The Ultimate Harry Potter Thread

Scalenex wouldn't tell me what he saw. I just saw bamboo.



I have heard it argue that it was pathetic that three first year students were able to penetrate the defenses to the Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerers Stone but a guy explained head cannon that Dumbledore more or less wanted Harry to get through the defenses as a test because only the Mirror of Erised matters.

He could have put the Mirror in Professor Quirrel's office and Voldomort still wouldn't have gotten it.

 

Who else thinks that the pointless upcoming HBO 'Remake' series is going to be the Sequel Trilogy/Rings of Power to Harry Potter's Original Trilogy/LoTR Trilogy and Fantastic Beasts' Prequels/Hobbit?

 

Ugh... Another remake? This time of a series of very popular movies that is still very recent (at least to my mind).

 

It is absolutely a sheer waste of time and effort - as you say the films are still relatively recent in the grand scheme of things, as well as being universally well-received and one of Britain's biggest exports in recent times.

Just like with Star Wars, it seems they've become scared of doing anything new and original after Fantastic Beasts ground to a halt, for fear that anything else new they come up with will similarly fall apart. But the thing is, Fantastic Beasts didn't fall apart because it was something new, it fell apart because of the bad behaviour of a certain effeminate emo actor, the trial of its main villain against his far more villainous wife and because it tried to insert identity politics into what was otherwise a story with great potential. What's worse, this new series I can easily see crashing and burning far harder because people already have the original 7 films to enjoy, and the series will tell nothing new. People aren't stupid, they notice when something is going to re-tread the same old storyline.

I can see the direction in which it will go - it'll doubtless be an Americanisation of it set in 'Hogwarts High' that will throw away all the charm, sophistication and sheer Britishness of the original, with black Hermione, mixed-race Ron and trans Harry facing down the toxic white Voldemort.

 

I agree that they could have handled the titling better, but the fact that Newt and his Fantastic Beasts still played significant parts meant that the titles of the later two films weren't entirely irrelevant.

Compared to the other issues that undermined the Fantastic Beasts quintology and turned it into a trilogy, it's a very minor fault, pretty much cosmetic.

 

I'm sure the behavior of a "flash"y actor and a court scandal with the main villain actor didn't help. Personally, the movies just didn't charm me like the original books and movies did. I can kind of give or take Eddie Redmane and Katherine Waterson in it. They weren't bad, but they just didn't knock me over. I'm not sure I liked the shift to the US. I should appreciate how the movie sort of grew from a simple story of Newt helping magical creatures to the battle between Grindelwald and Dumbledore, but I just wasn't sold. I don't know, maybe adult wizards just don't have the same "wonder" as kid wizards?

 

I believe JK Rowling is still involved, so hopefully the show won't go too far off the rails. Personally, I expect some "embellished" side stories like GoT threw in to pad a full season. In general, I just don't know why they're making it. The movies are very good and the books are even better. I feel a bit the same with the Last Airbender show that's coming up. It would be interesting to see a live action version, but the cartoon is SO good.

 

I prefer A, because it keeps with the Lord of the Rings references - I can imagine Professor McGonagall keeping her composure and riposting with just such a line (similar to the scene in Philosopher's Stone this meme is based on), as opposed to losing it completely as in B.

 

Grrr, !mrahil