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Review: The Cursed Child

Jul 31, 2016 20:11

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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Comments 19

eir_de_scania August 4 2016, 13:22:30 UTC

I'm a bad person: I googled for spoilers some week ago and again a couple of days ago...

I don't want to read a theatre manuscript, but I still wanted to know what happened. ;-) Not that it is anything close to watching the play, of course!

Oh yes, the Three-Year-Summer anb the happy timea at SugarQuill... sweet memories!

author_by_night August 5 2016, 00:48:59 UTC

Hi! How are you doing?

Yup, lots of sweet memories. Except when it comes to the Snape Thread. ;)

jobey_in_error August 4 2016, 21:58:27 UTC

Oh, you did read the book. Sorry. Catching up on feed. :/

author_by_night August 5 2016, 00:53:16 UTC

Not a problem!

digthewriter August 6 2016, 04:53:20 UTC

Voldemort Day is totally going to be a theme* in some dark-fic fest and it would be interesting and twisted to see how it's celebrated with torture and stuff.... random.

Sorry to totally just jump in and say something random.

*eta

flyingharmony August 6 2016, 17:29:07 UTC

I agree with you on so many things there! Even though I didn't read all too much crack into it (mostly because I just see all those things that happened during time travel as the absurd consequences of the forbidden playing with time, aka one of the reasons WHY it's forbidden - because it just messes everything up entirely), but there was certain some of it xD ( ... )

author_by_night August 6 2016, 18:08:53 UTC

I kind of believe that Amos was under a spell already when he asked Harry to bring back Cedric - no doubt, he is incredibly bitter and still grieving Cedric whether or not he's under magical influence, but why would he ask Harry that right in this moment and not way, way earlier

Oh, that's what I was saying. I realize now it wasn't very clear. I was just trying to balance out the spoilery versus non-spoilery comments.

but then I think that kids are pretty good at pretending - Rose said it herself, they're talking to each other just for the adults,That would make sense. After all, I knew kids in high school who were pros at pretending to be nice for the adults. And Rose does seem like the type of girl who both wants to be popular and wants the adults to think she's the sauce that makes everything awesome, so when their parents are around she's as sweet as pie. Which, again, seems OTT for Ron and Hermione's daughter, but then again, maybe she's turned out a bit like Percy in that way ( ... )

flyingharmony August 6 2016, 18:45:21 UTC

Ohhhh, okay! That does make sense :D ( ... )

lunabee34 September 5 2016, 17:05:01 UTC

I think I don't share most of your quibbles with it except that sometimes the stage direction did read a little weird.

I actually liked the version of Hermione that was so cold and mean. I can see that as an extrapolation of her character. She wasn't very well liked by the other students until Ron and Harry decided to defend her. She can be very strident and bossy, and I can see that if she ever got pushed out of that friend group (even just by default, by not wanting to hang around Ron all the time while he's dating someone else) that she'd be a loner and all her worst qualities would come to the fore.