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A review by yungdaikon
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 2 Book Bundle Collection by J.K. Rowling
Mugglecast was so #wormtailly that I had a good month and a half to come to terms with this story and its, uh, weak points. However, no spoiler analysis could have ever prepared me for this. This gets no rating and no actual review because I'm still so confused.
Like what the actual fuck was this.
??????
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A week has passed since I read HP+Cursed Child. I have watched many reviews, read many analyses, re-listened to lots of Mugglecast, had many heated, all-caps discussions. I am now slightly more coherent in my thoughts regarding this 8th story.
Let me preface this by saying I am a big Potter fan; a massive and hooked one, much like Snape's nose. However, I am not a blind fan. I don't think that JK Rowling could do no wrong, or that the Harry Potter stories are 110% flawless. These books and the world that resides in them means so much to me, as integral to my soul as chicken soup, and naturally I was very hesitant towards this "eighth story", one that could make or break the arc that we had all grown so closed with.
Haha. Sure enough, it broke the damn arc, like the Death Eaters did in the HBP movie to the Millennium Bridge!!!!
Back in my wee pre-pubescent days, I read a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction, specifically regarding the "epilogue era". I loved seeing what other fans envisioned the lives of the beloved characters would be like, further than what Rowling could ever give me. But that's all it was: fanfiction. It wasn't canon. I wasn't forced to accept it as part of the world I held to dearly to my heart. If I didn't like the character portrayals or the wacky events that ensued, welp, too bad, moving on to the next story. However, with JK Rowling's proclamation that CC is in fact, canon, it brings on lots of confusion. I was willing to accept this ridiculous story as nothing more than a marketing scam spectacle, meant to please all the fans that wanted more, and as a means to revive The Boy Who Lived. I viewed this story as nothing more than an optional add-on, because to me, DH wrapped up the entire story of Harry so beautifully, driving home all the lessons and morals that was meticulously wrought and crafted, and in my opinion, CC just shits on it all (like a diarrhetic owl).
I get it though; it's a play. It's meant to be over the top, dramatic in every which way; it's a crowd pleaser. It's theater, for Dumbledore's sake! Sure, Rowling approved this story and whatnot, but to me, a lot of it didn't feel like a Potter story. Sure, the characters were the characters and sometimes they said things that aligned with their previously established selves, the setting was the same, blahblahblah, but it missed all the nuances. It also had very, very, VERY stupid plot points. I can accept Harry and Albus' broken relationship, because no family, not even the family of the infamous Harry Potter (Boy Who Lived Come To Die) is ever without it's rough spots. But Delphi??? Time Turning??? Harry as a Polyjuiced Voldemort??? Like, what the fuck????? But mostly, Voldemort had sex??? Voldemort has a dick??? Perhaps if it was all explained, and there was a rundown as to how everything fits into place, then it would all be slightly more okay, because Rowling has proven time and time again that every little bit matters. Every little seemingly insignificant plot point was never just thrown in for kicks; Harry Potter was never a sensationalist story. It was raw, natural, and utterly beautiful. CC is fake, fake, and shitty. That sounds harsh. I'm just angry. All my criticisms pretty much align with the criticisms others have. Also, Rose and James should have been developed more as characters. Actually, ALL the characters should have developed more. I felt like they went nowhere. Delphi was extremely flat, an antagonist just there to be Voldemort's spawn and to continue that evil, dead legacy. He's dead. It ended. Stop dredging it up.
Deep breath. Okay.
Anyways, sorry, Joanne Rowling, my second mother, the bringer of light in my life, but I'm not going to accept CC as canon. It will remain as an entirely separate entity to anything that came previously to it. Fantastic Beasts looks fucking dope, though.
The story of The Boy Who Lived never died. It was always fresh and alive in our hearts, because the ones that love us never really leave us.
VOLDEMORT HAS A DICK?????
Like what the actual fuck was this.
??????
-
A week has passed since I read HP+Cursed Child. I have watched many reviews, read many analyses, re-listened to lots of Mugglecast, had many heated, all-caps discussions. I am now slightly more coherent in my thoughts regarding this 8th story.
Let me preface this by saying I am a big Potter fan; a massive and hooked one, much like Snape's nose. However, I am not a blind fan. I don't think that JK Rowling could do no wrong, or that the Harry Potter stories are 110% flawless. These books and the world that resides in them means so much to me, as integral to my soul as chicken soup, and naturally I was very hesitant towards this "eighth story", one that could make or break the arc that we had all grown so closed with.
Haha. Sure enough, it broke the damn arc, like the Death Eaters did in the HBP movie to the Millennium Bridge!!!!
Back in my wee pre-pubescent days, I read a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction, specifically regarding the "epilogue era". I loved seeing what other fans envisioned the lives of the beloved characters would be like, further than what Rowling could ever give me. But that's all it was: fanfiction. It wasn't canon. I wasn't forced to accept it as part of the world I held to dearly to my heart. If I didn't like the character portrayals or the wacky events that ensued, welp, too bad, moving on to the next story. However, with JK Rowling's proclamation that CC is in fact, canon, it brings on lots of confusion. I was willing to accept this ridiculous story as nothing more than a marketing scam spectacle, meant to please all the fans that wanted more, and as a means to revive The Boy Who Lived. I viewed this story as nothing more than an optional add-on, because to me, DH wrapped up the entire story of Harry so beautifully, driving home all the lessons and morals that was meticulously wrought and crafted, and in my opinion, CC just shits on it all (like a diarrhetic owl).
I get it though; it's a play. It's meant to be over the top, dramatic in every which way; it's a crowd pleaser. It's theater, for Dumbledore's sake! Sure, Rowling approved this story and whatnot, but to me, a lot of it didn't feel like a Potter story. Sure, the characters were the characters and sometimes they said things that aligned with their previously established selves, the setting was the same, blahblahblah, but it missed all the nuances. It also had very, very, VERY stupid plot points. I can accept Harry and Albus' broken relationship, because no family, not even the family of the infamous Harry Potter (Boy Who Lived Come To Die) is ever without it's rough spots. But Delphi??? Time Turning??? Harry as a Polyjuiced Voldemort??? Like, what the fuck????? But mostly, Voldemort had sex??? Voldemort has a dick??? Perhaps if it was all explained, and there was a rundown as to how everything fits into place, then it would all be slightly more okay, because Rowling has proven time and time again that every little bit matters. Every little seemingly insignificant plot point was never just thrown in for kicks; Harry Potter was never a sensationalist story. It was raw, natural, and utterly beautiful. CC is fake, fake, and shitty. That sounds harsh. I'm just angry. All my criticisms pretty much align with the criticisms others have. Also, Rose and James should have been developed more as characters. Actually, ALL the characters should have developed more. I felt like they went nowhere. Delphi was extremely flat, an antagonist just there to be Voldemort's spawn and to continue that evil, dead legacy. He's dead. It ended. Stop dredging it up.
Deep breath. Okay.
Anyways, sorry, Joanne Rowling, my second mother, the bringer of light in my life, but I'm not going to accept CC as canon. It will remain as an entirely separate entity to anything that came previously to it. Fantastic Beasts looks fucking dope, though.
The story of The Boy Who Lived never died. It was always fresh and alive in our hearts, because the ones that love us never really leave us.
VOLDEMORT HAS A DICK?????