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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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