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marguerite_krux) wrote2009-09-15 03:16 pm
'Color me blue, I'm lost in you, don't know why I'm still waiting...'
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Last time I drew a comparison between Sanctuary’s John Druitt and our politician Peter Garrett. [Eerie, no?]
Now I bring your attention to Will Zimmerman. As soon as I saw him, I was all over the obvious Daniel Jackson comparison.
Apparently that’s why he ditched the glasses, lol.
But as Netty and I were doing our marathon, she turns to me and goes, ‘Hey, he looks like Harry Potter’ just as I was turning to her to say the same! [Great minds, etc. etc.] REALLY. Lookit.
I admit, there's little more than 'white male, brown hair, glasses' to this comparison. *shrugs* But still!
The 'Golden Trio'. Lol.
Mentor/student relationship.
Dumbledore and Harry ain't got nothing on Will and Helen's chemistry. :D
Shades of Dumbledore’s relationship with Harry.
After the death of his parents, Dumbledore left Harry with his relatives and kept him away from the world of magic, leaving him ignorant, if not exactly blissful. After his mother's death, Magnus also chose to keep him unaware of the fact that monsters- excuse me, Abnormals exist in our world, leaving him blissfully ignorant, suppressing all his traumatic memories.
Both Dumbledore and Magnus are expert at manipulating the people around them, even if they are benevolent, they're rather ruthless about the way they pull the strings. They've learned all too well how to provoke the reactions they want from those around them, what with being over a century old. 
Although Dumbledore looks his age, while Helen is absolutely gorgeous. :D
And this, THIS!
Will: You’ve withheld things from me. You were there, weren’t you?
Helen: She was an extraordinarily brave woman. She died protecting you from that creature.
Will: You could have stopped it, done something.
Magnus: We tried, Will. I swear to you, we tried. It all happened so quickly we barely had time to rescue you
Firstly, note the same petulance in both Harry and Will- always blaming other people for the death of their loved ones. So irrational, tsk, tsk. Thankfully, it's just a temporary lapse in Will, while I've given up Harry as a lost cause, the self-centered prat.
Secondly- come on, the self-sacrificing mother, who dies to protect her son from evil monsters?
Harry and Will both get to see their mothers- unfortunately for Will, it's just a hallucination trying to lure him to his death, but Harry gets some closure with seeing his mother's spirit as she once again protects him from the Dak Lord. [Useless brat]
Their special destiny.
Of course Harry was always meant to grow into his heritage of 'Boy-Who-Lived', to be groomed to take down the Dark Lord. [Which meant half-assing a plan, breaking all sorts of rules, getting into trouble, endangering others and waiting for the adults to come sacrifice themselves and rescue the Trio's butts, then whinging about how it wasn't his fault because nobody treated him like an adult. *headdeskfloorwall*]
Magnus: I’ve known this was your destiny since you first came to my attention.
Will: Yeah, since you knocked me down in an alley.
Magnus: Since you were eight years old, actually...when you told the world a monster killed your mother.
And finally? Later on in the marathon, Will actually puts on a British accent!
‘Isn’t rather odd sort of your stock in trade?'
That totally made us giggle even harder, it was like a special shout-out to us, lol.
You all need to appreciate how awesome Netty is. Seriously, best friend in RL, and the fact that she’s family is a bonus.
[Druitt appears onscreen, all menacing and mysterious-like]
Netty: Who’s that? The science tech guy?
Me: Uh…no. What do you think when they talk about prostitutes being killed?
Netty: *confuzzled*
Me: Historical context, dead hookers, come on…
Netty: Oh, oh, Marguerite and Roxton, with the two guys that were killing together… Jack the Ripper!
Lol. The woman drops TLW references into conversation. My love for her, it is infinite. :D
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Three minutes in, Will does a brief impression of Helen's British accent. But it's well worth watching the whole thing- if you're a fan, it'll remind you of some of the best moments of hilarity. If you're not, well, off with you, become addicted already! :P
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I hate the HP books with the fire of a thousand suns, I have a weird love/hate relationship with those books.
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Omg, you understand the conflict! I, too, have the hugest love/hate thing going on with HP. I can't stand the title character- but I adore Snape with every fiber of my being. I kinda wish someone could rewrite it as an adult's series with him as the main character. Or Hermione, because she's a million times more awesome than Boy Idiot.
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Yeah, I do understand, it's different for me though, I love most of the characters but the books piss me off so much, what Rowling did with some of the characters (specially female characters) it makes my blood boil if I think about it too much.
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Whoops, I don't want to make your blood boil!
I just- it's under my skin, itching to burst out like some disgusting X-files Monster of the Week and I need to exorcise it, lol. I know some people go on about how 'don't talk about it if you don't like it', which is rubbish, if they have the right to adore something and babble on with the love, I have the equal right to loathe it and rant along those lines.
I'm definitely disappointed in how she treated females in the books. Really upsetting and completely the opposite of empowering- which is her right, it's just that with HP and Twilight being the biggest franchises in the world, I'm feeling sorry for the generation of girls growing up now and what messages they're absorbing from those books. Ugh. [Twilight, imo, is way more objectionable- but HP is more insidious, because on the surface, all is shiny, and it takes a while for the rot underneath to be realized]