Interest and responses (was Gambledore)

[nicholas dean]

>Richard said:-


>Incidentally, as nobody here seems to be interested in discussing the
>movies in any depth (funny, I always thought the "GU" part of this group's
>name was meant to stand for "Grown Ups" rather than "Gambon's Useless"),
>

Oi!

I don't think that this is justified. In fact, before the Gambledore 
petition thread (which I address in a separate post) I thought we 
were doing pretty well on this list with GoF discussion. Yes, there 
have been a few comments on the cuteness of the cast...this is after 
all a large and public list, and everyone is entitled to express 
their opinions, even if the men here find cuteness tiresome; but my 
computer's  'Transfer to Trash' function works very well, and 
otherwise it's been a good series of posts.

After PoA was released, I wrote a detailed account of the visual 
motifs used by Cuaron and compared them to several of his other 
movies. I thought it was pretty interesting, but when I posted it on 
this list no one, but no one, responded to or even acknowledged it.

So I took it to another list, a small, private list to which I also 
belong; and they picked up the thread and ran with it, even though 
most of the participants hadn't seen all of the Cuaron movies 
mentioned in the post. It led to an interesting discussion which I 
felt justified the time and effort of writing the essay.

On another occasion, I posted something to both lists and it was 
HPFGU-M which responded best.

The point is that somewhere out there, there is bound to be someone 
who is interested in what you have to say, and if you want people to 
respond to you, it's probably worth being part of more than one 
community.

It's a busy time of year, Richard; since GoF was released, I have 
been on two business trips of several days each, in addition to 
attending Christmas plays, Christmas concerts, two Nativities and a 
Carol Service at my kids' schools. I have done my best to keep up 
with posts, and did get involved in a fairly heavy exchange about 
movie narratives on my other list, but otherwise I don't have much 
time at the moment to respond to posts, or even to see GoF again, 
which I would like to do. I doubt that I am the only one in this 
community for whom this is true. Once Christmas is over, things will 
ease up and there will be more time available for chat groups.

Just because your kind of tech-heavy discussion of GoF hasn't 
happened here yet, it doesn't mean it isn't going to!

Cheers,
Nicholas