#opedother

You can be a mass murdering, genocidal maniac but if you repent just before you die, you get to go to heaven. (Harry Potter, Star Wars) Don’t judge people on first impressions - you may end up being set on fire. (Twilight) Don’t take sweets from strangers. (Narnia) All spiders are evi...

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Following my entry about Ginny and Bella, I got to thinking about the other major heroines in youth fiction. Well, some youth fiction. Well, mostly Harry Potter, Twilight and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. (I also originally contemplated Charmed and Xena, but they are a little older than the majority ...

I am really not sure what people have against The Twilight Saga. I think most of their problems with it come from “the sparkly vampire” issue – they think sparkly vampires are stupid, and so the whole film series must be stupid. But if you actually look at the series as a whole ...

So - here's the thing.   SCOTLAND :- Country to the north of our Eastern Isles of islands.  NORTHERN IRELAND : Occupied territory to the north of our Western Islands.  REPUBLIC OF IRELAND : Free nation to the south of our Western Islands...

I originally wrote this  just over two years ago (wow - longer than I thought!), and decided to repost it having watched both series of movies quite recently. This is the first in a series of three entries that examine (to one degree or another) "female role models" that young...

Six months ago, at this very moment, I was sleeping in a single bed. My girlfriend was sleeping on a mattress on the floor  at the end of the bed. We were in a room in The Heart Hospital, London, and I was around ten hours away from a porter taking me down to the operating…

#disclaimer - the figures quoted in this post are pretty much just guesses. So - you know - there's that. Blackadder - Series 1 Comedy based on situations : 80% Comedy based on history : 12.5%  Comedy based on Edmund being a paedophile : 0.5% Comedy based on people being stupid :&n...

So I have just come back from my parents for a lunch to celebrate my brother's birthday, and once again I am left with the undeniable feeling that he finds me totally and entirely contemptible in every single way possible. But after giving it a little thought, I am have starte...

After listening to Deathly Hallows, I have come to the conclusion that the world of Harry Potter (as portrayed in the seven books) is actually a pretty dark place, and not entirely suitable as a place to set stories for children. Not because it is scary. Voldemort, the Death Eaters and The Dement...