Review: The Cursed Child
So no HUGE spoilers (except what I've spoiled tagged), but there is some commentary. (And there may be spoilers in the comments.) This is actually more positive than the brief review I gave the first few scenes.
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The nostalgia, it kills me. Ten years later, and here I am, reading and writing about Harry Potter on LiveJournal again.
Anyway, I enjoyed your review.
I haven't read the play yet, but I have been obsessively reading spoilers here there and everywhere.
The plot, as you say, sounds cracktastic. But the bits of the banter that I've heard quoted have been pretty amusing. I wish that I could go and see it in London, since I'm sure it would be hugely entertaining on stage. And the actor who plays Ron is hot, which not a word I thought I'd ever associate with Ron Weasley.
I like the idea of an angry, troubled Harry, learning that "All Was Well" on the outside doesn't mean the inside has to fall in to line with it. The Dursley dreams/flashbacks sound rather OTT though. Very *Very* Fanfic. Ditto Delphi. I wrote a one page fanfic about her when I was thirteen. Then I got bored and stopped. She wasn't called Delphi then though!
I am also just waiting now for someone to write a fanfic in which Rodolphus suggests that Voldemort should sleep with his wife. Then I can die happy, or, at least, laughing.
Fenny/greenwoodside
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The nostalgia, it kills me. Ten years later, and here I am, reading and writing about Harry Potter on LiveJournal again.
I know, right?
Yeah, Delphi was a little bit fanficcy. I can forgive JKR (and the other guys) not realizing they'd invoked the biggest fanfic cliche of all Harry Potter history, but still. The delivery isn't so bad, though. Same with the Dursley flashbacks.
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Thanks again for the review. Now I just need to persuade some people to have a flame war about Scor/Albus vs Scor/Rose and I'll feel I never left the three year summer.
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