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these last two weeks have been the ACTUAL WORST, btw, thank god for break
I was like, moderately kind of apathetic about the Harry Potter release in a of-course-I'm-still-going-to-see-it kind of way until this morning in my bio lecture (omg it was like, an actual lecture, which was apparently way more than I could take slightly hungover on the Friday before fall break, because I ACTUALLY COULD NOT MAKE MYSELF PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING) when all the sudden, for no reason, I was hit with a crushing wave of neeeeeeeeed to see it.
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I walked out of the movie theater all "I liked that!!!!" but idk now that it has settled in I kind of wish I were watching it AGAIN, RIGHT NOW, FOREVER ON REPEAT. Actually really though: I've never seen a HP movie twice in theaters but I think I might have to with this one, because I kind of... had all this leftover Kloves anxiety from the sixth movie and I think it unnecessarily put me on edge through a lot of it. Ron is just. Kind of my favorite?! And the Ron material here is more delicate than the book 6 Ron material, WHICH HE COMPLETELY FUCKED UP. But he did okay, so I guess what I want is to go back and watch it now that I know that, so I can feel less tense about things.
UMM CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW PRETTY EMMA WATSON IS?! Oh my god, girl. Also she managed to pack some really great wardrobe items for herself in that magical bag of hers, she looked so darling the whole time. There used to be this lj icon though, a really long time ago, with a picture of PoA-era Hermione and a caption that was something like "with every movie Hermione's hair is a little straighter and the part of me that's still clinging to canon... dies a little" (or something) and I could not stop thinking about it because man THEY BARELY EVEN CURL HER HAIR NOW. But-- I always do my nails while I'm studying, it's something about keeping my hands occupied. Sometimes you just gotta mess with the Sleakeazy's while you're doing your research, I GET IT GIRL.
OTHER THINGS THAT WERE PRETTY: this mooooooooovie. All the vistas!!!!!! They took such advantage of them not being at Hogwarts, jeeeeeeeeesus. That bit in the middle when they were walking and not apparating -- wow. It really emphasized how much time that period took up.
I actually didn't cry when Dobby died but I totally teared up at the opening bit with the cuts of the trio-- that was suuuuuuuch a good storytelling choice, I am not over it. I will never be over it!!!
HOW DARLING WAS THE SCENE WHERE HARRY AND HERMIONE DANCED?!!!!? And the bit with Ron and Hermione at the piano, I don't know why I loved that so much but I diiiiiiiiid, omg his face. And her face after the thing about the heart. And hahaha Harry's little joke after that. And Harry and Ron's scene at the burrow!!!! God the trio is great.
What else do I have to saaaaaay, I don't know. I've never been hugely on the "HOW DARE THEY LEAVE _________ OUT" team because... what are they supposed to do, they're condensing 600some pages into two hours, but the way this flowed kind of made me wish they had split all the books in two. Of course they couldn't, that would be ridiculous, but there were so few cuts here and even the parts you might wonder about translating to film well really, really came across.
I DON'T KNOW, I REALLY LIKED IT, I GUESS THAT'S ALL.
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This is an excerpt from this review of last week's episode:
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE FEELINGS AND YOU HAVE TO POST ABOUT THEM
Okay you knowwwwww how we all have those ships where we don't like the show that much but the pairing in question just gives us SO MANY FEELINGS so you end up fastforwarding through entire episodes to get to the two minutes in which they interact?!?! I think that has happened to all of us. Anyway back in summer '09 I had the BRILLIANT IDEA that I would edit together all the Trip/T'Pol scenes ever into one avi file. Or at least it seemed brilliant at the time, but now what it means is that whenever![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goldenmelisande ends up rereading old chatlogs on our (SUPER GREAT) Enterprise personal canon it ultimately ends in "...........okay fine let's just watch Trip/T'Pol: the movie" because it is just TOO CONVENIENT. There are no DVDs to get out, no downloading or fastforwarding to do, it is just right there, always. Damn it.
ANYWAYYYYYYYYY I FUCKING LOVE THEM, augh. So (re-)obsessed with the way their relationship plays on all these themes of xenophobia, and the way his involvement with her matures him!!! At the beginning he is just SUCH AN ASS, sometimes in an endearing way, sometimes not so much.
The first time her engagement situation comes up (in season 1) Trip gets sort of inadvertently dragged into it and basically imposes his world view on everyone and is all "i don't get how this is complicated, you do what you want" and then basically compares arranged marriages to slavery, which uh. GOOD JOB BEING TOLERANT OF OTHER SPECIES' PRACTICES, CHARLES TUCKER.
But augh, the second time (in season 4). This is when she tells him she has to get married, and his fucking FACE in the second cap, oh my god. This time there's so much on the line for him, because he's in love with her, but he still goes to her wedding because he KNOWS she needs him there, and two episodes later he tells her he's proud of what she did. PROUD OF IT!!!! Even though it broke his heart. Because she did what was right and he understood. And it's not like he's a completely different personnnn, it's just that loving her teaches him so much about what and who is important.
This scene is like that too: early Trip is SO mistrustful/wary about Vulcan stoicism, it clearly just makes him super uncomfortable. A lot of their interactions in season 1 are just him trying to provoke an emotional response out of him. Which is pretty twerpy!! But here he isssss, only a little more than two years later and he trusts her enough with his feelings to have a breakdown he's been holding in for MONTHS. Ugh and her faaaaaace when she tries to comfort him, especially in the wake of all the shit she's dealing with then, omg.
I PUT THIS HERE JUST BECAAAUSE, ugh they spend so much time just out of step with each other and here they are fiiiiiiiinally, finally on the same page. I didn't get a good cap of it but this is the first time she ever looks at him during a vulnerable moment rather than staring forward. WHY ARE THEY PERFECT
ANYWAY THAT'S ALL, HAVE SOME ADORBS WORST-VULCAN-EVER FACES FOR YOUR TIME:
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ALSO I FEEL BAD BECAUSE THIS IS BELATED NOWWWW, BUT
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I walked out of the movie theater all "I liked that!!!!" but idk now that it has settled in I kind of wish I were watching it AGAIN, RIGHT NOW, FOREVER ON REPEAT. Actually really though: I've never seen a HP movie twice in theaters but I think I might have to with this one, because I kind of... had all this leftover Kloves anxiety from the sixth movie and I think it unnecessarily put me on edge through a lot of it. Ron is just. Kind of my favorite?! And the Ron material here is more delicate than the book 6 Ron material, WHICH HE COMPLETELY FUCKED UP. But he did okay, so I guess what I want is to go back and watch it now that I know that, so I can feel less tense about things.
UMM CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW PRETTY EMMA WATSON IS?! Oh my god, girl. Also she managed to pack some really great wardrobe items for herself in that magical bag of hers, she looked so darling the whole time. There used to be this lj icon though, a really long time ago, with a picture of PoA-era Hermione and a caption that was something like "with every movie Hermione's hair is a little straighter and the part of me that's still clinging to canon... dies a little" (or something) and I could not stop thinking about it because man THEY BARELY EVEN CURL HER HAIR NOW. But-- I always do my nails while I'm studying, it's something about keeping my hands occupied. Sometimes you just gotta mess with the Sleakeazy's while you're doing your research, I GET IT GIRL.
OTHER THINGS THAT WERE PRETTY: this mooooooooovie. All the vistas!!!!!! They took such advantage of them not being at Hogwarts, jeeeeeeeeesus. That bit in the middle when they were walking and not apparating -- wow. It really emphasized how much time that period took up.
I actually didn't cry when Dobby died but I totally teared up at the opening bit with the cuts of the trio-- that was suuuuuuuch a good storytelling choice, I am not over it. I will never be over it!!!
HOW DARLING WAS THE SCENE WHERE HARRY AND HERMIONE DANCED?!!!!? And the bit with Ron and Hermione at the piano, I don't know why I loved that so much but I diiiiiiiiid, omg his face. And her face after the thing about the heart. And hahaha Harry's little joke after that. And Harry and Ron's scene at the burrow!!!! God the trio is great.
What else do I have to saaaaaay, I don't know. I've never been hugely on the "HOW DARE THEY LEAVE _________ OUT" team because... what are they supposed to do, they're condensing 600some pages into two hours, but the way this flowed kind of made me wish they had split all the books in two. Of course they couldn't, that would be ridiculous, but there were so few cuts here and even the parts you might wonder about translating to film well really, really came across.
I DON'T KNOW, I REALLY LIKED IT, I GUESS THAT'S ALL.
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This is an excerpt from this review of last week's episode:
I'm so disappointed by the way in which Julie's current storyline is unfolding that it actually made me angry to watch her portions of the episode this week. We've known ever since "head TA" Derek Bishop was introduced that the two would end up sleeping with one another and I haven't been too enamored of their interactions to date. It's possibly due to the lackluster energy of the actor playing Derek, who isn't quite a charming as he needs to be in order to pull off such a rote plot.You know sometimes I forget to think about FNL storylines as storylines-- actually I do that with everything I watch, I like shows best when I can forget that there are people writing them and there is intent behind every choice they make. Because sometimes the best writing is the kind of writing that makes you forget you are reading a story. I know you don't really have that luxury when you are a TV critic, but it was still actually REALLY WEIRD for me to see the way he presented this episode all Vince's storyline: fantastic, moving (it was, though) and Julie's storyline: terrible, undermined the episode. I do not love what they're doing with Julie at all but I hate the words he uses to discuss it, all "but her lack of judgment and her seemingly willingness not to question the situation (and to fall for Derek's cheesy lines about he and his wife not "really" being married) had me scratching my head". Because it's not about her brain, Julie Taylor is not a stupid girl. But she's lonely and she's by herself and she's supposed to be trying new things and she's really, really vulnerable. And Julie has a pretty clear pattern of irrational behavior when she's trying to figure out where she fits in. I don't know, part of me is like "IT'S A GIRL THING, I'M SORRY YOU DON'T GET IT TELEVISIONARY!!!" but I don't know why I feel that way!! It's not like the writers of this episode are even women... and I don't even know why I am defensive of this plotline, IT IS NOT THAT GOOD.
But the fact that we learned this week that Derek is actually married (to a woman who is on a sabbatical, posing questions as to whether she's a grad student or a professor) and Julie jumped into bed with him without stopping to think that she is willing to have sex with a married man made me question this plotline as a whole. Julie has made mistakes before, but her lack of judgment and her seemingly willingness not to question the situation (and to fall for Derek's cheesy lines about he and his wife not "really" being married) had me scratching my head. Yes, Julie is attempting to seize the moment and she's not fitting in at all at school but I'm hoping the speed with which she extricated herself from Derek's bed the morning after points towards some realization that she made a mistake.
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE FEELINGS AND YOU HAVE TO POST ABOUT THEM
Okay you knowwwwww how we all have those ships where we don't like the show that much but the pairing in question just gives us SO MANY FEELINGS so you end up fastforwarding through entire episodes to get to the two minutes in which they interact?!?! I think that has happened to all of us. Anyway back in summer '09 I had the BRILLIANT IDEA that I would edit together all the Trip/T'Pol scenes ever into one avi file. Or at least it seemed brilliant at the time, but now what it means is that whenever
goldenmelisande ends up rereading old chatlogs on our (SUPER GREAT) Enterprise personal canon it ultimately ends in "...........okay fine let's just watch Trip/T'Pol: the movie" because it is just TOO CONVENIENT. There are no DVDs to get out, no downloading or fastforwarding to do, it is just right there, always. Damn it.ANYWAYYYYYYYYY I FUCKING LOVE THEM, augh. So (re-)obsessed with the way their relationship plays on all these themes of xenophobia, and the way his involvement with her matures him!!! At the beginning he is just SUCH AN ASS, sometimes in an endearing way, sometimes not so much.
The first time her engagement situation comes up (in season 1) Trip gets sort of inadvertently dragged into it and basically imposes his world view on everyone and is all "i don't get how this is complicated, you do what you want" and then basically compares arranged marriages to slavery, which uh. GOOD JOB BEING TOLERANT OF OTHER SPECIES' PRACTICES, CHARLES TUCKER.
But augh, the second time (in season 4). This is when she tells him she has to get married, and his fucking FACE in the second cap, oh my god. This time there's so much on the line for him, because he's in love with her, but he still goes to her wedding because he KNOWS she needs him there, and two episodes later he tells her he's proud of what she did. PROUD OF IT!!!! Even though it broke his heart. Because she did what was right and he understood. And it's not like he's a completely different personnnn, it's just that loving her teaches him so much about what and who is important.
This scene is like that too: early Trip is SO mistrustful/wary about Vulcan stoicism, it clearly just makes him super uncomfortable. A lot of their interactions in season 1 are just him trying to provoke an emotional response out of him. Which is pretty twerpy!! But here he isssss, only a little more than two years later and he trusts her enough with his feelings to have a breakdown he's been holding in for MONTHS. Ugh and her faaaaaace when she tries to comfort him, especially in the wake of all the shit she's dealing with then, omg.
I PUT THIS HERE JUST BECAAAUSE, ugh they spend so much time just out of step with each other and here they are fiiiiiiiinally, finally on the same page. I didn't get a good cap of it but this is the first time she ever looks at him during a vulnerable moment rather than staring forward. WHY ARE THEY PERFECT
ANYWAY THAT'S ALL, HAVE SOME ADORBS WORST-VULCAN-EVER FACES FOR YOUR TIME:
(I LOVE HERRRRRR)
ALSO I FEEL BAD BECAUSE THIS IS BELATED NOWWWW, BUT
cambridge, ILU LOADS AND I HOPE YOUR DAY WAS THE LOVELIEST!!!!!!
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i want to see it againn, i like really need to see it again. but i thought it was visually gorgeous and there really isn't anything i hate about it which is kind of ish a first. but i thought it was done beautifully, both as an hp movie and as like, a film in general, in the sense that there were just like...really good choices made with things, idkkk.
basically: LOVE.
i also have this wonderful appreciation for how they did the scenes with malfoy (and i say that not as a 'sdnfiosdnf tom felton' thing...a few years ago it might have been that), but as a 'i really think his character is fascinating' thing, and there were just these beautiful moments where he only got a second or so of facetime but said SO MUCH, because it was cut/whatever so perfectly and it was just. it made me so happy, because they just captured it, you know?
oh, and snape. i cannot even. so much love.
i really need to see it again.
i have more thoughts but it's 2:49am and i am sleeeepy.
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AND GIRL DON'T YOU GET OTHER DAYS OFF?! Because that's why we get the entire week: because we have not had a day off since Labor Day.
And gooooooooooooooooood we are ANCIENT, MELISSA. Ancient.
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Oh haha yeah, i feel like we've probably had this conversation other years, too. We get less days off than we used to, though. We get Veteran's Day off and that's it. Freshmen year it was Columbus and Veteran's, last year it was just Columbus and there was outrage that we had school on Veteran's day, so this year we had class on Columbus (and a lot of anti-Columbus articles - as in 'horrible person we shouldn't celebrate this day' articles in the school newspaper) and no class on Veteran's day. So...you still get an extra day, you bum.
so so so ancient. don't understand how this happened.
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I feel like all I do lately is complain about how OLD I FEEL. It starts so EARLY, Melissa, I am a crotchey old grandma!!! AT TWENTY-ONE!!!!!
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lmao i love you so much.
(ps did i tell you i joined the dark side and have a macbook now? it is pretty, and my computer was satan, so i'm okay with it.)
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/pointless.
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when did we get old.
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lolling so hard omg. But yeaaaaah at the beginning I was like "DAYUMN GURL" and then I felt kind of bad because she was mind-wiping her parents and I was supposed to be sad about that. IDK which pre-title card scene I love more, the one for HBP (I SUPER REALLY LOVE THAT BIT WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHERS) or the one for DH1 (SUCH TIGHT STORYTELLING W2G YATES/KLOVES).
Oh the vistas were amaaaaazing. So many visually interesting places for them to camp! I really loved that, it made the camping seem so much cooler/less intensely boring than I remember. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE? I really dug the spot where Harry and Hermione talked about the snitch and Beedle the Bard.
AHHHH THAT SCENE AT THE BURROW AHHHHHH I LOVE IT. I WAS STUNNED IT HAPPENED AT ALL, THERE WAS SO MUCH RONALD ALL OVER THE PLACE THERE AND I WAS LIKE "DEAR GOD RON HAS SCREENTIME RON HAS SCREENTIME"
but the way this flowed kind of made me wish they had split all the books in two
lol inorite :/
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I loved when the popped up on the BEACH during the walking, and the mobile home thing was interesting too. And the one you said, HONESTLY THEY WERE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY VARIED? But yeah it totally amped up the camping. The visuals/the pacing of the camping actually kind of erases the argument that the books need to be condensed to be correct for a movie format. They could have done so much!! Oh well, I'm really just glad they split this one. Even if I thought it was kind of a dumb/money-grubbing decision when I first heard.
I KNOOOOOOOOOW IT WAS MY FAVORITE. It came up so early, I was so shocked/surprised! Ron doing something useful! Having more sense than Harry! THIS NEVER HAPPENS IN THE MOVIES.
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Varying the places RLY helped show the passage of time, you're totally right about that. I think it was cool for another reason -- people got to see all the different scenery in Britain. Logically I know the entire countryside is not all boring dreary foggy whatever but SEEING so many unusual places in the movie was AWESOME. AWESOME I SAY.
The visuals/the pacing of the camping actually kind of erases the argument that the books need to be condensed to be correct for a movie format. They could have done so much!!
lol possibly unpopular opinion but I wish Yates had been directing from the get-go. IDEK how much responsibility he has for how his movies have turned out but IDC. I think they've only improved since he's come on. IMAGINE HOW THE FIRST ONES COULD'VE BEEN WITHOUT CHRIS COLUMBUS.
AHAHA YEAAAAH I remember thinking "FUCK YOU YOU CAN'T HAVE MY MONEY fine you can have it" but now idc it'll be sweet. I bet/hope/fear the second part is going to be like 3/3.5 hours long. MY BODY IS READY.
INORITE IT WAS AWESOME
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I HAVE NO IDEA IF THAT'S UNPOPULAR OR NOT BUT I AGREE SO COMPLETELY. He really fucking knows how to make these visually interesting, 5, 6, and 7-1 were all visually pretty stunning. I thought 3 was pretty lovely too but 1, 2, and 4 are just so... blah in comparison.
I WOULD ENJOY 3.5 MORE HOURS OF THIS NOT GOING TO LIE
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VISUALLY INTERESTING IS RIGHT. So many good shots omg. The pensieve stuff in 6!! It was so strange going from 4 to 5 because 5 is actually good instead of a mess like 4. The opening in 5 is also a favourite scene, you could FEEL the heatwave in London because of how it was shot, and then the cold with the Dementors. SO GREAT. :DDD 3 was interesting to me mainly because of the fabulous transitions between scenes and the sort of whimsy the movie had.
INORITE. MAKE IT 4 HOURS AND THROW IN A 5-MINUTE INTERMISSION FOR THE OLD FOLKS TO USE THE BATHROOM. THIS IS A PLAN THAT CANNOT FAIL.
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That was a super weird transition, especially since I really loved 4 the book and loved 5 the book less, so getting them swapped like that in movies was weeeeeeeeird. But yeah you kind of knew it was going to be well-directed from that opening scene. YATES IS REALLY GOOD AT THOSE. But yes, the transitions were amazing and so was the Hogwarts atmosphere it created? At the same time I'm not sure I would have wanted Cuaron to do all the films. I don't know what the difference is there.
You know it's funny though: I saw this with my brother and he was yammering on about how he wanted it to be long because he liked long movies and apparently this was longer than most of them? Which is so weird and interesting, because it's still only half a book. AND YET YOU COULD STILL TOTALLY MAKE THE OTHER HALF LAST FOUR HOURS.
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That was a super weird transition, especially since I really loved 4 the book and loved 5 the book less, so getting them swapped like that in movies was weeeeeeeeird.
I'm the same way! I looove the first four books and wasn't exactly ~thrilled~ with the last three (although 7 had some rly good parts), but the movies are so fucking good. IDK how Cuaron would've done them, but I know it would've been different. The time-turner sequence in 3 was handled really well, and I definitely wouldn't have minded if he had done 4, but I'm so comfortable with Yates having done 5/6/7 that I wouldn't want to give them up. :<
Wasn't it the same length as 4? Except 4 felt like it was a zillion hours long. THEY COULD AND SHOULD. I wouldn't be surprised if 7-1 ran until February and then they did a limited-engagement rerelease in April or May before 7-2 comes out in June. THINK OF THE MONEY!!
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HE WAS JUST MADE TO DIRECT HP MOVIES. It is a shame they didn't find him sooner.
I don't know if it was really longer than all of them, his words not mine. That was what was so weird about the fourth though, it like. Was so long and yet they cut out EVERYTHING INTERESTING. I don't even remember what because I've only seen it twice, but it was so blah. And god, they so will. ANYTHING TO MAKE US PAY MORE.
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Episode 2: I CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE SHIPS THIS SEASON! Holy crap, Jess/Vince ("I think you're beautiful", DEAD) and Luke/Becky, MY HEART EXPLODED IN THAT SCENE OF THEIRS. Also, MINDY AND BILLY WORRYING ABOUT BECKY WAS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! "I'm just not used to people noticing." I just watched a Castle episode today that the Derek Bishop guy is in and I was like "wow he's really pretty", but IMMEDIATELY in this I got creepy pedo vibes from him, I AM WORRIED ABOUT JULIE, I have a feeling this is what your entry is about but I'm not reading it until I've watched them. Also omg Tami, I am so proud of the way she gets through to people. TOTALLY SAW YOUR GRANDPA TOO BTW, SO EXCITING.
Episode 3: THIS DRUNK GIRL THING IS REALLY UPSETTING :( Jess is so delightful, I just .... I love her. She's fantastic. PEDO VIBES WAS RIGHT, WIFE???! OMG NO JULIE, BRB CRYING. Also every scene with Vince's mum, I get so nervous, I WANT HER/THEM TO BE OKAY AND NEVER TAKE DRUGS AGAIN.
Episode 4: BECKY AND MINDY, WHAT IS THIS WONDERFULNESS, I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS EVEN REMOTELY AND I AM DYING WITH JOY. BEST STORYLINE OF THE SEASON! I AM IN LOVE! BUT UGH, DEREK, WORST CHARACTER EVERRRRR, GET YOU AND YOUR PEDO FACE AWAY FROM JULIE. Jess's sunshine face is my favourite thing in the world. I AM SO HAPPY FOR LUKE AND BECKY!
I just read your comments and you're totally right. With FNL, except for maybe that ~murder storyline, when people do stupid things it's just ... people doing stupid things, not bad writing, that never ever occurs to me. Obviously the storyline is awful to watch and maybe it wasn't the best direction for them to take, but on the character side it's totally understandable. She's obviously not making the best decisions, yet you can understand why she's making them. I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE'S ONLY LIKE 9 EPISODES LEFT, ALEX, WHAT A VOID WILL BE LEFT WHEN THIS SHOWS ENDS.
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JESS/VINCE IS THE GREATEST FOREVER. But yes ohhhhhhh my god Jess is the fucking greatest, she is just so fucking sure about who she is and who she wants to be. I LOOOOOOOVE HER.
And oh my godddddddddd YEAH NOTHING IS GIVING ME SO MUCH JOY AS THE BECKY/MINDY STUFF. I want Tim to come back and find out his bb sister is part of his real family now and just be like :D inbetween all the brooding.
DEAR FNL STOP BEING PERFECT
Except actually don't.
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and omg THANK YOU SO MUCH. LMFAO THAT PICTURE IS SO BEAUTIFUL, YOU ARE TOO KIND!!! ILU LOADS TOO. <333
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also I just will always love that he tells her that he's PROUD of her for MARRYING ANOTHER GUY, like, the change from twerpy selfish S1 Trip to the guy he becomes in S3/4 is so amazing and pronounced. I don't think you can really appreciate him being GREAT without having seen him be a dumbass??? Especially in comparison to Archer, who stays at the exact same level of selfish jerk for the entire series. Because he is the worst.
ALSO K I WAS PLANNING ON JUST WAITING UNTIL DECEMBER TO SEE HP BUT NOW I FEEL LIKE I'M MISSING OUTTTTTTT, damn it. Maybe Casey will go with me...........
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ARCHER SUCKS 4EVERRRRR. But ugh I will never not love the fucking difference. I love the scene in Home where he's all "this is where you grew up? it's beautiful" and T'Pol does the kneejerk "Vulcans appreciate beauty" line because she's spent three years correcting his misconceptions about Vulcanness and Vulcans being boring and he's just like "I know". HE KNOWS. I wonder if the Home trip gave him a clue though, because he's sort of had a front row seat to all her trellium-related outbursts of emotion and I wonder if being around the other Vulcans gives him a clue that it's NOT normal and not just some weird new level of intimacy.
I BET SHE WILL!!!!! Because waiting till December is code for waiting till break right? That is fucking forever.
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YYY HE IS JUST SO MUCH MORE GROWN UP AND OPEN MINDED :') it kind of weirdly reminds me of the scene when he gets irritated at her for being emotional and then just lets it go as soon as she's willing to give just a little? It's like she's expecting it to be so much worse than it is, she is SO DEFENSIVE when she doesn't need to be! It goes both ways, she is just as immature as he is. And omg I LOVE THAT THOUGHT, I always wondered what he knew about the trellium thing? Like what it looks like from his perspective, and when he finds out, etc. But that is such a great idea, he's never really had enough contact with Vulcans to realize that she's really really bad at it? And that her weirdness and problems with emotion are not normal Vulcan responses to difficult situations?
YEAH, I'M GOING TO SEE IT WITH MY PARENTS LOL. But I might still wait a bit since Casey goes out of town next week for Thanksgiving and I don't want there to be a huge crowd at the theater... MAYBE I'LL JUST GO BY MYSELF. Hmm.
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MAYBE YOU SHOULD.
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BUT HE DIDN'T FUCK IT OVER, I am impressed. There's one or two things I still want to check the book canon on, but overall I think you will definitely enjoy it.
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I so feel you on the whole Kloves anxiety thing after the sixth book. Honestly, I just really, really despise how Ron has been portrayed through pretty much all the movies with the exception of the first two (and I have LOTS OF FEELINGS about it since Ron's my favorite character), but WATCH IT AGAIN (OH AND SAME, I've never watched an HP movie more than once in theatres) and yes, EMBRACE THE GREATNESS THAT WAS RON/RUPERT IN THIS MOVIE. Rupert/(Kloves, dare I say it?) did Ron so unbelievably freaking well in this movie, and I walked out happier than I have EVER been, post-Potter movie. FLKAJ;SDADF JUST FANTASTIC.
AND YES THE TRIO IS GREAT
I JUST LOVED EVERYTHING (almost. whatever) EVERYTHING!!!!!
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Yeah the thing with the sixth is that it was like, after everything else they fucking gave THAT LINE, that crazy important line to Hermione. And left Ron to space out. Because he is stupid. Ron is my favorite too and so I am just. SUPER DEFENSIVE. He was so good though, this was so good and I was so WORRIED because the leaving material is so interesting/difficult.
THE TRIO IS PERFECT
AND YESSSSSSS, EVERYTHING, it was delightful!!
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BUT GLAKSDHGA THE TRIO. I guess it's related to the like, inner Ron hate of the people behind the films, but the trio has never before been so trio-y before, and I JUST LOVE IT. THEIR HUG AFTER RON AND HERMIONE HAD THEIR MOMENT WHEN RON COMES BACK SAFELY WITH TONKS, UGH I WAS ALREADY A MESS
OKAY I need a HP icon right now
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NO THEY WERE SUCH A UNIT IT WAS THE GREATEST
and your HP icon is ADORBS OH MY GOODNESS
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I never saw all of Enterprise, but I was SO INTO Trip/T'Pol! they were delightful. Too bad the rest of the show was pretty crummy.
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Hahaha oh girl who HAS seen all of Enterprise?! THAT WOULD BE SO PAINFUL. Ugh they were so fantastic though, I'm guessing what you have seen is the s3/s4 stuff?!!
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I really do think they did a great job with it overall, I got really tense around some parts because I just... didn't know what to expect (I WONDERED ABOUT THE HARRY/HERMIONE ~VISION~ MAKING OUT, NGL) but it was only small nitpicky things I can't even remember anymore because it's turned into one big emotion blur so. Whatever. I forgot my point. YOU ARE STILL THE ONLY PERSON ON MY FLIST TO POST A REACTION TO DH.
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AM I STILL NOW?!?!
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There has been one other. That's all :\
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