[ SECRET POST #3357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3357 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe part of the problem is that we're coming at this as adults and expecting adult-level worldbuilding. These are, at their heart, kids' books, you guys. She's telling a story for children, not us.

Maybe we should just let her do it.

[ketita]

Plenty of children's fantasy authors manage to write children's fantasy books without lousy worldbuilding.

[(Anonymous)]

Many of them probably lose something in making their books so, however. It's clear that whatever It Quality makes a children's book special doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the world it inhabits makes sense.

[(Anonymous)]

But we don't slag to this extent on the ones who don't. It makes me think that people who grew up loving these books when they were kids are looking back with adult goggles on and going HEY WAIT I SHOULD STILL LOVE THEM EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT TWELVE ANYMORE instead of just enjoying them for what they are.

But then, I'm coming at it from the perspective of someone who was well into adulthood when they came out and has never read them in the first place.

[ketita]

Well, most children's books also don't make their authors multimillionaires. People talk about it because it's on their radar.
And this movie that she's making doesn't seem like it's a children's movie the way Philosopher's Stone was a children's book. So this is a high-profile author, creating a high-profile movie which is also aimed at adults, and you're surprised that people are reacting to her weak backstory?