From: deevo37@bigpond.com
"Igenlode Wordsmith" wrote in
message news:20120626002932.426E4EAA4A@snorky.mixmin.net...
> On 20 Jun 2012 Deevo wrote:
>
>> "BubblyBabs" wrote in message
>> news:dbfb361b-7024-4b0f-963c-8bce54f4bfd2@googlegroups.com...
>> > Sigh... So many memories...
>>
>> Indeed, though the rot could be seen in the months preceeding the
>> release of the DH book. Not just here either, there were many web
>> forums that imploded when some plot elements came to pass and it was
>> clear to certain elements in the fandom that they weren't going to get
>> their way.
>
> [snip]
>
> Well, a lot of the activity here was always speculation about what was
> going to happen next (plus the perennial favourite of "is Snape evil?"),
> so once that had gone there was an inevitable vacuum in traffic...
True enough, still speculation about the future or even the time between
thge books and the epilogue was of some interest. There were a lot of loose
ends to be tied up.
> For my part, I didn't feel terribly inspired by the last few books, and
> a lot of people seemed to stop writing fan-fiction too. In a way having
> a 'fixed' canon ought to make things simpler -- less probability of
> having your pet story rendered AU by the next book's publication! -- but
> it seemed to choke things off rather.
Yes it did. Still I wasn't that dissapointed with the final books except
for DH. I felt the characters had been developed nicely yet had some
significant regressions in the last book.
> Maybe we were just all exhausted by years of hype with diminishing
> actual returns (I mean, *nothing* could live up to the desperation of
> wanting to know what happened next -- the final unveiling was always
> going to be a disappointment).
Sigh ... you're probably right. Oh well it's over now and I doubt we'll
ever see the like of it again.
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Deevo
Geraldton WA
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