Spammy but succinct and unspoilery.

[amanuensis1]

Those of you who read this earlier post of mine may recall that I compared HBP to The Sixth Sense--a story which has only one read, once you see the answer. So I'm mightily amused by the blurb for a television showing of The Sixth Sense in this past week's Entertainment Weekly:

The Sixth Sense (ABC, TV-14) Look, no matter how many times you watch it, you won't find any "flaws" or punch any "holes," and it's always gonna "work." Stop torturing yourself.

So, yeah. *points at blurb, points at HBP* That's what.

Comments

[many-miles-away.livejournal.com]

Hm, I must have friended you after you made that post, because I hadn't read it before. I'm steadily putting all your HBP posts into my memories, you know; they're wonderful, they say everything I would like to say, only ten times better! And since I'm a lazy girl... *grins*

Okay, and maybe now I should actually go read DD's death, since I still haven't finished the book. I reached The Cave yesterday night, stopped and thought "Brain, you are too tired to deal with such a scene. Keep it for tomorrow." I think it's the longest it's taken me to read any book, ironically enough!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Still haven't...? Well, hey, when I bought GoF it sat on my shelf for months, because I didn't want to read it and have it be over! But that was pre-fandom and was an option at that time, see. ^_^

[ex-ella-bane358.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, what a great blurb. I guess they figure everyone has seen it and didn't bother with a real summary. But at least they didn't give away anything :D And yeah, YAY for HBP. *shakes fist at whiners*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I love Entertainment Weekly's tv blurbs--they're all like that! Goofy little humor pieces.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Just to say? I had no *clue* about the "secret" in The Sixth Sense at all! Because I'm just that clueless.


Also? Despite knowing someone was going to die in HBP *and* knowing (99.9%) that it was going to be Dumbledore *and* inadvertently reading a troll's post on snape_potter (4 hours before I bought the book) that said "Why do you people want to slash Harry with a murderer?"...I got to the scene where Snape's standing over Albus with a wand, and I still didn't know what was going to happen.

I swear, if you could take my ability to be in denial and bottle it, well...you'd have something really useless. *g*

[gmth.livejournal.com]

You and me both. Both endings took me totally by surprise. So did the ending of The Usual Suspects. I'm terrible at putting clues together while I'm watching/reading.

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

I had even heard about the ending of The Usual Suspects, and the movie was so well done that I thought I must have misunderstood, because it just seemed like it wasn't going there.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*points to reply to bethbethbeth*

I had clues on The Usual Suspects, but I wasn't completely sure. TUS is actually a film, to me, that isn't as "only can go one way" as TSS--the plot as Chazz Palmintieri's character presents it at the near-end, as he thinks it could have gone, does actually fit what we've seen. 'S not until he starts taking it one level deeper that it gets an additional, trickier read. Heh, I love it when that coffee cup hits the floor.

Also, my mom figured out The Sixth Sense almost right away. I'm glad the two of us saw that one separately!

[rectpropagation.livejournal.com]

You know, I was going to comment on your actual post but I couldn't read your icon there and then not look it up and that's two minutes I can't get back.

Is the icon a goof on the shirt from T-Shirt Hell?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's a direct defacement (done with permission from mugglerock) on an icon made by _split_in_two for mugglerock. ^_^

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I had the best of all worlds when I saw The Sixth Sense. I didn't get it until about 30 seconds before the moment when everyone else did. Which meant I got the pleasure of having it crash down on me, plus the pleasure of listening to all the gasps in the audience all around me at subsequent fractional intervals and vicariously living every moment of their pleasure!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

I had that experience with The Crying Game (although how I didn't figure out *that* one in the first five minutes is absolutely beyond my comprehension *g*)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I had The Crying Game sussed at "removes hand from thigh." Penny dropped.

[cordelia_v]

I just wanted to let you know that I posted a review of "In Spite" over here.

Thanks for a great story, too.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, my...goodness. ^_^ You sweetheart, thank you so much for this! I'm reading this review and blushing.

[flamewarrior.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to say to this post, but *phew*, that is one hot icon!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

The Lucius or the ponyboy!Harry mood theme one? I'm guessing you mean the latter--I love ponderosa121's art! *uses icon*

The Sixth Sense

[justinetre.livejournal.com]

LMFOA, that is so perfect, I linked a non-LJ friend here after she read HBP and said she was unsatisfied with it, and then after she read your post she just kinda sat there, opening her mouth as if to speak, then closing it. Then after five minutes, she kinda nodded and goes "I get it!". LOL!

Re: The Sixth Sense

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*drums heels* Oh! You couldn't have told me anything to please me more. I want to keep spreading the word! XD