Yeah but it really was a thing with Potter. For those kind of books there's a lot of incidental detail and side characters that even if not the most deeply drawn are nonetheless there and attracted readers. HP fan fiction was a real phenomena before it FF became so universal. - ThreadSky

worgztheowl.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Yeah but it really was a thing with Potter. For those kind of books there's a lot of incidental detail and side characters that even if not the most deeply drawn are nonetheless there and attracted readers. HP fan fiction was a real phenomena before it FF became so universal.

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engard.me•13 days ago

The obvious comparison here is Star Wars. That obsessive interest in the nooks and crannies of the setting drove a strong side economy of novels, games and other tie-ins.

But it’s different for the flagship. It needs that gravity and forward energy, and it can afford only so many distractions.

worgztheowl.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yeah. But it will have that if nothing else as you still have the central, very simple, architecture of the novels. I don't think it'll be to diversionary if you had say 8-10 episode seasons. Each one has a kind of summer prelude and has an obvious set-piece finale and defined mid-points at Xmas.

engard.me•13 days ago

There would be a better case here for a 20th-century-style episodic series. If you’re Star Trek DS9 or Buffy, you can burn the main plot real slow and reach 7, maybe 8 years without completely exhausting your writers and audiences alike.

engard.me•13 days ago

But Harry Potter is first and foremost a mystery plot. Every episode, wherever else it meanders, has to make at least one meaningful step toward solving the mystery. And on top of that, modern audiences raised on serial epics expect even the side stuff to feed back into the main thesis.

worgztheowl.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yeah. I'd agree with that. Just think there's plenty of stuff there even with the thinner early ones for material that allows you to expand out and still nonetheless get from A to B.

engard.me•13 days ago

I guess we’ll find out!

alexvont.bsky.social•13 days ago

Exactly this. You simply cannot make a flagship TV series out of a load of weakly connected minor characters. You could make a workable spinoff - The Hogwarts Adventures of Fred & George - but if you’re doing Harry/Hermione/Ron, you have to make that work, not pad it with the scrapings off the floor

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