The End

[tealin]

So ... that's it.


.... and I'm still awake.



Was it just me, or ... was it ... a little anticlimactic? WHOA! WHOA! STOP! It was good. In ... its way. But ... Well, I don't know what I wanted out of it. Somehow the ending was ... almost ... too normal. Though to be honest I was half expecting the book to consist of 'They all died' followed by fifty filler pages of Lorem Ipsum.* Every possible ending I could imagine seemed within the realm of possibility, but he's pulled another one of his tricks and ONCE AGAIN managed to come up with the most unexpected outcome, if only by doing what would be expected of anyone else.

I dunno, it just seems to be out of the tone of the rest of the series. The last three books seem to have sort of gradually drifted into a different universe. Maybe it's just me. They're less satirical but not really more of anything else to make up for it. They're less silly, but at the same time also less dramatic or intriguing. Is he bored? Jaded? Distracted? Misled? Suffering from popularity? Not that I could possibly recommend anything to be an improvement ... hmm.

Yeah, it, uh ... that's that.

Oh, I LOVE THIS:
'"Neiklot?"Sunny asked, which meant "Why are you telling us about this ring?"'
I haven't laughed that hard at a book in a really long time. At least a year.

Just ... as a general note ... I move that there be some sort of Interpol policy stating that no movies shall be made of a book or books in a contiguous chronological narrative series that is still being written by the author. Or if they are made, the author is not allowed to watch them. I can't help wondering if both the Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter would have turned out differently if it were not for the intervention of Hollywood.

*Lorem Ipsum is printers' dummy text. More info here.

There is a screencap I really want to post but CURSES my sister has the DVD and I can't find it online. Sunday, perhaps. [EDIT: the DVD is missing! Nooooooo!]

Comments

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks! I also thought that having Neville come up with the Gillyweed was a nice compromise (I really like his character, if you couldn't tell), and I have liked many of the costume ideas in the various films - sometimes you don't think of certain ideas until you see it all realized, or how well all the costumes might work on screen together, or what would actually work or make practical sense, until you actually start making, seeing, and trying to use the physical clothes and accesories. My biggest problem with the "Goblet of Fire" movie was that they almost completely removed what I considered one of the most important plot developments in the series: Fudge and the Ministry of Magic turning against Harry and Dumbledore, and refusing to take a proactive stand against the Death-Eaters when they had a chance! To be fair, a movie long enough to adequately encompass this plot might have collapsed under it's own weight - the filmmakers may have done the best they could adapting the material under the circumstances. I've just learned to lower my expectations for what the movies can accomplish, which is fine, since I've still got the books (although she's got one last chance to really screw up the series! Let's hope she does not disappoint!)