More on Hairspray! And Harry Potter!

[revieloutionne]

Hairspray first: Sadly, I spent a significant bit of my workday today contemplating Hairspray and various thematic stuffs, and it's definitely more resonant and subversive than I thought even yesterday. Mostly, however, I have to wonder this: How, exactly, do you wind up with a TV station in the early/mid sixties progressive enough to hire a woman as station manager but also completely and totally "black people are scum!"? I could understand Velma having that opinion while her boss was more "Well, the audience won't like it..." and not having the balls to act, what with women's rights generally moving along faster than other minorities'.

And: something else that I've forgotten, because DEATHLY HALLOWS happened between work and now.

So, it's not as bad as I expected, and I like to pretend that the epilogue didn't happen because that's where JK and her editor basically went "as long as it prevents sequels, who gives a fuck? None of it really matters."

But: The Sullying of Albus Dumbledore? Looooooong time coming, although I wish that the whole "Defeater of Grindelwald" thing had been frought up more in the previous books, because if it weren't for fandom, I think I'd have completely forgotten his existence by now. (Even reading the book it was like "... Oh yeah. Him."

Most of the search for the horcruces was quite realistically done, expecially the unhinging (and rehinging) of the relationships between the three and the futility of it all, expecially the many, many wrong turns that still turned out to have some sort of use, if nothing more than "well, that's right out, then."

And Luna's Tribute to Friendship! WUB. The book really lacked her, though I can see where she just didn't really fit. I do love, though, how at the end she's self-aware enough to make a distraction by pointing out yet another Mythical Creature That Isn't There, but on top of that, that everyone still looks, even though it's frikkin' LOONEY LOVEGOOD pointing it out.

Mostly, though, it's nice to have an end (and way to reneg on "scar is the last word," JK. It just would have been nice for the whole "Parents fucked up. Kids die." thing she seemed to be cribbing from Shakespeare got replaced with "Rocks fall. Everyone dies." Literally.

Comments

[winter-ruins.livejournal.com]

XDDD She said in an interview not long ago that scar wasn't the last word anymore.

[revieloutionne.livejournal.com]

Still. It's like, scar's been the last word for ages, and then (relatively) just before release of it, you go back on that? Pff. Write your new sentence, but find a way to express the idea with "scar" at the end. If you're a real writer, you can do it.