Ellie, never ever stop with your rambly epic comments :)
I think when I started reading them, wayyy back in the seventh grade (so, like, twelve years old okay), I just read it for the pure enjoyment of being immersed in a world that I had quickly fallen in love with, alongside characters I could relate to (Hermione, the annoying nit who knows everything and only had a handful of friends = something I very much was back in middle school), and had no idea how to objectively ascertain that, yeah, Harry was PMSing a BIT too long in OotP and wait, was I supposed to cry when Sirius died? Oh. Like, it wasn't till I was older that I could measure writerly merit and figure out why I didn't cry, so all I had was my enjoyment and I still grew up through the books. The finally-aware-of-an-outside-world kind of grew up. And fuck, I was taught about discrimination and shit with the way Lupin and Hermione were treated and that kind of stuff sticks with you.
HP messageboards were my first contact with the internet too, oh jeez XD Mostly I remember insane theories on Mugglenet and huge ass fanfic archives oh man it's all coming back to me and how I wanted a pair of glasses like Harry's, lol.
I don't know if it would surprise anyone if I said my first reaction to slash & concepts other than heteronormative pairings was a big DNW--we all know how that turned out XD What can I say, I was young. The whole idea of two guys or two chicks together was a completely foreign thing to me; I didn't get Harry/Draco shippers or Lupin/Sirius or anything before that moment, so I feel like I missed a huge chunk of the fandom? Or I wasn't as accepting as I am now. I didn't know what fandom WAS then, even reading up theories on fansites.
As meh as the movies have been (except for PoA, imo, I fucking LOVED PoA's film), I'm tearing up every time I see stills from Deathly Hallows, and I have mad, nigh unexplained affection for Daniel Radcliffe's crazy ass and I hope he goes on to do awesome films and do more stage and play a drag queen like he wants to. It's a very sad time for me, because with the end of these movies I feel like I'm losing the last bit of my childhood. So yeah.
fucking lol, Ellie, the insanity is why it's awesome XD Okay, really though, the original target audience starting in the 2005 series was probably early teens and up, but like the classic series (circa 1963-1989) it's still sweet enough for older people to watch. But, okay, here, the way then-showrunner Russell T. Davies writes is crack, camp & high drama (what a contrast), so it's a mix of entertaining and being a bit too high concept for the lower age range. That particular series finale you watched is one of his more maligned solutions to the Doctor's conundrum, because he takes a cracking start ("Utopia" & "The Sound of Drums") and squanders it ("The Last of the Time Lords") on the deification of the Doctor. Now, to kids, they'll see all the SFX and sparkly tinkerbell Doctor and go starry eyed, and the rest of us will go wtf. Then you'll see the Master dying in his boyfriend's the Doctor's arms and kids wouldn't understand why the Doctor is crying over the villain, but adults would be able to grasp it. It's imbalanced, but enjoyable nonetheless, imo, and seeing John Barrowman kinkily chained between two pillars does not hurt :P
Uh, did I help you sort it out? O__o I got a bit wordy...
But yes, I'm happy that you were receptive to it ^__^ It may not be the best introduction to DW, but, uh, at last there was hilarity and drama and outrageous sexual tension, non?
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I think when I started reading them, wayyy back in the seventh grade (so, like, twelve years old okay), I just read it for the pure enjoyment of being immersed in a world that I had quickly fallen in love with, alongside characters I could relate to (Hermione, the annoying nit who knows everything and only had a handful of friends = something I very much was back in middle school), and had no idea how to objectively ascertain that, yeah, Harry was PMSing a BIT too long in OotP and wait, was I supposed to cry when Sirius died? Oh. Like, it wasn't till I was older that I could measure writerly merit
and figure out why I didn't cry, so all I had was my enjoyment and I still grew up through the books. The finally-aware-of-an-outside-world kind of grew up. And fuck, I was taught about discrimination and shit with the way Lupin and Hermione were treated and that kind of stuff sticks with you.HP messageboards were my first contact with the internet too, oh jeez XD Mostly I remember insane theories on Mugglenet and huge ass fanfic archives
oh man it's all coming back to meand how I wanted a pair of glasses like Harry's, lol.I don't know if it would surprise anyone if I said my first reaction to slash & concepts other than heteronormative pairings was a big DNW--we all know how that turned out XD What can I say, I was young. The whole idea of two guys or two chicks together was a completely foreign thing to me; I didn't get Harry/Draco shippers or Lupin/Sirius or anything before that moment, so I feel like I missed a huge chunk of the fandom? Or I wasn't as accepting as I am now. I didn't know what fandom WAS then, even reading up theories on fansites.
As meh as the movies have been (except for PoA, imo, I fucking LOVED PoA's film), I'm tearing up every time I see stills from Deathly Hallows, and I have mad, nigh unexplained affection for Daniel Radcliffe's crazy ass and I hope he goes on to do awesome films and do more stage and play a drag queen like he wants to. It's a very sad time for me, because with the end of these movies I feel like I'm losing the last bit of my childhood. So yeah.
fucking lol, Ellie, the insanity is why it's awesome XD Okay, really though, the original target audience starting in the 2005 series was probably early teens and up, but like the classic series (circa 1963-1989) it's still sweet enough for older people to watch. But, okay, here, the way then-showrunner Russell T. Davies writes is crack, camp & high drama (what a contrast), so it's a mix of entertaining and being a bit too high concept for the lower age range. That particular series finale you watched is one of his more maligned solutions to the Doctor's conundrum, because he takes a cracking start ("Utopia" & "The Sound of Drums") and squanders it ("The Last of the Time Lords") on the deification of the Doctor. Now, to kids, they'll see all the SFX and sparkly tinkerbell Doctor and go starry eyed, and the rest of us will go wtf. Then you'll see the Master dying in
his boyfriend'sthe Doctor's arms and kids wouldn't understand why the Doctor is crying over the villain, but adults would be able to grasp it. It's imbalanced, but enjoyable nonetheless, imo, and seeing John Barrowman kinkily chained between two pillars does not hurt :PUh, did I help you sort it out? O__o I got a bit wordy...
But yes, I'm happy that you were receptive to it ^__^ It may not be the best introduction to DW, but, uh, at last there was hilarity and drama and outrageous sexual tension, non?