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I liked the Harry Potter epilogue.

Not exactly the *way* it was written...it was so eye-rollingly cutesy and the writing twisted itself into a pretzel so it could get jammed full of references and the names are just...ew. And all that shit. But the general idea of all these people back at the start, at Platform 9 and 3/4, just grown up, having gotten over the events of the series, with all that stuff behind them, maturing, having families, having kids, and having generally happy lives? Sorry, can't find anything to complain about there. If improbably happy endings are corny, I guess I'm just a corny person.

Other hated or unpopular or just rarely-liked fandom things I totally love include: Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Jack/Teal'c. Ewoks. The Sixth Doctor. Vice President John Hoynes from The West Wing. Wesley Crusher and Deanna Troi from Star Trek TNG. The Aliens of London/World War Three two-parter in Doctor Who (and Boom Town too). Dark Willow. And the episode "Starsky vs Hutch."

I liked the HP epilogue, too. For the reasons you've given, and also because I don't think it was illogical/not in line with the rest of the series.

I kinda like it too. I understand that it's probably not perfect and some people won't like it, and I do have some issues with the whole "Albus Severus" thing....but other than that I like it. I don't get how it's as horribly written as some people say it is. Hell if anything it seemed to have a similar style as the first book.

IMO it honestly does fit the Harry Potter series.

Yeah, it does have a similar style to the first book. Which is probably part of the problem, because most of the first book wasn't as well written as the later books, but also part of why it felt so Harry-Potter-ish.

Yeah.

Honestly that sounds like it could be a very risky writing choice.

*shrug* for me it works because I really loved the first book.

I loved the first book too, so it was cool with me. ;)

I liked the epilogue too, and understood the time jump. I do think we needed a little more in between the ending and the epilogue, but at the same time... the ending would've probably just been people being miserable, people trying to find the missing and heal the seriously wounded, and it would've made for dismal reading. The wizarding world would've been like war-torn countries that take decades to really recover. My only objection to the epilogue was that Harry had kids so soon after, when they were probably still rebuilding.

Oh, but I thought that the 19 year gap meant he didn't have kids until...was it five years later? I forget how old his oldest kid was. It's been ages since I last read Book 7.

I agree, I think? I think I appreciated the epilogue without liking it. I appreciate it as the "life goes on" coda to the war story, and I understand why it's there, but I don't think it's very well written.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is so underappreciated! As is Deanna.

I know! If they only cut out all the 6-minute long multi-angle pans of starships and trippy slo-mo sequences and filled that time with a bit more character stuff, it would be SUCH a good movie. The subplot about Kirk and Spock's friendship is just the best thing ever, and I loved the Voyager/V'ger plot.

My main problem with the epilogue was how focused it was on the main four characters to the expense of everyone else. I wanted to know what happened to all of the other characters and we only got a couple tiny hints.

I cannot agree with you re: the epilogue, but I love Jack/Teal'c and Ewoks. And all the Crushers. And Deanna Troy.

In fact, my favorite part of Star Wars was always the little Ewok song at the end of Return of the Jedi that has now been totally erased from the new versions.

Also, I loved those Ewok movies from the 80s.

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