Thread:Argali1/@comment-27097330-20160810230304/@comment-27097330-20160814175737

[WARNING! MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!]

Maybe it's because I read a lot of plays, but I didn't mind the screenwrite format. You have to remember it's meant to be a play, so it's hard to get the full effect without actually watching it. I agree Scorpius was awesome, I would read a book just anout him. I think Albus was overall a good character, and the parts with Rose were fine. However my problem comes with the adults. Hermione, Ginny, and McGonagall acted totally out of character, and Ron, while funny, was reduced to comic relief. Meanwhile I had a hard time relating to Harry, he just didn't seem like the one I knew. Most of the classmates were also reduced to plot devices, and Delphi had very little character. However, credit where credit is due, Portrait Dumbledore and Amos were both done really well. I also had lots of problems with the plot. I was expecting a play dealing with Harry trying to be a father while Albus try's to live up to him, and I was excited when it seemed to be shaping out like that, even if I already had some misgivings. However all of this was totally overshadowed when the time travel plot was introduced. Oh dear god the time travel plot... One of the things I love about the third book is its take on time travel, which made one of the endings in the series, and is probably my favorite time travel plot ever. Well this play wasn't written by Rowling and it shows... I'll try to say this without bashing the play but, IT RUINED HARRY POTTER TIME TRAVEL!!! Why?!? Why?!? Why would you do this to me play?!? Why?!? Ahem. Sorry, got carried away there. As you can probably tell, I don't like the time travel. It felt like it was forced in just to get people to read the play, like they'd needed to revisit the old books to draw people in. And this is probably my main problem with cursed child. It was a money grab. They marketed it as the eight Harry Potter book, but the truth is there wasn't room for an eighth Harry Potter book. It may be what people want, but it's not what the franchise needs. What it needs is to step completely away from Harry, and move on to the rest of the wizarding world, which is why I'm excited for Fantastic Beasts.