I really, truly love the ending of His Dark Materials.


Only ending I totally approve of? Yes.

After "All was well", Philip Pullman heart-breaking but meaningful ending pwns all other endings.


I'd like to talk more about HDM but I'm quite busy nowadays.

Tanya: Ah, Edward. I’ve missed you.

I really like this soap opera-ish style of humor of Stephenie Meyer. It makes the books sort of cheesy but funny, you know, the ordinary teen drama. I guessed that Tanya's would be coming to the wedding. I was looking forward to a Bella-Tanya meeting and looks like I'm getting what I want.

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About the movie, teaser trailer tells me that they have changed some of my faavorite part of the book. (Port Angeles, dinner and conversations in the car). Conversations are not in the car and I'm not liking that scene in the woods. I have never liked adaptations of my favorite books. Except Prisoner of Azkaban.

EW cover? Stay away!

Do you know what bothered me the most in the months that I haven't been posting much?

Deathly Hallows in two parts.



Just like Gary Oldman says, "Cha-ching!".

Heard of Joss Whedon's new show? It is called Dollhouse and it stars Eliza Dushku as a doll, a human being who is personality altered for different assignments. The dolls live in the Dollhouse in a childlike state and they are not aware of what is going on. They go to a mission and they get their memories deleted after that. Echo (Eliza Dushku) starts to become self aware.

There is a trailer and it looks good. I liked it. But I have my doubts about this story having a long run like BtVS. It it doesn't get the expected ratings, they will cencel it faster than you can blink because it must be an expensive show. (Remember Firefly?)

I was intending to write more but I have to go now.

I liked this movie.

(Don't want to be spoiled, don't read. If you want to be spoiled completely, click here.)

First because it was very different from all the romantic movies I've seen before. They just randomly meet and fall in love and end up hating each other. Just before they delete all of it from his mind, Clementine tells him to meet her in Montauk and he goes there without knowing why.

Can our mind do this to us? Can we get rid of our memories? I have never heard that such thing was real but the movie explains it logically. They scan your brain and which parts react to those memories. Scientists hear? After all, they say Frankenstein was the inspiration for the development of the genetics.

At the end of it, they receive tapes and letters telling them they have met before and their memories have been deleted and they decide to try again. They know how it is going to end and they are brave enough to try it. Being in love with somebody needs a lot of bravery and falling in love with that person again without knowing it will end is something, isn't it?

I couldn't finish reading Breaking Dawn's first chapter.

I finished reading The Amber Spyglass a week ago but I just got around to post. It was incredible. At the end, I was crying my eyes out. The way Pullman described and made Will and Lyra's relationship is just wonderful. In a few weeks, they become two matching pieces and they make the world(s) right again. Their romance doesn't sound stupid or cliché. Maybe it is because it is closely related to the story or maybe it is way better than all the love stories.

I also liked Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter's bonding just before they die together. (Why is she a Mrs.?) I think that would have made Lyra very, very happy. Remember how she felt after Will rescued her from Mrs. Coulter's cave? She obviously caves for a mother figure. She is very confident on the surface but she has the burden of being an orphan.

Although Pullman's work has some atheist messages that bother me, I'm impressed by his work.

I can't understand the craze over the Twilight movie and its actors. Those actors weren't fan favorites and they don't look like how most of the fans expected. (I saw all the fanart on deviantart, OK?) When I first saw the official cast photo on SM's web site, I thought that nobody would appreciate. But people haven't even watched the movie but they think they are perfect. What if he/she sucks? (Emily Browning could suck, too.) How can you be a fan of a movie that you haven't seen yet?

The same thing happens in HP fandom, too. Most of the fans think the movies are perfect. I remember seeing a web site by a HP fan, dedicated to the girl who plays Luna before the movie was released.

I see movie adaptations as an easy source of money for companies. You have got the fanbase and most of it is willing to swallow whatever you shove down their throats.