USS Clueless, who lambastes people who see the success of the war so far only terms of the disasters to come, laments over the success of the Harry Potter movie:
The one thing that Hollywood never seems to twig on: good movies are based on good scripts. Big name actors and lots of explosions and special effects cannot retrieve a lousy script. But rather than learning the lesson that “Harry Potter is a winner because it’s a good story, so let’s go find some more good stories” it’s a sure thing that in about 9 months we’re going t be drenched with Potter-alikes, because Hollywood will think that the lesson is “Stories about kids and magic are winners now.” And they’re almost all sure to be execrable.
And there’s a damned good chance that we’ll see a Potter-alike TV show next year. And it will be done with American actors, and it’s going to suck.
I know far better than to predict that he’s wrong, however.