Their finest
(my comments on the review of “Their Finest” by Susan Wloszczyna)
I really wanted to like this film, it started nicely, and
generally I like it, but then there are points which just don’t
make sense at all. It is even worse when whole film is about
scriptwriting.
- Catrin periodically coming to her home just asked for the last
visit make her finding her man, Ellis, dead under the rubble.
If the authors wanted to make him unfaithful, I could imagine
that dialogue with air-warden much better. Super embarrassed
warden explains to Catrin that they found Ellis naked with
a woman in bed (having sex is as good reason as any not to go
to the bomb shelter), “we thought it was you, but apparently
… it wasn’t.” The film can follow without any change … angry
Catrin leaves and throws away her ring to the dustbin.
- Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay about when reading
a story he has always trouble to decide whether the death in
the film is rising from the internal necessity of the plot, or
whether the author just didn’t know what to do. I am really
afraid that the Tom’s death is from the second category, mortem
ex machina. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just
got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be got
rid off, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than
random stage piece.
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Faith is from hearing
(this sermon was in seriously modified version preached at the
Prague Christian Fellowship on Sunday, August 30, 2020).
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of
Christ.
—Romans 10,17 ESV
This is one of the famous verses in the New Testament, and if you
were among …
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One More Anti-Harmony
(my comments on the thread “why does almost everyone hate the
Harry/Hermione ship?” by patriot_man69420)
I don’t hate the ship, although I generally prefer Hinny, I could
admit that Ginny is extremely poorly written by JKR,
and fanfiction has to add a lot of her personality to make …
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O literárních stylech biblických knih aneb Job
(kázání, silně krácené pronesené ve sboru ČCE Praha-Braník, 26.
července 2020)
Textem dnešního kázání je v podstatě celá kniha Job a větší část
Starého zákona, ale abych měl alespoň nějaký konkrétní text před
kázáním, vybral jsem Job 42:1-6:
Job na to Hospodinu řekl: // „Uznávám, že jsi všemocný a že …
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No superheroes!
(my comments on “the thread on reddit”)
First of all, you should avoid the dark trap of all
adventure/fantasy stories: my story must be more dramatic than
the previous one, my heroes and my antagonist must be more
significant than the previous one. It is not enough to save …
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Live like you are not a Christian
(my comments on “Breakfast in New York” by Radaslab)
Finished reading the story and there are two overwhelming
thoughts in my head. The first is obvious and rather normal for
most of the fanfiction stories (and especially so-called romantic
ones): it should be cut to like one quarter or so …
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Ad “My theory on Christianity in the Wizarding World”
(my comments on “My theory on Christianity in the Wizarding
World” by LordMacragge)
I prefer the explanation in chapter 16 of Thou Shalt Not Suffer
by TheWizardsHarry: there are horrible problems with our
translations of the verse, because all Bible translators were
Muggles, and they just couldn’t grasp the …
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On bashing
Bashing and similar are not the cause of poor quality of their
stories, but they are just a symptom of the author being lead by
the poor design of his story into areas, which would be
impossible to resolve or it would be too difficult, so bashing is
then just …
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Harry Potter and Dorothy Sayers
(my comments on the thread “Overused tropes” by
u/Aa11yah)
OK, I will suggest a very weird book for reading. The Mind of
the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers (yes, the author of detective
stories with Lord Peter Wimsey) is one of the best books on the
art of writing …
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Another comments on the Accidental Animagus & al.
(my comments on the thread “What are your thoughts on the
direction taken by 'Animagus at War' by White Squirrel?” by
u/SnobbishWizard)
I have already (many chapters ago) wrote a review, which
included my comments on this story, and so far I stand behind it.
On top of that …
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Note on Luna
(my comments on the thread “Best Luna fics” by
u/jasoneill23)
I like Luna in the Northumbrian’s stories, but there she is
not very central to the story (perhaps, aside from Yggdrasil by
Northumbrian, but it is not his best story). Actually, the
chapter 3 of Tales of the …
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Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys
(my comments on “LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by u/frostking104” Reddit thread)
There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
Where Harry (with a different name, of course) is naturally
a girl, always was and always will be. Usually, I guess, the
motivation is that the …
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On Structured Regular Expressions and neovim (and vis)
(meant as an extended comment on neovim’s bug #8457: “Support
sam/vim Structured Regular Expressions?”)
This is not a comprehensive review of vis or even just its
comparison with vim. I would like to just describe my small
moment of epiphany when working on some document with vis.
There …
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Drawn too long
(Major spoilers follow, I am sorry, but I cannot explain my
opinion on the story without revealing most of the plot; if you
haven’t read the story, finish it first.)
I have followed To All the Wizards I’ve Considered Before by
FullofWrackspurts first with excitement. It seemed like …
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How redeemable is canon Draco Malfoy?
(originally posted on Reddit)
Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of some
former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration camps, etc.
Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term “conversion” or
“penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse previous deeds. It
requires true acknowledgement that …
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The Problem of Peter Pevensie and The Problem of Wands
(my comment on the discussion under “Summer Vacation” by
Forrest_of_Holly)
I have rather complicated history with the Deathly Hallows.
I have bought the book six hours after it was published (no I
couldn’t bother myself to get up at midnight) while on the
work-related conference in Birmingham (I am …
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Augurey or loosing of sanity
(my comments on “The Augurey” by La Matrona, originally
published on Reddit)
What is my pet-peeve is when the characters behave like idiots
just to keep the plot together. Let’s see. I have just deleted
“The Augurey” from my computer.
First of all, just let me state, I have …
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What’s wrong with Ginny?
(my comments on “The Character Development of Ginny Weasley”
by u/goodlife23)
For me the main idea of everything written (originally, I have
this from an excellent book by Walter Kerr “How Not to Write
a Play”) is that the plot (and character development and many
other things in any …
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Harry and Ginny as siblings
Originally published as “Harry & Ginny are brother and sister” on Reddit.
I see it like this. Lily was already pregnant with her second
child (it is slightly over a year between Harry and Ginny so it
is biologically possible), when they found out about the Prophecy
and need to hide …
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On anger and forgiveness
(my comments on “the thread on reddit”)
I have been thinking about this thread for the last couple of
days, and I am sorry I let myself to be side-tracked into a
stupid argument about the Christianity and religion and stuff.
Right now I read “Harry Potter and the Knight …
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Conference of the inner healing
When John wrote about himself he didn’t see himself us an
evangelist, a gospel-writer, an apostle, he identified himself as
the one whom Jesus loved.
The situation where John leaned on the Jesus’ chest: we cannot
just read it, we have to have the experience it ourselves. Living
like …
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To přece ví každé malé dítě
Někde v nějaké diskusi jsem zmínil, že přece každé malé dítě ví,
co je Geiger a tak jsem neodolal a přepíšu sem příslušnou úvahu
Karla Čapka (ze sbírky novinových sloupků „V zajetí slov“,
Svoboda, Praha, 1969, str. 135):
To přece ví každé malé dítě. To mi řekl jeden
automobilista, když …
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Smashing of Death Eaters?
(my comments on “Canon and the Moral Dimensions of Killing in
War” thread on reddit)
This is no question of agreeing and disagreeing with me. What I wrote
was not exactly my opinion (which I specifically emphasized), but what I
consider the prevalent notion among Europeans. Discussion here is very …
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Religionless universe of Harry Potter
(my comments on the thread “Probably gonna catch some hate for
this. Religion and Mythology and its place in fiction.” on
Reddit by RhysThornbery; edited for this blog)
The question is about the role of religion in the HP
universe, and it is very interesting one. I am a …
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Terms of Matrimony
(my comments on “Terms of Matrimony” by Galad Estel)
First of all, this story has broken link on Fanfiction.net, so
I have had to look up and down all over the Internet to find that
only working copy known to me is at ff2ebook.com link shown
above. Even …
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