Am I the only one?

[Kewpie]

am I really the only one who think the deletion of Oliver Wood will 
NOT play a vital factor in the quality of the film at all?!?! Are 
some of you really serious when you said the film is "ruined" because 
there'll be no Wood!?!

Honestly, I really don't understand what the fuss with all these 
complaining about Wood not being in POA at all. Really, for those who 
overreact at that please think about this: is Wood really THAT 
important and vital to the major plot!? PoA is a much longer story 
than PS and CoS, it introduced essential new  
characters/creatures/flashback of the past, in comparison, Wood is 
completely a disposable elements to the story.
In CoS movie he has only like at most 1 mintues of appearance or so. 
Therefore if Wood is in PoA, he'll just be a walking cardboard 
anyways. What's the point to keep him then?

Besides, who says no Wood = no quidditch? quidditch game could still 
be shown totally without Wood! Remember CoS? He had 5 secs or so on 
screen time in it, and his appearance really contribute nothing much 
except for serving eye candy for fangirls.

I for one could REALLY live without him at all, as well as the whole 
quidditch cup thing. Yes it's still essential to show segments of the 
game to the dementors part, but a long game with start and finish is 
really too redundant. Do we really need to see the Quidditch cup!? 
What's so important about it compare with other more important things 
like character development and history of MWPP? We have seen 2 
quidditch games already and the freshness of "sport with racing 
broom" is really wearing off (at least to me), I for one was bored at 
the Quidditch scene in CoS (and it's so loooonnnggg) and whenever I 
re-watch PS I always skip the quidditch parts. The Quidditch has 
become so predictable that everyone knows the Gryfinddor will win and 
Harry will caught the Snitch ANYWAYS! 

And sending complaints to WB because of your own particular 
preference of casting? Geez....what makes you think your vision is 
more right than others to complaint? I for one is VERY satisfy at the 
casting myself. How about wait till you see the actual performance of 
the actors when the film opened! It's not like your complains will 
change ANYTHING about it. 

Joan