[ SECRET POST #3583 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3583 ⌋

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Comments

[soldatsasha]

I've realized more and more over the years that I prefer stories that are allowed to end, or left to stand on their own. The longer something is dragged on, the worse I start to feel about it, and the more I start to see it's flaws.

Now there's Pottermore and new movies and Cursed Child and MORE and it makes me feel I want it to just stop because what was once this really magical thing is just some cash grab of shoddy spinoffs and merch. I understand a lot of this stuff, whether it's HP or Star Wars or Ninja Turtles or whatever, is meant to appeal to adults' nostalgia, but for me it has the opposite effect of making me feel sort of used.

With HP it's worse than most things I liked as a kid, because we shared lots of things such as comically abusive foster family and violence towards children and hateful teachers and bullying at school, and I grew up as he did and saw him respond to situations with the same emotions I was feeling. HP was one of those few things where I could escape to this wondrous world that seemed REAL to me in a way most fiction didn't because I could recognize so much of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, fuck all those kids who might enjoy the new stuff, amirite.

[(Anonymous)]

... because kids today are unable to read the books the way we did?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't you think there are kids out there who just discovered the series, and they're looking forward to the new movies the way you might have looked forward to the latest book?

[(Anonymous)]

This is true. But it also stands to reason that there are kids just discovering the old books and movies, who aren't excited about the latest movie/book.

[(Anonymous)]

People are different and like different things, they also have different opinions on said things, who'd of thunk?

[ketita]

yeah, but the series was incomplete at the time, so you want to know how it ends. Even as a kid, there were series that I was like "okay, I'm going to stop while I'm ahead". More is not always better.
If anything, I always liked reading series that were complete, because it meant that I didn't have to wait around for more.