[the_old_crowd] Marauders/End/Fandoms/TWT&Kirk

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On 5/17/06, silmariel <silmariel at ...> wrote:

> On Peter, I think he's outed in part of the dialogue (conserved in the GoF
> film, btw) at the Riddle House.
>
> 'It could be done without Harry Potter, my Lord'
> ...Voldie's reaction
> 'My Lord, I do not say this out of concern for the boy!- -The boy is nothing
> to me, nothing at all! (rambles long excuse)

Interesting..

> About fandoms - Mainly I don't get bitter in fandoms because I'm used to
> ignore the parts I don't like (I'm a ruthless audience), and ignore authors
> when I feel they've lost it. It worked with Dune, to me it is only one book.
> I just ignore the others, selective memory is a wonderful thing. I'm still a
> fan of star wars (and star trek, talking of apparent dichotomies), because I
> don't let Lucas ruin the day for me. I didn't see epidodes 2&3 in cinema, the
> DVD helps, it gives you the 'edit' option to skip or shorten (forward)
> scenes. And glad I didn't because the only thing I loved from episode I and
> made me endure the boring film and the urge to strangle Jar-Jar was the sable
> laser fights between Maul and our heroes (fantastic, imo), and that kind of
> choreography had disappeared in the second prequel.

Now imagine if an author had that kind of power to steer audiences
around...in a sense this kind of feedback loop already exists, as
myth. Sooner or later someone will own the archetypes...

> It happens the same with house points and the House Cup. I know it can acid
> rain over the Griffindors entire set of books and housework, rats eat their
> broomsticks, they can be all petrified and still, they'll get the house cup.
> PS/SS end told me that, it was just a nice add-on for the heroes to win, so
> good if you want to cheer up spirits and give a 'heroes win' final, so bad if
> you want to maintain house points as something to be paid attention to.

Can post-modernist fairytales really ring true? Slapping a "bad"
ending on things is just as unsatisfying.

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