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Harry Potter … Just Starwars Redux?
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I never noticed how similar the two storylines were! Although I’m not really a fan of either of them…
yeah, you heard me, I don’t like Harry Potter or Star Wars… I must be in a very small minority there!!
No, you’re not in the minority – it’s just that the people who are SO into it are … well, SO INTO IT that the rest of us just look at them and sidle away quietly.
The latest one’s something like 860 pages long! In Hard Cover! I have text books – Master’s Degree text books – which were half that! Talk about somebody in need of an editor!
This is brilliant! I do like HP, I wouldn’t say that I’m SO INTO IT but I don’t mind taking any of my children to see the films (or are the taking me?)and read the books when I have nothing else to read.
I had never noticed the similarities either! And I have to admit that I have pre-ordered the last book from an independent local book seller and will go and pick it up next Saturday. I, however, will NOT be attending the Potter Party that they are having that starts at 9 and ends at 12 with the distribution of the prepaid books. I have to admit that I want to know what will happens. I will agree that at 860 pages is a bit on the longish side and I hope that most of it is relevant to the story, unlike some of the last couple of books where whole chapters could have been cut and we would have not missed much.
Well, Jackie, now you’ll be able to tell me what happens? Because I kind of do care – merely to know, you understand, so that I can be on the same page with the rest of the world.
But I’ll probably find some website somewhere that give the whole thing in a 1 page synopsis form and be perfectly happy.
It’s just sad to me that the books are actually made better by being turned into movies. That’s the scary bit, because it’s usually the other way around – due to the author’s talent in telling a story which makes the magic happen in your head, and which the producer just can’t reproduce. With this? It’s such an inferior mess of plotlines that the producer has to prune things out (to do what the editor should have done) in order to make the movie.
Sigh.
Too funny!!
Had not thought of the Harry Potter tale this way, but it sure does fit. I guess both play with architypes that have been popular in fiction for a long time since the troubadors (or earlier).