#8 - Fandom Gossip Only

[spnanonhaven]

This post is for fandom gossip only.

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HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

Anyone else abandoning SPN for the night in favor of HP?

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

Not me. I still haven't gotten around to seeing Number 6.

Maybe I'll rent it, though I guess it's likely to be out.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

I can't even remember if I saw number 6. I've read the book, so it doesn't really matter.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

Technically speaking, I think I abandoned HP in favor of SPN. There was a stop along the way in comics fandom and I flirted with a few other small fandoms, but SPN is my first megafandom since HP and I definitely prefer it.

For all the wank, Kripke and Gamble couldn't ever ruin a series as effectively as JKR did.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

ayrt

I think that I was happier overall with HP up until Remus/Tonks happened and then... that epilogue. That bad fic BAD FIC epilogue.

But I will still see the final movies.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

All of DH annoyed me, I think. The characters all felt flat and uninspired (I was really annoyed to see every Slytherin kid in the entire school turn out to be a coward/evil though I did love what happened with Neville) and it droned on and on in the woods for way too long. Then the random deaths! I get it, it was war. People die pointlessly. But it just felt gratuitous after a while.

Plus Voldemort was a stupid idiot. Seriously, who chops up their soul into bits and then hides the pieces around a single country? Why didn't he bother to ship one of them off to Brazil and one to Romania or whatever? He'd been built up as this great terror but then turned out to be pathetic and shallow.

Meh.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

ayrt

I completely agree actually. I forgot how much the random OFF SCREEN deaths annoyed me. Like... really? Those characters don't even get death scenes? FU, JKR. Gah. Yeah. Not a good finish to what was a good series.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

ayrt. Oooh, yes! I read DH all in one sitting the night it came out and finished up sometime around 5:00 am. I was a bit loopy and scanning more than I should have and I had to go back because I had missed any hint that Remus and Tonks were dead until the epilogue. Then I was all D: because of how little fanfare they received in general.

I adored the first four books of the series and thought HBP brought back some of the old sparkle, but OotP and DH were like lead balloons. Just painful to try and force yourself through.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

I could have written this entire comment (okay, minus the first sentence, I restricted myself to one chapter a day). So, um, +1.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

HP twins! \o/

I had such hopes again after HBP, too. I'd dared to believe that OotP was just a fluke. Alas.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

Me, too. :(

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

ayrt

I went to a midnight release the day it came out and I finished it around 6:30am. I did almost the same thing. I got to Harry seeing Remus and Tonks bodies and I was like... HUH?!?!?!?! And flipped back. nothing. Ugh

Someone wrote a fandom secret the other day about how they wanted Harry to end up alone and raising Teddy as a single father and I was like YES YES YES! I WANT THAT!

I hated the first, loved the second, third, fourth, and fifth. Struggled with the sixth, and was eh about the last once the tired/exhausted glamour wore off. Except that epilogue. I was hissing about that the second I read it. Seriously? Albus Severus? Way to pull a Stephanie Meyer. Though, yes, Twilight came out after. But still. Terrible.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

Oooh, that would have been nice!

Yeah, it was all such a let down. Those deaths should have been meaningful. These were people Harry (and the readers) had grown to love. To have them killed off so carelessly? I mean, come on! Hedwig got more attention at her death than Remus did. And I love Hedwig, but that's just not right.

I didn't care for OotP at all. Harry was too angry, I didn't like Ginny's transformation (which was a shame, I'd loved her before that book but I needed to be shown her being clever and smart and good with hexes rather than being told about it. Letting it build up some over time also would have been a help), and the entire thing seemed pretty tedious. I liked HBP quite a good deal, but then it was right back in the mire for DH.

Yeah, Albus Severus was just a bit. Wow, JRK. Good grief. Though I will give props to the shippers - it wasn't a full day after that book came out that I saw the first "Fuck you, JRK! Scorpius/Rose FOR LIFE" icon. I don't ship it but it made me laugh.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

I adored the first four books of the series and thought HBP brought back some of the old sparkle, but OotP and DH were like lead balloons.

God, yes, so much this. I loved the first four books, especially GoF, and was so excited when OotP came out, and then it was just meher than meh. I had to force myself through it. HBP was rather refreshing and actually gave me hope for DH, but that one was even worse than OotP. The days I pretend HP ended with GoF.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

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Seriously, who chops up their soul into bits and then hides the pieces around a single country?

LOL. Oh, nonnie. That sentence is much more hilarious to me than it should be.

But I agree. DH was irredeemably AWFUL.

Have you read the ferretbrain HP reviews? They're cathartic and very very funny.

Re: HP vs SPN?

[anonymous]

HP is one of those series where the fanfic wound up being much better than the canon. Well, some of the fanfic. Maya's stuff, certainly!

Maya managed to made Voldemort into a creepy villain who actually seemed dangerous and was clever enough to put the bits of his soul more than 200 miles apart from one another.

DH was its own special blend of horrible. I haven't read those reviews though, do you have a link? I'd love to check them out!