Previous Monday I watched "Fantastic beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald", found the show in English, withoud voiceover - I really hate voiceover and Russian translation, and I can ignore subtitles but hey, you can ignore voiceover, it's kinda... voiceover. I ordered the ticket previous evening through my online-bank app, went to shopping mall, print the ticket, bought some cola and popcorn and went to the cinema hall. I've expected some off-canon things since the news about Fiona Glascott would play a role of young Minerva McGonagall - who's been around -8 years old by the timeline of the movie - showed up But I didn't actually notice something else off-canon - well, ecxept young Minerva - which can't be explain with any other facts. I mean, there're some strange things but most of them can be explained.
1. Credence-Dumbledore.
As an option, Grindelwald just wool over Credence cause he want him to fight with Dumbledore. C'mon, Percival Dumbledore was in Azkaban since what, 1891? And died few years later without being released. Kendra died in 1899 or something. We've got (I don't know if it real) Credence's sertificat of adoption which says us his year of birth is 1904 and his estimated year of birth is something like 1904, yes - if you look at Leta in her flashback about death of Corvus V and considere her age. Leta is about 30-31, she was born in 1896/1897, was Newt's classmate, died in 1927. The girl in flashback is about 7-8 or something, which also gave us 1904 from Credence's sertificat of adoption, whoever he is. Yes, it's sertificat for Corvus V, actually, but Credence was the same age, obviously, give or take. So he can be Dumbledore only if he's bastard of Honoria and if this Honoria is Dumbledore and not Kendra's sister. Yes, Kendra was muggleborn, but two siblings could be wizards even in muggle family, remember Creevey brothers. But! But if he son of Honoria, he can't be brother of Albus, he's cousin, and Grindelwald named Albus Credence's brother. So it's highly likely that Aurelius Dumbledore is just a Gellert's fairytale.
2. All Lestranges are gone, where Rodolphus and Rabastan came from?
Actually, we don't know for sure if Corvus IV Lestrand is dead. He could be alive. Being old isn't a problem for having children even for mon-magique men what to say about wizards. Remember very old even for wizards Fleamont and Euphemia Potter when James was born? Until 1927 Corvus IV probably thought that his son, future the successor of the family, is living somewhere in USA - since Leta came back into Britain and didn't tell about baby-switching, Corvus should've thought that his son is alive, playing that his dead. In 1927 Corvus IV became the last Lestrange and he probably wasn't okay with that. Third marriage, baby born somewhen around 1928-1929 - and voilà. Remember, there was a boy, Lestrange, in Slughorn's club when Tom Riddle was there? This boy could have two sons in few years after graduated Hogwarts, Rodolphus and Rabastan. Everything here is explainable so far.
3. Minerva McGonagall. Yes, there is a problem. Of course, Minerva had grandmother or great grandmother who she was named after - but that grandmother wasn't McGonagall. McGonagall family are muggles. So Minerva McGonagall in 1927 and around 1911 is just fanservice for fanservice. Or time-turner gods know from where and for what.
4. Elder wand in Dumbledore's flashback he's seeing in Erised. More, this wand is in Albus's hands. Hey, Grindelwald stole the wand from Gregorovitch after he ran from Dumbledore, so where the hell this wand came from in Albus's flashback - unless it's not flashback mixed with dreams and then who know what from it is actually real.
Some discussions, like Nagini-human and others, are useless cause it's just about personal preferences. It seems logical to me that Nagini was unusual snake. And after spending years and years (possibly) in snake form, without any chance to speak with anybody, eventually abandonned by everybody... there was reason to became attached to anybody, even to Voldemort. And horcrux I guess make this attachement even deeper.
Blood pact - which I guess isn't easy to destroy - isn't a bad explanation why Ministry couldn't made Dumbledore to fight with ex-friend for so long. And Dumbledore proclaiming some greater good years after Grindelwald did the same - it's the wood on the fire of bad Dumbledore, nothing else.
Leta's death named stupid. Hm, I can agree with it. She saw: couple more seconds - and Scamanders are gonna be dead in that interesting fire. What else could she do? To distract Grindelwald somehow. She wouldn't join him, she didn't share his idea for sure, and she didn't lie to herself thinking she could play loalty to him. So she had a choice: to run while there was an opportunity and let Scamanders die - or distract Grindelwald somehow, but then it's done for her. She already revealed to everybody that Corvus V Lestrange is dead because of her, among other reasons. She blame herself, whatever Newt told her. And it's hard to her to live with that. So her choice is seems obvious to me as well as the fact that she couldn't win in this fight or just escape somehow - she and Grindelwald aren't birds of a feather. I guess it's a very short list of wizards who can defeat Grindelwald: Dumbledore, Credence and Newt - of those who we saw already. And Newt could win only using his unusual mentality, using his animals.
Phoenix. I kinda think that in 17-18 years this phoenix ended up flying to Albus in his hard moment - around fighting with ex best friend, maybe. And everything gonna be like in Dumbledore family legends. And until that moment phoenix can be anywhere, not only with Dumbledore family members. It seems there was no very hard moment for Albus or Aberforth.
I like this movie. Villain not for just being villain, still enough fantastic beasts, twist about Credence's true identity didn't revealed in trailers after all, there is a primer for next movies, brothers are working together (oh yeah, I love family unites, yes). I could watch it few more times but I don't have enough time for it T_T Will wait for release in English.
The only thing disappoints me and make me wonder why - time gaps between movies: 2 years - why, what are they doing for so long? I mean, yes, actors have other projects, yes, technical part considering it's fantastic genre isn't easy, but there're a lot of other movie series with the same conditions and they are okey with shorter time gaps. Marvel, for example. Twilight. Two parts of Deathly Hallows had 1 year time gap, 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th movies of Potter had 1 year time gap. It's just... not cool, c'mon.
But we can only wait.
But hey, I thought so much about second branch of Lestrange's family tree after trailers, and they just killed it!
1. Credence-Dumbledore.
As an option, Grindelwald just wool over Credence cause he want him to fight with Dumbledore. C'mon, Percival Dumbledore was in Azkaban since what, 1891? And died few years later without being released. Kendra died in 1899 or something. We've got (I don't know if it real) Credence's sertificat of adoption which says us his year of birth is 1904 and his estimated year of birth is something like 1904, yes - if you look at Leta in her flashback about death of Corvus V and considere her age. Leta is about 30-31, she was born in 1896/1897, was Newt's classmate, died in 1927. The girl in flashback is about 7-8 or something, which also gave us 1904 from Credence's sertificat of adoption, whoever he is. Yes, it's sertificat for Corvus V, actually, but Credence was the same age, obviously, give or take. So he can be Dumbledore only if he's bastard of Honoria and if this Honoria is Dumbledore and not Kendra's sister. Yes, Kendra was muggleborn, but two siblings could be wizards even in muggle family, remember Creevey brothers. But! But if he son of Honoria, he can't be brother of Albus, he's cousin, and Grindelwald named Albus Credence's brother. So it's highly likely that Aurelius Dumbledore is just a Gellert's fairytale.
2. All Lestranges are gone, where Rodolphus and Rabastan came from?
Actually, we don't know for sure if Corvus IV Lestrand is dead. He could be alive. Being old isn't a problem for having children even for mon-magique men what to say about wizards. Remember very old even for wizards Fleamont and Euphemia Potter when James was born? Until 1927 Corvus IV probably thought that his son, future the successor of the family, is living somewhere in USA - since Leta came back into Britain and didn't tell about baby-switching, Corvus should've thought that his son is alive, playing that his dead. In 1927 Corvus IV became the last Lestrange and he probably wasn't okay with that. Third marriage, baby born somewhen around 1928-1929 - and voilà. Remember, there was a boy, Lestrange, in Slughorn's club when Tom Riddle was there? This boy could have two sons in few years after graduated Hogwarts, Rodolphus and Rabastan. Everything here is explainable so far.
3. Minerva McGonagall. Yes, there is a problem. Of course, Minerva had grandmother or great grandmother who she was named after - but that grandmother wasn't McGonagall. McGonagall family are muggles. So Minerva McGonagall in 1927 and around 1911 is just fanservice for fanservice. Or time-turner gods know from where and for what.
4. Elder wand in Dumbledore's flashback he's seeing in Erised. More, this wand is in Albus's hands. Hey, Grindelwald stole the wand from Gregorovitch after he ran from Dumbledore, so where the hell this wand came from in Albus's flashback - unless it's not flashback mixed with dreams and then who know what from it is actually real.
Some discussions, like Nagini-human and others, are useless cause it's just about personal preferences. It seems logical to me that Nagini was unusual snake. And after spending years and years (possibly) in snake form, without any chance to speak with anybody, eventually abandonned by everybody... there was reason to became attached to anybody, even to Voldemort. And horcrux I guess make this attachement even deeper.
Blood pact - which I guess isn't easy to destroy - isn't a bad explanation why Ministry couldn't made Dumbledore to fight with ex-friend for so long. And Dumbledore proclaiming some greater good years after Grindelwald did the same - it's the wood on the fire of bad Dumbledore, nothing else.
Leta's death named stupid. Hm, I can agree with it. She saw: couple more seconds - and Scamanders are gonna be dead in that interesting fire. What else could she do? To distract Grindelwald somehow. She wouldn't join him, she didn't share his idea for sure, and she didn't lie to herself thinking she could play loalty to him. So she had a choice: to run while there was an opportunity and let Scamanders die - or distract Grindelwald somehow, but then it's done for her. She already revealed to everybody that Corvus V Lestrange is dead because of her, among other reasons. She blame herself, whatever Newt told her. And it's hard to her to live with that. So her choice is seems obvious to me as well as the fact that she couldn't win in this fight or just escape somehow - she and Grindelwald aren't birds of a feather. I guess it's a very short list of wizards who can defeat Grindelwald: Dumbledore, Credence and Newt - of those who we saw already. And Newt could win only using his unusual mentality, using his animals.
Phoenix. I kinda think that in 17-18 years this phoenix ended up flying to Albus in his hard moment - around fighting with ex best friend, maybe. And everything gonna be like in Dumbledore family legends. And until that moment phoenix can be anywhere, not only with Dumbledore family members. It seems there was no very hard moment for Albus or Aberforth.
I like this movie. Villain not for just being villain, still enough fantastic beasts, twist about Credence's true identity didn't revealed in trailers after all, there is a primer for next movies, brothers are working together (oh yeah, I love family unites, yes). I could watch it few more times but I don't have enough time for it T_T Will wait for release in English.
The only thing disappoints me and make me wonder why - time gaps between movies: 2 years - why, what are they doing for so long? I mean, yes, actors have other projects, yes, technical part considering it's fantastic genre isn't easy, but there're a lot of other movie series with the same conditions and they are okey with shorter time gaps. Marvel, for example. Twilight. Two parts of Deathly Hallows had 1 year time gap, 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th movies of Potter had 1 year time gap. It's just... not cool, c'mon.
But we can only wait.
But hey, I thought so much about second branch of Lestrange's family tree after trailers, and they just killed it!
