HP6 - GROSS - in perspective

[Carol]

Brian:
> Perhaps the boycott by many fans with principles (we AREN'T fair-weather fans as one poster here called us) made an impact after all.

Carol responds:
If we agree not to call you a "fair-weather fan" (I don't recall reading that term here, but I don't doubt your word), can you agree not to call the rest of us "unprincipled" just because we don't feel a need to boycott Warner Brothers? (I happen not to have seen it yet because I never see a hugely popular movie when it first comes out, but I see no sense in boycotting it the first week and seeing it later. Why not refuse to see it at all and let the rest of us enjoy it--or not, as the case may be?)

It's rather like calling Harry and Ron "unprincipled" because they weren't up in arms about House-Elf rights like Hermione and spew, erm, S.P.E.W. We all have our causes. Fighting Warner Brothers just because they delayed a film I wanted to see doesn't happen to be one of them.

I do wish that they'd taken the time to improve the film and add some scenes that they appear to have cut unnecessarily, and I'm not at all happy about the added Burrow scene or the handling of Dumbledore's death, but it's par for the course for Warner Brothers, a money-making machine. We saw that same side of them in their alliance with JKR against Lexicon!Steve, as if his little book would in any way have harmed their profits.

I understand that it's important to you, but other members of this list have every right to attend the movie whenever they like without being attacked for their decision.

Carol, who hates name-calling and finger-pointing of any sort