I ETA'd while peeking at your paper through gchat! I cheated! Now I've explicitly stated that I don't hate the movie. It was a good time. I did spend a lot of it cracking up, though. exposition exposition JAMES BOND AT THE NORTH POLE exposition.
The people sitting behind me were pissed.
2) I really don't know how, in my head, he looked so exactly like Mark Twain, but they got it EXACTLY RIGHT. The description in the book must have been very specific. I'm tempted to say something horribly inappropriate re: Serafina Pekkala. Like "I'll ride her cloud pine any time, baby!". Ahem.
3) You think they'll kill him? I hope they follow through. I don't dislike him, it's just, he kind of has to die. And yes, the exposition SUCKED. SO CLUMSY. Seriously, I would have done it better.
4) I think it could have stayed, because then you wouldn't have had the inappropriate spectacle of a twelve-year-old being all YAYE WE KILLED A LOT OF DUDES. Instead it could have been genuinely horrifying, even if only for the viewer and not the innocent/oblivious Lyra, and she could have taken that weight with her to Svalbard. And my to-vid list gets longer.
5) Yep. See above. And I love Lyra, but she isn't very bright, she's ignorance and innocence and intuition put together. It's when she makes the choice to leave that behind that she becomes intelligent, or at least intelligent in a way that she's aware of.
6) The casting was brilliant. Really brilliant. Are we spoiled for who will play Will? I must know!
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The people sitting behind me were pissed.
2) I really don't know how, in my head, he looked so exactly like Mark Twain, but they got it EXACTLY RIGHT. The description in the book must have been very specific. I'm tempted to say something horribly inappropriate re: Serafina Pekkala. Like "I'll ride her cloud pine any time, baby!". Ahem.
3) You think they'll kill him? I hope they follow through. I don't dislike him, it's just, he kind of has to die. And yes, the exposition SUCKED. SO CLUMSY. Seriously, I would have done it better.
4) I think it could have stayed, because then you wouldn't have had the inappropriate spectacle of a twelve-year-old being all YAYE WE KILLED A LOT OF DUDES. Instead it could have been genuinely horrifying, even if only for the viewer and not the innocent/oblivious Lyra, and she could have taken that weight with her to Svalbard. And my to-vid list gets longer.
5) Yep. See above. And I love Lyra, but she isn't very bright, she's ignorance and innocence and intuition put together. It's when she makes the choice to leave that behind that she becomes intelligent, or at least intelligent in a way that she's aware of.
6) The casting was brilliant. Really brilliant. Are we spoiled for who will play Will? I must know!