"you don't have to call me 'sir,' professor."
I wrote ~1000 words of the VMars/MCU crossover last night. I hope all y'all are happy. Hmph. I'm thinking about doing a dual POV, which I haven't done in a long time. I think about it sometimes and then back away, as usual preferring a tight third person when it comes down to actually writing. I guess we'll see what happens.
In other news, I had a bit of a Harry Potter spiral this weekend. I watched The Half-Blood Prince for the first time, and you know (or maybe you don't, it was a long time ago), I loved HBP as a book. Are there things I disliked about it? Of course. And the movie basically fixes those problems for me in a neat way. I mean, it doesn't include my favorite lines ("You don't have to call me 'sir,' Professor." "That flighty temptress, adventure." And the great, "I'm not worried, Harry. I am with you" from Dumbledore at the end) and it cuts out Fleur being awesome about Bill in the face of disapproving Weasleys, but it also cuts out the awful hospital scene where everyone pressures Remus into a relationship with Tonks (and also her drippy spurned woman thing is absent). They're a couple! And it works a million times better than it does in the book because Harry doesn't really care, so it doesn't take up valuable real estate in the movie. Plus, Lily gets a lot of mentioning, which is great, because I feel like there was never enough Lily in the books. I also feel like this movie was also a lot funnier than previous movies had been (Aragog's funeral scene!), like they got the humor of the books better.
And then I rewatched Deathly Hallows Parts 1+2. Twice. I hadn't watched them together at all, or even since I saw them in the theater (and I don't recall being particularly impressed by either of them - except for the deathly hallows/shadow puppets interlude), and they really make for a satisfying viewing experience when put together. I mean, my complaints still remain - all MWPP's generation are cast too old (I get why they wanted Rickman as Snape, but it really skews everything else and not in a good way), everything in these three movies is so dark and drab (I mean visually; I think the only color is Umbridge's pink sweaters - even the wedding isn't very colorful) that it's hard to see what's happening sometimes, and also Steve Kloves, why do you hate Ron Weasley so much? - but overall, very satisfying. Part 1 definitely has an air of Empire Strikes Back about it, which works, especially if you're able to watch Part 2 immediately, and if you stop before the epilogue. I trioship so hard!
It probably also helps to be long out of the fandom, and with only mostly fond memories of the books, which I haven't reread in quite a number of years. It also made me dig up an old abandoned wip - the AU where Sirius is Batman, which I actually posted for wip amnesty like 10 years ago (and that's the version I have - god knows where the original file (along with any notes I had on it) is) - and think about finishing it. It could happen! Especially since I am now much more familiar with writing Batman stories, and that was one wip I always deeply regretted abandoning. I guess we'll see if that urge lasts long enough to get the thing done.
My bosses are both out, so I'm having a quiet day today. Maybe more writing will get done! Who knows?
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In other news, I had a bit of a Harry Potter spiral this weekend. I watched The Half-Blood Prince for the first time, and you know (or maybe you don't, it was a long time ago), I loved HBP as a book. Are there things I disliked about it? Of course. And the movie basically fixes those problems for me in a neat way. I mean, it doesn't include my favorite lines ("You don't have to call me 'sir,' Professor." "That flighty temptress, adventure." And the great, "I'm not worried, Harry. I am with you" from Dumbledore at the end) and it cuts out Fleur being awesome about Bill in the face of disapproving Weasleys, but it also cuts out the awful hospital scene where everyone pressures Remus into a relationship with Tonks (and also her drippy spurned woman thing is absent). They're a couple! And it works a million times better than it does in the book because Harry doesn't really care, so it doesn't take up valuable real estate in the movie. Plus, Lily gets a lot of mentioning, which is great, because I feel like there was never enough Lily in the books. I also feel like this movie was also a lot funnier than previous movies had been (Aragog's funeral scene!), like they got the humor of the books better.
And then I rewatched Deathly Hallows Parts 1+2. Twice. I hadn't watched them together at all, or even since I saw them in the theater (and I don't recall being particularly impressed by either of them - except for the deathly hallows/shadow puppets interlude), and they really make for a satisfying viewing experience when put together. I mean, my complaints still remain - all MWPP's generation are cast too old (I get why they wanted Rickman as Snape, but it really skews everything else and not in a good way), everything in these three movies is so dark and drab (I mean visually; I think the only color is Umbridge's pink sweaters - even the wedding isn't very colorful) that it's hard to see what's happening sometimes, and also Steve Kloves, why do you hate Ron Weasley so much? - but overall, very satisfying. Part 1 definitely has an air of Empire Strikes Back about it, which works, especially if you're able to watch Part 2 immediately, and if you stop before the epilogue. I trioship so hard!
It probably also helps to be long out of the fandom, and with only mostly fond memories of the books, which I haven't reread in quite a number of years. It also made me dig up an old abandoned wip - the AU where Sirius is Batman, which I actually posted for wip amnesty like 10 years ago (and that's the version I have - god knows where the original file (along with any notes I had on it) is) - and think about finishing it. It could happen! Especially since I am now much more familiar with writing Batman stories, and that was one wip I always deeply regretted abandoning. I guess we'll see if that urge lasts long enough to get the thing done.
My bosses are both out, so I'm having a quiet day today. Maybe more writing will get done! Who knows?
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