Honestly, this but unironically.

(And the fact of his name was actually previously established, there are a few different genealogical sources, it's just that that story was the first to have biographical details about the elder Harry.)

I mean it does kind of inform his past history with Grindelwald to know that. But it's not really important, though the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequels might change that.

Ok fine, but did we need to know anything about Dumbledore's sexuality? How was that relevant to anything?

They're sure as hell more accessible than Dick or Tolkien, and I'd say more middlebrow than Le Guin, and less dated (not a criticism) than Bradbury.

They're rewarding, but they're terribly inaccessible.

You'll be waiting a while, it's Millennial Star Wars.

I'd say the sixth movie is the worst— it pretty much reduces the mystery elements to a subplot to spend more time on setting up the shipping stuff.

This guy fucks!

Hufflepuffs are good as shit, dude. Hard work and honesty are virtuous.

I mean he literally could have left that kid with any one and he would have been better off.

I kind of wish Cuaron had stuck around, his vision lined up the most with what I imagined in my head.

I'd say most of those things do hold up when you consider the setting.

They can't generate new outcomes*, that was the entire point of the climax of the third one— everything was a stable loop.

There's a fix for that!

There's nothing in the Potter books that surprises or delights unless that's where you start with the genre.

The books, especially the early ones, take themselves much less seriously. They're kind of a whimsical-sarcastic Roald Dahl-esque satire of British classism.

That would certainly explain Ayn Rand.

That may have been true at the time Beast Wars premiered but by the time the movie was out there had been regular Transformers series running for more than a decade.

There's nothing inherently inappropriate about a character being gay.