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Arent you guys sick of the same 4 franchises? Marvel, Star wars, Lord of the rings, Harry Potter.
It's a bit unfair to rope LOTR into this, it only has a single spin-off series which is pretty great. Which is pretty great if you're not a fascist or hardcore nerd of the books. And hardcore nerds only have "fun" criticism discussing how the story spanning 3000 years is being adapted.
Mmmmmm. LOTR has 6 movies running 18hrs theatrical, 22hrs extended cut.
Multiple anime, TV show, comics, graphic novels, books, spin offs and more...over done. Over cooked. Trite.
Star wars has 9 mainline movies spanning 20hrs.
Multiple anime, TV show, comics, graphic novels, books, spin offs and more...Disney is literally wearing this franchise as a skin suit to keep it going.
The Marvel Infinity Saga core movies, 19 hours.....etc....blah blah blah....Disney. Morning Erection...something something, cum daddy.
It's be interesting how the fascist agitprop will boost this show. We've seen many cases of feminist or pro trans themes in shows incurred massive backlash from influencers and their hordes. Part of the "culture war". I'd expect a lot of hype and praises for the show no matter how good or bad it is.
That's not what the decision said, but JK and their ilk are trying to push it as that.
Their decision is limited to what they believe was meant in the Equality Act 2010.
It's just them indicating what a law meant originally.
A law that was written by people who didn't know better.
Now we know better, as the science is undeniable, but what we know now doesn't change what the law meant.
That's why what the UK needs to do now is change the law to properly match science.
Rowling and other flavors of transfobes want to muddle the waters and act as if everything was set in stone, but it isn't.
There have been amendments to the Equality act before, the latest in in 2023 and 2024, they can do more.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/primary+secondary?title=Equality+Act+2010+amendment
Do not play into their game. Instead, push for change.
Sometimes I wonder did they make Snape casting on purpose just to cause hatred? Unless Harry Potter and his friends are also non-white or they change the story from the books heavily this is gonna be a wild ride to watch in this America where racists rule the roost.
Does it count as a boycott if never intended to watch it in the first place? Or that I haven't watched any of them except the first one when it was new?
I never watched or read any Harry potter media (except for the parody Harry is a Pothead and the Sorcerer's stoned), so this boycott is easy for me.
I'm way ahead of this because I absolutely HATE the originals because of how often they play them on TV. The transphobic writer of the original wanting to do a do-over most likely because the original cast spoke out against her is also real atrocious as well.
The franchise is actually really bad when you think about it. Full of plotholes and really poor writing but the vibe of the original movie (and maybe the sequel) was really spot on for that time period.
The best writers can do is take creative control from her and add things that will show her up, like what they did in the latest videogame, and add transgender characters and actors.
Wait that's why they're doing this? What a clown she is.
she wanted to rewrite the characthers, probably to her "terf beliefs" and people already indicated in the past her books were already what she currently believes in, just very subtle.
Oh God.... She's absolutely going to create a monster that pretends to be a human as some kind of lazy "Trans Bad" parable..
This is going to be the fucking Heathers Reboot all over again
No idea if it's true, but it's a rumor I've heard that sounds plausible enough. Can't speak for all the cast, but I'm fairly certain the main trio have spoken up against her, though.
she probably want different actors, or rewriting to make it look like they cant question her terf. she will be hardpressed to find someone who is an actor and is a terf like her, those actors have largely been expelled from hollywood, and only making shitty christian or anti-woke movies.
Well wasn't going to anyways because Rowling is a horrible person but now I'll double down in not watching it.
Don't watch it, twice! Three times even!
Going to pirate it, burn to cds and then recycle them into sex toys for the transgender. That'll show em!
And that is why (along with being an amazing actor) that he is the favorite
Does anyone want anything to do with this?
I am no literature snob but I thought the first few books were good at the time for YA fiction. I still have the full set on my shelves and would be overjoyed if my kids read any novels, even imperfect ones.
People have nit picked JKs works to death and yes, there are problems. Half the stuff I was reading and watching as a kid was far, far worse. Like I was reading stuff that on reflection was clearly written by very far right authors, pedos etc as well as stuff that went way in other directions. I get why people boycott shit like that but I think its probably good to be exposed to some other points of view, even ones you vehemently reject.
People should be supporting new authors and new stories and stop throwing money at tired old corporate franchises. And that goes for the lazy Disney shit as well and all the Hollywood remakes. Unfortunately we have all been squeezed economically so there is fuck all money left to buy media and we are being squeezed for attention so nobody is taking time to read novels or listen to albums. The culture wars are certainly very significant (as a straight white male I know I have blind spots here), particularly for minorities with a lot at stake. But I feel the real enemy is the death of individual economic freedom and free time. Do we really need another big streaming series that brings nothing new to our lives and exists only to enhance shareholder value?
Not to ruin something you like, but you might enjoy reading the Worst Witch series, which Joanne copied for her early books.
I am an old man so I don't read much kid's/YA fiction and I wasn't ever a huge HP fan. I tried to watch a tv adaption of WW with my daughter and we didn't get past the first episode for some reason. We do like a lot of other witchy fiction though. I am hoping the Witchhat Atelier anime is high quality and doesn't have creepy fan service. That had a really interesting magic system.
JKs works are full of tropes as is most fiction and it clearly isn't great literature but I am not persuaded by accusations of plagiarism. Every Tarantino movie rips off other movies. The Dollars trilogy was clearly a retelling of Kurosawa samurai movies.
I don't want to praise JK given her open hostility to the community here but the cross over appeal of her works was a cultural phenomenal at the time. I understand why many people are motivated to rip her work and legacy to shreds. She has very much earned peoples disrespect. As someone who is not targeted by her hateful views I feel detached enough to reject JK as a person without completely dismissing her works and cultural impact. Yeah, that's some privilege at work but we are who we are. I am never going to have the same awareness or sensitivity about lack of representation, stereotypes etc in her writing.
You don't need to tell me twice. I only have nostalgia for the original Harry Potter movies and games because it has a lot of super popular British actors, and I was about 6-years-old when they came out.
I have no nostalgia for the books, and I have no interest in watching the same story again but HBO-ified.
I'm kind of the opinion that Harry Potter should have just ended with the deathly hallows book and 2 movies.
you drag out and milk an IP for too long and you just become star wars. and that isnt a compliment.
It seems like Rowling has been pushing for the series to be made because she doesn't like the OG movie cast members for calling her out on her bigotry. Anytime Radcliffe or Watson tweet in support of humanity, Rowling gets all twisty-knickered and pouty because people still call them Harry Potter and Hermione.
But making something new comes with the risk of it not working, much easier to just keep milking the same thing infinitely.
This sucks. I mean, I read Harry Potter as an adult, and still loved the stories, even if some parts were problematic (Cho Chang? The Irish kid blows stuff up? REALLY?). But I refuse to give that woman any of my money to do more evil with.
OK let me defend Cho Chang specifically. Qiū Cháng is a perfectly valid chinese name. It is pronounced "Cho Chang." Cho would not be standard (pinyin), but Chinese people historically have not always use Pinyin to transliterate their names. (And I assume a wizard might not use muggle pinyin.)
Harry Potter is one of the few IP’s that I 100% pirate guilt-free. In many cases, I use piracy to “try out” things before I buy them. For instance, I have the *arr stack running on my Jellyfin server, but most of the media on it is from my old DVD/Blu-ray collection. I have a few pirated games, but end up buying most of them if I enjoy them.
But not with Harry Potter. That shit gets pirated and stays pirated. I have the e-books and movies torrented, and will never spend a dime on them. I’ll never buy anything with a Hogwarts house on it. I’ll never stream any of the movies on Max. As far as capitalism is concerned, I have a full Harry Potter blackout.