09-15-2007, 03:02 AM
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 Re: G.o.i.
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Originally Posted by alohamora  ...two smiling faces winking. Just consider the 'o's as noses. | I never thought of two faces in one of those things. I see it now. ;o)(o; Quote:
Originally Posted by ekin DH was very well written considering all the pressure that was on JKR, imagine you have millions of fans expecting the novel to end how they would like and you have to please the masses. | You are not listening. I didn’t expect any particular ending. I just expected her to tie up all the loose ends (she did not) and give us a story that made sense (it did not). Quote:
Originally Posted by ekin The majority of people who have read DH liked it. | I doubt it. But at this moment, the answer to that question is unknowable. I don’t go around blabbing about it, especially to people who haven’t read it. Quote:
Originally Posted by ekin I think that DH was the hardest book to write because she had to end the series. | For that reason, it was the easiest to write. She didn't just make it up as she went along. She had been setting it all up for ten years. All she had to do was tap that first domino, sit back and watch it all fall into place. Her writing style and the complexity of her plots grew up over the years and left that wimpy little story in the dust. What she should have done is realize that her original plot was crap. Changing the plot would have made the job a little more difficult, but it would have been worth it. Quote:
Originally Posted by ekin ...popular TV shows...all had crappy endings... | The older I get, the less I want to watch TV. I didn't get around to watching "Friends" until it was in re-runs, and I've never seen the Sopranos at all. The last series that really got to me was "Deep Space Nine" -- they had a great ending. "Cheers" had a great ending. "Mash" had a great ending. I can't think of any others right now, but I'm sure others have managed. It IS possible. Quote:
Originally Posted by ekin I’ve been saying that the best part of something is not the ending but the journey… | But that’s just the trouble. She ruined the whole journey. Your football team is a perfect example -- “the fact that we never lost…” Imagine, at the end of that last game, you’ve started celebrating, thinking you’ve had a perfect season, and some ref comes along and changes the past – it turns out that you lost half of those games on some technicality. As it stands, you can look back and see a perfect season. I look back at the HP series and see a lot of un-kept promises.
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