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jedi_of_urthSo, because I could I wound up reading the TWoP HBP photo show and well...it reminded me why I hate that book.
All they seemed to talk about was the Hogwarts 90210 aspects, which I was really hoping they would tone down from the book. The plot of the book, though kind of thin, could have made up a good chuck of a movie length story without it having to give so much weight to the crappy ships of the book.
It was only my ability to hope that the 90210 aspects would be played down that had me all that interested in the movie, now that I'm back thinking they're going to make sure to sell that, and reminded of how much I hated it the first and only time I read the book, I'm back to not caring.
I will say that DH redeemed the series somewhat after the dren of HBP, but my love affair with the HP series died with HBP the first time around. Still, somehow I'm still worried the movie will manage to kill it more dead.
All they seemed to talk about was the Hogwarts 90210 aspects, which I was really hoping they would tone down from the book. The plot of the book, though kind of thin, could have made up a good chuck of a movie length story without it having to give so much weight to the crappy ships of the book.
It was only my ability to hope that the 90210 aspects would be played down that had me all that interested in the movie, now that I'm back thinking they're going to make sure to sell that, and reminded of how much I hated it the first and only time I read the book, I'm back to not caring.
I will say that DH redeemed the series somewhat after the dren of HBP, but my love affair with the HP series died with HBP the first time around. Still, somehow I'm still worried the movie will manage to kill it more dead.
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:08 am (UTC)Yeah, the sextet in the Ministry is great, and I feel like I should be kind of head smacky at Harry for falling for it because Harry is a far from perfect character. But that dynamic could have been the foundation for some awesome storytelling, but she just didn't go there, for reasons that I'm not wholly clear on, besides it not fitting with her outline which makes you wonder why she had it happen in the first place.
I've forgotten that part, I remember the "love her like a sister" bit which make me make faces at the book and have to walk away for a bit, until I just decided to laugh at it, because it was really just dumb. But as far as story structure I had fewer issues at least. Or I just cared less by then.