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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[The Croods]

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[Elementary]

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[Final Fantasy XIII]

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[SCP Foundation]

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[Philip Seymour Hoffman]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Richard Armitage]

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[Reign]

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[The Hobbit]

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[Hunger Games]

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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]

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Harry Potter: Dame Maggie Smith as McGonagall, Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, Rupert Grint as Ron, Julie Walters as Molly, Evanna Lynch as Luna.

Main ones there where I disliked the casting - Snape and the Marauders (FAR too old - James and Lily were only twenty-one when they died, Snape would have been thirty-one in Philosopher's Stone and not in his fifties, Oldman and Thewlis looked like they were cast to match Rickman's age). And it just... feels completely iffy - a good part of the tragedy is that James and Lily were basically just kids when they were killed. The actors, though, made them look like they were like... twice that. So that casting I actively dislike and thought was done very poorly.

I'm also kinda neutral on Daniel Radcliff and Emma Watson - casting-wise they're fine, but make-up wise, they had missteps (even if the contacts hurt, they could have at least CGed Dan's eyes green, and I'm not keen on them ditching Emma's glorious fluffy hair from the first film and instead making Hermione look very sleek and fashionable later on).

Lord of the Rings: Sir Ian McKellen IS Gandalf, okay. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn. Sean Astin as Sam. Can I say Andy Serkis as Gollum? Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman. John Rhys-Davies as Gimli.

Most of the cast I actually find to be basically amazing, and the ones that don't fit my image perfectly still... kind of end up making the roles their own? For instance, Billy Boyd is technically too old for Pippin (who's canonically mistaken for a child at one point), but he's so... Pippinish I just ignore that. David Wenham doesn't match Faramir visually (neither does Sean Bean, actually - they're both meant to have dark hair and grey eyes), but he just GETS him. And Miranda Otto's a little too old to play twenty-three-year-old Eowyn, but again, I was seriously sold on her acting.

With the Lord of the Rings ones, even the slight missteps kind of... replace most of my mental images of the characters. The HP ones generally don't.

To be fair, when the movies came out, James and Lily's and the Marauders class's ages hadn't been established yet, and it was actually a big surprise and sort of jarring that they were that young, because it hadn't been indicated anywhere in the books before.

Yeah, I was really surprised when Lily and James' headstones come up it the books and we see how young everyone was supposed to be. Twenty one just seems way too young to have a job and a kid and a house AND a pile of gold (I assumed James came from money).

Oh, huh! I was under the impression that they were young... but yeah, I don't remember my exact thoughts when the movie did first come out, so I might be remembering wrong.

Everything you say is along the lines of what I think too, especially about LotR.

I would venture to say I hold a similar opinion about The Hobbit as you say about the missteps. A hell of a lot more liberties have been taken on the Company, with the younger Thorin (with a short beard too) and the dark-haired Kíli, but I think those liberties make them all individuals, instead of a group of barely characterized forgettable names.

I am also wildly glad Rob Kazinsky had to leave. Dean O'Gorman is a perfect Fíli and I doubt Kazinsky would have been half as likeable.

Yeah, honestly, I don't mind those liberties. In the book, barely any of the dwarves had a personality beyond Thorin and Balin - now, I have distinct favourites, I know others do too, and it's going to make the Battle of Five Armies actually feel far more impactful.

Sam Astin was fantastic as Sam. He had that every-guy quality that made him so likeable. And Billy Boyd was a great Pippin. He was adorable, and vulnerable, and dumb and good hearted and wrapped it all up in a sweet little package of hobbit-ness.

-Iceyred

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