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Huh, so the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer is out. It looks better than HBP, anyway? Though that's not hard. (I hated the Half-Blood Prince movie with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. I did not realize it was possible to make a relatively exciting book into a movie that boring.)

Of course I cannot actually remember what happens in DH because this is one of the few times where the fanfic actually overpowers the canon for me.

Hermione's pinstriped coat is pretty. Harry's all grown-up! ...though Daniel Radcliffe will never cease to creep me out post the interview where he talked about shagging groupies. Also, dragon? I vaguely remember that from the book, though really only vaguely and for some reason I thought it was from a fic, though obviously not. (...I cannot remember if I ever actually read DH twice or just the first time.)

endings

On the heels of the Deathly Hallows trailer, a thought that's been swimming around in my head for a week or so now.

I tend to hate series endings. There are only about two or three that really, really work for me, and one of them is my Ideal Platonic Ending. The others come pretty close.

Deathly Hallows is not on the list. Last Battle is not on the list. Return of the King is not on the list. The Lost finale is not on the list; it could have been by a difference of one or two beats. Freak Nation is also not on the list, but the second season of Dark Angel didn't work for me on a number of levels. I don't have the emotional background to judge the BtVS or AtS finales, and for some reason I still haven't gotten around to seeing the back half of BSG or the last episodes of Kings or Caprica 1.0.

My runner-up endings? Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and the last episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, "Born to Run." My one perfect ending is the end of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse trilogy (the first one, not the second quartet), A Meeting at Corvallis. It's just -- perfect on so many levels. So many. I reread the trilogy a couple of weeks ago, and have been thinking about the ending for a while now. I love it, and it makes me cry, and it makes me smile, and there's hope. There's beauty, and pain, and -- the world goes on.

The world goes on.

(For levels on which The Last Battle fails, look at that last one. *snort*)

scattered thoughts

I originally thought that this scene from the VotDT trailer (link goes to a cap) was on Ramandu's Island because of the blue glow (and the trailer moves so quickly it's hard to tell), but given the rigging in the background, I'm going to go with Nightmare Island until further information. Interesting! (And also definitely Rhindon; you can see the pommel and the writing on the fuller.)

So, the implication from the books is that the various human peoples of the Narnia world have fallen through "cracks" in space and time from our Earth, yes? Or at least that's what Aslan says about the Telmarines in PC, and since Frank and Helen were clearly not mother and father to the Calormenes and it seems unlikely they were the forerunners of all the human peoples in the Narnia world (even counting out Archenland, which is canonically descended from them, and the Lone Islands, which I suppose could have been settled by Narnians since it was Narnian pre-Golden Age, we still have Calormen, Galma, Terebinthia, and Telmar), it seems likely that the other humans have come through from other worlds. I had a thought today. Well, two thoughts: the Lost Roanoke Colony and the Bermuda Triangle. *prods* Yeah, no plot bunnies here, just thoughts.