An Immortal, A Time Lord, and a Wizard all walk into a bar
Bah-rum-pa!
I'm terrible at making jokes.
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I love Duncan and Methos. This should be fairly obvious, but sometimes it needs to be said. They are teh cute! I have a hankering to rewatch episodes, but I just don't have the time. Sadness! I need an amand_r style post-it note version. lol.
Meanwhile, the story continues to kick my ass.
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This piece by piece deconstruction of the Doctor's new costume by the BBC news is HIGH-LARIOUS. It's like one of those fashion columns in US magazine with catty celeb-wannabe commentaries.
Me, I'm so so on the look myself. A bit neutral. I like the bit of punk with the shoes (although, Prada? srsly?), however the professorial look seems a bit cliche for the Doctor, imo, but I'm sure I'll love it once I see it in action. All he needs is to substitute teach for Indian Jones one day and stutter when girls write LOVE YOU on their eyelids.
I think it's fascinating that they managed to cast an even MORE gangly, lanky Doctor than both Nine and Ten. He looks like he's having fun, though, they both do -- so that's nice.
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I saw HBP *twice*, not necessarily because I liked it so much, although I did like it, but because that's just the way my life enfolds sometimes. My mother demanded I take her after I already had plans with my cousin. D'oh!
--I really did like the movie, but this was the first HP film since Azkaban where I thought the action scenes in the book were better than the action scenes in the movie. it's been ages since I read the HBP, but I remember devouring the final scene in the cave and then at Hogwarts. But those scenes in the film felt slow and empty. I braced myself for horror in the cave, and while the Inferi were eee!creepy, the editing felt slow. And then I don't know why they gutted the action at Hogwarts and the final scene between Snape and Harry was not nearly so excruciating as it was in the book. So the ending was a disappointment.
--But I loved the lighted wands pointed to the sky.
--I loved Harry, Ron, and Hermione. <3 <3 <3 My mother turned to me at the end of the movie and said "What's that boy's name, Woombly? He's turned into a chunk." She meant she thought Ron had turned into a hunk. I swear to God that's what she said, though, and I laughed and laughed. English and my mother are not always good friends. lol.
--Ginny Weasley is AWESOME. I luff her. Although I didn't care for the shoe-tieing bit. wtf?
--As is Luna Lovegood. Ginny, Luna and Hermione should just all go off together and have their own fabulous show.
--I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh a little at Draco's Prince Hamlet impersonation (although the actor did step it up a bit, so I can't complain about that). But he was all woeful, tormented prince, wandering around the castle all in black, no one understands my pain. hahaaha.
--Jim Broadbent was great.
--You know, Snape is an incredible character -- the most complex and fascinating character in the book, by far, imo. However, someone please tell me why, in God's name, he comes across as only marginally more interesting than a dark lamp post in the films? They have Alan Rickman playing the part, and I'm generally inclined to say Alan Rickman can do no wrong as an actor, so I fear it's the writing and the directing, which was entirely too focused on Lav Lav and Won Won; or conversely Dark Prince Draco's struggle or whatever. Maybe no one knows how to properly depict that sort of complexity? Certainly not when he's not the POV character. We got a glimpse of something in that one scene with Dumbledore, but it was all pale shadows. bah.
I'm terrible at making jokes.
~~~
I love Duncan and Methos. This should be fairly obvious, but sometimes it needs to be said. They are teh cute! I have a hankering to rewatch episodes, but I just don't have the time. Sadness! I need an amand_r style post-it note version. lol.
Meanwhile, the story continues to kick my ass.
~~~
This piece by piece deconstruction of the Doctor's new costume by the BBC news is HIGH-LARIOUS. It's like one of those fashion columns in US magazine with catty celeb-wannabe commentaries.
Me, I'm so so on the look myself. A bit neutral. I like the bit of punk with the shoes (although, Prada? srsly?), however the professorial look seems a bit cliche for the Doctor, imo, but I'm sure I'll love it once I see it in action. All he needs is to substitute teach for Indian Jones one day and stutter when girls write LOVE YOU on their eyelids.
I think it's fascinating that they managed to cast an even MORE gangly, lanky Doctor than both Nine and Ten. He looks like he's having fun, though, they both do -- so that's nice.
~~~
I saw HBP *twice*, not necessarily because I liked it so much, although I did like it, but because that's just the way my life enfolds sometimes. My mother demanded I take her after I already had plans with my cousin. D'oh!
--I really did like the movie, but this was the first HP film since Azkaban where I thought the action scenes in the book were better than the action scenes in the movie. it's been ages since I read the HBP, but I remember devouring the final scene in the cave and then at Hogwarts. But those scenes in the film felt slow and empty. I braced myself for horror in the cave, and while the Inferi were eee!creepy, the editing felt slow. And then I don't know why they gutted the action at Hogwarts and the final scene between Snape and Harry was not nearly so excruciating as it was in the book. So the ending was a disappointment.
--But I loved the lighted wands pointed to the sky.
--I loved Harry, Ron, and Hermione. <3 <3 <3 My mother turned to me at the end of the movie and said "What's that boy's name, Woombly? He's turned into a chunk." She meant she thought Ron had turned into a hunk. I swear to God that's what she said, though, and I laughed and laughed. English and my mother are not always good friends. lol.
--Ginny Weasley is AWESOME. I luff her. Although I didn't care for the shoe-tieing bit. wtf?
--As is Luna Lovegood. Ginny, Luna and Hermione should just all go off together and have their own fabulous show.
--I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh a little at Draco's Prince Hamlet impersonation (although the actor did step it up a bit, so I can't complain about that). But he was all woeful, tormented prince, wandering around the castle all in black, no one understands my pain. hahaaha.
--Jim Broadbent was great.
--You know, Snape is an incredible character -- the most complex and fascinating character in the book, by far, imo. However, someone please tell me why, in God's name, he comes across as only marginally more interesting than a dark lamp post in the films? They have Alan Rickman playing the part, and I'm generally inclined to say Alan Rickman can do no wrong as an actor, so I fear it's the writing and the directing, which was entirely too focused on Lav Lav and Won Won; or conversely Dark Prince Draco's struggle or whatever. Maybe no one knows how to properly depict that sort of complexity? Certainly not when he's not the POV character. We got a glimpse of something in that one scene with Dumbledore, but it was all pale shadows. bah.