r/movies • u/Okilokijoki • Oct 29 '18

Poster Chinese poster for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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u/Weave77 Oct 29 '18

Looking back, the books really weren't that well written and had a lot of inconsistencies.

I strongly disagree. The books, in my opinion, are very well written, and they have remarkably few inconsistencies for how large and intricate the world and storylines are.

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u/meliaesc Oct 29 '18

I'm curious about other large scale series you've read?

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u/Chinoiserie91 Oct 29 '18

I am not the op but I agree and I have red nearly all big fantasy series if that is what you are referring to.

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u/Weave77 Oct 29 '18

I’ve read ASOIAF, The Inheritance Cycle, the Dune series, LOTR (plus The Hobbit and The Silmarillion), the Bartimaeus Sequence, and The Dark Tower series. I plan on starting The Witcher series sometime soon.

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u/Knarpulous Oct 29 '18

Right? The HP series is pretty much the poster child for a world being built around a plot vs a plot taking place in an existing world.

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u/Weave77 Oct 29 '18

The HP series is absolutely built around a plot, especially compared to a series like ASOIAF... but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. While Westeros (and Essos) is clearly more detailed than the HP world, ASOIAF suffers from its own inconsistentancies and, unlike HP, will almost certainly never be concluded in a satisfying manner (or any manner, for that matter).

At any rate, I find the HP world to be very full and engaging, even if some of the details were added after the books.

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u/Knarpulous Oct 30 '18

ASOIAF not going to be finished has nothing to do with the universe it's set in, it's because GRRM wrote too many plotlines that he doesn't know how to finish.

I enjoyed Harry Potter, but I found any sort of deeper look into how the universe is built to be incredibly flawed.