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[geebs]

Hit Oxford after work yesterday. The only thing new out was Master and Apprentice #2. I also picked up a new copy of TF:Armade:MTMtE #1 since the original one I had huge printing errors.



It was a surprise to find out that Kamakura was Wade Collins' stepson. Or is he? He did get a pretty nasty wound from Storm Shadow at the end, maybe he'll die too and some other dude will become Kamakura! ha! And Wade's team was wiped out at the end of the last issue? It didn't seem like it. Unless they were all killed in the explosion.



Went around Lenox afterwards. Amusingly enough, got home and no more than an hour later, the roomie managed to get home early (well, by 6) for the first time in weeks and we went up to Lenox (hey, I love the mall, I can go multiple times) cause he had some shopping to do. Had dinner at Roaster's where the kinda cute (well, by my standards) hostess found my "trust me, I'm a doctor" t-shirt amusing. Got back, saw that there was nothing on the telly, so went and saw the new Harry Potter flick. The roomie had already seen it with phatjoe last week, but I guess he was up for seeing it again.



It seemed like they wanted to have more magical effects/occurances than the previous films. Not that that's a bad thing, I thought the special FX were good. Though one of my favorite parts of the movie was the ongoing Hermoine appearing out of nowhere gag.

Speaking of, my favorite line of hers in the movie had nothing to do with her punching out Malfoy or anything like that. It was actually, "Does my hair really look like that from behind?" when her future (or is it her present?) self was viewing her past self. Oh, that was another neat part of the movie. I always enjoy time-travelling hi-jinks, especially when it was clear that they hadn't gone back to the past to change anything, they were just doing everything they knew was already gonna happen, they just didn't realize they were the ones responsible. I always liked the deterministic school of time travel theory. Sure, the free will people are all offended because choice is taken away. And its prolly cause I'm lazy and get anxious when it comes to responsibility, but I find it refreshing. You know, there's no pressure there, if its something you've seen or know will happen then you know you can't mess it up. Of cource, that also means you couldn't use time travel to prevent bad things from happening that have already happened. But I digress. I hear the book doesn't really do the "Oh wow, the mysterious thrown rocks or the convenient howling was them helping themselves out" and the only thing really covered was Harry shooing the Dementors away at the lake.

I also heard there were some things left out which upon hearing sound neat for the story but I can see why they cut those for the movie as not neccesary. Like the movie didn't talk as much about James Potter's little clique as the book did. Or how Lupin recognized the map because he was the one who made it back when they were in school. And those keywords for the map where Lupin, Sirius, James, and Peter's nicknames. That, while neat, isn't neccesary to the storytelling experience. Though I don't remember if they ever explain why Sirius chose to escape then, after 12 years. I mean, I'm told in the book, its because he saw that picture in the paper of the Weasley family in Egypt with Ron holding rat-dude and recognized it was Peter and learned Ron went to Hogwarts and that's why he went there. It is odd, because if you cut out that reason, why bother to have that paper with the picture of the Weasleys on the table at the beginning of the movie? And Harry supposedly got the Firebolt earlier in the book, using it to help Griffindor win the House Cup. Owel, they prolly got tired of showing Qidditch. I mean, while the quick flying looks neat, it doesn't hide the fact that the game makes no sense!


Anyways, it sounds like the books give some additional and interesting perspective, so I've decided to go and actually read them. Hey, I read! Even books without pictures! I mean, isabel79 and the mother of my godson used to always have their faces buried in novels when we were kids. So its somewhat genetic! TV hasn't reduced my brain to that much mush!

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[turdburgler.livejournal.com]

I still feel there was some minor stuff that they should've included from the books to make some of the stuff going on in the movie a little bit more comprehensible to the audience (who hadn't read the books).

Like the stuff about the patronus and the stag and Harry's father. And also how Snape figured out where they were (under the whomping willow/inside the creepy house, or whatever it's called), that the professors at the school already knew Lupin was a werewolf, and why Harry didn't get in trouble for blasting Snape unconscious (did he even in the book?).

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Acutally, Krug explained some of that to me. I don't know how Harry saw a stag originally when it was just him blasting the dementors, but in the book, the spell actually manifested as an energy stag that attacks the dementors instead of the big glowing energy blast. And the significance of the stag was when the four dudes were in school, they knew Lupin was a werewolf. So, they would sneak out of Hogwarts with him when it was that time of the month to keep him out of trouble. And they were all animagi and would take animal forms I guess to hide the fact that they were out. Obviously, Sirius was a wolf and Peter was a rat, and you guessed it, Harry's dad turned into a stag.

As for Snape finding out were they where, that scene where Snape follows in after Lupin, Snape had been following Lupin all the way from Hogwarts. Snape is the school's potion master, and he was the one who made the potion Sirius was talking about that controls the transformation. Snape had been on his way to give Lupin the potion when Lupin saw Sirius or Peter or Harry or all of them in the same place on the map and rushed off to help. Snape saw him leaving and so was trying to catch up with him and give him the potion before the transformation. As for why Harry didn't get in trouble for blasting Snape, I don't know.

[moonchsr.livejournal.com]

Obviously, Sirius was a wolf and Peter was a rat, and you guessed it, Harry's dad turned into a stag.

minor correction.. Sirus was the dog (padfoot), Peter was the rat (wormtail), James was the stag (prongs), and Lupin was the wolf (moony)..

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I don't know why I called Sirius a wolf, I guess he was closer to a wild dog than a wolf.

[moonchsr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's a HUGE dog.. he choose that animal.. so he could try and keep others safe while Lupin turns into a werewolf.

[turdburgler.livejournal.com]

so I've decided to go and actually read them. Hey, I read! Even books without pictures!

I'll believe it when I see it. :P

If anything, you'll end up listening to the audiobooks instead (which I happen to have for the first four *cough*cough*).

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've read a bunch! Like all of RA Salvatore's books in the Forgotten Realms. And that's 26 books! It'll be 27 come November, Then there's the Ender series. And Snow Crash. And The Postman. And Robert Heinlen's Starship Troopers and Friday. And Clancy's Rainbow Six and Executive Decision. The reason I strayed away from the Potter series at first was because of the covers and the fact it was considered by many to be a children's book, I thought it took place in some namby-pamby hippie-commie fantasy land and the only thing they had to worry about was spells going awry like Fantasia's "The Apprentice". Knowing now that it takes place in the modern world and there's all sorts of monsters and evil magic users to fight, I've grown to like it. And the tidbits I managed to get out of Krug make it sound more interesting.

But thanks for the offer, but I actually do better reading than I do listening. Its easier to focus if I'm reading the words than hearing someone say it because my inner voice would distract me. But if I'm reading, its my inner voice doing the reading, so it can't interrupt itself!

[turdburgler.livejournal.com]

Haha, you're so strange! You and your inner voice. ;P

[psyched-out.livejournal.com]

"trust me, I'm a doctor" t-shirt

so is your new wardrobe style the same as my circa-1995 outfits???

which reminds me, i've got to take some of those to the thrifts--my "look who's 30!" shirt is becoming prophetic, and its no longer fun to wear the "this is what the world's greatest dad" shirt anymore since people may think i'm serious...

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Its designer thrift! So I'm like paying ten to a hundred times the price! ha! And I also where them over designer jeans or khakis!

holy crap, I forgot those shirts are actually almost applicable. Maybe in a few years, you'll have someone giving such things to you in all seriousness for like your b-day, or father's day, heh!