!Ron is mostly there to be laughed at, safdskd grr). And despite being a great audience and cheering at the beginning and having good reactions the whole way through, at the end they were dead quiet. No applause, even. I don't know if it was because everyone was half-asleep, or because we all needed bathrooms, or because it was just that downbeat. Probably a combination of all three.
Anyway, pretty good, would be willing to see again when fully awake; and it did make me want to watch the other films again too, so it probably did its job.
MUCH more importantly, I've now seen at least two separate places that Paul Gross and CKR are apparently goofing around on the Gunless shoot and bewildering everyone with their old due South inside jokes. I mean, really, "We spent a long time together on 'Due South' so that stuff keeps coming back, all these stupid things we used to do on 'Due South' we started doing again on set. And of course, nobody knows what we're doing and I think we look like fools." dsksddsf I don't even know what to do with that. Besides have more joy in my soul for that one quote than for a whole two-and-a-half hours of Harry Potter. And I'm sure Gunless will be rubbish but that absolutely doesn't matter.
Now for breakfast and Tin Man! Because going indiscriminately through CKR's entire oeuvre is a perfectly valid way to spend my day off, but also because I'd been vaguely meaning to watch it before I knew CKR was in it anyway.
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...I think it is very important you watch Durham County, Aria. VERY. IMPORTANT.
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I HAVE DECIDED THAT IS CANON.
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\o/! YAY, the world also specifically needs a sequel to Cold Desert, you know. Mine meanwhile is an s2 AU because I am pretty sure no one has done that yet, and I like occasionally thinking of things no one has done yet in dS fandom because it does not happen very often.
...but! but! I am SO TERRIFIED IT WOULD EAT MY BRAIN. Because I already think the words "Hugh Dillon" and get this huge stupid smile on my face and I am sure it will ONLY GET WORSE. And I need a little bit of my brain for writing long F/K/V fic, right? Right?
And heh, I have ... heard things about Tin Man, yes. Now I'm kind of looking forward to CKR looking like he can't believe he's in it. <3 Also I AM IN SO MUCH SUPPORT OF THIS CANON, oh man.
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Thank you! I am looking forward to writing it, and having words upon words of Kowalski and Vecchio and Fraser talking about things regarding relationships and sex and then Fraser trying to make them all sign up for a polyamorous meet-up in Chicago omg. ::giggles:: And I love AU's, so I will def. read that Season 2 one! And the thing I love about dS fandom is, we don't care if it's done before, we'll always read it again. ::grins::
YES THAT HUGH DILLON GRIN IS KIND OF HARD TO STOP. He's so hot as Mike Sweeney, Aria. So. Hot. But yes! Conserve your resources! Still, I highly recommend the show. Are you digging the Headstones? I have the HDRC (his other band, the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir) album if you want that. It's very good indeed.
Yeah it's very absurd, but Zoe Deschanel=hot and there is no bad there. It's a fun little miniseries.
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Fraser trying to make them all sign up for a polyamorous meet-up in Chicago omg dfsoksljdfs HELL YES. Yours is also making me very happy because it will probably be a nice thing to read after I write my 10,000+ words of the Rays being snarly at each other and Fraser just wanting everyone to get along. (I'm kind of excited about this because if it's Kowalski turning up and interfering with the Fraser/Vecchio cop partnership, it is a completely different dynamic than when Vecchio unexpectedly turns up again in the middle of the Fraser/Kowalski cop partnership. The only thing I am sad about is that I lose post-Vegas!Vecchio, whom I love.) And heh, it really is true; it doesn't matter if it's been done before, we will absolutely read it again because it's just as awesome this time round. :D
SO EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO STOP. LIKE I HAVE IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW. And I am absolutely digging the Headstones but I really haven't listened to as much as I should because I can't actually stop listening to Anything on loop. /o\
Zoe Deschanel=hot -- this: pretty much my real reason for watching Tin Man. XD
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I REALLY like that idea of Kowalski appearing in Season 2, esp. because while I love post-Vegas Vecchio, SEASON 2 VECCHIO OWNS MY HEART. He's so goofy and exasperated and loyal and hot. <3 That is going to bring the angst, man, I'm so there. I did the angst in Cold Desert, so now I can bring the happy!
And I already am sure I will write Mike Sweeney/Ray Kowalski for the next DS Big Bang, haha, because I'm kind of obsessed and ZOMG they are angsty because Miiiiiiiiiike, as you will see when you watch DC, because you will totally have to.
The Deschanel sisters are unfair levels of gorgeous. They did a set of pictures together, I think? Um. UM. I was kind of....
::faints::
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Yes, s2 Vecchio. <333 (Help, the song + s2 Vecchio = I think I am now smiling so hard my FACE HURTS.) And yes! the angst. The angst is fun! Especially because I'm having Kowalski turn up right before Juliet Is Bleeding. (I'm so mean. I'm taking advantage of Louis' death to move Kowalski into the 27.)
Oh well in THAT case I will have to watch it, because I am all for reading your future Big Bangs and I will have to know what's going on. :D
...they did a set of pictures together? df;asdlkf if you ever find those pictures again, let me know. I think that might be critical levels of hotness.
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Well, the STORY goes, he wrote it in Vancouver and played it for Callum right before he left for the airport. In Callum's hotel room. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HE SAT THERE, HURRIED, AND PLAYED THIS SONG FOR CALLUM RENNIE IN HIS HOTEL ROOM AND OMG SEE THEY ARE SO IN LOVE.
Aww, you are sweet <3 Also you should come play on this meme I am getting ready to post. It is for writing of characters playing games!
...this reminds me that at home I have fic of yours in tabs to read. Am so behind omg!
I will search for them, and see what I can do. BECAUSE OH MY GOD.
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I AM PRETTY SURE YOU CAN HEAR MY SHRIEKS OF JOY FROM HERE OH MY GOD. I don't really care if it's a true story or not because it is SUCH AN AWESOME STORY.
Heh, what I should really do is go eat breakfast, but after that I will go check out your meme. :D
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RIGHT? RIGHT? ALDKJAS;LDJAS;LDFJK.. I JUST..
You have to hear Radio Plays, the song from the HDRC album, and then the radio interview where Hugh talks about Callum and INFORMS US HOW RADIO PLAYS IS CALLUM'S CELL PHONE RING TONE.
And I will hopefully have it posted by then! I am also writing something for it, and have a lunch break to attend to :DDDD
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I don't have my proper icons on DW. Alas!
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How much time was devoted to Lupin/Tonks, though? I had hoped that would get left on the cutting-room floor too, or at least revised into something with less horrifying gender politics. :|
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Lupin/Tonks got about five minutes all told, mostly while other much more interesting stuff was happening, and rather than horrifying the hell out of me, they just appeared to be dating for no good reason. So it was ... okay, although I'd hoped they'd just leave it out also.
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As long as Tonks didn't have stupid whiny pining emo hair, I am willing to accept that Remus would tap that. Because if she had stayed OotP!Tonks (and, y'know, not been fictional) I probably would have. XD The reason for my hate is mostly that JKR fails at writing romance
unless it's retroactive Victorian teenager hoyay.Also... how did they handle R.A.B., I SWEAR I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM
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And NO Tonks was pretty much still OotP!Tonks, in that she had purple hair and seemed functional and competent. For some reason everyone had a need to go "Oh, poor Remus, the Change is so haaard for him," completely unprompted, including Tonks, and it all came off as weirdly condescending, but I am probably more sensitive to Remus-related things than I should be anyway.
R.A.B. WAS AWESOME OKAY. By which I mean they pointedly let Slughorn mention Regulus, and then Hermione made a fuss at the end about the locket. (Of course at that point I desperately wanted the film to finish because I needed a bathroom, so I wasn't paying very good attention, but I'm pretty sure said fuss was made.)
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THANK GOD. The pasted-on romance is still kind of annoying, but the utter character assassination was the worst part. I can see the oh-poor-Lupin in movie-canon, seeing as PoA made him out to be a misunderstood victim whose affliction is Not At All A Gay Metaphor, but yeah, what. He has been handling it for 30+ years, surely the pity party has let out by then?
YEE okay good, as long as he exists. :D
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I get a little tingely at this words, Aria. I have a problem.
Leaving out the fight at the end was so STUPID! Where was the climax of the damn movie?
I actually bought evil!Tom a lot more in the movie, because they made it quite clear that was just completely insane from the time he was a child. It still wasn't as believable as it could have been, especially as we didn't get the backstory of OH AND HIS MOM'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY WAS INBRED AND INSANE.
I was expecting HORRIBLE ROTTING ZOMBIES. >:( I am both sad and relieved about the Gollums.
Oh, oh, the shoe-tying bit was so awful. I cringed really hard.
I dunno, I got no sleep and really loved the movie, mostly. I will hit you up on gtalk later!
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I am just bewildered that they were Gollums, y'know? Like, "When you die and the Dark Lord puts you in an underground lake for lots of years, that's exactly the same as wasting away without dying because the Dark Lord made a Ring and you hid in an underground lake for lots of years." I mean, really?
THE SHOE-TYING JUST WHAT. I know I was absolutely not the only one going "...Ginny, why the fuck are you trying to give Harry a Christmas blowjob." WHAT.
I think you should sleeeep more! And uh I am going to probably be on the internet all day but I am watching mooovies and am not on gtalk, so just let me know when you are around for being friendly. <33
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