You Might Notice an Inconsistency
Two days ago, I gave Half-Blood Prince a score of 8/10. In my review I wrote for Vox Populi, I only gave it a 3/5 (for those of you mathematically challenged, this would be approximate to a 6/10). In both cases, I had to work with the scale given to me. To clarify, I will be buying the DVD when it comes out, and I very likely will enjoy just as I do with all of the other HP movies. Giving it a 4/5 on VP, though, would put it just one score away from “perfect” since VP doesn’t use a half-point system like I do. I personally had enough issues with the movie that I felt it wasn’t up at the same level as other movies that I would easily give a 4/5 to. Because of that, I had no choice but to give it a 3. That doesn’t change my blog score of an 8 which I completely stand by given my rating history here, but I just didn’t want anyone to think that I was unable to scale scores appropriately between two different systems.
It took me about 50 minutes to get from my apartment into downtown to meet Julia today, and my conclusion is that Seattle really needs to create freeways that are wider than two lanes on each side. Sure, if it were up to the city government here everyone would probably use public transportation (and in their defense, it does seem like they have a quite effective one set up), but seriously, there shouldn’t be a gigantic traffic mess at 1:00 on a Friday afternoon trying to get into downtown. Fortunately I won’t be making that trip much, so I can just ignore the fact that the traffic situation here is somehow even more messed up than Dallas.