[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: What should we do next?

[Stephen Vandecasteele]

--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Jen Reese <stevejjen at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Jen Reese <stevejjen at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: What should we do next?
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 11:37 AM
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>             Eggplant:
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> > I doubt the focus of the main group will ever be on
> the films, but I
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> > don't see the need to treat them like a crazy
> uncle you keep locked up
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> > in the cellar. Like it or not for virtually all new
> readers of
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> > the series their mental images of the scenes in the
> books will be
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> > influenced by the movies. There is just no point in
> pretending
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> nineteenth 
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> > In the early days when the book series was far from
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> > most posts were some variation of "What will
> happen next?" it
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> Jen: I like this idea.  It's hard to separate the two
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> talk comparison/contrast .  Plus there can be casual talk
> on OTC for the 
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> fun stuff, like who was casted, 'can you believe they
> cut this out?!' 
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> We could use 'Movie' in the header on main;
> isn't that how it was 
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> handled prior to a separate list?  Eggplant has a point
> that everything 
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> is starting to blend together when it comes to talking
> about HP because 
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> there's not all the theorizing.  I picture the lists
> collapsing down as 
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> time goes by, more like when hpfgu started.  It's fun
> to read the back 
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> posts when everything was mixed up.  I'm sure dividing
> the lists 
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> month.  
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> Chaos can be fun though, yes?
Steve Van now,

I  will only speak for myself and say I prefer to watch movies without reading the books because I view the movies as entertainment.