Aeon Flux was that cartoon with all angular lines and bugs that got into people's bloodstream? And she was a secret agent that climbed walls and had a cool head (was it a face mask of some sort?)
I've determined that Rowling's greatest weakness is that her allegiance to her formula takes priority over keeping me entertained.
That's what it is. See, the school-year worked pretty well in BTVS but doesn't transfer to a novel-series that is written over so many years. If she actually wrote one a year and covered the dull, post-sweeps period with a decent comedy episode, she'd do a lot better (I think the 45-min 22-ep US series sweeps-and-finale format is brilliant, by the way. It really makes writers stay on their toes). The plus side of serial fiction (and this includes comics, Tv series and book-sets like this) is that it builds a massive fanbase between episodes. The downside is that they hardly ever finish satisfactiorily. Maybe Blake's Seven, Angel and Farscape did it. I don't know the comic-book equivalents because they always
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Aeon Flux was that cartoon with all angular lines and bugs that got into people's bloodstream? And she was a secret agent that climbed walls and had a cool head (was it a face mask of some sort?)Um, I think you've got the right show. I stopped following it pretty early on, so I the bugs and mask may have been added in later, although I never heard of that
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Oh dude, that would be so retarded and yet make so much sense. If you do this, Book 7, I am so going to hurt you.
2) Super Dumbass Fusion. Like I said before, the only reason Dumbledore would let himself get killed would be to ensure that Snape and Draco live on, which means that stopping Voldemort depends upon them staying alive.
I think the idea is Snape has to live because he's really a key ally against Voldemort, and Draco has to live because he deserves to be redeemed but it otherwise unimportant. I'm banking on Harry and Snape teaming up to perhaps save Draco, further illustrating that Harry's a man and Draco's a boy.
3) R.A.B. does most of the work. Before anyone mentions that R.A.B. is probably Regulus Black, I heard you.
The stupidest thing is that if RAB is Regulus (and I'm sure he is), he's already dead so his identity is moot. One of the cool things about "The Tower of the Elephant" is that Conan's the only guy ballsy enough to break in, whereupon he meets...the first guy ballsy
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If you do this, Book 7, I am so going to hurt you. And I'm going to hurt Rowling. If Snape and Lily had an affair and you hear a twenty-something Finnish woman got arrested for trying to bitchlap a famous children's writer, that will be me. How predictable would that be? There's also the part about Harry looking like James, except for his eyes and Snape and Sirius both acted like Harry was James reincarnated. It's seriously messed-up.
I think R.A.B. and Mundungus selling Sirius' stuff may turn out to be important, because Regulus lived in Grimmauld Place, the house Sirius left to Harry, and in book five they saw a locket there. It was heavy and no one was able to open it.
I think a Snape/Lily affair is pretty unlikely, given that the author thinks it's hilarious that anyone would be in love with Snape. There may or may not be a discounted rumor about that.
I dearly hope not. My brother is already convinced that HP is "Star Wars: Retold". If this devolves into a
Harry: You got my father killed! Snape: I am your father! Harry: NoooOOoooo...
type of thing, I'll have no choice but to concede his point.
4) Anticlimax. Somehow, I'm betting this final showdown between Harry and Voldemort is a total letdown. I don't know how exactly, I just know it will be.
If they use their strengths, they'll probably just try to whinge each other to death.
So let's look to the future. Would I do all this again for Book Seven? Probably not, but just the same, now that I've read Book Six, let's take a moment to consider what may come to pass.
Would you consider doing a few of the chapters that fandom most loses its collective mind over?
The only other thing I've been able to think of re: Dumbledore-as-Christlike-thingy is that they both have lots of names.
Aeon Flux was actually fun- I had a free coupon for the local theatre and it was see that or a bunch of other dumb stuff and it was a pretty fun film. Nothing special, but they kept the cool bits like the attacking plants and stuff from the cartoon. And the skimpy cartoon outfit SORT of makes an appearance. Kind of. Anyway, the movie actually had a PLOT and that was cool- I didn't remember the cartoon having one at all, but anyway. Clones. That's all I'm saying.
Re: Aeon FluxkkglinkaDecember 4 2005, 16:36:48 UTC
Oh, the cartoon never ever had a plot. Not even the series version that came after the original dialogue-free shorts. Aeon was on one side and the Chairman was a pervert was on the other and you didn't know which was really evil and Aeon muffed up always died. I loved it.
At the same time, knowing all this, I couldn't imagine how the movie would work in any way except on a semi-plotless artistic level. Meaning, there shouldn't be anything particularly wrong with it but it's nothing great, either.
Thank you for doing thisjazzypomDecember 4 2005, 13:05:04 UTC
HBP was the emperor's new clothes at the heart of it, there were some neat twists and turns true, but at the heart of it, the book was bad.
Snape can't be Harry's father because Harry 'looks like James, with Lily's eyes' so that point can't be true (I hope). It's bad enough that Rowling's big secret might be that Snape loved Lily and how cliched is that?
Yeah, but thanks for reviewing the text. It's been nice seeing someone who has no ties or agendas or emotional ties in the series doing the book for what it is. Well done. Thank you for this.
Mike Smith, good night.
I'm still keeping you on my flist though, I used to be a comics buff myself and it's nice keeping in touch with the culture via you.
Ahhh Aeon Flux- i know that Cheung wasn't impressed with the movie at all.
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I've determined that Rowling's greatest weakness is that her allegiance to her formula takes priority over keeping me entertained.
That's what it is. See, the school-year worked pretty well in BTVS but doesn't transfer to a novel-series that is written over so many years. If she actually wrote one a year and covered the dull, post-sweeps period with a decent comedy episode, she'd do a lot better (I think the 45-min 22-ep US series sweeps-and-finale format is brilliant, by the way. It really makes writers stay on their toes). The plus side of serial fiction (and this includes comics, Tv series and book-sets like this) is that it builds a massive fanbase between episodes. The downside is that they hardly ever finish satisfactiorily. Maybe Blake's Seven, Angel and Farscape did it. I don't know the comic-book equivalents because they always ( ... )
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The "Pitch Black" comic sounds really interesting.
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Oh dude, that would be so retarded and yet make so much sense. If you do this, Book 7, I am so going to hurt you.
2) Super Dumbass Fusion. Like I said before, the only reason Dumbledore would let himself get killed would be to ensure that Snape and Draco live on, which means that stopping Voldemort depends upon them staying alive.
I think the idea is Snape has to live because he's really a key ally against Voldemort, and Draco has to live because he deserves to be redeemed but it otherwise unimportant. I'm banking on Harry and Snape teaming up to perhaps save Draco, further illustrating that Harry's a man and Draco's a boy.
3) R.A.B. does most of the work. Before anyone mentions that R.A.B. is probably Regulus Black, I heard you.
The stupidest thing is that if RAB is Regulus (and I'm sure he is), he's already dead so his identity is moot. One of the cool things about "The Tower of the Elephant" is that Conan's the only guy ballsy enough to break in, whereupon he meets...the first guy ballsy ( ... )
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And I'm going to hurt Rowling. If Snape and Lily had an affair and you hear a twenty-something Finnish woman got arrested for trying to bitchlap a famous children's writer, that will be me. How predictable would that be? There's also the part about Harry looking like James, except for his eyes and Snape and Sirius both acted like Harry was James reincarnated. It's seriously messed-up.
I think R.A.B. and Mundungus selling Sirius' stuff may turn out to be important, because Regulus lived in Grimmauld Place, the house Sirius left to Harry, and in book five they saw a locket there. It was heavy and no one was able to open it.
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You and large chunks of the fandom in general.
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I dearly hope not. My brother is already convinced that HP is "Star Wars: Retold". If this devolves into a
Harry: You got my father killed!
Snape: I am your father!
Harry: NoooOOoooo...
type of thing, I'll have no choice but to concede his point.
4) Anticlimax. Somehow, I'm betting this final showdown between Harry and Voldemort is a total letdown. I don't know how exactly, I just know it will be.
If they use their strengths, they'll probably just try to whinge each other to death.
So let's look to the future. Would I do all this again for Book Seven? Probably not, but just the same, now that I've read Book Six, let's take a moment to consider what may come to pass.
Would you consider doing a few of the chapters that fandom most loses its collective mind over?
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Aeon Flux was actually fun- I had a free coupon for the local theatre and it was see that or a bunch of other dumb stuff and it was a pretty fun film. Nothing special, but they kept the cool bits like the attacking plants and stuff from the cartoon. And the skimpy cartoon outfit SORT of makes an appearance. Kind of. Anyway, the movie actually had a PLOT and that was cool- I didn't remember the cartoon having one at all, but anyway. Clones. That's all I'm saying.
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At the same time, knowing all this, I couldn't imagine how the movie would work in any way except on a semi-plotless artistic level. Meaning, there shouldn't be anything particularly wrong with it but it's nothing great, either.
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Snape can't be Harry's father because Harry 'looks like James, with Lily's eyes' so that point can't be true (I hope). It's bad enough that Rowling's big secret might be that Snape loved Lily and how cliched is that?
Yeah, but thanks for reviewing the text. It's been nice seeing someone who has no ties or agendas or emotional ties in the series doing the book for what it is. Well done. Thank you for this.
Mike Smith, good night.
I'm still keeping you on my flist though, I used to be a comics buff myself and it's nice keeping in touch with the culture via you.
Ahhh Aeon Flux- i know that Cheung wasn't impressed with the movie at all.
Oh well.
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