Poobah Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 So I'm betting you wondered why they didn't just fly on the eagles to Mordor, right? /duck and cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 So I'm betting you wondered why they didn't just fly on the eagles to Mordor, right? /duck and coverNot the first time, but I missed the scene with the eagle and hadn't read the hobbit yet. After wards, ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuybrushThreepwood Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Setting aside fighting in Harry Potter, I recall there being a scene where a bunch of wizards were sitting in a room making pamphlets using magic. Here we have a dozen people sitting around doing a job slower than a machine would be doing it, for no real reason whatsoever.(Note: It's been a while, I may be misremembering the scene.)Add to that email being better than owls, wikipedia being better than screaming books in a library, etc. it's pretty clear that wizards are bigots who won't even take the better parts of muggle culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Nan Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Immediate access to information being a "better" part of modernity is a questionable assertion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I've been known to get irritated at long running series that ret-con them. Whether intentionally or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuybrushThreepwood Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Immediate access to information being a "better" part of modernity is a questionable assertion.Fair enough. I suppose you could argue against it, but I personally come down on the side of more information=better in most cases. Still, the other examples of technological superiority aren't as ethically loaded, so to speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 Good for him, he'd still have to be able to react in time to a bullet and wizards in this series don't exactly tend to be physically fit. Single trained soldier > 90% of wizards. Squad of soldiers > all wizards period.A bullet wouldn't kill Voldemort, even like a million bullets wouldn't kill Voldemort. That's like, the whole point of like the Horcruxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 A bullet wouldn't kill Voldemort, even like a million bullets wouldn't kill Voldemort. That's like, the whole point of like the Horcruxes.Ya but if you take out his body he's essentially powerless. Horcruxes stop a persons soul from being destroyed to stop them from dying, it doesn't mean their body is invincible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 Well, I imagine Voldemort isn't going to let himself get shot. Like, he probably has enough supernatural spacial awareness to recognize when snipers are around him, and once he knows guns are aimed at him, he can probably just turn incorporeal or teleport. He's not a bitch like Harry, he doesn't need to speak words.Also, he can fly. Without a broom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Well, I imagine Voldemort isn't going to let himself get shot. Like, he probably has enough supernatural spacial awareness to recognize when snipers are around him, and once he knows guns are aimed at him, he can probably just turn incorporeal or teleport. He's not a bitch like Harry, he doesn't need to speak words.Also, he can fly. Without a broom.Good point he is supposed to be a good what ever they call mind readers in the HP series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone-Made-Soft Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Resurrection is pretty lame. I hate when it happens in books, movies, and video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kymeera Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Resurrection is pretty lame. I hate when it happens in books, movies, and video games.It ticks me off as well. It's so overused that at this point I assume a resurrection is coming if a major character dies.Another thing I'm sick of is basing magic systems on the four elements. It's tired. Come up with something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Imp's Advocate Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Another thing I'm sick of is basing magic systems on the four elements. It's tired. Come up with something else.But... but... Avatar: The Last Airbender is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverius Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Add to that email being better than owls, wikipedia being better than screaming books in a library, etc. it's pretty clear that wizards are bigots who won't even take the better parts of muggle culture.Philosophers Stone is set in 1990. For most of the span of HP, e-mail was pretty arcanely magical to muggles as well. For many, it still is. I recommend the ongoing fanfic 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality' where stuff like the plot holes in the HP universe are dissected quite amusingly. For example: Harry plans to take on the Basilisk from book 2 using a few bazooka's and time machines are not treated as light hardheartedly as in canon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing Nalwood Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Jacqueline Wilson (shudder), I think it really sunk in how much I hated her when turning up to book day at school (at about 7 years old by the way, though everyone should get dressed up once in a while lol) in my hand made Smaug costume to be surrounded by my friends in pigtails and flowery dresses. She brain-washed the people I love!And books that nothing seems to have happened despite the fact you're about to finish the book, when you start to say "Hold on a second, was this actually worth my time?". These are sad, sad moments :(Oh, and while I don't mind the HP books (I was only small when I started reading them so I don't mind how kiddy they are) the last book is terrible. Almost as bad as Jacqueline Wilson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuybrushThreepwood Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Philosophers Stone is set in 1990.Really? I'm not doubting you, I just had no idea that was the case. Is there anything in the books that says this? Why 1990? Didn't the first book come out in 1997? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Oh, and while I don't mind the HP books (I was only small when I started reading them so I don't mind how kiddy they are) the last book is terrible. Almost as bad as Jacqueline Wilson.Harry getting resurrected, and a chat with Dumbledore in Purgatory/Heaven/Whatever was pretty damn pathetic. Ruined the series for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wras Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Harry getting resurrected, and a chat with Dumbledore in Purgatory/Heaven/Whatever was pretty damn pathetic. Ruined the series for me.It wasn't that which bothered me so much, it was at the end of it. Harry was like 'so this is all bullcrap right?' and Dumbledore's like 'pretty much yeah'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted October 29, 2010 Author Share Posted October 29, 2010 Really? I'm not doubting you, I just had no idea that was the case. Is there anything in the books that says this? Why 1990? Didn't the first book come out in 1997?The books all take place 1991-1998. It's just the setting. And yeah there's stuff in the books that can be used to tell what the year is, like the Prime Minister stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L’Age d’or Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 What bothers me is when people act like the Harry Potter books aren't crappy and are worth discussing. :laugh:This! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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