What should we do next?

[eggplant107]

 "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I'd rather keep the focus of the
> main group on the books, the canon 
> established by JKR herself, rather
> than their offshoot, the films

I doubt the focus of the main group will ever be on the films, but I
don't see the need to treat them like a crazy uncle you keep locked up
in the cellar. Like it or not for virtually all new readers of
the series their mental images of the scenes in the books will be
influenced by the movies. There is just no point in pretending
that a certain invention made in the late part of the nineteenth 
century doesn't exist.

In the early days when the book series was far from complete and
most posts were some variation of "What will happen next?" it
might have made sense to have two separate lists, but that ship
has sailed. At least that's what I think. 
 
> There's lots of cross-talk (Movies vs. books)
> on the Movie list already.

I never understood that either, if you can talk about the books on the
movie list why can't you talk about the movies on the book list? There
is such a thing as too much specialization, and after all, there are
some things (not many but a few) where the movies
actually did it better.

 Eggplant