riveting dialogue: "who's R.A.B?" "dunno"
Hello! So yeah, despite me promising it last entry, I never got around to doing a play-by-play of the Glee pilot. Boo me. (What?) But I'll give you a rundown now of what I thought of the
GLee
Stuff That Was Good
- Let's get the superficial out of the way first: Teacherman Will is hot, holy crap. There's probably some kind of inappropriate innuendo I could put in there about homework or something but I won't! Because I'm an innocent flower!
- I'm really glad they cast actors that can actually sing. I hate watching shows/movies wherein someone with all the vocal talent of Hilary Duff gets on stage and sings and people go WOW OMG SUCH PURE TALENT when in reality they sound like autotuned squeaky toys. (This was my problem with High School Musical). But everyone in this sounds awesome, even if some of them are a bit too polished/over-trained.
- 'WHERE IS LOVE' FROM OLIVER!. Aww man. I was in the chorus line of a youth staging of Oliver! when I was 12 and that song is my favourite of the show.
- Shower rendition of "Can't Fight This Feeling", heh. They should totally call the guy from REO Speedwagon to do a cameo. All he's doing right now is infomercials for the Greatest Rock Ballads Collection. He even sits there with a guitar and plays the chorus. (Also it weirds me out that American high schools have showers, ew). That song is an awesome shower song.
- From what I'm reading on Wiki, kid that plays Finn isn't actually a singer, in which case I admire that dude for signing onto a show that is basically more singing than talking. It is a little unbalanced to my ear right now though with Rachel being the stronger voice when they sing together. To me he sounds a little more authentic. Rachel doesn't sound like a teenager who has a lot of natural unharvested talent, she sounds like a pro singer who happens to be in high school.
- I hate Journey, but that arrangement of "Don't Stop Believin'" was awesome.
- Rachel and Finn getting together is going to be the most contrived part of this show when it starts, but when you watch the final sequence back they're actually really adorable. I love just after he gets up from the drums and he smiles at her when he sticks his arm out. I hope they make it this kind of thing wherein he thinks he's out of her league and not the other way around, because for a jock, Finn is actually more than a little dorky. Their height difference (actually, Finn's height difference with, er, everyone) is quite astronomical though. On that note, why are all Broadway babes short?!
- Following on from this, I love that they're trying to convince us that Finn is this really popular jock when he is obviously a MASSIVE DORK. That final sequence there, it's like he's embarrassed to dance during the groupy bits. I think he even plays half-hearted air guitar at one point. It's adorable!
Stuff That Was Not As Good
- Did it have to be Journey? Really? Journey?
- In terms of this being a fully fledged series, I don't know how much I'm going to be able to relate to a show that paints this society wherein musical talent is something loserish or to be ashamed of. Some of you kids will know I sang quite a bit at school functions during high school, and at times it felt like it was the only thing connecting me to the other kids in my year - people that never spoke to me otherwise felt comfortable coming up to me after I'd sung at assembly and telling me what they thought. The teachers were actually the most eager to congratulate me, and occasionally the most overzealous, probably because I was a source of unpaid filler for assemblies. Anyway, it was weird to tune into a show wherein musical talent is something that isn't encouraged. The only reason I started singing in the first place was because people signed me up for my school's talent show at the last minute after I sang over the bus PA system on school camp - I was so encouraged to do it I was literally shoved into it at times. That said, I understand the concept of theater nerds keeping quiet about their theater nerd ways. I did extracurricular theater for three years during my summers and I know that spending your summer making up dance routines to pirate songs or pretending to be a poor Ancient Egyptian fishmonger is not what is considered "cool".
- Nerdy girl and high school jock bonding over shared vocal talent and choreographed dance routines sounds a lot like High School Musical.
- The characters are a bit...cliche? I mean, I liked them all, sure, but what I didn't like was that each of them is basically a stock character, right down to the feisty black girl and the overly effeminate boy, which REALLY pissed me off. I hate the implication that only effeminate guys can be musical or star in plays. I've been in 7 plays and every time the leading man was either averagely male or overly tough and often manlier than a Manly football player.
- I'm not surprised that Wiki reports this was originally meant to be a movie. I wonder, what with each episode requiring musical licensing rights, $3 million to produce and up to 10 days of filming (plus recording and choreography time, I imagine) how long this show will be sustainable as a series.
- Bet you anything the season one finale is Will being torn between glee club's first ever competition and birth of his child. Unless wife runs away with child, but since they're pitching this as a family drama I assume there probably won't be any cheating with Jayma Mays. I think my point here is: it was a tad predictable.
- This is not Glee's fault, but I also bet you Channel Ten will show three or four eps of this in September and then yank it off air. It's what they do.
I actually had a couple of other problems with this pilot (choppy, bits felt like they were missing, too many narrators, certain cast members overacting like they're on Broadway and not TV probably cause half of them came from Broadway) but I liked it in general so eh.
Nitpickery
- I feel as though I have watched a one hour show entitled Glee and come away from it with no further knowledge of what a glee club is or does. I assume we're expected to already have this knowledge, which is confusing because Australian high schools don't have a lot of clubs. We don't generally have football teams or stadiums or cheerleaders or all those specialized clubs American high schools seem to have. I'm sure there are some private schools out here that have certain types of clubs, but...my school didn't even have an auditorium. During our weekly assemblies all 600 of us students had to sit on the floor of the gym, which had a makeshift stage normally used for table tennis. If it was a really special occasion, we got to sit on these murky brown fold-out chairs. But generally it was the floor. We had a big group of kids who did instrumental music through school but they didn't really hang around together, and we only put on one school play in the six years I attended (which was staged in, you guessed it, the gym. And part of the audience still had to sit on the floor!). I went into this thinking glee clubs were like acappella choirs, yet these kids had a band for their Journey sing-off. What.
- The final music sequence confused me. Well, it didn't really cause it was awesome, but it didn't make a whole lot of sense from a logistics standpoint. Firstly, their voices sound exactly the same despite them dancing, jumping, twirling and going around the stage away from the microphones. Dancing does not leave you with enough breath to project that loudly, and thirdly, did Mr Jock not randomly sit behind the drum kit for a few seconds and then get up and continue dancing around despite the drum beat not changing? LOL obviously I know that the actors probably recorded this in a studio and had to mime it as they danced ten gazillion times to get all those angles, but it niggled at me. Also, at one point they spin Token Wheelchair Kid around in circles while he plays a guitar...that is not even plugged into an amp. I was under the impression glee club barely had enough money to run, yet the school is apparently funding wireless guitars for the school band. And how could Rachel and Finn hear themselves over the band when they weren't singing into mikes and thus couldn't make use the fallback? They weren't wearing mike packs or earpieces either. And who was audio mixing?
- One goes to uni to get a degree to become a teacher (at least, they do here). One cannot quickly switch from teacher to accountant without going back to uni and doing an accounting degree. Also it's a bitch of a wife that forces her husband to quit his lifelong job in the middle of the recession to become an accountant.
- Besides being in glee club himself as a young'un, how much musical experience does Will actually have?
- Jayma Mays plays a germaphobe...who opens and hands Will a computer and a 16 year old CD without gloves on. ...k?
I know, I am overanalyzing this show too much already! I get that this is meant to be nice family entertainment on right after Idol, and I will definitely start watching it when it comes on if only for the musical arrangements. I don't know though, the pilot already made me feel a bit depressed about the fact that I don't have the chance to sing in public anymore. It made me miss the old music room at high school with it's shag-pile walls and crappy keyboards and square mikes from 1972, and most of all the little bit of notoriety I had for being "that chick that sings nicely". Or the squishiness of things like singing in music class to test the microphones for my teacher and someone walking in and looking at me and going "I thought that was the radio". Or singing at the Victorian Arts Centre, or in the church on presentation night, or at graduation. If I didn't feel so arrogant talking about it, I'd make a post about it to get it out because I really miss singing sometimes. It defined me at school for so long that I graduated and had to figure out who I was without it for the first time since I was 11, which was weird. I'd burned myself out on it by the time I grad'd and I feel like I've only just got it back. I dunno, I wish there was more theater opportunities out here. I'm more than willing to sing in public again (I used to sing in the canteen line or in class when people asked me to, just because they thought I wouldn't do it), I just lack the arena in which to do it. That said, I am untrained and in the harsh light of the Real World (TM) I might suck lol. Who knows! The good part is sometimes I feel like my voice is my little secret waiting to be busted out if my uni ever has a talent quest or anything of the sort. We'll see what comes up. SEE, I'M SAD NOW. idk.
Anyway, so here was my weekend: Saturday, I went out and shopped for a bit and got school stuff. Not even interesting school stuff, just some pens and a train ticket and phone credit and crap like that. I did however get two new handbags! I know right, you're DYING of handbag excitement. I know I am! OH HO HO. (Again, what am I talking about). Sunday, my friend Heather and I went for a walk/run. We must have gone at least 5km. Yesterday, not much, and today, the three of us went to see HP at Crown. So
Harry Potter, Harry Potter, UH
1. Bottom line, I didn't think this movie was as great as the last and definitely not as good as POA (which was my favourite), but better than GOF (which was my least favourite). People tell me the book is basically a big set-up for Deathly Hallows, which makes sense because I didn't feel any of the story lines in this movie were particularly epic. As my friend Heather's brother put it "A lot of stuff happened and it was a good movie, but what have we learned?"
2. Following on from that question, he revelation that Harry's half-blood prince annotated textbook was in fact annotated by Snape was a bit of a surprise, but I don't really get the significance of it. My mum said that when Snape revealed he was the HBP, she expected there to be some sort of revelation or explanation behind it, but there wasn't. It left me a bit confuzzled by the end. I don't know what it means to be the HBP besides apparently serving Voldemort.
3. I did however really love all the Tom Riddle flashback scenes. this movie managed to excel in the genuinely creepy. When that Katie girl got cursed and rose into the sky with black hair flowing ala The Grudge, that shit was scary. The houses burning down was scary and the traveling Harry did on Dumbledore's arm was scary. And forcing Dumbledore to drink was, too. Good stuff.
4. Now the romance. LOL oh man. I both loved and hated that crap. Ron and Lavender was obviously hilarious from start to finish ("Won Won!"). And it helped to highlight the fact that Danrad and Rupert really need to form their own comedy duo or something. When she drew her and Ron's initials in the fogged-up glass and walked off, and Harry's response was "Lovely", I pretty much died. And lovecharm!Ron. "I'M IN LOVE WITH HER!" "Okay! You're in love with he- Have you ever actually met her?" "No...Could you introduce me?!" LMAO. And highonsuccess!Harry displayed DanRad's ability to play a comedic character brilliantly. I loved how he announced he was going to Hagrid's and then went "...Sir?" when he was called back. To prove the hilarity of "pincers", I shall link you to this gif from financiers. lol.
5. As crazy as these hormonal kids were in this movie, I kind of adored all the Ron/Hermione drama. I walked into this movie shipping Harry/Hermione, and I walked out kind of excited knowing that Ron and Hermione do eventually hook up and have aptly-named children. When she asked Harry what it felt like to see Ginny with That Dude, and then Ron burst in and she sent the bird smashing close to his head, he gives her this look like he knows exactly what she meant by doing that. The bit where Hermione and Harry lean into each other at the same time, and Harry says "It feels a bit like this"? That SLAYED me. I adored it. That was some beautiful writing. What really gets me about DanRad and Emma is that when they're around each other it all seems very natural whenever they have to hug or comfort each other. I get the feeling they're better friends offscreen than Emma is with Rupert, which adds to the tension between Hermione and Ron in this movie.
6. Also, damn, Rupert grew into his looks, didn't he? I'll be your Lavender anytime, baby. Though hopefully not as creepy.
7. Cormac was hot. At one point he attempts to seduce Hermione across the table by licking his fingers and it is so out of place, yet you cannot look away. I also love the fact that at the party that follows, Hermione, who is looking gorge in this pink thing, ducks behind this gossamer curtain to hide. Harry goes behind the same curtain to ask her why she's hiding. Then a waiter goes behind the curtain to offer them dragon balls and then says they probably shouldn't have any because they give you bad breath. So Hermione downs half the tray. LOL I loved that.
8. Yeah, no, I'm not buying Harry/Ginny. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they've had close to zero interaction in the last two movies and yet suddenly now they are making out and in love and bonding in bathrobes and weird awkward stuff like that. (One word: shoelace). I think it is partly that while DanRad is pretty much my age now, Bonnie Wright still looks about 15, and that's a mite creepy. Also for a room that appears catered specifically for your needs, that room had a whole lot of crap in it. Could have used Dumbledore's Mary Poppins clean-up charm.
9. Snape: maybe he's born with it. MAYBE IT'S MAYBELLINE.
10. I like at the end how Hermione and Harry had this nice convo on the balcony and Ron was just kind of sitting there pining artistically. I think I mainly liked it because the Ron poisoning scene is going to provide some great fodder for Brokeback Harry Potter, and you can pretend he is sitting there pining over ~what he can't have~ lol.
11. You know how Cedric died and Order of the phoenix was basically Harry and the PTSD? I assume we'll see some more of that in Deathly Hallows Part Uno. I also predict they'll be some honking continuity errors based on reading other people's reviews!
I'm all reviewed out so here are some other things:
- Since we're on the subject, DanRad blows off real journalists for interview with terrified 11 year old reporter. I kinda love him in real life. He was on Rove the other week and said that he played Harry Potter SceneIt at a party and thought he'd be brilliant at it, but got every single question wrong LOL.
- LJ news time! You can add notes to people now! NOTES! That doesn't really excite me as much as I'm implying, though I have noted many of you with your names/countries/significant others. So that's handy.
- Wimbledon fanmix that I still have to download! I love that The Killers' "Andy You're A Star" is now the official Andy Roddick anthem.
K, so, my plans for the rest of the week are to (hopefully) do nothing! And watch a lot of movies. I go back to uni next Tuesday, which I'm excited about because it's a new, fresh semester, and not for superficial reasons like early wake-up calls and having to wash my hair and choose clothes. Eh, I'll live. How is everyone?
GLee
Stuff That Was Good
- Let's get the superficial out of the way first: Teacherman Will is hot, holy crap. There's probably some kind of inappropriate innuendo I could put in there about homework or something but I won't! Because I'm an innocent flower!
- I'm really glad they cast actors that can actually sing. I hate watching shows/movies wherein someone with all the vocal talent of Hilary Duff gets on stage and sings and people go WOW OMG SUCH PURE TALENT when in reality they sound like autotuned squeaky toys. (This was my problem with High School Musical). But everyone in this sounds awesome, even if some of them are a bit too polished/over-trained.
- 'WHERE IS LOVE' FROM OLIVER!. Aww man. I was in the chorus line of a youth staging of Oliver! when I was 12 and that song is my favourite of the show.
- Shower rendition of "Can't Fight This Feeling", heh. They should totally call the guy from REO Speedwagon to do a cameo. All he's doing right now is infomercials for the Greatest Rock Ballads Collection. He even sits there with a guitar and plays the chorus. (Also it weirds me out that American high schools have showers, ew). That song is an awesome shower song.
- From what I'm reading on Wiki, kid that plays Finn isn't actually a singer, in which case I admire that dude for signing onto a show that is basically more singing than talking. It is a little unbalanced to my ear right now though with Rachel being the stronger voice when they sing together. To me he sounds a little more authentic. Rachel doesn't sound like a teenager who has a lot of natural unharvested talent, she sounds like a pro singer who happens to be in high school.
- I hate Journey, but that arrangement of "Don't Stop Believin'" was awesome.
- Rachel and Finn getting together is going to be the most contrived part of this show when it starts, but when you watch the final sequence back they're actually really adorable. I love just after he gets up from the drums and he smiles at her when he sticks his arm out. I hope they make it this kind of thing wherein he thinks he's out of her league and not the other way around, because for a jock, Finn is actually more than a little dorky. Their height difference (actually, Finn's height difference with, er, everyone) is quite astronomical though. On that note, why are all Broadway babes short?!
- Following on from this, I love that they're trying to convince us that Finn is this really popular jock when he is obviously a MASSIVE DORK. That final sequence there, it's like he's embarrassed to dance during the groupy bits. I think he even plays half-hearted air guitar at one point. It's adorable!
Stuff That Was Not As Good
- Did it have to be Journey? Really? Journey?
- In terms of this being a fully fledged series, I don't know how much I'm going to be able to relate to a show that paints this society wherein musical talent is something loserish or to be ashamed of. Some of you kids will know I sang quite a bit at school functions during high school, and at times it felt like it was the only thing connecting me to the other kids in my year - people that never spoke to me otherwise felt comfortable coming up to me after I'd sung at assembly and telling me what they thought. The teachers were actually the most eager to congratulate me, and occasionally the most overzealous, probably because I was a source of unpaid filler for assemblies. Anyway, it was weird to tune into a show wherein musical talent is something that isn't encouraged. The only reason I started singing in the first place was because people signed me up for my school's talent show at the last minute after I sang over the bus PA system on school camp - I was so encouraged to do it I was literally shoved into it at times. That said, I understand the concept of theater nerds keeping quiet about their theater nerd ways. I did extracurricular theater for three years during my summers and I know that spending your summer making up dance routines to pirate songs or pretending to be a poor Ancient Egyptian fishmonger is not what is considered "cool".
- Nerdy girl and high school jock bonding over shared vocal talent and choreographed dance routines sounds a lot like High School Musical.
- The characters are a bit...cliche? I mean, I liked them all, sure, but what I didn't like was that each of them is basically a stock character, right down to the feisty black girl and the overly effeminate boy, which REALLY pissed me off. I hate the implication that only effeminate guys can be musical or star in plays. I've been in 7 plays and every time the leading man was either averagely male or overly tough and often manlier than a Manly football player.
- I'm not surprised that Wiki reports this was originally meant to be a movie. I wonder, what with each episode requiring musical licensing rights, $3 million to produce and up to 10 days of filming (plus recording and choreography time, I imagine) how long this show will be sustainable as a series.
- Bet you anything the season one finale is Will being torn between glee club's first ever competition and birth of his child. Unless wife runs away with child, but since they're pitching this as a family drama I assume there probably won't be any cheating with Jayma Mays. I think my point here is: it was a tad predictable.
- This is not Glee's fault, but I also bet you Channel Ten will show three or four eps of this in September and then yank it off air. It's what they do.
I actually had a couple of other problems with this pilot (choppy, bits felt like they were missing, too many narrators, certain cast members overacting like they're on Broadway and not TV probably cause half of them came from Broadway) but I liked it in general so eh.
Nitpickery
- I feel as though I have watched a one hour show entitled Glee and come away from it with no further knowledge of what a glee club is or does. I assume we're expected to already have this knowledge, which is confusing because Australian high schools don't have a lot of clubs. We don't generally have football teams or stadiums or cheerleaders or all those specialized clubs American high schools seem to have. I'm sure there are some private schools out here that have certain types of clubs, but...my school didn't even have an auditorium. During our weekly assemblies all 600 of us students had to sit on the floor of the gym, which had a makeshift stage normally used for table tennis. If it was a really special occasion, we got to sit on these murky brown fold-out chairs. But generally it was the floor. We had a big group of kids who did instrumental music through school but they didn't really hang around together, and we only put on one school play in the six years I attended (which was staged in, you guessed it, the gym. And part of the audience still had to sit on the floor!). I went into this thinking glee clubs were like acappella choirs, yet these kids had a band for their Journey sing-off. What.
- The final music sequence confused me. Well, it didn't really cause it was awesome, but it didn't make a whole lot of sense from a logistics standpoint. Firstly, their voices sound exactly the same despite them dancing, jumping, twirling and going around the stage away from the microphones. Dancing does not leave you with enough breath to project that loudly, and thirdly, did Mr Jock not randomly sit behind the drum kit for a few seconds and then get up and continue dancing around despite the drum beat not changing? LOL obviously I know that the actors probably recorded this in a studio and had to mime it as they danced ten gazillion times to get all those angles, but it niggled at me. Also, at one point they spin Token Wheelchair Kid around in circles while he plays a guitar...that is not even plugged into an amp. I was under the impression glee club barely had enough money to run, yet the school is apparently funding wireless guitars for the school band. And how could Rachel and Finn hear themselves over the band when they weren't singing into mikes and thus couldn't make use the fallback? They weren't wearing mike packs or earpieces either. And who was audio mixing?
- One goes to uni to get a degree to become a teacher (at least, they do here). One cannot quickly switch from teacher to accountant without going back to uni and doing an accounting degree. Also it's a bitch of a wife that forces her husband to quit his lifelong job in the middle of the recession to become an accountant.
- Besides being in glee club himself as a young'un, how much musical experience does Will actually have?
- Jayma Mays plays a germaphobe...who opens and hands Will a computer and a 16 year old CD without gloves on. ...k?
I know, I am overanalyzing this show too much already! I get that this is meant to be nice family entertainment on right after Idol, and I will definitely start watching it when it comes on if only for the musical arrangements. I don't know though, the pilot already made me feel a bit depressed about the fact that I don't have the chance to sing in public anymore. It made me miss the old music room at high school with it's shag-pile walls and crappy keyboards and square mikes from 1972, and most of all the little bit of notoriety I had for being "that chick that sings nicely". Or the squishiness of things like singing in music class to test the microphones for my teacher and someone walking in and looking at me and going "I thought that was the radio". Or singing at the Victorian Arts Centre, or in the church on presentation night, or at graduation. If I didn't feel so arrogant talking about it, I'd make a post about it to get it out because I really miss singing sometimes. It defined me at school for so long that I graduated and had to figure out who I was without it for the first time since I was 11, which was weird. I'd burned myself out on it by the time I grad'd and I feel like I've only just got it back. I dunno, I wish there was more theater opportunities out here. I'm more than willing to sing in public again (I used to sing in the canteen line or in class when people asked me to, just because they thought I wouldn't do it), I just lack the arena in which to do it. That said, I am untrained and in the harsh light of the Real World (TM) I might suck lol. Who knows! The good part is sometimes I feel like my voice is my little secret waiting to be busted out if my uni ever has a talent quest or anything of the sort. We'll see what comes up. SEE, I'M SAD NOW. idk.
Anyway, so here was my weekend: Saturday, I went out and shopped for a bit and got school stuff. Not even interesting school stuff, just some pens and a train ticket and phone credit and crap like that. I did however get two new handbags! I know right, you're DYING of handbag excitement. I know I am! OH HO HO. (Again, what am I talking about). Sunday, my friend Heather and I went for a walk/run. We must have gone at least 5km. Yesterday, not much, and today, the three of us went to see HP at Crown. So
Harry Potter, Harry Potter, UH
1. Bottom line, I didn't think this movie was as great as the last and definitely not as good as POA (which was my favourite), but better than GOF (which was my least favourite). People tell me the book is basically a big set-up for Deathly Hallows, which makes sense because I didn't feel any of the story lines in this movie were particularly epic. As my friend Heather's brother put it "A lot of stuff happened and it was a good movie, but what have we learned?"
2. Following on from that question, he revelation that Harry's half-blood prince annotated textbook was in fact annotated by Snape was a bit of a surprise, but I don't really get the significance of it. My mum said that when Snape revealed he was the HBP, she expected there to be some sort of revelation or explanation behind it, but there wasn't. It left me a bit confuzzled by the end. I don't know what it means to be the HBP besides apparently serving Voldemort.
3. I did however really love all the Tom Riddle flashback scenes. this movie managed to excel in the genuinely creepy. When that Katie girl got cursed and rose into the sky with black hair flowing ala The Grudge, that shit was scary. The houses burning down was scary and the traveling Harry did on Dumbledore's arm was scary. And forcing Dumbledore to drink was, too. Good stuff.
4. Now the romance. LOL oh man. I both loved and hated that crap. Ron and Lavender was obviously hilarious from start to finish ("Won Won!"). And it helped to highlight the fact that Danrad and Rupert really need to form their own comedy duo or something. When she drew her and Ron's initials in the fogged-up glass and walked off, and Harry's response was "Lovely", I pretty much died. And lovecharm!Ron. "I'M IN LOVE WITH HER!" "Okay! You're in love with he- Have you ever actually met her?" "No...Could you introduce me?!" LMAO. And highonsuccess!Harry displayed DanRad's ability to play a comedic character brilliantly. I loved how he announced he was going to Hagrid's and then went "...Sir?" when he was called back. To prove the hilarity of "pincers", I shall link you to this gif from financiers. lol.
5. As crazy as these hormonal kids were in this movie, I kind of adored all the Ron/Hermione drama. I walked into this movie shipping Harry/Hermione, and I walked out kind of excited knowing that Ron and Hermione do eventually hook up and have aptly-named children. When she asked Harry what it felt like to see Ginny with That Dude, and then Ron burst in and she sent the bird smashing close to his head, he gives her this look like he knows exactly what she meant by doing that. The bit where Hermione and Harry lean into each other at the same time, and Harry says "It feels a bit like this"? That SLAYED me. I adored it. That was some beautiful writing. What really gets me about DanRad and Emma is that when they're around each other it all seems very natural whenever they have to hug or comfort each other. I get the feeling they're better friends offscreen than Emma is with Rupert, which adds to the tension between Hermione and Ron in this movie.
6. Also, damn, Rupert grew into his looks, didn't he? I'll be your Lavender anytime, baby. Though hopefully not as creepy.
7. Cormac was hot. At one point he attempts to seduce Hermione across the table by licking his fingers and it is so out of place, yet you cannot look away. I also love the fact that at the party that follows, Hermione, who is looking gorge in this pink thing, ducks behind this gossamer curtain to hide. Harry goes behind the same curtain to ask her why she's hiding. Then a waiter goes behind the curtain to offer them dragon balls and then says they probably shouldn't have any because they give you bad breath. So Hermione downs half the tray. LOL I loved that.
8. Yeah, no, I'm not buying Harry/Ginny. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they've had close to zero interaction in the last two movies and yet suddenly now they are making out and in love and bonding in bathrobes and weird awkward stuff like that. (One word: shoelace). I think it is partly that while DanRad is pretty much my age now, Bonnie Wright still looks about 15, and that's a mite creepy. Also for a room that appears catered specifically for your needs, that room had a whole lot of crap in it. Could have used Dumbledore's Mary Poppins clean-up charm.
9. Snape: maybe he's born with it. MAYBE IT'S MAYBELLINE.
10. I like at the end how Hermione and Harry had this nice convo on the balcony and Ron was just kind of sitting there pining artistically. I think I mainly liked it because the Ron poisoning scene is going to provide some great fodder for Brokeback Harry Potter, and you can pretend he is sitting there pining over ~what he can't have~ lol.
11. You know how Cedric died and Order of the phoenix was basically Harry and the PTSD? I assume we'll see some more of that in Deathly Hallows Part Uno. I also predict they'll be some honking continuity errors based on reading other people's reviews!
I'm all reviewed out so here are some other things:
- Since we're on the subject, DanRad blows off real journalists for interview with terrified 11 year old reporter. I kinda love him in real life. He was on Rove the other week and said that he played Harry Potter SceneIt at a party and thought he'd be brilliant at it, but got every single question wrong LOL.
- LJ news time! You can add notes to people now! NOTES! That doesn't really excite me as much as I'm implying, though I have noted many of you with your names/countries/significant others. So that's handy.
- Wimbledon fanmix that I still have to download! I love that The Killers' "Andy You're A Star" is now the official Andy Roddick anthem.
K, so, my plans for the rest of the week are to (hopefully) do nothing! And watch a lot of movies. I go back to uni next Tuesday, which I'm excited about because it's a new, fresh semester, and not for superficial reasons like early wake-up calls and having to wash my hair and choose clothes. Eh, I'll live. How is everyone?