CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS FOR HALF BLOOD PRINCE

Was thinking about Harry Potter stufff this morning.

Watched a few random HP vids. You know what? Most of the limited number I've seen, I don't care for. They suffer from limited source material and often poor song choices. The only one I've seen that I'd say was really GOOD was this one with Harry and Lupin to the song "Don't Stand Stand So Close To Me", and that was just a little too good because the end result was disturbing.

I'll happily take HP vid recs, if anyone's got them.

What else... right. Shipping. I found myself wondering, along the vein of shipperdom, if [MILD SHIP SPOILERS] the movie makers will try to add more scenes with Ginny in the next three movies, like invent scenes and dialogue and stuff, to give her and Harry more interaction before and during the sixth movie. Cause if the movies were made based off the books, it totally wouldn't make sense on screen. The audience would be like "the fuck? Where did that come from?" and it would be kind of embarrassing. So I predict they'll add scenes for Ginny in movie 6.

I was also thinking that I'm not really that into Harry/Luna anymore. I still prefer it as far as fic pairings go, but what limited amount there was of ship-related thoughts in my view of the HP was mainly focused around them simply because it looked to me like Luna was going to be his girlfriend or something. And I loved her character, so that was okay. But given certain twists in book 6 I've lost interest.

Not that I've gained any interest for the alternative (honestly, how could I? It was one of the weaker parts of the book), just lost interest in this. Discovered a little bit of interest in Remus/Tonks, but not anything substancial beyond mild fic-interest.

Mostly-- and isn't this kind of sad--- book 6 was cool but it basically killed my desire to do anything for HP fandom.

Now I just want to watch the movies.

It even killed my desire to read my seekrit vice pairing, Hermione/Draco. Dude, book 6 killed my secret vice pairing! Nothing is supposed to kill a secret vice pairing. It's impossible in canon so it should theoretically exist forever!

Stupid Rowling. God, I wish you were Stephen King sometimes. Or Dean Koontz. Or even David Eddings.

Actually, dude, that's like... the perfect solution. I'd LOVE to see an HP book written by David Eddings. It'd have the same cast, but the jokes would be funnier and the drama would be more dramatic and the people with the most interesting chemistry would hook up.

And maybe Eddings could randomly insert his own characters into the HPverse while writing it. Like Silk. God, the Order of the Phoenix needs to get themselves a guy like Silk. He'd have their fucking war won for them in a week without a single drop of blood. Just money and lots of blackmail.

JKR v. Eddings

10 Reasons Why Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Would Have Been Better If David Eddings Had Written It

1. The campyness of the HPverse would still be cute and campy, but the dramatic parts would be more dramatic.
2. The jokes would be funnier.
3. They both over-use adverbs, but Eddings makes better use of adjectives.
4. The Half Blood Prince would have turned out to be a character like Silk, and in two weeks he'd have the Order of the Phoenix running like a proper covert spy organization. Meaning more spying and less dying. And in three months he'd have recruited 3/4 of Voldemort's spies to work for the the Order instead. And in six months the Dark Lord would wake up one day to find all his financial assets had disappeared, all his magical items of power had been stolen down to the wand under his pillow at night, nearly every Death Eater had been bought off by the other side, and someone had tied his shoelaces together.
5. If Ginny were Ce'Nedra, ( HPB spoiler )

6. Ginny would have a personality.
7. The mystery of HBP's identity would have been more interesting, and actually mattered to everything else that happened in the book.
8. Neville wouldn't have been forgotten about after being the most awesome character in book 5.
9. Luna would have had a an actual plot purpose instead of being forgotten about too.
10. Dumbledore ( HPB spoiler )

EDIT: Half Blood Prince spoilers in comments, vague Belgariad/Mallorean spoilers too.

Poll! A Very Important Question

New poll! I'm feeling awfully critical of JKR's books today. Dunoo why. I'll be fangirling again next week or something. But until then... new poll!

"Jump the shark" = a term used to describe the exact moment when a series hits the highest point it can or the last truely great point before the long slow demise. It's the point in the series where you know it's all downhill from here. Either because the moment was so good nothing could beat it and all that follows is never quite as cool as it used to be, or because it was so bad you know the series will never recover.

[Poll #588413]

Nip/Tuck and Supernatural

Nip/Tuck

I've been watching the last few weeks of Nip/Tuck. Because my roommate is into it. Another roommate has also gotten sucked into it recently.

Let me just say that this is the most fucked up show that I've ever sat through more than five episodes of. Bless basic cable.

Let me also say "OH FUCKING SHIT THAT'S SO WRONG!" and "I KNEW IT!" and "They [Christian and Sean] will be sleeping together within two seasons."

Although, at the point at the end when ( spoiler )

, I started giggling. I told my roommates, amongst my giggling, "Wow, this is almost Greek."

The levels of sordidness, passive and active violence, and incestuous tones in this group of people is practically absurd. I had to giggle once Sean held up the knife. Cause at this point it was getting funny. And Greek.

There should be a play.

Giggling aside, I'll be watching next week too of course! After all, a show with this many OMG!s is hard to turn away from. (Though I actually physically looked away on two occasions in this episode.) I watched the very early episodes when it first aired, but was turned off. I think watching with friends makes it more fun/easier to watch somehow.


Supernatural

I've been watching this show off-and-on too, though the entertainment factor has been significantly less than N/T. For one thing, I don't particularly like either character. And there's the fact that I don't think tney're "driving around randomly fighting ghost crime while searching for Daddy" is being very plausibly carried out. And there's the fact that it's not particularly scary or inventive or clever.

If it's not scary, it's not inventive, it's not clever, and I don't like the characters, why am I watching a cheap X-Files/Buffy rip-off anyway? Dunno. Because it's on and I'm easy when it comes to sci-fi/fantasy television.

Another thing I don't like: the fact that this "demons and bad spirits exist" premise isn't good enough for me anymore. I want the X Files, where you aren't told ahead of time that they exist, but instead are constantly chasing the mystery to validate their existence, because there could always be a scientific explanation if you look hard enough, but at the same time you're always asking yourself DO YOU BELIEVE? -- Or there's the Buffy/Angel premise, where demons and ghosts do exist, yeah, but something else exists that has a job to kill them, and that girl's existence is just as crazy and magical and demonic in origin.

I like my ghost/demon plot set-ups to come with a twist. "They're out there we are weak humans who such" isn't good enough. I've read a hundred books and watched a hundred movies about that and it's so old.

Also, turn a fucking light on. It's not THAT dark ALL the time. Sheesh. The world is not gray. The world is only gray at times. Take an art class. Walk outside. The world is not gray and it's boring to look at a show with a constant blue/grey/pink filter.

But about tonight's episode: for the first three quarters it was actually kind of creepy. Which surprised me, and I think only worked because I'd half-played Bloody Mary myself as a child.

But around the climactic battle in the third act, before the scene even started I was picking holes in the brother's plan. Seriously, there were holes. And I was explaining them to my roommates because dude, if I were there I wouldn't be that fucking stupid. And I don't even chase demons on a regular basis like these two clowns.

After the thing going wrong that I predicted did go wrong, my roommates told me I was right and I should be a demon hunter for a living. I think I'd be a bit of a Wesley in the beginning, but I'd like to think I'd make an okay demon-hunter after I learned to use a crossbow and stuff.