A Movie Confession....

[scatteredlogic]

I have a confession to make. I'm an HP fan, but I'm not necessarily an HP movie fan. In fact, some of you may consider it a sacrilege, but I haven't seen any of the HP movies since Goblet of Fire. Oh, I've seen clips here and there, but a full movie? No. When Order of the Phoenix was released, I'd intended to go, but I just never got around to

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[scatteredlogic]

Now I wonder what the movie version of the Deathly Hallows will be like, because good GOD that book was long.

Well, they're splitting that book into two movies, but I hope they're not going to subject people to every excruciating moment of that camping trip. ;)

You know, I wondered if the same thing would happen when the Labyrinth manga came out, but so far, it doesn't seem to have made much of a blip in fandom. I suppose it helps that all the classics were written long before and are so well-established that it doesn't matter what comes now, they'll always be classics. And it helps even more that a lot of people either haven't bothered to read the manga, or have but aren't terribly attached to them. *snort*

I think the manga sparked a little more Jareth/Toby slash, but honestly, I thought that was the entire point of the manga - to tap into the potential slash market, something that barely existed in the Labyrinth fandom, so it was a stupid marketing move. (And nope, I didn't bother to read the manga, either. ~shrug~ So very much not my preferred medium or genre.)

[hayet]

manga sparked a little more Jareth/Toby slash

what
i don't even

aaaahhhh!

(unless he's older in the manga...?)

[scatteredlogic]

He's 15-16 in the manga, as I recall, but the slash fanfic I've seen usually ages Toby up to at least 18. ;)

[dmacabre]

Well, they're splitting that book into two movies, but I hope they're not going to subject people to every excruciating moment of that camping trip. ;)

Ha, exactly! What Rowling was thinking when she dedicated so much wordcount to it, I have no idea.

The movie will have a hell of a time squeezing in all the weird plot twists AND Dumbledore backstory, too.

Re: Labyrinth, the manga

That's interesting, I hadn't realized it prompted an uptick in Jareth/Toby slash. You're right, that'd be a rather silly goal as far as marketing is concerned. They'd have been far better off trying it with another fandom less invested in an OTP.

I hear the second volume of the manga is an improvement and that there are plans to take it in a more J/S-centric direction, but it's still not something I'm rushing to buy. The artwork and writing didn't really impress me, and... well, what else is left?

[scatteredlogic]

Considering that virtually all the Jareth/Toby slash I've encountered (and I really don't go looking) was written after the manga was released, I'd say it had a certain impact.

I hear the second volume of the manga is an improvement and that there are plans to take it in a more J/S-centric direction, but it's still not something I'm rushing to buy. The artwork and writing didn't really impress me, and... well, what else is left?

~nods~ I generally dislike that style of artwork, so it wasn't something that I was ever going to read, really.

[dmacabre]

I'm sure you're right. I only knew of one J/T slash author before the manga came out. I haven't seen any recently, but then, things have been so busy that I haven't been reading much fic outside the exchange! It sounds like the manga may have succeeded in pulling in a new audience, then. I'm glad it hasn't caused much of a divide, because it'd be a pain in the ass to make anything canon-compliant with the manga. It doesn't inspire me at all.

[scatteredlogic]

I've only encountered one J/S story that had manga-canon, and it confused the crap out of me at the time. LOL But adding new people to the fandom is always a good thing. ~nods~

[dmacabre]

I've read a summary or two of manga-based fic and realized I just didn't know enough about the manga to know who the hell those characters were. :-} But yeah, it's good to have new people coming in. It still (pleasantly) surprises me that there are people who love Labyrinth fic when they were born long after the movie came out. Fandom is awesome that way.