The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 
film premieres November 18, 2018
The year is 1926, and Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures.
Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident, were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a
misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds."
The Magical Strudel in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,  just Raises Too Many Questions
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Katharine Trendacosta

October 28, 2016 Friday 6:00pm
Nothing has frustrated us more than this new clip from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which shows Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) magicking up
a strudel. We’re in full blown magical theory debate here, guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_CfCUlJsRw

In all seriousness, this clip has me and James Whitbrook (our resident Brit) completely up in arms. I hate Queenie’s creepy way of talking and the almost
sexual look on the face of Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler). But mainly, we’re angry about the magic.

At least this thing didn’t forget Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration, which says food can’t just be made with magic. All the ingredients are there.
But what was going to happen if Newt had said he wanted pie, huh? Do they have both pie dough and pastry just lying around so they can do whichever trick?

Also, that seems like an awful lot of shit that isn’t apple being put in that strudel.

We were particularly perplexed by how this thing was baked. Because, like, is there a super fast baking spell that we just don’t know about? Shouldn’t she
have said a spell so that we, the audience, could follow that she was doing that? Because we have seen Molly Weasley cook, and she used magic and also
a stove. So explain, movie. Is there a specific “assemble and bake an apple strudel” spell? And if so, why?

But seriously, where is the MOISTURE?!?! I see steam at the end. I don’t know much about strudel, but shouldn’t the apples be coated in brown sugar and some kinda wettness or something? Those apple surfaces look real dry

James offered the very British pronouncement that “Mary Berry wouldn’t approve of this mid-air bake nonsense. Just saying.” He also thinks that this clip ruins the possibility that there’s a wizarding version of The Great British Bake Off.

Hel¨lo There, i think there's a year sinse i came there to speak and say Hi. But lots of things, very encouraging things to me as lifechangers and inspirational ones i'll say. To start, back when i was 21 years old i remember i said that was my lucky year (Because is the number of blackjack). And yes it was! I recorded and produced for first time ever an original song and got paid. Not much (licke 10 dollars or less), and i got a bit noticed. Here i discovered that music is my way to go. Time by time i released a new electro dance/trance&dubstep song (which at the moment had some good feedback where i decided to share it (mostly with friends)). And there's something i'm very proud of it, i just recently bought a pair of nice descent and (as i understand), tagged as professional headfones and a professional microfone too. With that, for me, its a great step into this field, because i alwais dreamed some years ago those things which i am living right now. So i am super eccited because i am about to graduate as a teacher, thus i'll get a job and i will slowly get what i need to become more professional in this subject.

@Game creator, good luck with the production, that sounds pretty awesome.
@Lord Lundin, feel free to come and chatter away, that's what this topic is for, ---- for a start I'd love to kno what "lundin" means. When I first saw your name I wondered of course if it was related to "london", the capital of England, but I don't think so .

As to things up here, well they continue very cold and somewhat hechtic due to me having lots of work to do, that's why the db has had to take a miner back seat and I've not been able to play as much game wise as I liked or even get back to timecrest.
Needless to say, mrs. Dark was pretty appauled at the news from America the other day and spent a considerable time going "oh god!" in fairness she wasn't much of a fan of Hillary Clinton either, she deliberately didn't register to vote when we were over there since honestly she thought it was a choice of evils.
We've now taken to adopting the phrase "it's trumps fault!" for anything that goes wrong just because we probably ought to start now .

Btw, I was sort of horrified when I read an interview with hilary on the bbc website where she basically praised Trump to high heaven and said he was like "a good hearted king"

Some varient of "well I'm disappointed I didn't win but good luck to the man" would've been gracious, but honestly the complete turn around and absolute twofacedness of this one really! shocked me, for goodness sake! 24 hours ago she was slinging every bit of mud at the man she could get her hands on!

For myself, well this just confirms what I've always believed, the world is run by coorporations for their own prophet, glad everyone can see that now.

In happier news, I finished midnight and banged out a review which will hopefully appear soon. i'm afraid that while there was much I liked, there was a significant amount I didn't, especially the major sermons on the niceness of life and the descent of characters into cliche. I'll post the link to my review when it gets put up.
right now I'm reading one of the nebular awards collections, which is great for short stories and sf fiction, though seeing reports of people compalining about films like back to the future 3 is sort of depressing given how standard the film industry went these days.
Anyway, hope everyone else is having fun.

@Lord Lundin, English pronunciation with a rolled r in lord? there is no rolled r in English English. Sometimes with the scottish accent there is a slight one, and some upper class accents pronounce the r rather forward, but not in a word like lord, it just has that long aw sound pronounced at the front of the mouth rather than the American style one which sounds almost like lard, (being married to an American who's trying to acquire an English accent you get to know these things).

Oh and yes, my lady does want to pick up an English accent because she prefers it, sometimes I do have fun teasing her that if she does that I'll have to start talking like a new York Gangster and put on my best maffia voice, "yeah, ya talkin' proppah just like what we does in nu yok or we gis ya da cemente overcoat!" (wow, it's hard to write out phonetic accents).

thanks for the congratulations. As to the middle finger, though Fyi, in the Uk the gesture is actually two fingers upwards like a backwards v sign. I do see your point, indeed I had to go and look up that topic where I made that postjust to see when it was, suffice it to say 2013 was not a good time for me .

to be honest though I don't intrinsically disagree with what I said back there on a basic level, since the set of coincidences which bought myself and Mrs. Dark together are so wild and utterly outlandish that they pretty much hit every romantic cliche in the book, from me starting sentences with "I love ---" and finishing with "talking to you", even to her being with someone else at the time and us agreeing to be friends and then finding that that was simply impossible when we spent time together, but being tormented by the fact that she was with someone else. There was a mad meeting at a train station (with a dramatically delayed train), and me organizing about the quickest plane flight to go and get engaged, heck, we nearly got married at an airport, though I'm glad we didn't and went for a propper wedding, albeit one with playing of the themes from jurassic park and cocoon and a cinderella style coach instead.

It was in no way anything like the hole dating process is supposed to work, indeed I still! believe that process  is inherently biased against men in general, and disabled men in particular.

Good luck with your project and with Evina, though as I said I'm not really one to give advice on that subject other than don't be a scumbag, and hope to be very, very lucky indeed.

University is worthwile, just as a good experience as I've said in other threads, quite aside from anything else, simply because that's where you tend to meet people who are a bit more open minded and inclined to be decent, or at least that's how it worked out for me.

As to me well not much going on, i've got a lot of academic work on my thesis to do so haven't had much time for much else beyond reading books, arguing about accents and the wheel of time with Mrs. Dark (she's currently doing the reread on tor.com by Lee butler which is hilarious and very worth reading if your a Wot fan), and of course reading and writing reviews.

i've moved on to bands of mourning, the sixth mistborn book and I'm finding it a vast improvement from shadows of self which I really didn't like much. Partly it was that the victorian style setting felt so familiar to me, me being a bit of a fan of victoriana, partly it was that I don't really like wax and wane as much as I did vin and elland, --- they're fun but i don't really feel as much attached to them, and partly it was that the book moved so slowly sazed basically had to show up half way through and tell the good guys the plot. When a book literally has to have god appear and tell everyone what the plot is things aren't going well, and even the reappearence of Tensoon from the original series didn't help too much here.

That being said,t he end of shadows of self was rather good, though the very blatant "look! this is the series setup, see, this is a mysterious clue, look it's mysterious!" was a bit overdone.

Bands of mourning however is going really well, the characters are actually developing, and the plot is moving on and has even exited that one city of elandel.

It's one of my problems with sanderson's writing that he sticks nearly all of a book's plot in one place, even if he has a huge world, and in books like the first mistborn novel or elantris  it can make things really drab, one reason why I still think Stormlight is his best work.

Bands of mourning however goes elsewhere, and indeed travels more than that, which is nice.

So today I don't know, more work to do, though i'd like to try and checkout some of the blindfold games if i have time, since they really! need more db pages. I actually feel rather guilty since Marty shultz has been doing a great job at bringing the things out, i've enjoyed the game's I've played (especially the arcade ones), but there is a hole bunch that need writeups and I've just not had time to play them and do them, plus i would! like to hit the six hundred games mark in the db by christmas, which means another 18 pages between now and then, though whether we'll manage this I'm not sure.

And that I think is enough ramblings from me on a definitely cold and grim morning.

Well Not a lot new to report today other than that I have been up most of the night finishing bands of mourning.
the Conclusion was good, though at the same time a trifle disappointing because unfortunately Sanderson's style is just feeling a bit samy now, particulalry his "Oh look, I will conveniently have a character get super powers" thing.
Admitedly with sanderson he does setup where the super powers come from, but really I'd like a conclusion to one of his books actually be reached without! someone ganing godlike power through unexpected  manipulations in the system. also, he is getting a little too blatant in terms of tying all the cosmia stuff together, particularly mistborn, stormlight and the world of warbreaker, though i suppose since Stormlight is sort of his magnum opus he would do that, still i'd rather he did it in the books themselves rather than having appendicies which are raather blatant adverts for other books he's written. I'll also confes sI'm a little narked by the fact that he's got a mistborn novella which isn't available in audio format, or at least not that I've been able to find which is annoying since there are some rather major questions left hanging which he's actively said are answered in it.

Then again it was nice that in Bands of Mourning we actually saw more of the world and he continues to do interesting things with alamancy and science, and it was also nice to see a new perspective on things and new nation.

Again not much else to report since I've mainly been busy with academic work thus far and not playing much by way of games, though I'll see about things today. I'm tempted to give lament mud a try since I fancy something a bit more strategic and longer planning than usual hack n slash type of affairs but I'll see. I also need to finish a book review for Dosgbody by diana wynne jones which my lady and I finished the other day, a book that literally involves sirius the dog star being put into the body of a dog.

Very awesome, especially if your an animal lover.

anyway, enough woffle from me currently methinks.

Dark, the words "lord" and "lard" are different in pronunciation in United States English, but there is no differentiation in the pronunciation of the "o" sound in "hot", "father" and "bought" in United States English, particularly in the northern states; the abovementioned words have three different vocal sounds in British and Australian English pronunciation.

I was trying to read your impression of a New York gangster, but I got a little confused about what it was trying to say; could you write a proper English version of it please?

It seems to be a very busy family atmosphere.

@tj, No, Lord in American english doesn' sound like lard but generally long o's in america sound rather like a's, hence why there isn't a difference other than the voiced r sound in hot and heart. It's to do with the position of the lips, indeed according to my lady when she was learning to sing she was encouraged to do it in an english accent since pulling the lips forward helps far more with air flow.
What I attempted to write in the new york gangster accent was yeah, you talking propper like what we does or we gives you the cemente overcoat, (no gangsters don't do propper grammar either).

@Lord Lundin, sorry but animal abuse not cool, (especially since I just finished reading a book with lots of it). just shut your door.

ouch, well family business is going to get rather complex since Mrs. Dark's mum is now severely ill following a rather badly gone bypass, ---- actually when I say "severely ill" it's the sort of will need a hospice type of seferely ill. Needless to say she's not feeling particularly cheerful about this, and again I still have mondo work to do.

I've started Pierce Brown's Red rising which frankly I'm disappointed in. the write up sounded interesting, sort of a distopea ala the hungar games but with a heavy sf twist. however the main character is so hard bitten as to be a right bastard, which means the real badguys are super bastards, indeed there virtually isn't anyone in the hole book who isn't some range of bastard, and when you combine that with a very cursary overblown writing style and huge amounts of really unnecessary gore and grimness it all feels so overdone as to be a little ridiculous.

It's a shame, the world does have some interesting ideas, like humanity split into colours and society that is sort of like sf roman empire even down to dueling with rather cool morphing blades, and the pacing is rather good with lots of cliffhangers, but everyting is so over done it feels  more like reading a wiki synopses of a propper story written by a thirteen year old with more testosterone than brains.

Dark, I believe that there is a difference between the pronunciation of the "o" in "hot" and the "a" in "heart", though the difference is much more noticeable in northern accents; I will concede that in the south, there is almost no difference. But I do agree that the difference is much more pronounced (no pun intended) in British English.

@Tj, I remember having a major arguement with one guy on audeasy about this, when we were discussing the difference between the words logger and lager, since he was having a huge irritation about the fact that we don't have a voice R in most uk English the way Americans and the Irish do.

Actually you don't in Australia either .

it finished up with me having to reccord how I said both words and send them onto the list, and the conclusion that the o sound is just different in the way we pronounce things in England.

then again even by Uk standard's I'm said to speak rather propper oxford English just because of me so i'm probably mroe a stickler.

@Cae, it's not so much mass media not doing regional accents that I mind since in Britain at least most regions have accents so strong they're pretty perminant (you should hear the jordies up here in the northeast, not to mention Yorkshire, Lancashire, or Liverpool). What really gets up my nose is how the media in England is promoting extremely lazy ways of speaking, and stuff that just plane doesn't sound nice or accurate.
For example, saying th's as f's, or wrendering you as ya, or still worse, sticking r's where they don't belong, --- eg in nottingham where my parent's live you still hear people saying "Gerroff" instead of "get off" or "I Toadjya" rather than "I told you" and this unfortunately is now seen even on local news readers or radio djs.

(really I'm not joking, this one does sound like toad as in the master of toad hall).

Anyway, leaving aside orthography for a second, things over here are really! stressful.
Mrs. Dark's mum is in more of a state than we realized, being not just catatonic but actually suffering, indeed some of the medical  care stuff i've heard is pretty shocking, particularly to me who is the son of a nurse and a physio therapist.
It then doesn't help that the hopefully final draught of my doctoral thesis corrections is in for the 30th so I'm working my rear end off, one reason why I've been very quiet on the gaming front recently since I just don't have the inclination or energy other than the odd quick round of rhythm rage or pipe 2 blast chamber to let off some steam, ---- or get hit by some steam more often than not .

So, pretty dire all around at the present time, and just to compound things Mrs. Dark is starting guide dog training today, ---- though hopefully that will be okay.

I also had a miner scare this morning since I seemed to have fused my victor stream, though fortunately taking out and replacing the battery got it working okay, which is good since I'm going back to the Belgariad series from David eddings after my irritations with Red rising.

Actually I did worry the suck fairy, click this link if you don't know who she is  might have cast her baleful influence, but it turns out no! indeed I'm resisting the urge to do a review for this one just because I'm enjoying it rather more than I expected to, despite now seeing a few flaws, in particular that the main character comes across more like twelve than fourteen.

Still it's especially nice to read a book with a teenaged main character that doesn't have anxt, or at least has a conflict where he's continually mothered and wher eyour actually on his side rather than him being an annoying arse, ---- insert " rant about "kids today", or at least fictional kids today .

Seriously I do wonder if people are just more self obsessed these days .