The one thing in the world David Simon has in common with JKR. Aw, dag, now I want to see a struggling urban wizard, or like a story where those kids in season 4 of The Wire were right and people were being turned in the vacants.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - May 09, 2011 9:12:40 am PDT #14597 of 28297
Always Anti-fascist!
Jessica - May 09, 2011 9:25:41 am PDT #14598 of 28297
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I haven't reread a Harry Potter book since they came out, but IIRC Snape in book 4 was pretty severely rewritten to make his character match up with the movie version.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 9:27:37 am PDT #14599 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
IIRC Snape in book 4 was pretty severely rewritten to make his character match up with the movie version.
Damn the casting, then. As he is in book 3, he's the perfect encapsulation of the untrustworthy authority.
DebetEsse - May 09, 2011 9:30:09 am PDT #14600 of 28297
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yeah, I really wish that they had not started the movies till the books were a closed canon.
Polgara - May 09, 2011 10:37:48 am PDT #14601 of 28297
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Wow, I didn't realize how much the movies influenced the later books. And yet, I just finished a reread of all seven last month, and Snape is still an ass, and Harry was totally bonkers to name one of his kids after him.
Aims - May 09, 2011 11:53:37 am PDT #14602 of 28297
Shit's all sorts of different now.
And people love this character. Want to marry him on the astral plane!
t raises hand
I am, along with Fay, I believe, an unabashed Snape lover. I totally agree that he is a total ass and irresponsible teacher. But he is wounded! And scarred! And was cleansed of his mortal sins! He just needed someone to LOVE HIM.
Ahem.
Yeah, I really wish that they had not started the movies till the books were a closed canon.
t terrorist fist bump.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 12:00:28 pm PDT #14603 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But he is wounded! And scarred! And was cleansed of his mortal sins! He just needed someone to LOVE HIM.
t backs away cautiously
More seriously: did you love him before Rickman was cast? If so, at what point in the series did you love him?
Because as of the end of Book 3 there is no indication Snape is anything other than a vindictive, petty, self-absorbed little man. Not necessarily evil, mind you (it's not evil to think Harry's a major PITA), but he's a poor excuse for a human being, with no apparent charity in his soul.
Amy - May 09, 2011 2:56:06 pm PDT #14604 of 28297
Because books.
It's really unsettling to read this conversation, because I realize I don't remember when Snape *wasn't* Rickman to me. And it's been a long time since I've reread books 1-4.
Sue - May 09, 2011 3:02:07 pm PDT #14605 of 28297
hip deep in pie
I wonder what would have happened with Snape if Tim Roth hadn't turned down the role.
Amy - May 09, 2011 3:09:20 pm PDT #14606 of 28297
Because books.
That would have been a whole other way to go, for sure.