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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather drop back in on the latest Harry Potter which doesn’t have Harry Potter or any of the Harry Potter things you care about: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. To be fair, it doesn’t just have Star Wars prequel problems; it has a few Star Wars prequel solutions.
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Further Reading
- The Monster at the End of this Book
- The Weimar Republic
- The First World War on the Harry Potter Wiki
I never got into Harry Potter, but it’s weird that there are so many examples of telling a good story where the audience knows the ending (focusing on the journey, twisting around the reasons for events we’ve seen, etc.), but so many prequels don’t seem to…know that? Or is it that they want the franchises perpetually “stuck in the second reel,” so there can’t be any real developments without limiting the future?
Oh, well. I hope the new membership plan works better; it convinced me, at least, and it’s probably worth it just for an account that pre-populates my name. Not that I won’t be listening to lots of things…