You're absolutely right, there's not a lot of point to it with a series as popular as Harry Potter. And even so they're in danger of confusing or alienating people who might not feel like watching a gazillion movies just to understand one.
As for the Graves question, some people are apparently interpreting JKRs comment regarding Grindel!Graves the way that Graves never really existed.
Yeah, I don't buy it. Like you say, some random guy isn't going to just get a job like that out of the blue. And the vibe I got was that Grindlewald was specifically interested in finding an obscurus, so it would make sense if he heard about one in New York and replaced the real Graves to check it out. Him spending all this time building this identity on the off chance that he could use it one day doesn't quite work. And anyway, hadn't Grindlewald been in Europe or the UK at start of the movie? Someone had to be doing Graves' job then, right?
So yeah, I'm holding out hope that he's alive. I just wish they had explained it in the film either way. Tina asking what happened to the real Graves after Grindlewald was unmasked and getting an answer would've been like two lines of dialogue. If he's dead, or there never was a Graves at all, it would have been better to just say so then than confuse people, so I'm holding out hope that it'll be a plot-point later on.
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Date: 2016-12-25 08:42 pm (UTC)As for the Graves question, some people are apparently interpreting JKRs comment regarding Grindel!Graves the way that Graves never really existed.
Yeah, I don't buy it. Like you say, some random guy isn't going to just get a job like that out of the blue. And the vibe I got was that Grindlewald was specifically interested in finding an obscurus, so it would make sense if he heard about one in New York and replaced the real Graves to check it out. Him spending all this time building this identity on the off chance that he could use it one day doesn't quite work. And anyway, hadn't Grindlewald been in Europe or the UK at start of the movie? Someone had to be doing Graves' job then, right?
So yeah, I'm holding out hope that he's alive. I just wish they had explained it in the film either way. Tina asking what happened to the real Graves after Grindlewald was unmasked and getting an answer would've been like two lines of dialogue. If he's dead, or there never was a Graves at all, it would have been better to just say so then than confuse people, so I'm holding out hope that it'll be a plot-point later on.