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I give up. I officially don't know what movie they think they're making with the title 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', but it clearly isn't an adaptation of or even close relation to the book of the same title. Spoiler-filled review of the film.
I also don't know why everyone keeps going on about The Middleman's age. He's only 36. That puts him at TEN YEARS YOUNGER than James Marsters and Johnny Depp, just for starters, and only about 12 or 13 years older than Wendy Watson and her ragtag crew.
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I also don't know why everyone keeps going on about The Middleman's age. He's only 36. That puts him at TEN YEARS YOUNGER than James Marsters and Johnny Depp, just for starters, and only about 12 or 13 years older than Wendy Watson and her ragtag crew.
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People go on about MM's age? Why? Like, in what context?
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How so? (Aside from the small things they always leave out / change due to the nature of a) any adaptation, and b) the length of the book.)
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Yeah, though, I'm excited about that because that will mean there actually is a progression.
This also intrigues me, because it makes Harry's involvement in the HBP storyline seem more important. In the book, Dumbledore knows everything and just drags Harry along. This way Harry actually has some purpose for being there.
HBP is by far my least favorite book, and I think these changes are actually going to make the movie better, so I guess I'm happy about it.
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I like Half-Blood Prince, and I think that diminishing Dumbledore's role in Half-Blood Prince diminishes Harry's accomplishments in Deathly Hallows, and his questioning of Dumbledore, and the realisation he comes to that Dumbledore was kind of Machiavellian. Which is something I like. Half-Blood Prince is, to me, the first half of the final chapter of Harry Potter; it is the learning curve that Harry needs before he can become the leader.
There's other issues I have. The attack on the Burrow seems unnecessary, there's not enough Luna (which, ok, no bearing on plot, but why can't she commentate the match? I love her!), and it seems they left no scene untouched, not even the climactic stuff at the end.
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Half-Blood Prince is, to me, the first half of the final chapter of Harry Potter
That may be true, but it needs to be able to stand on its own. HBP doesn't in the context of the book series, so I like that they are adding things that will make it more distinctive in the movie.
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Also, there's this (http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/9/7/details-on-cave-scene-events-on-astronomy-tower-from-hbp-screening), which is just...AUGH.
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Oh man, that review of the final scenes has me excited? I always thought HBP would be better as a movie than a book.
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I give up. It's 3 am and I'm angry, I need to go calm down and go to sleep.
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Although I would, I admit, be happy to just have straight, word-for-word visual versions of the chapters The Silver Doe and The Forest Again. I just know Kloves is going to fuck them up and break my heart.
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Join my side, it's just easier just to accept it.
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In "Cursed Tuba Contingency" MM told Wendy he's ten years older than Lacey.
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I forgot. Although it proves my point rather nicely. Ten years is nothing. Particularly when the ten years looks like THAT.
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Gah, KLOVES!! *raises fist*
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Not death list, JUST MY LIST.
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That does not stop me from fully 100% believeing he and Roxy SO TOTALLY had a thing and he may in fact be the reason she is now a reformed succubus. Or may still have a sort of thing where occasionally there is sex
all the time.Also, she would LAUGH ADN LAUGH about MM/Lacey and give him all kinds of shit for it, meanwhile Wendy would be all "OMG you did it with a succubus? OMG DID. YOU SO TOTALLY DID. I'M TELLING
MOMIDA." the way a kid sister does when her highschool quarterback brother has sex with a grad student in the physics dept.From:
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