re: ***Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Official Discussion*** Spoilers

I was really enjoying this movie, and the fact that it was mostly light on using callbacks and references to the other stories as a crutch.

It was a cool use of the world to tell an original story.

Then Depp turned up, brought in grendelwald, tethered the whole thing to the main saga, opened up all of the previously noted continuity problems, and nearly ruined it.

I can see just the damn army of character returns, parents, and references just piling on in the future movies.

The incredibly small world created by all of the interconnected relationships and families is one of the few problems I have with the original story. Going to America and doing this whole new story, or using Newt as a catalyst for MOW type movies would expand the universe and retcon the whole scope back to a grand scale.

Instead we're right back where we started for the most part.

Should have known Rowling couldn't leave well enough alone.