'Serenity'
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Books of Magic came out a bit before the first Harry Potter novel, didn't it? I remember being struck by how very much Harry resembled Tim Hunter when I first became aware of the series. Down to the owl.
Yeah, I think Neil Gaiman mentioned that in his blog once.
To be fair, Books of Magic didn't invent the archetype of the dark-haired, bespectacled boy who gains or discovers he has powers.
And he basically said this.
The owl familiar and the bitter adult authority figure who's sure the budding wizard will go bad and therefore behaves ultra-scary towards him both struck me as a bit more specific correspondence than the archetype would warrant, though.
I can't believe that Metallicar was only 7th of the Top 8 Coolest TV Cars.
Kripke wanted to base the look of the character on the comic book character ‘Constantine’
Oh Kripke, you fanboy.
Jilli, you're missing a "shameless" in there.
Also "adorable".
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What I particularly like about Books of Magic, though, is that whilst Harry Potter draws on a very comfortable, middle class tradition of UK kidlit (Mallory Towers, The Chalet School, Narnia [and to some extent The Dark is Rising, although I think there's more strangeness, darkness and threat in there] etc etc), the world we encounter in The Books of Magic is more raw, grounded and dirt-under-the-fingernails...and simultaneously much more genuinely strange, frightening and magical than the HP world. There isn't a sense of limitations and rules, of magic words and wands - it's more unpredictable, more dangerous, more terrible. Stage magicians speaking backwards, the gate into fairyland...I suppose partly it's the nature of the medium, and the impact of the artwork of the various artists, but I think there's also a real sense of wild, untamed magic in TBoM which is lacking in HP. (Not HP-bashing - I like the series a lot.)
I can't believe that Metallicar was only 7th of the Top 8 Coolest TV Cars.
Bastards. I would list Starsky and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard, and the Batmobile, but Kitt is a little hard to take. I couldn't stand the Hoff so there is no nostalgia draw for me. The new car is cheating because they picked a kick ass car from the beginning. However, my list would be 1.Batmobile 2. Starsky and Hutch (out of reverence for the 70's),3. Metallicar, and 4. Dukes of Hazzard.
Oh and YAY...SHOW is almost on.
OOh, EMF.