Sadness. Actor Richard Griffiths, best known to our part of the universe for playing the execreble Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films, has passed away at the age of 65. He had a long and distinguished (as in Tony- and other-award-winning) career on state, screen, radio, and television, and was even up for the part of The Doctor a couple of ( Read more... )

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Goodness me, how could I almost forget that!? If Harry actually existed, he'd be 32 today ( Read more... )

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Oh, you're gonna hate me for this one. Kinda-sorta-Harry/Hermione, although very very slow-moving. At this point, really not relevant. Very much out-of-character Harry, Draco, Quirrell, and more. Oh, and it's a Work-In-Progress.

The author's handle is Less Wrong, and the story is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Very simple ( Read more... )

Tomorrow marks the release of two genre biggies: the final movie in the Harry Potter series on DVD and Blu-Ray, and the newest game in Bethesda's celebrated Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim. I'll pick up the movie later, but -- even t hough I will not be able to so much as install it before I get back from WindyCon -- I will have my copy of Skyrim ( Read more... )

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We're going to see the 9:45 IMAX 3D show this morning. And then it will be done.

Among the theses:

• overall success as a story
• success as an adaptation
• differences between book and movie and are those differences an improvement
• do they do anything to make Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione seem plausible let alone reasonable
• how much of the exposition in The ( Read more... )

The glamour of evil.