connielane | Still boggling after all these years.

Joss Whedon - Created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which lasted for seven seasons. Seventh season was not well received by the fans, but it didn't exactly kill affection for the show as a whole. Four years later: Whedon starts writing Buffy stories again. No one (that I can find) says anything to the effect that Whedon should just let it go and not mess with the fans' precious Buffyverse more than he already has.

Spielberg and Lucas - Made Raiders of the Lost Ark, an extremely popular film that spawned two very popular (though widely acknowledged as inferior) sequels. Nineteen years later: Speilberg and Lucas make another Indy film. Fans don't complain about this, except that they want it to be a worthy addition to the franchise. No one says "Ugh, not ANOTHER Indy story!"

Fans had their complaints about the Star Wars prequels, as everyone knows, but I never heard anyone complaining that there were going to BE prequels.

Did Tolkien fans complain when The Silmarillion came out because they didn't want new stories from Middle Earth?

Then WHY do so-called Harry Potter fans complain when there's apparently new canon to be enjoyed very shortly? I mean ... I think we all know why that is. But it's just amusing to me that the whiners don't seem to realize how ridiculous they sound complaining that there's going to be another story to enjoy.

Of course, I could be totally wrong about complaints in those other fandoms, not being as involved in them as I have been in HP, but it strikes me as a bizarre fannish anomaly nonetheless.

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It hasn't been a year since publication of her final novel in the series and two additional Potter related things have been revealed. While I think its great, I also recognize how others could feel she's sort of pouring it on now. She said in the past that she wouldn't be writing more Potter, that she'd be putting aside that world. After DH she stated there is the potential for future stories involving his children, most notably the one who resembles Harry so closely. Again, I think its great but I do see where she's backtracking on previous comments. I feel this is her right. She has her life to live and if she changes her mind over the course of time that is her decision to make. Personally, I'd rather read about Harry and Ginny's daughter as we've already gotten to know Harry so well and its been implied that Albus Severus is very like him. But if she decides to examine the middle Potter child she should feel every freedom to do so.

I'm a fan of her books but I would never argue ownership of her characters the way some do. It astonishes me that people are so arrogant as to think they should or can dictate the artistic vision of another. If you don't want to know anything beyond the 7 novels its really quite simple, don't read further interviews. No one is to blame but the individual who chooses to spoil himself. Certainly Jo Rowling isn't. The only one she is creatively responsible to is herself.

Still boggling after all these years.

I think its the timing.