GOF Syndrome?

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

In reading all the comments on the movie so far, I wonder if the film is not
suffering from "Goblet-of-Fire Syndrome"... meaning that it was rushed into
production with a Set-In-Stone release date.  The director and editors did
all they could in the time they were allowed, but eventually came the moment
when they HAD to hand the master print over to be duplicated in time to be
shipped to theaters all over the planet.  Perhaps they just didn't have
enough time to polish all the special effects and re-shoot awkward mistakes
or re-edit the choppy bits.

Kinda like when JKR HAD to turn over the HUGE manuscript for Goblet of Fire
in time for it to be edited, printed, and distributed to meet the release
date -- fans would have screamed bloody murder if the publication had been
delayed even by a few weeks.  Thus it paved the way for the granddaddy of
all HP canon mistakes : James coming out of Voldy's wand before Lily,
touching off the Great Wand Order Debate that kept us all so delightfully
and creatively amused for so many months until the moment we found out (by
stealth) that it was indeed just a writing/editing boo-boo.

The next film (CoS) will probably suffer from the same short deadline
syndrome, since they do want to get at least the first three films in the
can quickly before the kids grow up beyond their roles.

SML

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