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Rereading Funny story and noticed some details to suggest Miles was in to her early on. He wanted to get a cat but when Daphne said she was allergic , he was like 'cat is out'. He early on wanted her not to leave and was trying to show her how great his town was and there are other small details I can't remember of the top of my head.

This trope of the MMC loving the FMC from the beginning being used as a plot twist has been done in quite a few books, i can think of you again by Laura Layne and the love hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. It does give that warm fuzzy feeling so I can see why authors use it.

In Funny story however, Miles was in a relationship when he met Daphne so he can't have loved her since he met her even though he is the loverboy type - prone to falling hard for someone and quickly. But it makes me wonder if Miles noticed Daphne at all back in the day when him and Daphne were both in other relationships. So not that he liked Daphne but just that he slightly noticed her. We don't get that info in the books. Of course, Daphne wouldn't have noticed Miles at all since she was all about Peter. Petra and Peter were best friends so they would have crossed paths with each other pre break ups.

It would kind of be cute if he had noticed her a little but also it wouldn't be cute because what kind of guy is Miles that he notices other women ( even if that woman happens to be the FMC of the book ) when he is in a long term relationship ? That would suggest Miles has wondring eyes and not the trait you d want for an MMC in a romance book. We already have Peter who has wondering eyes.

It reminds if my own situation when I worked as an admin assistant in a school and I was somewhat curious/interested in one of the parents and part of me was disappointed he never noticed me like that but another part knew it was a good thing he didn't because I later found out he wasn't single and if he had noticed me maybe it would have given me the ick because it would mean the dude I have a crush on wasn't so special as has wondering eyes which is not romantic ...

Its just a really weird feeling when you notice a dude who is taken, because the ego side of you wants to be noticed but the rational side of you knows it speaks well to his character that he does not notice you but that kind of makes you a bit more curious about him so it kind of sucks.

On the hand, its also possible that he doesn't notice you but he might notice other women so it doesn't necessarily reveal that he has good character. Not sure if anyone else had this sort of conundrum..

All his love interestes from both supernatural ( i'm thinking of Eileen ) and Rory from Gilmore girls were short. It always seems like he has to bend even to speak to them. They need to cast a tall girl for his next love interest lol. I wonder if Jared has ever spoken about how it is to work with his much shorter than him love interests.

For a show about ice hockey , it's a shame we don't get to see the women's team. Would have been cool if one of the dudes the shared house situation dated a female hockey player , i'm thinking Logan or actually Garett would have done really well with a hockey player too.

I feel like its going to be better than the love hypothesis which was kind of mid. It's so cute that Jared's wife was promoting the film on her insta and there is a pic of her reading the book - I think she is a reader. I wonder why Genvieve ( Jared's wife ) wasn't cast for the role of the FMC, imagne how good the chemical chemistry would have been. Or do you think a reall life couple doesn't automatically translate to great onscreen chemistry ? It's cute that she is supportive of her husband working with other actresses that are not her.

Since the FMC is a body guard, it might have been nice to cast a more muscular curvy FMC, just to show a variety of different FMC, although i have never seen any variety with MMC, they are all tall and handsome. Also because to be a body guard, i imagine you have to be strong physically which means being more muscular perhaps.

Usually the brother is portrayed as telling the friend some variation of ' don't even think about messing with my sister ' and usually just being suspicious of the relationship and suspicious of the friend's intentions. We see this in how Ron reacts to Harry and Ginny and may other shows or books that have the brother's best friend trope. And while i csm see how its nice the brother is protective, i sometimes find it a bit over done and doesn't take in to account the FMC's agency. Also the brother speaking harshly to the friend , the friendship doesn't feel sweet anymore.

However this was done totally differenly in a sitcome called Kevin from work. Kevin's friend Brian is so worried about what his crush on Kevin's sister Roxy, he is so worried if he ever asks Roxy out , that it will ruin his friendship with Kevin. He tries his best to avoid thinking of Roxy that way because his friendship with Kevin means so much .

But one day when Kevin and Brian are walking back to the car after Brian took Kevin for a job interview , Kevin tells Brian he should come with Kevin to Italy and that something in a dream told him it would be good for Brian. Brian is very happy at the idea of going with Kevin but then Kevin goes like ' really you won't miss Roxy, I thought you would' and Brian is very surprised and goes like no that is ridiculous but then stammers that wouldn't him dating her ruin their friendship and Kevin looks at Brian and goes no. Basically Kevin gave his blessing in such a sweet but subtle way.

Has anyone seen the show i'm referring to ?

This is something i don't love in films/tv shows , it's not just the love hypothesis.

Realistically you can't have that type of figure if you have junk food like that . I feel like it gives unrealistic expectations.

I wish they d show an FMC who does feel conflicted about food choices and weight because that is just realistic.

To me it felt like a rather idealistic take because Gabriel also liked Emily back. And of course that is messy.

But often you like someone and they may not resgister you like that and it's strange because on the one hand you re glad the person doesn't like you since they should be focused on their partner and on the other hand the ego side of you wants the person to notice you that way.

I wanted to rewatch episide one scenes to see How Enily naviguated it and she did feel conflicted but it could also have been interesting to see how Emily would navigate Gab not noticing her romantically but then there wouldn't be a show.

They always tend to shoe horn a last minute love interest rather than have the readers or viewers feel sorry for the dude who didn't get chosen which allows room for readers/viewers to feel like maybe the dude who didn't get chosen was better.

We see it in the summer i turned pretty, a last minute love interest Denise is given to Jeremiah as a consolation price for not getting Belly. We see it in never have i ever, Paxton gets a random love interest at the end also as a consolation price , we see it in the vampire diaries, they pair Stefan with the best friend of the MC, we sort of see it in the hunger games that Gale is kissing some other lips so we don't feel bad for him ( but ok hunger games is a bit different ). We sort of see it in twilight but that too was done a bit uniquely tbf. We also see it in the tv show Awkward and in Jane the virgin.

So there is the trope of giving the friend of the main girl to the dude who loses out ( vampire diaries ). For Twlight Bella has no friends so they have to give the daughter lol.

The reality is the love interest introduced at the end of the show or book , the readers or viewers just won't have the same emotional attachment to that character as the main girl so it kind of just doesn't work.

I feel like the authors or tv executives are not brave enough to depict the guy ( or woman if its a love triangle with 2 women and a dude which is quite rare ) actually just losing and feeling bad about it but but then trying to move on cause that is life sometimes you just don't get you want . They feel like everything has to tie neatly in a bow.

Beau doesn't live there right ? I thought it was cool to show that the guys could have friends outside that group.

The night bus - you re in for a bumpy right as the conductor says.

Flue powder and portkey - Again a crazy ride in the air .

Apprating feels like a crazy ride as well.

The car not working and giving Harry and Ron a crazy ride.

If you accidentally get on the womping willow , takes you on a terrible ride as we saw in prizonner of azkaban.

I believe even taking a time turner makes you feel like you re taking a crazy ride through time.

Getting in to a pensive , same bump when you arrive.

I think really only the quiditch broom and buckbeak don't give those crazy roller coster effect. Oh wait I spoke too soon, when Harry's broom was bewtiched by Dobby i believe, it was also making him go up and down and round - so yeah crazy ride again.

As for death testrals , i dont think they have a roller coaster effect , so its probably like riding buckbeak except scarier because invisible unless you ve seen death.

Any other crazy rides i'm missing ?

Felton is the only guy from the og cast who is still involved with Harry Potter , they should totally have given him a decent role in the new series.

He d nail Draco's dad but since that role has already gone to someone else what other role do you think he vould play ?

How about the role of Luna's dad ? I think he could nail that.

If the actors of the OG films were still the same age , (or if someone had thought of this idea before and filmed some other extra scenes at the time when the OG films were being made ) then there could be a scenario where i dunno new Nevil accidentally opens a portal to a parellel universe and the characters of the new series have to deal witg the idea of there being 2 (or potentially more) hogwarts , two order of the pheonix, 2 harry, 2 hermione , 2 voldy etc . Basically how they did it in Spiderman where by Tom Holland meets Toby and Andrew. Although i guess it can also work if the actors of the older films are obviously older like how it happened in spiderman although it would be cool if they kind of collided at the same time when they re the same age. You know philosopher stone Emma and present day Arabella, their respective characters would basically be best friends or they d compete against each other..

I mean the world is technically magical so anything is possible...

The OG films are how one set of creatives imagined it and the HBO series is how another set of creatives imagined it so you could potentially have many versions of the same source material.

A lot of people have been wondering why they didn't choose to explore the Maureders generation or the founding fathers of hogwarts or more of voldermorts's orgins and instead just redid Harry potter which a lot of people find a bit pointless because it feels too similar to the OG films.

My theory is because they tried to explore a very minor character and his adventures in fantastic beasts - it was supposed to be darker , more adult and cater to the millenials who grew up with HP but people couldn't resonate with it at much as the original series. So the executives up there probably felt too scared to invest in another spin off story and felt it would be saver to just redo a coming of age formula that is tried and tested.

But i dunno i think Newt was just too much of a very minor character in the OG books to interest the people who grew up with those books and even the generations after that grew up on the OG films. I think there was a lot of potential to go back in time to the maurader geberation - they seemed like a michevous, enterprising bunch ! Whenever the novies took us back in time another generation at Hogwarts - they did this with the riddle diary in the second movie and i believe the fifth film and final film showed us a bit of the marauder gen - it was always interesting ! Its like going to a school that your parents also went to and knowing they walked the same corridors you did. I felt a bit of that feeling when the crimes of grindalward took us back to hogwarts but prior to Harry's gen and the feeling you get when you see the castle again after not seeing it for long.

Maybe its because i started it on kindle and because this book is the epistolary format, it works better in the form of a physical book.

The way its been decribed as being emotional, deep, also funny at times, the kind of book that is hard to put down - i thought this would not only occupy me but also get back that creative spark that has gone missing from life . The fact that the proatogonist is a 70 year old woman is quite unique and i love books that are unique. Maybe its just my ADHD and i just need to focus a bit more.

Has everyone else been loving this book ?

Edit : Yesterday my attention span was a bit better and i gave it another try and now I like it because it transports you to this other person's rich world.

This new teaser is way better than the first which was a bit underwhelming.

Did anyone feel like in this trailer the child actors were better than the adult actors but that in the OG films the adult actors were better ?

It must feel strange because they knew him since the time of the trial so like 36 years ago , a long time.

So by comment i mean any comment or statememt released to the public since obvious;ly they could had a private convo about it.

It's so shocking. Not what i was expecting to come across at all.