A suggestion for discussion

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In the last decade or two, the United Kingdom has produced two tremendous cultural phenomena that have gone around the world: the Harry Potter series and the Wallace and Gromit animated movies. SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION: Do they have anything in common, and do they have anything in common with other British successes such as the Dr.Who franchise or Alan Moore's comics?

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I'm sorry you missed W&G, but just go and look them up - there are likely to be postings in places like YouTube. Their animator, Nick Parks, has had a virtual stranglehold on the animations short Oscar prize; every time he produced a Wallace and Gromit short (30 minutes each), he walked off with it. We are talking about genius here, and genius of a quality that is difficult to exactly quantify, which is why I would like to see it discussed.