Welcome back to Sneaky Dragon, all you Sneakers! This week’s show is as serious as a heart attack! Ian and Dave ask, “What is Q*bris?”; Dave thinks Q*Bert needs more horns; Ian celebrates the coldest day in the history of Vancouver (what he means is “not that cold”); we learn about Dave’s disappointed dishwashers; also, Dave is a terrible dog-owner and a jerk; CHOPSTICKS!; Ian talks about his furtive cat; and Dave’s dad is very ill. Also, awkward medical fun with your father-in-law; thug-life doctors; Ian wants to know and Dave is happy living in ignorance; Ian asks are there other dragons in Middle Earth; JK Rowling ruins her own books; and Ian asks who is braver: Ron or Harry? “What about Hermione?” asks everyone else.
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I’m a little upset over the disparagement of all things Qbert in this episode. I have fond memories of playing it as a kid on the Atari 2600. Of course, I was young and my brain wasn’t fully formed so it could simply be a matter of that making it seem better than it really was.
More importantly though, you missed the fact that when compared to its sequel, Qbert’s Cubes, the first game is a MASTERPIECE.
Cute things swearing is my Achilles heel, so I might need to re-examine my positive appraisal. But can we please put aside these meaningless, adolescent debates about old video games and get to the REAL issue that matters: the romantic pairings of the Harry Potter series.
I’m on board with the “Ron & Hermione aren’t a good match” group, but I like that Harry and Hermione stay close friends. The urge of kid’s lit writers to tidy up characters in neat little package pairings is something that keeps it firmly out of adult territory. How many end up with their childhood sweethearts? I do think it was a natural thing for Ron & Hermione to get together for a while, perhaps, since world-shattering events can create bonds borne of trauma and the inability of outsiders to understand. But, long-term, the two might have found it harder and harder to make it work.
As usual I let my mouth do the talkin’ and my brain do the walkin’.
I should have made it clear that I had no problem with how the characters ended up in the books. It’s more the movies that made the pairings seem icky.
I mean, come on, MOVIE Hermione and Ron? No way. No. way.
The lack of platonic male-female relationships in fiction always disheartened me as a kid, and it’s still a pet peeve of mine today. I think it’s because I’ve had so many close male friends.
I’ve never had a close male friend. I mean, a close friend who was really male.
I never like it when they play the “she loves him” card on Dr. Who. At its best it’s about two platonic pals on a road trip through time and space.
Fuck “platonic”. Which is, of course, a problem.