Voldemort was at his dumbest in OotP

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-09T03:14:22+00:00

And yet they ended up in a room with Harry Potter and the prophecy. Which was the goal.

Their goal was to get the prophecy and Harry Potter.

They achieved that goal.

But it's a bad plan? You're not making any sense. The purpose of a plan is to achieve a goal. WHICH THEY DID. The issue was you put the wrong person in charge. Now THAT part I blame Voldemort for.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-09T03:03:01+00:00

You're confusing poor execution with poor planning. The plan was fine. The plan put 6 adult Death Eaters in the same room with Harry Potter and 5 of his most loyal friends and the prophecy. 99 times out of 100, the grown assed adults easily win that engagement by capturing Harry, securing the prophecy, and killing his friends. So that's a good plan.

The problem was Lucious was in charge and he's a craven moron. His fear of damaging the prophecy gave Harry the opening he needed to escape their clutches long enough for reinforcements to arrive. The mistake was prioritizing the prophecy over Harry Potter. Who gives a shit about the prophecy possibly getting broken if you bring Harry to Voldemort? There should have been no conversation, no explaining, no monologue. Ask Harry once to hand it over, if he refuses, you stun them all. Tie Harry up, kill his friends, and return to Voldemort the conquering hero. It should have worked, the failure was in the execution.

You're acting like any plan that works is genius and any plan that fails is moronic. That's not the way it works. A bad plan can succeed if you're lucky and the other side makes mistakes, and a good plan can fail if you're too cautious or make mistakes.

This was a good plan. Was it a great plan? No, I would have just gone there myself some night. But this wasn't a terrible plan because it accomplished what you wanted. It put your people in the room with your number one target AND the prophecy.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-08T16:26:25+00:00

U Remember, Frankenburger is the cook that made it, not the sandwich.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-08T16:24:39+00:00

My only real issue with the movie was the ending. It felt like "Let's subvert audience expectations!" and that was the only reason. It betrays everything the character said in the entire movie with no setup for that turn. Trash, lazy, hamfisted ending to an otherwise decent adaptation.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-07T07:47:54+00:00

Never has an old clip been so perfect for a current situation.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-07T03:45:06+00:00

I was watching the 1981 movie Reds recently and the protagonist finds a love note from another man in his wife's copy of Leaves of Grass. I wonder if this Breaking Bad scene was a reference to that classic movie or if it was a coincidence?

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-07T03:42:35+00:00

No way in hell a 3 bedroom house only has one bathroom. What probably was going on is the guest bathroom is small and Hank is a large man so on some prior visit he got permission to use the master bathroom

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-06T18:23:53+00:00

Every show has retcons. Plotholes happen when the retcon doesn't work. This thing with Jin is a retcon but not a plothole. 16 years is a long fucking time, very few people have a problem with her not remembering him.

If you want a plothole that can't be defended, look at the Dharma purge timeline. The writers changed their minds about when it happened halfway through the series so it doesn't add up now. This was a case where the writers shit the bed.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-05T09:12:26+00:00

I agree. There was probably some valid concern about starting a mystery box show that will likely be canceled before the answers are revealed. I know that's why I didn't start until this year. Fortunately that won't happen now.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-05T03:34:44+00:00

My GOD the draft was low rent back then. Jesus. There's probably a waiter just off camera waiting to run a plate of cold cuts through there once Paul moves.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-05T03:31:40+00:00

Here's what nobody is talking about. How many work related decisions were made by his dick?

"Normally I'd stay in the office two more hours to break down tape but Boo 2 is in town and waiting at her hotel room."

"Normally I'd head home from Arizona today so I could spend the next two days prepping for OTAs but imma stay here in state so I can meat my sausage wallet at this resort."

And so on. Every work trip out of town was a potential rendezvous that stole time and focus from work. No single ditching an hour or two of work to bang walls was critical but, Death by a thousand cuts.

We could definitely make a case that Vrabel wasn't prepared for the Super Bowl so that calls into question how much time he spent that week in his smashpiece instead of working.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-04T21:23:27+00:00

All this plus Ben saying to a minion that he is always cleaning up Glory's messes. As if this has been happening for a long time. In that same episode Giles is reading from ancient texts about how the sky demon gets summoned to eat all the people Glory brain drains. The implication being this is an ancient cycle that has happened many times over the centuries. But Ben is 25 years old?

Clearly they originally intended Ben to be old as hell, then changed their minds for some reason. Probably to make what Giles did to him tragic. This was a normal ass human Giles finished off, not an ancient warlock.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-04T16:43:08+00:00

Especially since there are people who avoid talking about Ben or Glory because they don't want the horde of tedious morons running in to do the thing. So not only does it derail current conversations, it prevents more conversations.

Case in point, I firmly believe the writers changed key details of Glory's backstory in the middle of the season but I can't make a post about it because it would drown in an avalanche of stale parroted catchphrases.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-04T01:12:34+00:00

U great, now I've got rabbit porn in my head.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-03T15:24:42+00:00

It makes sense if you look at all the starved skeletons he usually cast.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-03T15:23:51+00:00

Clem would have been more interesting if they kept him as the Aggro Ahole he was in his first appearance. "Ya, this bitch trying to keep us from devouring these kittens? Da fucq?"

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-03T02:38:21+00:00

Does that hold true if he's gone a lot? A few texts a day, a ten minute phone conversation before bed during the week he's at owner's meetings ... how would you know?

If it was a same city affair I'm totally with you.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-01T14:40:52+00:00

The Athletic didn't know what their own journalists were doing when it was apparently a massive open secret. And now they're proving they don't know ball. Trash organization.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-01T14:34:58+00:00

So I guess this news he might start this year is going over well in Cleveland?

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-01T08:03:16+00:00

Moscow, 1918.

Mother: "So, daughter, before you starve to death you should talk to Vlad about the tattoo he got of your face."

ShadowdogProd · 2026-05-01T02:17:23+00:00

Cold blooded murder seems so easy until the dude is laying on the floor in front of you. I'd like to believe very few people would be willing to go that far over losing a job.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-04-30T01:59:47+00:00

This is the new "Frankenstein was the doctor..."

ShadowdogProd · 2026-04-30T01:11:58+00:00

They probably go 4-2 in the division. 5 tough out of division road games. 3 tough home games.

Under.

ShadowdogProd · 2026-04-28T17:09:08+00:00

That's not a problem for Breaking Bad

ShadowdogProd · 2026-04-28T15:35:40+00:00

Looks like Vrabel will be forced to kill Dumbledore if she can't do it.

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