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Let the Lame Puberty Jokes Begin!
Nov. 28th, 2006 10:44 amI meant to mention this before Thanksgiving, but it was right before Thanksgiving. I kinda had a one-track mind at the time.
The Harry Potter trailer came out with Happy Feet about a week and a half ago (for once, I agree with MuggleCast: buy a ticket for James Bond or something, sit in on the Happy Feet trailers and go see Casino Royale. Don't waste your time on Happy Feet) and the trailer was released online the following Monday (sheesh, to hear some of the online communities tell it, having to wait a WHOLE WEEKEND for it to come online was torture of the Al-Qaeda variety). In the Potter fandom, the discussion was how cool the Occlumency scene was, how cool it was that Sirius Black was opened the trailer, what the modern skyline of London looked like, the flight down the River Thames and on and on. Guess what Yahoo's big headline about the trailer was?
"Harry Potter's First Kiss"
AAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Okay, okay, the trailer did feature Harry and Cho kissing, but to hear the mainstream entertainment news tell it, this movie's going to be a corny teenage romance. Forget the power struggle with the Ministry and that the Most Evil Wizard of Our Time is loose and nobody believes it. Forget Umbridge's over-the-top-ness and the OWL exams. The most important thing is that Harry Potter has discovered women.
It doesn't end. Yahoo also has the headline "Meet Harry Potter's Love Interest" talking about how people started a mass internet search of Katie Leung, who plays Cho Chang. Never mind that she was in the last movie and that she and Harry don't even get through the first date in this movie (or, at least, they don't in the book. Who actually knows about the movie?) If people are going crazy that "OMIGAWSH, Harry Potter kissed a giiiirl!! Liek WHOA!1!!!111!!" now, they are going to be sorely disappointed come July 13. I really wish they hadn't put that in the trailer beacuse it looks like this "romance" is going to be part of the main focus of the whole story. To set the record straight: Harry has a crush on a girl, he finally gets to kiss her (mostly because she can't stop crying about Cedric, her last boyfriend, who died in the last movie), they go on a date and it is very awkward and doesn't turn out well for reasons that you're just going to have to read the book to find out about because I have little faith in the filmmakers' final product).
Obviously, I'm talking about people who only see the movies. The fans of the books know better. They are with me in yelling "ARGH!" at ever "Harry's Growing Up" line that comes out of the entertainment news and movie reviews. Please, Please, PLEASE don't turn "Order of the Phoenix" into "The OC." As a passionate HP fan, I am begging you, PLEASE don't! (Then again, we know how the filmmakers pay attention to the passionate fans *bleah*)
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
The Harry Potter trailer came out with Happy Feet about a week and a half ago (for once, I agree with MuggleCast: buy a ticket for James Bond or something, sit in on the Happy Feet trailers and go see Casino Royale. Don't waste your time on Happy Feet) and the trailer was released online the following Monday (sheesh, to hear some of the online communities tell it, having to wait a WHOLE WEEKEND for it to come online was torture of the Al-Qaeda variety). In the Potter fandom, the discussion was how cool the Occlumency scene was, how cool it was that Sirius Black was opened the trailer, what the modern skyline of London looked like, the flight down the River Thames and on and on. Guess what Yahoo's big headline about the trailer was?
"Harry Potter's First Kiss"
AAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Okay, okay, the trailer did feature Harry and Cho kissing, but to hear the mainstream entertainment news tell it, this movie's going to be a corny teenage romance. Forget the power struggle with the Ministry and that the Most Evil Wizard of Our Time is loose and nobody believes it. Forget Umbridge's over-the-top-ness and the OWL exams. The most important thing is that Harry Potter has discovered women.
It doesn't end. Yahoo also has the headline "Meet Harry Potter's Love Interest" talking about how people started a mass internet search of Katie Leung, who plays Cho Chang. Never mind that she was in the last movie and that she and Harry don't even get through the first date in this movie (or, at least, they don't in the book. Who actually knows about the movie?) If people are going crazy that "OMIGAWSH, Harry Potter kissed a giiiirl!! Liek WHOA!1!!!111!!" now, they are going to be sorely disappointed come July 13. I really wish they hadn't put that in the trailer beacuse it looks like this "romance" is going to be part of the main focus of the whole story. To set the record straight: Harry has a crush on a girl, he finally gets to kiss her (mostly because she can't stop crying about Cedric, her last boyfriend, who died in the last movie), they go on a date and it is very awkward and doesn't turn out well for reasons that you're just going to have to read the book to find out about because I have little faith in the filmmakers' final product).
Obviously, I'm talking about people who only see the movies. The fans of the books know better. They are with me in yelling "ARGH!" at ever "Harry's Growing Up" line that comes out of the entertainment news and movie reviews. Please, Please, PLEASE don't turn "Order of the Phoenix" into "The OC." As a passionate HP fan, I am begging you, PLEASE don't! (Then again, we know how the filmmakers pay attention to the passionate fans *bleah*)
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
