My fandom lives!
Yes! I loved it. Adored it, even. I absolutely loved Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The odd camera angles took me about twenty minutes to get used to but once the plot began to thicken (Dementor's, etc) I couldn't have been happier in that theater.
Everything was wonderful. I went to my favourite theater with my mother (who always professes not to be a Potter fan but insists on borrowing all 5 of my books at intervals and has always gone to each of the films at least twice along with me) where we sat in a neat row of deep red velvet seats, drank coffee/almond milk and snuck in our favourite movie treat, her sugar cookies. :D
I could feel the difference from nearly the first frame of the Warner Bros. trademark (quite different, I think). It wasn't quite my Dumbledore, I must admit (I am one of those annoyingly pro Dumbledore fandomers), but he was great nonetheless. Hogwarts was pretty much the same (though the grounds expanded by what? A couple of achers? :o). I think we're supposed to assume we just haven't seen that part of the ground -- except for the fact that they already showed Hagrid's cabin quite a bit in each film, yeah?
All and all. Magic still there? Definitely. Darker? Absolutely. Canon? It did it well enough for me. Not too many complaints (which I will not bore you with) in that department because what was different/wrong weren't all that grand of a leap. If I will complain about one thing I will say that I truly would have appreciated seeing Snape react to Black being gone and then going on to blame Harry.
So yes to PoA. Yay.
I feel great. I just feel this renewed faith in the fandom I once was so entirely infatuated with. I'm finding myself thinking just a bit about nipping back into the SS/HP old fandom fics just to remember why I liked the ship so much over two years ago.
I'm also excited about the prospect of really enjoying my fandom again. I have been completely forgetting myself and my reason for being here in the first place. These books come first. Fandom isn't supposed to be about... fandom. It's supposed to be about Harry Potter. So I've made myself a promise I cannot break, now that I have put it in writing -- no matter what happens, I am here for Harry , Hogwarts, not for the essays or the newsletters or even the fanfiction. I'm here because there is really no book I would rather read then Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
So there. Back to my fandom. Back to me. One of my favourite people, luciusmalfoy, reminded me of why I joined fandom so many years ago just last night with her fantastic post on 40 old fandom questions you really would have to have experienced to know the answers to. Check it out, it was loads of fun. A bit of the old lot (do you remember gutterbunny, kick flaw, kissaki, jocetta or starkiller anyone?) showed up to try and answer those silly questions. You might learn/remember something. ;) <3 Lib.
Oh, as well. I'm quite happy to be taking on as a bit of help for Sarvi's PSA as a fic reader/rater in coming weeks. I'll really enjoy doing that. As well, I've taken on December 19 - January 25 at hp_qotd. Sure, quite a way away, but I'm still really looking forward to it! You should join up as well.
Ah, the happiness I feel. :)
P.S. I've started coding my recs site again. :o To anyone who used to read them, yay! I'm a little shocked myself, but I think it's in order right about now.
Everything was wonderful. I went to my favourite theater with my mother (who always professes not to be a Potter fan but insists on borrowing all 5 of my books at intervals and has always gone to each of the films at least twice along with me) where we sat in a neat row of deep red velvet seats, drank coffee/almond milk and snuck in our favourite movie treat, her sugar cookies. :D
I could feel the difference from nearly the first frame of the Warner Bros. trademark (quite different, I think). It wasn't quite my Dumbledore, I must admit (I am one of those annoyingly pro Dumbledore fandomers), but he was great nonetheless. Hogwarts was pretty much the same (though the grounds expanded by what? A couple of achers? :o). I think we're supposed to assume we just haven't seen that part of the ground -- except for the fact that they already showed Hagrid's cabin quite a bit in each film, yeah?
All and all. Magic still there? Definitely. Darker? Absolutely. Canon? It did it well enough for me. Not too many complaints (which I will not bore you with) in that department because what was different/wrong weren't all that grand of a leap. If I will complain about one thing I will say that I truly would have appreciated seeing Snape react to Black being gone and then going on to blame Harry.
So yes to PoA. Yay.
I feel great. I just feel this renewed faith in the fandom I once was so entirely infatuated with. I'm finding myself thinking just a bit about nipping back into the SS/HP old fandom fics just to remember why I liked the ship so much over two years ago.
I'm also excited about the prospect of really enjoying my fandom again. I have been completely forgetting myself and my reason for being here in the first place. These books come first. Fandom isn't supposed to be about... fandom. It's supposed to be about Harry Potter. So I've made myself a promise I cannot break, now that I have put it in writing -- no matter what happens, I am here for Harry , Hogwarts, not for the essays or the newsletters or even the fanfiction. I'm here because there is really no book I would rather read then Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
So there. Back to my fandom. Back to me. One of my favourite people, luciusmalfoy, reminded me of why I joined fandom so many years ago just last night with her fantastic post on 40 old fandom questions you really would have to have experienced to know the answers to. Check it out, it was loads of fun. A bit of the old lot (do you remember gutterbunny, kick flaw, kissaki, jocetta or starkiller anyone?) showed up to try and answer those silly questions. You might learn/remember something. ;) <3 Lib.
Oh, as well. I'm quite happy to be taking on as a bit of help for Sarvi's PSA as a fic reader/rater in coming weeks. I'll really enjoy doing that. As well, I've taken on December 19 - January 25 at hp_qotd. Sure, quite a way away, but I'm still really looking forward to it! You should join up as well.
Ah, the happiness I feel. :)
P.S. I've started coding my recs site again. :o To anyone who used to read them, yay! I'm a little shocked myself, but I think it's in order right about now.