Does anyone else think that the HP-verse have been better off as a animated television series ? I was thinking of Genndy Tartakovsky's animated interpretation of the Clone Wars saga, and found it much more interesting than any of the six films in the theater. Animation also has financial and cinemagraphic options that live-action can't really match (except for the group that worked on Iron Man - they were amazing).

The ratings would easily blow any other show's out of the water, with new episodes done weekly or bi-weekly, and the way the story is chaptered would allow for some decent cliffhangers - which would keep viewers interested IMO. Also, they wouldn't have to skip over crucial elements of the story.

Thoughts?

 

Filler episodes would rape canon.

 

Always thought HP would have been better of as a Television season. Plot actually following the books however, none of that Dresden Files bullshit.

 

Ditto.

That is one reason why I'll never watch the Dresden TV show.
Or any more of the HP movies.

 

I dunno. I would kind of appreciate the new actors they would call in for a TV series (most of the actors now sucks) but I'm still kind of undecided. In most television series, e very episode has some kind of cool event that makes it more than just a filler episode. HP doesn't have that. You'd either be skipping to the main point, which is what some of the films do anyway, or just doing endless, boring lessons that were never written about by Rowling.

 

Most of chapters have something going on.

The films miss a lot because of them trying to shorten it. I don't think they should put the series out on TV now that the movies are here, but I think they should have created the series for the TV rather than doing movies to start with.

Right now, it would just be boring, seeing everything again. But if they put it on TV at the start, it probably would have turned out a lot better.

 

Oh I think a tv show will be in the making in about ten years.
Something to get the book and movie dvd sales jumping.

But I could be wrong.

 

And remakes of the films in twenty years too, to make even more money.

 

The "Special 10-year-anniversary Collector's Edition" of the Harry Potter Series.

 

All the tv series would have to do is make one chap into episode. Or in the case of a filler chap just use two chapters.

The movies skip way to much and messed up the characters

 

You know what would be really good about having an animated TV series rather than movie series?

They would be able to cast voice actors based on talent rather than similarity in appearance to the character.

We might actually get some decent acting going on!

 

How good the TV series would have been depends entirely on the kind of budget it would have had.

I would have preferred a live action one to an animated one though.

The HP series does rather lent itself to the format of a TV series. 7 books, seven seasons. Long main story arcs with many subplots for individual episodes. The creators of the TV series would have to come up with a fair amount of other stuff as well to fill in the gaps. Most likely general Hogwarts stuff. More Harry vs. Malfoy rivalry, more teen romance.

It could have been great if done well, or terrible if not. They should have given it to Joss Whedon. Everything that man makes is T.V. gold.

 

The creators of the TV series would have to come up with a fair amount of other stuff as well to fill in the gaps. Most likely general Hogwarts stuff. More Harry vs. Malfoy rivalry, more teen romance.


If you followed the American model for television series which is about 22-24 episodes, but if you did the british model (Spooks, Doctor Who or what Battlestar is essentially doing with half season runs of ten episodes each) you could have your over arc and still do episodes that focus on character development, like say Hermione's elf cause or harry's relationship with the weasleys or whatever.

 

Exactly. I would think animation would be cheaper, but it might be more time-consuming...I know next to nothing about movie/television production, but I'm assuming it's cheaper to draw some kids flying on a broom than rigging up harnesses and green screens to create the same effect.

This would be easy, as JKR enjoys creating bullshit filler. And even if she didn't help fill in the gaps, a lot of filler could be divined from the story itself - it wouldn't be hard at all. Even at that, if they chose to tell the story as it is, i'm thinking that a good 12 episodes (1 hour episdes) would be an adequate amount of time to properly show each book. The potential cliffhangers would be pretty engaging to those unfamiliar with the series, IMO.

Indeed. I'd just make sure, if it were live action, that he had a killer budget. The action scenes from Buffy and Angel were corny as shit.

 

Personally, I'd have preferred Harry Potter to have been done in a mini-series format rather like they did with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy way back. I think splitting each book into say four parts, each an hour and a half long, and staying more true to the series would have been better than the films which, to an extent, rely on people having read the books to entirely comprehend the intricacies of what's going on.

The problem with doing a TV series with the Harry Potter books is that with a proper series every episode needs an individual plt with a resolution whereas the books are a continuous stream where the chapters build upon themselves. Also, especially in the later books, the chapters bog down in places and nothing much happens. I personally think I'd get a bit bored watching twenty odd episodes relaying what happened in HBP.

 

After seeing the mess they made of the movies, having Harry Potter as a series would have been much better. Because I for one don't like seeing 2 hour long shitty movies in a theater.

 

1 hour episodes, 2 chapters per episode, and 1 season for each book?

I'd love that.

Edit: But definitely no animated series.

 

I agree.
Gemma -> your ava makes me want to clean that letter that appears in the right corner...

 

TV series of HP will pawn the movies but alas it will never happen