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(They should also remind viewers it’s pro-gay, just in case the anti-trans stuff starts making it too popular with the fascist right.)

They need to just let it be. So tired of producers just adding to already drug out stories. New stuff needs to be made.

May they lose all the money and may every actor who took the money never work again.

joanns blatant toxicity (combined with other bullshit from the actors) was enough to kill the fantastic beasts franchise I understand hp feels like a juggernaut but there's a good chance this revival does not survive the ten years it's going to take to make it

Appreciate your viewpoint here and you telling me what to watch so I joined the Patreon

With any luck even if the first season proves popular the HP series will follow the same trajectory as Netflix’s Witcher or Amazon’s Rings of Power.

There's also better media coming out around the same time between Dune and Avengers.

Mr Rowling must be happy

It’s going to be insufferable. Part of me hopes the whole thing is going to flop

Not just rewarding her, but funding her campaign of terror against trans people and their allies.

I don’t know, I saw at least two kids dressed as Harry Potter characters the other day, it baffled me

A "K-Pop Demon Hunters" series seems like a better play. I bet that would slay.

I work at a library and while it's not as popular as it used to be, that's, uh. Not saying much. It remains one of the most requested children's books, and whenever the library puts together a themed convention, the idea of it being harry potter themed WILL float.

I mean, I dunno, the video game that came out a few years back did MASSIVE numbers The 18 and 19 year olds that work for my wife were literally calling off work to play it. I don't like Rowling, but this is gonna do some numbers.

It's still a big deal amongst elementary school kids - but, unlike their parents generation - they leave it behind and move on to other books and interests.

Agreed. Even for a popular IP, seven seasons of a super expensive fantasy series is an extremely tall order. Most audiences may not care about her politics, but I’ll still be surprised if the show lasts seven seasons.

Don't worry little children. You just have to spend the next ten years being as adorable as the beloved stars of a movie series, but on a TV series schedule. The greatest British actors of their generation will not mentor you. Your every move will be examined by the most toxic entitled fans.

GoT may not have stuck the landing, but I’d argue that it has had cultural staying power.

Eh, I’d be surprised if she was willing to spend her own money to keep it going. More likely she’s going to try and use her clout and control over the IP to push WB into keeping it going.

It's supporting a scapegoating fascist, which makes rewarders into her accomplices. bsky.app/profile/sean...

Oooh that’s a good point.

But this will be fairly review proof. I get why you’re mad but divorced dads and grandmas won’t read the review they’ll just put it on because they know the name and think it’s age appropriate for whatever kid they’re watching for the day

that might be more that Jojo wants to distance the show from the movie as much as possible because the actors all came out against her.

Yeah, Christmas sounds about right, that's pretty much been the standard HP airtime for the past twenty years... Even if the first season does somewhat well, I'm still super skeptical about it making a full 7-season run. They wanna be extra faithful to the books? Watch the budgets swell around S4.

It makes me very sad that that such a basically benign literary canon needs to be burdoned with such awful attitudes on the part of its author.

there are other fucking books. millenial nerd culture and its relentless consumerism is a blight.

Not sure about themed gear or it being incorporated in storyline but it will almost definitely be plugged on the ringside advertisement boards & probably the turnbuckles, at least for 1-2 shows, similar to the way AEW plugs other HBO Max shows.

Musk maybe competitive with Rowling for "world's most transphobic billionaire" in that he's being publicly awful to his own daughter about it, but he's certainly less monomaniacally focused on the issue (because of all his numerous other extremely evil priorities)

Cancel HBO when it airs this transphobia fundraiser.

Alternative family holiday viewing: "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart

I want critics to emphasize that she's partially doing this to cut the original actors out of royalties for not worshipping the ground she walks on. Unfortunately most normies don't give an F about her bigotry. They might care about her screwing over emma, rupert and daniel though.

Oh, the most powerful evil wizard didn’t understand the magic of love? What? Slow non-migratory birds as communication, while apparation(sp) allows for instant transmission of people and letters? As a trans woman who grew up reading the books, it’s shit fiction. Star wars rip-off written worse.

Idk, I think Musk may be the most transphobic billionaire. Like he destroyed this country and killed a bunch of kids around the world by starving them to death because he had a daughter.

I enjoyed the books and loved the movies. But nostalgia is gone because once I learned of her trans bigotry it jumped out everywhere in these stories about children. In any case she borrowed all the best ideas in HP from other writers and folk mythology. I’d prefer to see Narnia finished.

Pretty much. A lot of effort is being put into making this new Harry Potter show a success... but it is beyond a TV show now. The Harry Potter franchise itself is so tainted by JK Rowling being such a major figure in the transphobia movement.

As someone who won't even watch Roku or Tubi channels b/c of their ownership, I agree with you and hope people DO do this, but, for the most part, journalists -- and critics ARE journalists -- don't generally include such caveats about enjoying or not enjoying works of (even corporate) art.

Why are they bothering? I read the books, I watched the film. I learnt to loathe J K Rowling for her politics. Harry Potter is over for me.

That's a shitass choice to have to make and I'm sorry it'll probably be put on you.

loudly make a stink. its the only way. people should frankly be loudly making a stink outside the studio, and every shooting location.

Harm reduction take: just have them put on the OG movie.

Are the people who used to think HP was witchcraft now obligated to like it bc JKR is a raging transphobe? That might impact the numbers

They won’t care. In fact, they will probably eat this up like dog biscuits because Rowling is such a prolific bigot.

Maybe we'll get lucky and the show will be shit enough to crash and burn like the Fantastic Beasts series

Is there anything more indicative of the utter soul-sucking emptiness, bereft of a creative mote, a whisper of anything new, the money-grubbing executives regurgitating all the tired Harry Potter tropes, 8 movie's worth, ugh.

"This tripe that greedy, hate-filled, billionaire douchebags are forcing on society is so terrible, not only should you refuse to waste one second of your life on it? You should spit on any of the actors in it that you happen to encounter in your normal daily activities."

I think it is going to mostly flop, nostalgic fans will just rewatch the movies, new potential fans might be put off by JKR's transphobia and many articles about it are at least partially negative. I think there will be many viewers, but it will not be a full-on hit.

It is also pointless

I mean, that's fine, but if it were just people rereading the books and engaging in fandom we wouldn't be here talking about it. The books are not good enough or important enough for people to keep pouring all their money and time into - money and time that is directly benefitting Rowling.

Eh, they're not terrible, but they are extremely thin. She's neither a gifted writer nor a great imagination, just adequate on both counts. They do have a compulsive readability at first, but it pales pretty quickly.

To an extent. But having nostalgia doesn’t mean that you can’t have standards. Like, I love the X-Men. If there’s a new X-Men TV series I’ll give it a shot, and I’ll be more willing to put up with weak parts, but I will bail if the show outright sucks.

Please, not just rewarding. It's funding the trans genocide.

Ok. So boycott and derail