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innerslytherin) wrote2009-08-09 05:27 pm
innerslytherin) wrote2009-08-09 05:27 pm
Ugh
I cannot breathe. Yesterday was spent in the grips of an allergy attack that made me utterly miserable. Today I am so freaking congested I feel like my head exploding would be a relief.
I'm starting to suspect I have a summer cold instead of allergies.
Benadryl was only mildly helpful last night, so tonight I'm going to try treating it with whiskey. We'll see how that goes.
I need to wash dishes and go through some more stuff. The church is having a yard sale at the end of the month to help fund the fall mission trip to Haiti, and I have three boxes of stuff to donate to that, but I'm sure there's a LOT more stuff I could get rid of.
For that matter, I may have to wrestle with my conscious about the guitar. It's probably worth about $150 or $200, but I could use it to pay off some bills... or I could use it to help clothe a schoolkid in Haiti. *sigh* We'll see about that.
Went to see HBP finally. I was underwhelmed with much of it, even though I found it enjoyable. It's odd how utterly apathetic I feel about that fandom now that I know how the story ends. And it's strange. I never read dueSouth fanfic until the canon was closed. I never read Dark is Rising fanfic until the canon was closed. Is it that I was active in the HP fandom while canon was still being developed? Is it that I still feel the last book was rushed and that there were some deep flaws? Or what?
I thought Tom Felton was the shining star of this movie and that it should have been called Draco Malfoy and the Half-Blood Prince. I also thought it was an interesting choice that the director made, to follow Draco through some moments that Harry absolutely wasn't privy to.
I thought the final scene was very poorly done. Even ignoring the fact that there should have been a great bloody battle raging throughout the castle, Rickman's performance as Snape was strikingly lacklustre in that scene. I thought he did all right early on. I enjoyed the scene with Bellatrix and Narcissa (who has inexplicably gotten dark hair, wtf?) and his expression when he took the Unbreakable Vow. But where was all the pain and rage and grief over having to kill Dumbledore?
Not to mention, WTF DUMBLEDORE APPARATING FROM INSIDE HOGWARTS?! Dude, not only was that BLATANTLY WRONG, it also totally made the Death Eaters showing up at the castle completely freaking RANDOM. At least in the book we knew that Rosmerta had been spying for the Death Eaters because she was under Imperius, and that was how the Death Eaters knew to show up at Hogwarts that night. Seriously, people. LOGIC! Bless me, what DO they teach them in schools today?
*sigh*
Anyway. Overall I enjoyed it, and Aragog's funeral was brilliantly funny. I thought Slughorn was very well played. I'll buy the DVDs. But I'm kind of glad I didn't bother paying extra for IMAX 3-D.
I'm starting to suspect I have a summer cold instead of allergies.
Benadryl was only mildly helpful last night, so tonight I'm going to try treating it with whiskey. We'll see how that goes.
I need to wash dishes and go through some more stuff. The church is having a yard sale at the end of the month to help fund the fall mission trip to Haiti, and I have three boxes of stuff to donate to that, but I'm sure there's a LOT more stuff I could get rid of.
For that matter, I may have to wrestle with my conscious about the guitar. It's probably worth about $150 or $200, but I could use it to pay off some bills... or I could use it to help clothe a schoolkid in Haiti. *sigh* We'll see about that.
Went to see HBP finally. I was underwhelmed with much of it, even though I found it enjoyable. It's odd how utterly apathetic I feel about that fandom now that I know how the story ends. And it's strange. I never read dueSouth fanfic until the canon was closed. I never read Dark is Rising fanfic until the canon was closed. Is it that I was active in the HP fandom while canon was still being developed? Is it that I still feel the last book was rushed and that there were some deep flaws? Or what?
I thought Tom Felton was the shining star of this movie and that it should have been called Draco Malfoy and the Half-Blood Prince. I also thought it was an interesting choice that the director made, to follow Draco through some moments that Harry absolutely wasn't privy to.
I thought the final scene was very poorly done. Even ignoring the fact that there should have been a great bloody battle raging throughout the castle, Rickman's performance as Snape was strikingly lacklustre in that scene. I thought he did all right early on. I enjoyed the scene with Bellatrix and Narcissa (who has inexplicably gotten dark hair, wtf?) and his expression when he took the Unbreakable Vow. But where was all the pain and rage and grief over having to kill Dumbledore?
Not to mention, WTF DUMBLEDORE APPARATING FROM INSIDE HOGWARTS?! Dude, not only was that BLATANTLY WRONG, it also totally made the Death Eaters showing up at the castle completely freaking RANDOM. At least in the book we knew that Rosmerta had been spying for the Death Eaters because she was under Imperius, and that was how the Death Eaters knew to show up at Hogwarts that night. Seriously, people. LOGIC! Bless me, what DO they teach them in schools today?
*sigh*
Anyway. Overall I enjoyed it, and Aragog's funeral was brilliantly funny. I thought Slughorn was very well played. I'll buy the DVDs. But I'm kind of glad I didn't bother paying extra for IMAX 3-D.