ugh. agreed on the scribby 5 thing. <3 everything else!
I love the part where Melissa accidentally calls Frak “John.” It’s as if they’re her two naughty sons, forever running around the kitchen while she’s trying to make a podcast. :)
Totally agree on the scribby5 thing. They’re easily the most boring thing on the podcast.
I had a breakdown with Frak on the dog thing. That was h i l a r i o u s. I so want to do a Friends trivia quiz with Frak.
Anyone know why this isn’t on i-tunes? I NEED my pottercast :(
I just finished listening to the segment on the dogs. I thought I was going to cry with laughter. Frak, those are Beefeater hats that you were talking about.
I have to agree that this was amazing~
I also agree one of the things that makes it great is it’s unscriptedness, and I concur that Scribby 5 is painfully obvious that they are. It’s fine to have notes to show what direction you want to be headed in, but loosen up a little!
If I am not mistaken, green has been used for years in film because it created a more natural looking black on screen. This was especially true in black and white films. Frankenstein in the in the early b/w films was painted green so that details in the face would translate on film. When he was then filmed in color, the creators kept the green make-up. That is where green frankenstein came from. It is rather likely, for especially dark scenes, that they used greens on set and in costuming so that they would translate into rich blacks with natural contrasts and details in the final product. Can someone else back me up? I think this answers why the costumes and marble are green in real but look black to us in the final film. Some of those dark scenes are almost faux black and white anyway. Great discussion. Cheers!
This month’s issue of BOP magazine is supposed to have a Sneak Peek of HBP!
http://www.tigerbeatmag.com/dailydish/zac-efron/2008/03/11/april-bop-onsale-now/
It might just be a small preview of their visit to the set I don’t know.
Yah!!! your talking about Helen as Cissy – thats great!!! shes fabulous and cant wait to see her. my two cents about Umbridge- I hate her more than Voldy, not because she did something worse than Voldy but because she is a narrow-minded evil gargoyle, and a control freak. I agree Slytherin gets its bad reputation from the Death Eaters who have spawned from there, but other good people have come from Slytherin= Snape, Slughorn, Andromeda Black, Regulus Black. Even Gryffendors thanks to Wormtail have a bad egg in there mist- he being the only Gryffendor Death Eater. I find it cool though how each one was named after a founder, has a ghost, an heirloom, and two colors to go with them. and a special spot in the castle.
Listening to Frak laughing started to crack me up. The fuzzy hats are called Busbys btw.
“I took her Selwyn thing as her trying to … say oh by the way look who I am related to, it made me believe that she wasn’t full blood though she was trying to make other people think she was.”
Yes I understood it like that too, but even more, I also assumed that she was lying about the Selwyn connection.
I listened to this last night and I thought that bit with Frak laughing his head off was hilarious. I laughed so hard I cried and then rewinded it 6 times to listen again. So funny!
I love Frak. Can Frak stay even when Janice comes back?
I love Frak too.
And as for Umbridge’s house the fact that she just went along with Fudge’s rule and Voldemort’s rule (possibly) just because they were the ones in power makes me think she’s a Slytherin. It kind of reminds me of Slughorn with his Slug Club, because he made sure to be well connected and had good relations with students who he thought would go far. What Umbridge did is a bit like Slughorn. Except that Slughorn is a nice guy. And by the way, one Selwyn is a Death Eater.
“now as for the toad Umbridge, she used dementors to attack to 15 year old boys, she threatened all hogwarts teachers, and enjoyed torturing students. I do not think these are hufflepuff qualities”
clearly these are Slytherin traits right? ambition and cunning are apparently synonimous with torture and crulty, is that it? no house represents these! you have to go back to the question of motives. why is she doing this. because she’s loyal to Fudge. he claimed Voldemort wasn’t back… so she needed to shut Harry up. he claimed Dumbledore was after his office… so she needed to userpe him from the school. at no point is she surving herself. she’s serving what she believes is right by the ministry.
"she was so against the idea that voldemort was back because Fudge didn’t want to beleive it, she is a self preserver…when the regeme changed, she already hated halfbreeds and believed in blood puirity, she wanted to be important and enjoyed giving these people pain, she got to carry out things that would never have been allowed before, her sucking up and willingness to carry out the hearings shows her ability to try to preserve herself"that’s not self preservation. we’ve seen nothing to show us that she was opposed to voldemorts return, what we saw was her unwavering loyalty to Fudge. she is sadistic by nature, she hates half breeds, i see no self preservation going on by going along with the new ministry, i see her fully enjoying herself in her eliment. again, causeing pain and discrimination are not sorting criteria.
“I think that her manipulating Minister Fudge was manipulation enough. She got him to do what he wanted for her.”
when did he ever do anything for her? all we ever saw was her desperate attempts to suck up to him, not at all the kind of behavior of someone who has another under their thumb. and though Fudge was never fenatical about his views, Dumbledore even states in canon that Fudge has blatent prejudaces himself… Umbridge was not whispering in his ear to Arthur down at the ministry, or to assume the worst of Hagrid.
“Maybe not that alone, but if you notice JKR always mentions people that ARE in that house as sorta slimy creatures of the earth, and she’s clearly described as ‘Toady’.”
ah yes, it all makes sense now.
I took her Selwyn thing as her trying to emphasis something like Snape being the half blood Prince, she by that conversation was trying to say oh by the way look who I am related to, it made me believe that she wasn’t full blood though she was trying to make other people think she was, she was grasping at straws, she wanted to have something that people wouldn’t question, and her being in the position she is in, to avoid questioning, and again preserve herself.