<div dir="ltr">I don't know what others mean, but I feel as though she never really thought out the Fantastic Beasts movie series while writing the original series. She came back to do so because HP has been such a tremendous hit. Which is fine. But it <i>feels </i>different. <div><br></div><div>When she began the original HP series, she had a rough outline of all the major points from the beginning. I don't believe she had in mind the history of Grindelwald and that whole phase of wizarding world history, much less the particulars for specific people beyond Dumbledore versus Grindelwald, and that they had started out as friends, possibly (likely) even lovers. So going back, she is trying to create a feeling of continuity, of tying the two series together through certain characters and from asides that occurred in the original series referring back to this time period. But it doesn't fit as well. <div><br></div><div>She also put so much time, energy, and soul into the original series that it is hard, if not impossible, to live up to the original. Or maybe we expect even more of her now and our expectations are unrealistic (which is a distinct possibility). But even if it is our impossible expectations, it doesn't make the experience we have watching the movies the same as it was for many of us first reading the original series in books. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Crescent</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 8:00 AM Karen Lewellen <a href="mailto:klewellen@shellworld.net">klewellen@shellworld.net</a> [HPforGrownups] <<a href="mailto:HPforGrownups@yahoogroups.com">HPforGrownups@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Again, I am afraid I do not understand the comment.<br>
Jo is writing these works. Therefore Jo is outlining the stories in <br>
order to write these works...assuming she used an outline for the books.<br>
In fact there are five outlines for the fantastic beast screenplays, five <br>
screenplays for the films to come.<br>
So, can you clarify or document objectively that Jo is using a different <br>
writing process then she did before?<br>
What has she said that she is doing differently to build this world then <br>
she did the first time?<br>
You can claim that you do not personally like the works, but claiming that <br>
they are neither cannon or well constructed with basis seems harder.<br>
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On Thu, 2 May 2019, <a href="mailto:jcutroni@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jcutroni@yahoo.com</a> [HPforGrownups] wrote:<br>
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> This is what I was talking about when I posted the original message - it feels like the story is just being filled in and the go along, which is way different that was Jo outlined (and wrote to some extent) for the books.<br>
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