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So. Finally saw HP8, without taking the time to reread the book or to see HP7. What is time, really. But the things I was mightily impressed with included: the dragon, McGonagall and Snape in basically every scene they were in, Fred and George (aaaaaaah ;;), Luna, the magical shield, Lucius admitting he didn't know how he was living with himself, the fire in the RoR, and probably lots of other things that I'll catch again on rewatch.
Things that made me blink: Blaize Zabini in the RoR, Helena's ghost and all that anger without telling her story, and Harry snapping the Elder Wand (I honestly can't remember whether that was supposed to happen).
It was a good movie. Good end to the franchise. And now there's Pottermore with all its awkward semicanonicity. Hm.
Also, finally got hold of Ghost Story, the latest Dresden Files book. And I am way, waaaay more happy with it than the last one. I mean, you have face time with an incarnated Bob inside the skull and two versions of him duking it out for great justice, Molly's headspace consisting of a replica of the TOS bridge complete with alts of her playing all the characters, Butters being THE AWESOMEST GEEKY LITTLE M.E. WHOSE LICENSE PLATE EVER READ "MEEPMEEP" and I cannot EVER unsee him as late-eighties Dan Shor now, THANKS BRAIN~, and... well, and Harry realizing the whole last book consisted of a number of the stupidest mistakes he'd ever made and doing his best to fix them and move on. I'm going to have to reread it soon, because I basically tore through it to find out who was going to die AND NO ONE DID (well, Butters technically did but he got better eeeee) and I probably missed a lot of details, but the only thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was how very, very bad the whole episode was for Murphy. As strong as she is, things will not be good when she realizes why Harry spent the whole book dead. And when she or Ivy put the pieces together, Kinkaid will be in deep, deep trouble.
..but no one died. ^_______^ And Harry got over some of his angst (by rising to new heights of chutzpa, but that's a whole different issue). And in addition to headcasting Shor as Butters, we're kind of also headcasting Tom Hiddleston as book!Bob, and I am content because he's just about the only upstart I'd tolerate in Terrence Mann's place. So life is good.
In other fannish news: Legend of Korra trailer is gorgeous. And the Eleventh Doctor trailer makes me nervous, because as much as I trust the Moff some historical periods get my back up. But there's Smith and Gillian and Darvill still so it'll be okay.
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Things that made me blink: Blaize Zabini in the RoR, Helena's ghost and all that anger without telling her story, and Harry snapping the Elder Wand (I honestly can't remember whether that was supposed to happen).
It was a good movie. Good end to the franchise. And now there's Pottermore with all its awkward semicanonicity. Hm.
Also, finally got hold of Ghost Story, the latest Dresden Files book. And I am way, waaaay more happy with it than the last one. I mean, you have face time with an incarnated Bob inside the skull and two versions of him duking it out for great justice, Molly's headspace consisting of a replica of the TOS bridge complete with alts of her playing all the characters, Butters being THE AWESOMEST GEEKY LITTLE M.E. WHOSE LICENSE PLATE EVER READ "MEEPMEEP" and I cannot EVER unsee him as late-eighties Dan Shor now, THANKS BRAIN~, and... well, and Harry realizing the whole last book consisted of a number of the stupidest mistakes he'd ever made and doing his best to fix them and move on. I'm going to have to reread it soon, because I basically tore through it to find out who was going to die AND NO ONE DID (well, Butters technically did but he got better eeeee) and I probably missed a lot of details, but the only thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was how very, very bad the whole episode was for Murphy. As strong as she is, things will not be good when she realizes why Harry spent the whole book dead. And when she or Ivy put the pieces together, Kinkaid will be in deep, deep trouble.
..but no one died. ^_______^ And Harry got over some of his angst (by rising to new heights of chutzpa, but that's a whole different issue). And in addition to headcasting Shor as Butters, we're kind of also headcasting Tom Hiddleston as book!Bob, and I am content because he's just about the only upstart I'd tolerate in Terrence Mann's place. So life is good.
In other fannish news: Legend of Korra trailer is gorgeous. And the Eleventh Doctor trailer makes me nervous, because as much as I trust the Moff some historical periods get my back up. But there's Smith and Gillian and Darvill still so it'll be okay.
Originally posted on Dreamwidth. There are
comments there so far.