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I think it just boils down to the fact that 2003 has a lot more things that "ring my bells" as far as fiction goes. More morally-complex villains, really good soundtrack, the movie has them end up in the Weimar Republic and I'll like pretty much anything set there as long as it's not TOTALLY historically-inaccurate (which CoS isn't other than some allowances for it "it's a fantasy series"), etc.
(They do do the thing that annoys me most about fiction in that time period, which is, treating the whole period as a build-up to the Nazi takeover. That makes sense in something like Cabaret that's set only a few years before the actual coup, not so much when it's set in 1923 as CoS is. Even in Munich, which was the Nazis' regional base of power IIRC. They still weren't that powerful yet.)
One thing that did really annoy me in 2003 is how much time they spent on Al's post-Barry-the-Chopper identity crisis. Barry the Chopper and Kimblee were both characters I liked much better in Brotherhood (though, Kimblee and Archer's sexual tension was hilarious) - in fact, I freaking LOVE Brotherhood!Kimblee and I hated him in 2003.
(They do do the thing that annoys me most about fiction in that time period, which is, treating the whole period as a build-up to the Nazi takeover. That makes sense in something like Cabaret that's set only a few years before the actual coup, not so much when it's set in 1923 as CoS is. Even in Munich, which was the Nazis' regional base of power IIRC. They still weren't that powerful yet.)
One thing that did really annoy me in 2003 is how much time they spent on Al's post-Barry-the-Chopper identity crisis. Barry the Chopper and Kimblee were both characters I liked much better in Brotherhood (though, Kimblee and Archer's sexual tension was hilarious) - in fact, I freaking LOVE Brotherhood!Kimblee and I hated him in 2003.