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Short AttentionSpan Updates
So what should I absolutely, completely, and totally watch from Comic Con, given that (a) I have a really short attention span for online clips--about 3 minutes and I will stop watching, no matter how interesting it is, and (b) I have to watch at work after hours, which is another reason short is good, and (c) I've already seen the hilarious Ausiello interview with Lucy Lawless .
I went and saw Half-Blood Prince again this weekend, and enjoyed it rather more than the folks I went with, partially because I am far from a canon purist. (Half the time I can't remember what is canon and what is fanon in that fandom, anyway).
I agree with the people who think Tom Felton stole the movie. I never felt much sympathy for Draco in the actual book, but considering how little actual dialogue he had, I though TF did an amazing job portraying Draco's inner conflict, and I cared about the character for the first time in any of the movies. (I'm not a huge Draco fan overall, though I have certainly read my share of entertaining Harry/Draco fic in my time).
I also thought the movie made Slughorn a far more interesting and sympathetic character than he seemed in the book. That didn't bother me at all; considering how much of the film was Harry-Slughorn interactions, I would have been bored if he had remained as unctuous and annoying as he was in the book. Which is not to say that I liked him, but of course you're not supposed to like him.
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin was an absolutely brilliant piece of casting for Tom Riddle. Not only does he have exactly the same eyes as his uncle (which, let's face it, is one of the few recognizable things about Voldemort's face), but he pulled off the creepy entitled kid vibe fantastically well.
The people I went to see the film with weren't impressed with Ginny, but I actually felt that Ginny in the films makes me root for Harry/Ginny a hundred times more than the Ginny in the books. And again, I think a lot of that is just the acting, because it's not like they gave her character a lot to do.
I've also been watching Merlin. Or, well, half-watching, much of the time with the sound muted. I really dislike Uther, which of course you're supposed to, but since that's cutting into my Anthony Head love I think I can never really get into this show, despite my total adoration of Gwen and Morgana. And I guess I've seen enough now to read fic--in fact, I spent a good part of this weekend doing just that, so if anyone has good Merlin fic recs, let me know. (Mostly I read entirely through astolat's stuff and then everything on the first 5 pages of a delicious search).
So that's the state of fannish me. I will probably have a couple more spn bigbang recs before the end of this week, but nothing has been stellar enough lately to rec on its own, so I am waiting for certain themes to reach critical mass first.
I went and saw Half-Blood Prince again this weekend, and enjoyed it rather more than the folks I went with, partially because I am far from a canon purist. (Half the time I can't remember what is canon and what is fanon in that fandom, anyway).
I agree with the people who think Tom Felton stole the movie. I never felt much sympathy for Draco in the actual book, but considering how little actual dialogue he had, I though TF did an amazing job portraying Draco's inner conflict, and I cared about the character for the first time in any of the movies. (I'm not a huge Draco fan overall, though I have certainly read my share of entertaining Harry/Draco fic in my time).
I also thought the movie made Slughorn a far more interesting and sympathetic character than he seemed in the book. That didn't bother me at all; considering how much of the film was Harry-Slughorn interactions, I would have been bored if he had remained as unctuous and annoying as he was in the book. Which is not to say that I liked him, but of course you're not supposed to like him.
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin was an absolutely brilliant piece of casting for Tom Riddle. Not only does he have exactly the same eyes as his uncle (which, let's face it, is one of the few recognizable things about Voldemort's face), but he pulled off the creepy entitled kid vibe fantastically well.
The people I went to see the film with weren't impressed with Ginny, but I actually felt that Ginny in the films makes me root for Harry/Ginny a hundred times more than the Ginny in the books. And again, I think a lot of that is just the acting, because it's not like they gave her character a lot to do.
I've also been watching Merlin. Or, well, half-watching, much of the time with the sound muted. I really dislike Uther, which of course you're supposed to, but since that's cutting into my Anthony Head love I think I can never really get into this show, despite my total adoration of Gwen and Morgana. And I guess I've seen enough now to read fic--in fact, I spent a good part of this weekend doing just that, so if anyone has good Merlin fic recs, let me know. (Mostly I read entirely through astolat's stuff and then everything on the first 5 pages of a delicious search).
So that's the state of fannish me. I will probably have a couple more spn bigbang recs before the end of this week, but nothing has been stellar enough lately to rec on its own, so I am waiting for certain themes to reach critical mass first.
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Jim Broadbent was wonderful, I have to say.