I hope you've all enjoyed the latest installment of that other long-running internet serial, Gregory Harbin and the Point He Missed Entirely.

We'll make sure to correct that on the anniversary show.

Psh, whatever. Narc.

I love REDBELT so hard it's unreal.

I love his enthusiasm for the reference to Jonah, as though the story of Jonah and the whale is an obscure, intellectual literary reference and not the first Veggie Tales movie.

Gay!

***With the power of love***

no seriously

Actually it's rather more complicated than that and I'm really surprised that Rowling left introduction of the Hallows and the rules involved until the very last book, when she was so conscientious about dropping hints to everything else prior to that.

Although for some reason the introduction of the Hallows didn't feel as left-field in the movie as they did in the book, for me. And I loved the shadowplay animation they did to illustrate the fairy tale.

It's also not clear in the movie -- at least it didn't seem that it would be to someone who hadn't read the books -- that the reason Voldemort seeks the Elder Wand is because ANY wand he attempts to use against Harry will result in Priori Incantatem, not just the wands that share a core. Any, that is, except the Elder Wand.

The stakes could have been clearer, IMO, though as the kids weren't and couldn't do anything to hinder Voldemort's quest to find the Wand, perhaps it would have just made things feel disjointed.