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adjl posted...

I don't think it's so much that Legacy tells a story that's more appealing than other Harry Potter EU stuff so much as it is that the fandom has had a long-standing desire to play an open-world RPG set in the HP universe. The notion of dicking around freely with spells and brooms and quidditch is something that appeals to a lot of people, and Legacy is the first time that's really come to fruition. It's similar to why Pokemon Go was so explosively successful: People like the idea of going on their own adventure to catch Pokemon, and Go provided exactly that.

To that end, I don't know that a TV show has much potential to cash in on the game's success. A TV show would be simply a matter of telling another story from the universe's history, not unlike what Fantastic Beasts did. That's something that's going to have to succeed on its own merits, rather than being able to coast on a fundamental idea that people really like.

I mean, I did say that I had no idea if the story itself was particularly special. More just that its clearly not a soulless slog like those aimless Fantastic Beasts movies were/are. Even the original Harry Potter books are easy to massacre in a Cinema Sins "Did you realize that Harry only casts 16 spells across the whole series but somehow everyone still thinks he's a great wizard? DING!" sort of way but there's a core appeal to the idea the whole thing that can be turned into good media by people that care.