I hate how libs ALWAYS try to compare real politics to popular media.
Maybe it says something about their ability to comprehend complex situations without needing to compare it to something made to be easily understandable. Or maybe it’s a testament to their belief that there are somehow objective good and evil sides in the world, or think real politics should play out like a movie.
Fuck yeah, some appreciation for the prequels. Not the best films, but the world they built and the story they told were amazing and a hell of a lot more interesting than the OT imo.
Thing is HP could’ve had a villain story like the prequels, it had the set up for it. The politics, the government and the problems/corruption within it certainly was set up to play a similar role. Voldemort even gets to power via a coup d’etat after infiltrating and undermining the political system for years. But then she just never capitalizes on that, doesn’t mention it in the resolution AT ALL (the Harry being a cop thing etc only came out after the story concluded). It was clearly set up in a way to have Voldemort as a product of that society, as its final conclusion, etc but in the end he’s, as you said, just a boring ass, fairly inept Lord Evil kinda guy and because he dies due to a wand technicality love won or some shit.
Man I wish he was more like Palpatine.
Every Star Wars movie 1-6 is good, and it’s even better when you realize what was the inspiration for Lucas. I agree, I don’t get why so much people hate the prequels? No Star Wars movie deserves the hate, prequels or OT, Disney on the other hand… And Rowling is just adding bullshit to the story that no one asked for.