Movies/Shows you wish other things had happened in. OPEN SPOILERS

[Talon_Karrde]

I just saw Rosemary’s Baby for the first time this week, and I wish she would have killed the baby.

Another movie I saw for the first time this week was American Beauty. I hated the wife. All of the other characters are granted some measure of sympathy and we get to see their side, and I wish they did the same for her.

[Kyla]

Re: Harry Potter #7.

@Voyager

Not as much of a change, though I like your idea:

Where he wound up was like if Mr. Incredible had liked his dead end job.

Is it really made clear WHERE Harry ended up? I don’t remember there being a specific answer to that question in the book, although maybe Rowling provided the answer in an interview or something.

[KneadToKnow]

@Kyla

Re: Harry Potter #7.

Is it really made clear WHERE Harry ended up? I don’t remember there being a specific answer to that question in the book, although maybe Rowling provided the answer in an interview or something.

I had thought that it was stated explicitly in the epilogue to Deathly Hallows that Harry is the head of the Aurors but sure enough, Wikipedia says that info came from Rowling outside the book.

Funny how the mind works, innit?

[Kyla]

Why would that be a bad ending anyway? That was clearly Harry’s career goal.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Talon_Karrde

I just saw Rosemary’s Baby for the first time this week, and I wish she would have killed the baby.

Not to be nitpicky but:

You mean I wish she HAD killed the baby. Though I liked it better this way. After all, he’s just a cute little baby. It’s not his fault his dad is Satan.

[DiggitCamara]

@MaxTheVool

Not particularly, actually. For one thing, it would mean the scene with the muggle prime minister, which I thought was going to be the beginning of a very interesting plot twist rather than a throwaway, actually led somewhere. Also, why wouldn’t a guy with a gun hidden a ways off be a good way to kill Horcrux-less Voldemort? He’s a super-powerful wizard, but his hatred of contempt of muggles should make him blind to the threats they do pose. Would he even think of casting a bullet-deflection spell?

And it might be dramatically unsatisfying to have someone other than Harry defeat him, but if Harry did all the de-Horcruxing, that should be good enough.
The other obvious objection is that a squad of SAS snipers would be out of place in a Harry Potter book, and I agree that it would have taken some carefully pitched writing to make it work, but I certainly think Rowling would have been up for the challenge.

Well… maybe Harry could have shot him by himself? (Something like: they duel, Harry is “disarmed”, reaches into his jacket and pulls out a gun? Voldemort wouldn’t recognize it, of course, and his last words would have been “What is th..?”)

[Push_You_Down]

@Bridget_Burke

Concerning (A): What about Wesley? He changed considerably from the buffoon we saw in Buffy.

Thank David Greenwalt(?) and the crew on “Angel” for that not Whedon. He was never THAT involved with “Angel”. During the time that show started really getting good, Whedon was focused on developing Firefly.

[MaxTheVool]

@DiggitCamara

Well… maybe Harry could have shot him by himself? (Something like: they duel, Harry is “disarmed”, reaches into his jacket and pulls out a gun? Voldemort wouldn’t recognize it, of course, and his last words would have been “What is th..?”)

That seems a little less plausible to me, though. A super-powerful wizard is duelling his arch-nemesis, disarms him, his arch-nemesis starts reaching into his pocket… arch-nemesis is going to be paralyzed or dead or have his arm chopped off. Whereas part of Voldy’s weakness is his hubris and his disdain for muggles. He’d never bother to learn or worry about the possibility of muggles wielding a nearly-instantaneous long-distance death device.

[Ranchoth]

@DiggitCamara

Well… maybe Harry could have shot him by himself? (Something like: they duel, Harry is “disarmed”, reaches into his jacket and pulls out a gun? Voldemort wouldn’t recognize it, of course, and his last words would have been “What is th..?”)

Ralph Bakshi? Is that you?

And I nominate Sean Bean for the role of the SAS/SBS sniper. Especially if he gets to make a reference to a well-whetted blade.

[Green_Bean]

@MaxTheVool

That seems a little less plausible to me, though. A super-powerful wizard is duelling his arch-nemesis, disarms him, his arch-nemesis starts reaching into his pocket… arch-nemesis is going to be paralyzed or dead or have his arm chopped off. Whereas part of Voldy’s weakness is his hubris and his disdain for muggles. He’d never bother to learn or worry about the possibility of muggles wielding a nearly-instantaneous long-distance death device.

Oh, come on! It would be fabulous. It could combine the meme of the bad guy explaining the whole plot, giving the good guy time to escape, and also pay homage to the knife/gun scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark…You know–Voldemort waving his arms around and speechifying and doing some sort of hocus-pocus, when Harry just pulls out his gun and BANG.

'Cause Voldemort might be really good at evil plans and conspiracies, but you just know he’d never think “hey, kid might have a gun in his windbreaker.”