{"id":2798,"date":"2011-08-17T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2011-08-23T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:06:11","slug":"well-it-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2011\/08\/well-it-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"It is over.  Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lp7b5wjwNQ1qa87ym.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=300 style=\"float: right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, by Book #7, I was not anticipating its release. J.K. Rowling wrote lengthier and darker as Harry Potter saga continued.  The books became adult-level effort with teenager level enjoyment.  But I am the guy who read all six of the Dune series and watch RoboCop #3: a sucker for sequels.  So I dully read HP7 and went to see the movie that was supposed to be the last.  How fitting, when HP7.2 poster showed up, it said, &#8220;It all ends on July 15.&#8221;  Never had I so welcome the ending for the reason of &#8220;Let&#8217;s get it over with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it was actually a good movie.  Harry&#8217;s struggle and sacrifice was heart-felt.  Hermione, how lovely Emma Watson turns out, is a bit weak.  Snape was as delightfully hateful.  Ron, oh well, was Ron.  The epic battle reminded me a bit of Helm&#8217;s Deep.  I also liked Snape&#8217;s memory replay a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The bad parts of the movie came from the book.  The over-complication of the Deathly Hallow objects. The confusion among the Horcruxes and their destruction.  The <em>Ex Machina<\/em> of Dumbledore and Harry&#8217;s other dead relatives.  And, worst of all, the unnecessary epilogue of the &#8220;19 years later&#8221; and the pathetic make-ups (except for Ron&#8217;s bulging mid-section).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how well will the &#8220;Deluxe 8 DVD Set&#8221; sell.  I am not going to buy them and sure glad this whole series, books and movies, is now over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, by Book #7, I was not anticipating its release. J.K. Rowling wrote lengthier and darker as Harry Potter saga continued. The books became adult-level effort with teenager level enjoyment. But I am the guy who read all six of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2011\/08\/well-it-is-over\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[463,400,464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}