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I love Tim Burton. He could have made some stupid cartoons or a digitalized movie or something (like The Incredibles), but no. Noooooooooo he did the right thing...STOP ACTION--oooh how I love stop action! hahahaha...You could probably get me to watch anything stop action. hehe
Anyway, I really liked Corpse Bride, of course. It was a little short, though! Which brings me on my mission to find out how long The Nightmare Before Christmas is. I'll be going home tonight for dinner, so I'm going to check then.
I'll probably go to dinner super early so I can work on math. For some reason I just work better at home. I think it's because I have nothing else to do whereas if I'm in here, I'll want to clean my room and read Harry Potter.
Actually, I'll probably read Harry in a few minutes :) I'm about halfway through book 5 now. Very exciting! Sometimes I forget that somebody's going to die and then I'll be very sad when I remember. I'm convinced that it's Hagrid because he's continually missing--so it wouldn't be surprising if it turns out that he had died. But that'd be the saddest of all! I always do this...I analyze who the writer is allowed to kill.
Take Angel for example. We knew that somebody was going to die in the series finale because it was revealed in the previews--stupid fucking narrator tells you that somebody's going to die. I wish people wouldn't do that. It's much more surprising and much more meaningful (I can't exactly say ENJOYABLE, but I guess to a certain extent towards your entertainment enjoyment) if you don't know that somebody's going to die or if you don't know there's a surprise/twist ending. Then you're not looking for it and analyzing everything. I'd much prefer that...
Anyway, I sat down with my mom before the show and we were discussing who could be killed. I had my own little "theory" I guess you could say. Basically, it had to be a main character--why otherwise announce it? Plus, they flashed all the main characters across the screen and said something like, "who will it be?" So we've got Angel, Spike, Wes, Gunn, Lorne, and "Fred" who was no longer Fred but a demon who killed Fred and took over her body. Number 1, definitely not Fred because she's already gone--they're not going to just kill her fucking body...Number 2, it has to be somebody who we're going to cry over--they wouldn't kill somebody in the finale unless they wanted us to be devastated in some way. Therefore, it's not Gunn or Lorne because even though we adore them, we wouldn't be as devastated with their deaths as we would somebody who we've grown close to throughout the YEARS, aka Angel, Spike or Wes. Number 3, they would NEVER dare kill off Angel because the fans would go PSYCHO and probably burn down Joss Whedon's home--Joss would never allow Angel to die. Number 4, Spike died in the series finale of Buffy. They're not going to do that all over again. The only person left is Wes. Wes, who we met on Buffy and who we loathed at first because he had a stick up his ass. Wes, who left the Watchers and became a rogue demon hunter and who ended up teaming up with Angel and Cordelia. Wes, who we came to love because he was such a silly, scared little man. Wes, who we went through turmoil with because he became somebody who we hated, somebody who we felt bad for, somebody who we wanted to cry for because his greatest love was killed (Fred). So the saddest person to kill would be Wes. Sure enough, he was the one who died and it was a horribly horribly sad scene (the demon who took over Fred (can't recall her name, though it starts with an I) pretended to be her--she took on her true appearance again (rather than this superhero looking getup and weirdly colored hair) and comforted Wes as he was dying--she told him she loved him or something--it was very very depressing).
SO ANYWAY, I absolutely positively always have to analyze who is going to die. Even if it wasn't specifically given away--like in Armaggeddon. You're not told somebody's going to die, but you KNOW they are. And then you figure out how certain characters fit into this sort of Star Wars bit and realize that the dad will die after he finally approves of his "son" (or soon to be, son-in-law)...because somebody HAS to die in a movie like that...the entire reason I refuse to watch certain movies now, like Ladder 49 (or whatever the number is). You just KNOW a main character is going to die in a movie like that.
So yeah, here I sit analyzing who could die in book five. NOBODY tell me the truth. I want to go through it myself and not have the surprise completely ruined (my mom had Richard tell her and I was so annoyed when she acted like she was going to reveal shit--I freaked out). That would just ruin the entire book for me, I'm sure. But let's see, she could kill Dumbledore--but the only reason I see for that is because the actor died in real life...though he's already been replaced, so why make up for it now? And why let something like that direct your creative voice. I don't see any other reason to kill Dumbledore--he's the wise old man who everybody adores and the story just wouldn't be the same without him (you wouldn't have that knowing voice of reason). Plus, I don't think the readers would cry so much over his death because we love him, but we're not as emotionally attached to him as to others. He could die, though, which would set up lines where Harry's friends are saying "what would Dumbledore say?" and "Dumbledore would want you to do this," etc etc. Plus, the story could go on with more turmoil in the school as some freak from the Ministry takes over for Dumbledore. But that would really annoy the shit out of me (I don't like stories like this because it's like you can't escape the evil teacher/dean--such as on The OC!)...They can't kill Harry, OBVIOUSLY. Killing either Ron or Hermione would be completely psychotic because it would kill an element that very much makes the story likeable--That's like killing off either Xander or Willow in Buffy. You just can't mess up that element of 3 in the relationship and you can't do something that's going to make the rest of the series incredibly depressing far beyond the point of the person's actual death...Plus, we were fooled at the beginning to think that Ron had died, so he probably won't actually die...It most likely won't be somebody who we like, but who we won't be devastated over. JK cried herself over this character, but she's the creator, so she could have cried over just about anybody--I mean, the readers could too, but if you're going to kill somebody who we like, you probably want it to have a great impact, otherwise what's the point? This isn't a fucking war movie...So what we've got left is Hagrid. He's the guy we absolutely adore, he's the one who makes us grin from ear to ear, he's the one we want to stand up for too, he's the one we'd be bawling our eyes out over...If anything, I'd say it's either him or Dumbledore. The problem, though, is that this isn't a movie, so it's highly likely that I could be completely wrong. Books aren't necessarily as predictable as movies, especially because they're not so much created for the audience as they are the writer--at a certain point, such as when your series is incredibly popularly famous, you'd be keeping the readers' "desires" much closer, but it's still not the same as a movie (even though it will be a movie at some point). The point is, Harry Potter has never been very predictable. At least not as predictable as many other things.
It could be Sirius, though...that would have the greatest impact on our feelings towards Harry because Sirius is the only "family" he's got left. But Sirius did rather "just show up" in a way, so why take him away now?
SO, in my opinion, it's somebody whose death will affect the most people (characters), somebody who we love, and somebody whose presence doesn't carry the story.
I'm done babbling now and I'm going to read :)
Anyway, I really liked Corpse Bride, of course. It was a little short, though! Which brings me on my mission to find out how long The Nightmare Before Christmas is. I'll be going home tonight for dinner, so I'm going to check then.
I'll probably go to dinner super early so I can work on math. For some reason I just work better at home. I think it's because I have nothing else to do whereas if I'm in here, I'll want to clean my room and read Harry Potter.
Actually, I'll probably read Harry in a few minutes :) I'm about halfway through book 5 now. Very exciting! Sometimes I forget that somebody's going to die and then I'll be very sad when I remember. I'm convinced that it's Hagrid because he's continually missing--so it wouldn't be surprising if it turns out that he had died. But that'd be the saddest of all! I always do this...I analyze who the writer is allowed to kill.
Take Angel for example. We knew that somebody was going to die in the series finale because it was revealed in the previews--stupid fucking narrator tells you that somebody's going to die. I wish people wouldn't do that. It's much more surprising and much more meaningful (I can't exactly say ENJOYABLE, but I guess to a certain extent towards your entertainment enjoyment) if you don't know that somebody's going to die or if you don't know there's a surprise/twist ending. Then you're not looking for it and analyzing everything. I'd much prefer that...
Anyway, I sat down with my mom before the show and we were discussing who could be killed. I had my own little "theory" I guess you could say. Basically, it had to be a main character--why otherwise announce it? Plus, they flashed all the main characters across the screen and said something like, "who will it be?" So we've got Angel, Spike, Wes, Gunn, Lorne, and "Fred" who was no longer Fred but a demon who killed Fred and took over her body. Number 1, definitely not Fred because she's already gone--they're not going to just kill her fucking body...Number 2, it has to be somebody who we're going to cry over--they wouldn't kill somebody in the finale unless they wanted us to be devastated in some way. Therefore, it's not Gunn or Lorne because even though we adore them, we wouldn't be as devastated with their deaths as we would somebody who we've grown close to throughout the YEARS, aka Angel, Spike or Wes. Number 3, they would NEVER dare kill off Angel because the fans would go PSYCHO and probably burn down Joss Whedon's home--Joss would never allow Angel to die. Number 4, Spike died in the series finale of Buffy. They're not going to do that all over again. The only person left is Wes. Wes, who we met on Buffy and who we loathed at first because he had a stick up his ass. Wes, who left the Watchers and became a rogue demon hunter and who ended up teaming up with Angel and Cordelia. Wes, who we came to love because he was such a silly, scared little man. Wes, who we went through turmoil with because he became somebody who we hated, somebody who we felt bad for, somebody who we wanted to cry for because his greatest love was killed (Fred). So the saddest person to kill would be Wes. Sure enough, he was the one who died and it was a horribly horribly sad scene (the demon who took over Fred (can't recall her name, though it starts with an I) pretended to be her--she took on her true appearance again (rather than this superhero looking getup and weirdly colored hair) and comforted Wes as he was dying--she told him she loved him or something--it was very very depressing).
SO ANYWAY, I absolutely positively always have to analyze who is going to die. Even if it wasn't specifically given away--like in Armaggeddon. You're not told somebody's going to die, but you KNOW they are. And then you figure out how certain characters fit into this sort of Star Wars bit and realize that the dad will die after he finally approves of his "son" (or soon to be, son-in-law)...because somebody HAS to die in a movie like that...the entire reason I refuse to watch certain movies now, like Ladder 49 (or whatever the number is). You just KNOW a main character is going to die in a movie like that.
So yeah, here I sit analyzing who could die in book five. NOBODY tell me the truth. I want to go through it myself and not have the surprise completely ruined (my mom had Richard tell her and I was so annoyed when she acted like she was going to reveal shit--I freaked out). That would just ruin the entire book for me, I'm sure. But let's see, she could kill Dumbledore--but the only reason I see for that is because the actor died in real life...though he's already been replaced, so why make up for it now? And why let something like that direct your creative voice. I don't see any other reason to kill Dumbledore--he's the wise old man who everybody adores and the story just wouldn't be the same without him (you wouldn't have that knowing voice of reason). Plus, I don't think the readers would cry so much over his death because we love him, but we're not as emotionally attached to him as to others. He could die, though, which would set up lines where Harry's friends are saying "what would Dumbledore say?" and "Dumbledore would want you to do this," etc etc. Plus, the story could go on with more turmoil in the school as some freak from the Ministry takes over for Dumbledore. But that would really annoy the shit out of me (I don't like stories like this because it's like you can't escape the evil teacher/dean--such as on The OC!)...They can't kill Harry, OBVIOUSLY. Killing either Ron or Hermione would be completely psychotic because it would kill an element that very much makes the story likeable--That's like killing off either Xander or Willow in Buffy. You just can't mess up that element of 3 in the relationship and you can't do something that's going to make the rest of the series incredibly depressing far beyond the point of the person's actual death...Plus, we were fooled at the beginning to think that Ron had died, so he probably won't actually die...It most likely won't be somebody who we like, but who we won't be devastated over. JK cried herself over this character, but she's the creator, so she could have cried over just about anybody--I mean, the readers could too, but if you're going to kill somebody who we like, you probably want it to have a great impact, otherwise what's the point? This isn't a fucking war movie...So what we've got left is Hagrid. He's the guy we absolutely adore, he's the one who makes us grin from ear to ear, he's the one we want to stand up for too, he's the one we'd be bawling our eyes out over...If anything, I'd say it's either him or Dumbledore. The problem, though, is that this isn't a movie, so it's highly likely that I could be completely wrong. Books aren't necessarily as predictable as movies, especially because they're not so much created for the audience as they are the writer--at a certain point, such as when your series is incredibly popularly famous, you'd be keeping the readers' "desires" much closer, but it's still not the same as a movie (even though it will be a movie at some point). The point is, Harry Potter has never been very predictable. At least not as predictable as many other things.
It could be Sirius, though...that would have the greatest impact on our feelings towards Harry because Sirius is the only "family" he's got left. But Sirius did rather "just show up" in a way, so why take him away now?
SO, in my opinion, it's somebody whose death will affect the most people (characters), somebody who we love, and somebody whose presence doesn't carry the story.
I'm done babbling now and I'm going to read :)