Dedication

[mike_smith]

An epilogue to my Tenchi Muyo! discussion from before, I put it back in and watched the extras. This mostly turned out to be a music video of the closing credits, and some sort of mini-documentary made by the producers in Japan, in which the musicians for the anime went on a "pilgrimage" to Okayama Prefecture, the real-life locale in Japan where

Comments

[bubonicplague]

Just argue with Jim about whether Snape deserves anyone's pity. That never gets old.

*snicker* Well, I enjoyed it?

[jim_smith]

No, no, he's right, I can't possibly live up to the high standards of entertainment set by his rambling anime reviews.

[bubonicplague]

Maybe it would help if I said I always indulge in Harry Potter wank while wet from the shower and topless or something.

[mike_smith]

See, this should be how you respond to any Snape-related discussion. "He sucks, discussion's over." Instead it's this constant back-and-forth where you just repeat the same point over and over. It doesn't matter if he has a right to be angry about his high school years, or if Black's actually meant to kill him or not, because he can't take two steps in this book without making an ass of himself.

It's like arguing the merits of Harris in the Police Academy movies. You know, when Steve Gutenburg used a crane to lower his porta-potty into a football stadium, I really think that was crossing a line, and Harris lost whatever respect he had for him up to that point.

[redcoast]

And the lesson is: Wedge > Ron.

Hey, wait a minute! Wedge totally whizzed his round against the first Death Star! He got a do-over too!

[mike_smith]

Doesn't count. With the second Death Star, he HAD to hit it, because he was the only one who could. Well, Lando could have done it, but then the thing would have blown up in Wedge's face as he passed the reactor, so I assume that's why they let Wedge take the shot.

[sistermagpie]

Also Wedge had to miss the first one so that Luke had to hit it. You couldn't build up Luke as the crack pilot who can use the force and then have it turn out we should have been following Wedge because he was the one who could destroy the Death Star. Then in RotJ with Luke out there's even more pressure on Wedge because we know he's the best pilot without Luke's access to the force. Err...at least that's how it seems to me.

[redcoast]

I really don't see how that "doesn't count." Wedge failed, he got to try again. Hell, the Alliance lost the battle of Hoth, but came back for another round. Luke lost his first battle with Darth Vader. Han got frozen. Leia got captured, multiple times. There's lots of failure and losing in Star Wars. Your claim that the character's failures make the book uninteresting to read doesn't really hold together. You do like Return of the Jedi, don't you?

[lovable_lama]

I always figured that Sirius was forced to change back to his human form because dementors drain a wizards power. He could change into a dog when there was just one standing guard outside his cell door, but 100+ coming at him all crazy and shit was probably too much for him to handle. That's what I always thought anyway....
Lauren

Busted, J.K.

[lovehonorlife]

I thought they said last chapter that the only reason Sirius escaped prison was that the dementors couldn't tell it was him when he was a dog? Way to ignore your own continuity, Rowling. Agreed, bad form.

Re: Busted, J.K.

[redcoast]

I thought they said last chapter that the only reason Sirius escaped prison was that the dementors couldn't tell it was him when he was a dog?

Nope, they could tell it was him, just with simpler, more animal emotions that were harder to sense. The Dementors, being blind, chalked it up to insanity instead of realizing he can transform. Sirius managed to escape because he a) WASN'T insane, unlike most of the prisoners, and the Dementors aren't used to guarding prisoners with all of their marbles, and b) dog emotions are harder to sense than human emotions, so they were at a disadvantage finding him.

[merenwen_81]

Peter needed to escape, because Rowling has a job for him in book 4 and it also means the prophesy Trelawney made a couple of chapters agewas a real one for a change.

Yes, he's an idiot for forgetting something like the full moon, ut what was Lupin supposed to do when he noticed Sirius and Peter with the children? Wait until someone got killed?

[merenwen_81]

God, I really need to use the spell-checking function. I hope the message above is still readable.

[sistermagpie]

Yes, he's an idiot for forgetting something like the full moon, ut what was Lupin supposed to do when he noticed Sirius and Peter with the children?

My guess is he was supposed to do something other than running out as an almost-werewolf by himself (like having Dumbledore go to the shack or something). Or go to Snape first and drink his Potion before running out.

[mike_smith]

Wait until someone got killed?

I'm not saying he shouldn't have gone, far from it. I'm saying he shouldn't have come back until the following morning, when it'd be safe. They had Peter bound and disarmed, so it's not like they needed Lupin to bring him back to the school.

Of course, it might have complicated things if Black and the kids were discovered without a (conscious) teacher to vouch for them, but if that were an issue, they could have all stayed in the shack until morning. Do something, do anything, as long as it doesn't involve Lupin turning into a wolf, basically.

[mike_smith]

Granted, but at least the Spirit Bomb has better theme music.