I would sure hope so. Any loss of data impacts negatively on our development. Just look at the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Depending on the sources it was partially destroyed on various occasions between 50 BC and 650 AD and it is still considered to be one of the greatest loss of knowledge since the…

The headline implies it: It's not suggesting, or proposing it as an option, it's a definitive statement on what Rowling should do. If you don't want that to be the interpretation you need to edit the headline.

Oh, I read it; the problem becomes when, "it's time for someone else to take charge," changes from an observation to a given. It happens over time—as it has with most major franchises (Star Wars, Star Trek—it's happening to LotR in spite of the protestations of the estate—etc).

Fans add a great deal to any…

Yeah but at that point you dilute the vision of the characters completely. I would rather stick with the original seven books than have them, plus The Fourth Dark Wizard War, The Fall of Albus Potter or some weird book series about Ron cheating on his far superior wife.

As long as it is done with the caveat that she should be really picky about it and retain editorial control that she uses ruthlessly, then sure.

Oh, MAN. I'm not super on board with the idea of Rowling letting others write HP novels, but I can think of few things I would get more excited about than a Rowling-approved collection of authors writing short stories in this universe. That would be SO AWESOME.

No. It's time for those other writers to come up with their own ideas.

Isn't most of the charm of the Potter saga the fact that it was just seven books and done? Rowling was smart not to drag it out more and such? Leaving it to other writers to do prequels and other works just threatens to dilute the magic (no pun intended) that made them so special in the first place.

Interesting. And, there are real-life analogs. In the '60s astronauts were household names; everyone knew and all but worshiped them. By the second moon landing everyone had lost interest: we beat the Rooskies, and there's nothing there but rocks. A few years later almost all of those former heros were forgotten, gone…

There are some stories too awesome to tell.

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It's such a wonderful film, and I can't believe I hated it the first time I saw it. Can't wait to see the series in HD and see the excised materials.

Yep, if this was a modern-day action movie, Holmes would be yelling at him, "You've been Sher-locked!"

"Basically, if the writers always planned to bring the character back, or left a backdoor open for the character to return, it doesn't count for the purposes of this list."

I never got the hate for Kirk's death in Generations or for the movie itself. I enjoy the hell out of Generations and Kirk's death is actually one of the parts I like about it.

Sadly not. Any appearances of Locke after his death were either an impostor pretending to be him, or occur in the afterlife where he is, in fact, dead.

Although it is widely accepted that this episode was to be the last episode of Magnum, P.I., ending the series with Thomas Magnum's death, that story is apocryphal. Writer/consultantJay Huguely makes it clear in the audio commentary he recorded for the 2nd episode of the 8th and final season that while Tom Selleck was…

There are only 5 (real) HHGTTG books. Mostly Harmless is the end. Definitively.

I thought Ben Affleck was great in "Hollywoodland" and "The Town." On the other hand, he was awful in "Daredevil" and "Gigli." And, of course, he was the BOMB in "Phantoms," yo.

See, that's the point, asking what change people massively overreacted to. Because I remember before the new BSG came and the idea of Starbuck a woman had fans of the old series up in arms more than anything else.