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Harry Potter and the Eight Month Delay
Aug. 18th, 2008 08:40 pmPotter fandom is apparently apopleptic that the film version of Half Blood Prince has been delayed from this November to next July.
I'm bemused.
Every time I've gone back to that book, I've hated it more. Same with Book Seven.
I literally think J. K. Rowling suddenly realized that her characters were way out of sync with her Grand Plan, and she, being a hell of a storyteller but not a particularly good writer (if you know what I mean and I think you do), ignored the directions in which her characters had grown, ignored I can't even think of how many plots and subplots and potential red herrings that everybody had spent years speculating about, and instead spent the next two books dragging everything back towards her original vision... no matter how little sense it made.
I will go see the last few HP films out of duty... but not because I think they're going to be any good. And I have a suspicion that, as often is the case, the delay might be based on the producers realizing they have a turkey on their hands -- but, in this case, a franchise turkey, from possibly the franchise of all franchises, a turkey they desperately have to save.
Thoughts?
I'm bemused.
Every time I've gone back to that book, I've hated it more. Same with Book Seven.
I literally think J. K. Rowling suddenly realized that her characters were way out of sync with her Grand Plan, and she, being a hell of a storyteller but not a particularly good writer (if you know what I mean and I think you do), ignored the directions in which her characters had grown, ignored I can't even think of how many plots and subplots and potential red herrings that everybody had spent years speculating about, and instead spent the next two books dragging everything back towards her original vision... no matter how little sense it made.
I will go see the last few HP films out of duty... but not because I think they're going to be any good. And I have a suspicion that, as often is the case, the delay might be based on the producers realizing they have a turkey on their hands -- but, in this case, a franchise turkey, from possibly the franchise of all franchises, a turkey they desperately have to save.
Thoughts?
