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There are plenty of spoilers below the cut, so proceed at your own risk!
After listening to Mugglecast's spoilery review episode about the play preview performance, my own reaction was WTF?! Which was pretty much the same reaction as the podcasters who had seen it, namely a story reveal that reads like bad fanfic. However, they also said that there were great elements as well (especially the friendship between Albus and Scorpius), and that the stage performance was amazing and mitigated some of the bad plot elements.
Which made me really curious as to how it would read as a script, without being able to see the actors bring it to life. I was hesitant about spending $30 for the book, so I reserved it at the library, and had to wait a couple of weeks to get hold of it since there were a few people ahead of me on the list. However, one of my coworkers read it before I did and said that she enjoyed it, assuring me that it wasn't as bad as the spoilers made it sound.
So I finally got my copy of the book and read it, and she's kind of right: I did enjoy it, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, although I still think the fanficcy elements are pretty WTF. (Will get to that a little later.) Sorry this is long and kind of rambling, but there was a lot to talk about! Here are my overall impressions of the script:
( Spoilers below! )
After listening to Mugglecast's spoilery review episode about the play preview performance, my own reaction was WTF?! Which was pretty much the same reaction as the podcasters who had seen it, namely a story reveal that reads like bad fanfic. However, they also said that there were great elements as well (especially the friendship between Albus and Scorpius), and that the stage performance was amazing and mitigated some of the bad plot elements.
Which made me really curious as to how it would read as a script, without being able to see the actors bring it to life. I was hesitant about spending $30 for the book, so I reserved it at the library, and had to wait a couple of weeks to get hold of it since there were a few people ahead of me on the list. However, one of my coworkers read it before I did and said that she enjoyed it, assuring me that it wasn't as bad as the spoilers made it sound.
So I finally got my copy of the book and read it, and she's kind of right: I did enjoy it, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, although I still think the fanficcy elements are pretty WTF. (Will get to that a little later.) Sorry this is long and kind of rambling, but there was a lot to talk about! Here are my overall impressions of the script:
( Spoilers below! )
