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Episode 151: This MF Said Ponsieve
🕑 Added 2021-03-12 15:00:07 +0000 UTCDeathly Hallows Pt. 2 film. The time has come! Before our well-earned pre-Cursed Child break, we watched the final Harry Potter film, and we have so many questions. What worked? What didn't? What was changed? Why is Molly standing everywhere? Why did Voldemort bust when Ron and Hermione destroyed the cup of Ravenclaw? And did this mf really say ponsieve? All this and more in this feature-length episode--including our official Movie Rankings discussion to match last week's book list!
Also, a huge thanks to @crocoshift on twitter for the incredible Cameo from Tom. holy shit
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DJ
WAIT, I just realized that neither book nor movie final battle use things like Arthur being a big Muggle tech nut and owning a FLYING CAR so it thematically ties into the Death Eaters/Voldemort hating Muggles if he used it here, so like he could be flying+driving the car around with wizards hanging out murking guys. Oh and remember all the focus on Quidditch? We never get a big rallying moment where the Quidditch bros recite the team motto while flying around on broomsticks and throwing explosives. In fact, for being witches and wizards, we hear a lot about Death Eaters mortaring Hogwarts but no one on either side is using brooms. WTF.
DJ
A counterpoint is of course Lord of the Rings. Jackson always takes time to let you know where everyone is at, what matters. Remember the orc with the torch doing the big run in Helm's Deep? By then you already know just seeing that guy that it's BAD news for the defenders.
DJ
Finally got around to this episode and what a journey it has been. For the movie itself, the battle probably needs to be /long/ to properly adapt it and it's a slight improvement on the book version (which constantly stops for exposition and stupid asides) but a main issue of the book is still present: the geography of the battle is just not well handled. It's hard to see how it all fits together and like you said they unbelievably don't have every notable character get a cool moment, like how if you are filmmaker do you not throw in werewolf vs. werewolf. Just unthinkable.
