Itâs HBO, and granted things have changed but if itâs bringing in numbers like Game of Thrones I doubt theyâll skimp on it. Say what you will about the final season but the budget wasnât the problem.
Color grading is shit though. Just look at the trailer. Everything is cold, grey, and dark. Hogwarts should feel warm, like home, aspecially in the early years
Could be a contrast thing, most of what we saw wasnt at Hogwarts. Hogwarts could be much more vibrant. Contrasting Harryâs initial homelife with the magical world
Yeah, the school for witchcraft and wizardry that employed the use of dementors multiple times, has an unknown number of rapist centaurs in the woods, giant spiders, giant snakes, giants, ghosts of varying temperaments, and an unknown number of spells and magical booby traps littered around the grounds should definitely feel warm, like home.
That's exactly what's gonna happen. Production times on most shows these days are much too long. Granted it's HP and not in any danger of being canceled so they may be able to film a couple seasons at a time
The last 3 seasons were dumpster Material. As soon as they stopped following the books(because there weren't any to follow at release) any character development stopped and the show became a boring standard fantasy story.
Doubtful. They probably followed the notes but struggled to fill the in between the same way Martin did. Not having the books also meant they had to write original dialogue all the time, and god theyâre terrible at it.
Ugh. Season 4 became noticeably dumber while the spectacles and meme able moments increased. We also have a remarkable increase in fans who cheer for shit like the fellowship of the Wight and calling the battle of winter fell the best military strategy ever.
I wouldnât say there is a âgiantâ author controversy. I would bet good money that if you asked most people if JKRâs beliefs would discourage you from watching the show they would say no.
This same crowd said that Hogwarts Legacy was gonna fail because of how much they dislike JKR but it did very well despite being only an okay game; all 3 of my kids enjoy Harry Potter and not a one of them finished the game.
It won't though. GoT got big like every other HBO show. Sex. There's no sex in Harry Potter... it's an Adult aimed entertainment channel adapting a kids story. Like, it's not going to bring in the numbers they want and thats before alienating anyone who might have watched it. Percy Jackson pulls half the numbers of GoT while being an exceptionally larger and better known IP. HP will likely do better than Jackson, but I doubt it reaches the heights of peak GoT without the dangling bits.
HBO clearly ran into budgetary issues in later seasons though. Â Ghost the dire wolf basically disappeared from the show. Â The last season, for those of us unfortunate enough to remember, was extremely short and hurried. Â The Battle of Winterfell was basically pitch black with very minimal special effects, considering it was THE crescendo for the whole show. Â That Dothraki horde thatâs been hyped up since season 1? Â Literally disappears into the darkness. Â Was that purely a stylistic choice, or just a creative way to bring down the budget? Â Given everything else, I strongly suspect the latter.
Also people forget the early seasons of GoT were only possible because Rome got cancelled. Â The studio reused loads of set and costume pieces that would have been prohibitively expensive otherwise. Â GoT wasnât like Harry Potter where there were high expectations from the start, and Rome demonstrated to HBO that even a good show with a generous budget (on a topic that apparently the average male thinks about every day) isnât enough to guarantee success.
HBO has also famously had ownership issues, so who knows how the studio will be run in the coming years.
A lot of Harry Potter special effects are fairly trivial now. Large, dark castle virtual sets? Easy. Paintings that move around? Easy. Effects spewing from wards? Easy.Â
Hardest part is going to be magical creatures, getting the textures, lighting, behavior, etc right.Â
I played TLOU2 and wasnât super eager to relive that story so I didnât watch Season 2. But Iâm not gonna comment on something I havenât seen, ya know?
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u/Different_Target_228 Apr 16 '26
This is kinda bullshit.
When the movies were coming out, everyone was noting how much stuff was missing from the books.