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A review by kath_m_
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
disorganized thoughts/feelings
-not a lot of emotional resonance for me in any of this
-except the friendship between albus and scorpius i guess, and some of draco's stuff
-ron's characterization is disappointing
-i can buy that harry might be sort of incompetent and awkward when it came to his kids but not in the way it happens here? (is there a moment where he blames albus for getting him riled up? yes?)
-humour and lots of the general speech that was trying to be cutesy felt forced and awkward....maybe it would come off differently on the stage
-why would hermione hide a time-turner with a series of riddles that would allow someone to find it???
-i'm not a fan of the ~what if it never haaaaappened~ scare in general; more than being an easy device, i think it's a mean way to stir up emotions in readers; so the plot premise was just disinteresting for me
-also the play format requires so much to be left out that the things i'd be really interested in, life and living details, school life, albus' siblings, all the relationships - these don't fit (or were pared down considerably here); so i guess this just isn't the form i'd choose for more harry potter world
i'm not incorporating this into my mental harry potter canon so w/e
-not a lot of emotional resonance for me in any of this
-except the friendship between albus and scorpius i guess, and some of draco's stuff
-ron's characterization is disappointing
-i can buy that harry might be sort of incompetent and awkward when it came to his kids but not in the way it happens here? (is there a moment where he blames albus for getting him riled up? yes?)
-humour and lots of the general speech that was trying to be cutesy felt forced and awkward....maybe it would come off differently on the stage
-why would hermione hide a time-turner with a series of riddles that would allow someone to find it???
-i'm not a fan of the ~what if it never haaaaappened~ scare in general; more than being an easy device, i think it's a mean way to stir up emotions in readers; so the plot premise was just disinteresting for me
-also the play format requires so much to be left out that the things i'd be really interested in, life and living details, school life, albus' siblings, all the relationships - these don't fit (or were pared down considerably here); so i guess this just isn't the form i'd choose for more harry potter world
i'm not incorporating this into my mental harry potter canon so w/e