But do I agree that Harry Potter's character is the biggest disappointment of the series. A lot of the other problems of the later books I can forgive, but it really hurts when you can't care about the hero anymore.
For me I think it's the second biggest disappointment -- there are a lot of series where I'm not as invested in the main hero as I was when I first was into it, but I still enjoy the series overall, like FMA. The biggest disappointment for me was the degeneration in writing quality in books 5-7, I guess, with 7 definitely being the worst. The books got increasingly rushed, muddled, plodding, unfunny, and completely without the whimsy and kids-against-the-world feel of the first books. Harry himself was kind of a symptom of that, I thought. Also JKR's extremely questionable but fanatical morality and her over-the-top obsession with the virtue and worthiness of characters she thought were virtuous and worthy -- isn't the Weasley family so perfect!!
But I agree that the later books make for better movies than they did books, I think in part because they add a bunch of little characterization details through direction and acting that the books didn't have. They have a couple talented young actors on their staff that they happened upon, too, like Tom Felton and Rupert Grint. I enjoyed both of the Deathly Hallows movies much, much more than I did the book, not that that was hard.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I wish I could go see the finale movies of Twilight with you. I just would love to see what you'd have to say about that mass of insanity.
I actually never have read those books -- too much difficulty getting through the first chapters of the first one -- but Rel and I go to see them anyway! They are amazingly bad, but I bet they're even worse in text form.
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For me I think it's the second biggest disappointment -- there are a lot of series where I'm not as invested in the main hero as I was when I first was into it, but I still enjoy the series overall, like FMA. The biggest disappointment for me was the degeneration in writing quality in books 5-7, I guess, with 7 definitely being the worst. The books got increasingly rushed, muddled, plodding, unfunny, and completely without the whimsy and kids-against-the-world feel of the first books. Harry himself was kind of a symptom of that, I thought. Also JKR's extremely questionable but fanatical morality and her over-the-top obsession with the virtue and worthiness of characters she thought were virtuous and worthy -- isn't the Weasley family so perfect!!
But I agree that the later books make for better movies than they did books, I think in part because they add a bunch of little characterization details through direction and acting that the books didn't have. They have a couple talented young actors on their staff that they happened upon, too, like Tom Felton and Rupert Grint. I enjoyed both of the Deathly Hallows movies much, much more than I did the book, not that that was hard.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I wish I could go see the finale movies of Twilight with you. I just would love to see what you'd have to say about that mass of insanity.
I actually never have read those books -- too much difficulty getting through the first chapters of the first one -- but Rel and I go to see them anyway! They are amazingly bad, but I bet they're even worse in text form.