This guy just keeps getting more and more wonderful ❤️
Remember family guys skits of jk Rowling, they kinda predicted her current behavior, one of them was Peter "reminiscing "now problematic jk Rowling writing, and the other
I love Pedro Pascal.
So many queers grew up on Harry Potter. If you still cherish the series from before the author apparently had a stroke, and can’t give it up, you can at least do society a favour by sailing the high seas (pirate it).
I wasn’t gonna watch it anyways but if Pedro says don’t, I sure as heck ain’t!
I’m gonna not watch it even harder!
more like Bae-dro Pascal amirite
daddy pascal
Papi Pascal
Joanne’s really milking this cash cow for all it’s worth, and then some. Guess that’s your only option when you’re a one-hit wonder, though. Must not have stumbled across any new content she’s interested in plagiarizing.
HBO previously did a adaption of The Casually Vacancy. I never watched it but I read the book which is terrible.
Oh, what did you find terrible about the book? I thought it was sad but written with a lot of empathy. I liked the gray characters. It was even worse for me to realize what JKR was like after reading this book that seemed so right to me. But maybe I overlooked something.
I mean, you could tell the point in book 4 where they said “Fuck it, bring in the ghost writers”.
I doubt she’s probably written anything in 30 years that wasn’t drunkenly pounded out on Twitter
You say that like anyone else wouldn’t. If life gives you a golden cow, milk the shit out of it. Lol
Let’s focus on her being a terrible person instead of making up nonsense reasons to further dislike her. There’s no need.
No, I think most people wouldn’t. Most people would be happy with literally becoming a fucking billionaire, and would be satisfied at that point.
I don’t know any billionaires myself, but judging from what I read and see online that is not what people do when they literally become a billionaire.
Yeah I guess it’s one of those things, where most people would be satisfied with becoming a billionaire, but generally, the type of people able to become a billionaire, are terrible people that wouldn’t be satisfied with becoming a billionaire.
TIL People who would be satisfied with being a billionaire feel satisfied long before they actually become a billionaire.
CouLd you point me to what original she plagiarized? I need some light reading material and this sounds promising.
Here is a pretty decent list: https://elftor.medium.com/harry-potter-and-the-possible-plagiarism-of-one-j-rowling-c19f1b05595c
I’m not a fan of Harry Potter, and don’t like Rowling, but I read that whole damn essay and was not at all convinced. Half the examples could be said to be plagiarising each other by the standard they’re using. They say at the start the coincidences are too strong to be attributed to tropes, but I really disagree with that. Almost everything they list are common tropes, many even outside magical wizard settings. Mean adoptive family? Did she also plagiarise Cinderella?
Sure, her books generally aren’t original themes, but to say they’re so similar that they are direct plagiarism is a real stretch in my opinion. Especially when you have to list like 30 books that have one or two things in common each, and mostly in a general sense.
Exactly. It shouldn’t be considered a crime to use and build on eternal tropes. That’s what culture is about. The terrible things about JKR lie elsewhere.
I never thought she was a plagiarist, just a hack.
The first two or three books felt far more like a Roald Dahl novel than any standard issue YA novel.
She’s clearly been influenced by other children’s books. But yeah, so much of the “Rowling plagiarized!” critique boils down to how bland and generic the story was.
I think they’re referring to A Wizard of Earthsea? It’s been on my reading list for a few years now, but I still haven’t gotten around to it.
And especially “the worst witch” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Witch?wprov=sfla1
I mean… all her bullshit aside anyway; It’s too soon for a Harry Potter remake.
I still can’t wrap my head around who this is meant to be for. Fans that are old enough to have grown up with the original series are never going to like this and fans that are younger will still have seen the old series. It’s not like it’s so old it’s unwatchable.
I don’t understand how anybody in an executive position thought this was a good idea, especially because there is loads of stuff you could make a show about in the wizarding world universe (cough marauders cough).
It’s meant for the people hoping to make money off of it. Just like the LOTR series.
The book fans who want a more book accurate take?
Well, there’s the books.
Not everything needs to be turned into a video format.
90s kids will hate to hear this but it’s actually been 38 years since the first movie debuted. Wild huh
It’s been 24 years since the first movie was released and 28 years since the first book was released.
Wrong math aside, it doesn’t matter how old a movie/s are as long as they have aged well. Harry Potter movies are perfectly serviceable even with some questionable cgi because the music and general cinematography are fantastic.
Is it?
I can’t say I have ever liked the films, so maybe they will produce something better.
I would say yes.
The amount of media coverage and fandom the series got pretty much immortalized the actors within their roles. Animated stuff, fine. But live-action, not for the next quarter-century, at least.
Aside from that. We need more new stories, ideas, and tales; not just rebooted/regurgitated slop, made just to bleed a successful franchise dry.
I agree with your last point, but is seems to me that people are enchanted with this setting and would really like to revisit Hogwarts. So I would say I disagree with you on that it is not soon enough.
i’ve been a harry potter fan since 2000. i went to multiple leakycons and pottercast tapings. i posted on leaky. i went to midnight shows. i discovered starkid bc of it. i used to pay international shippings for the uk books. hp saved my life before i was out of the closet.
i would have been so excited for this if it happened 15 years ago. now? i just don’t care. i want it to go away. i’m much more interested in the twilight anniversary. hp is just go away heat now.
also anyone who is looking for an alternative; chris colfer’s land of stories series is AMAZING.
i’m much more interested in the twilight anniversary.
Since we got Life and Death on the 10th anniversary I hope we get Edythe’s Midnight Sun this year. We won’t but it would be nice.
Edit: Better yet give us the sapphic vampires we deserve with a retelling of Twilight with Edythe and Bella. Do it, Steph, you coward.
id love an extended universe of rosalies history tbh (in the style of the vampire chronicles)
also im so sad that young kim had health issues that kept them from finishing the rest of them :(
An even better anniversary thats happening rn is the 20th anniversary of Revenge Of The Sith. Hard to believe that episode 3 is 20 years old.
Harry Potter is already dead to me. Fuck JKR.
There are… other ways
I assume you mean piracy, but I think you misunderstood. I have no desire to give JKRs works any of my attention and I regret my past love of HP. She is a disgusting bigot and her legacy is forever tainted for me. I’m simply not interested.
This pedro pascal guy seems like kind of a good dude man
Makes you wonder what he’s hiding…
A trans sister for one, so it would make sense he’s not a fan of the TERF queen?
Pascal has been a vocal ally of the transgender community, frequently using his platform to advocate for trans rights. At the UK premiere of “Thunderbolts,” he wore a shirt reading “Protect the Dolls,” a term of endearment for transgenderism.
I wonder if the author of the article realizes “transgenderism” is a right-wing, anti-trans term?
EDIT: ah, it looks like the author of that blog is probably anti-trans and holds other right-wing views: https://old.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/rcczql/can_someone_give_me_context_for_the_film_blog/
Good spot! Trans+ would have been better
Considering dolls is a term applied only to trans women, he should have just said “a term of endearment for trans women”. The only reason he didn’t is because he’s anti-trans, and maybe he doesn’t even understand that “dolls” is a term specific to trans women, or that trans men even exist, a lot of anti-trans bigots are obsessed with trans women and think the only trans people are trans women; there are estimated to be equal numbers of trans men as trans women, they just don’t get the same attention.
The bathroom debate shows this mindset, anti-trans activist want trans women to use men’s restrooms, but they aren’t thinking about the fact that those same laws and policies force trans men women’s restrooms, leading to this kind of situation:
So the anti-trans movement claims they are keeping men out of women’s restrooms, while doing exactly the opposite.
I think the anti-trans movement wants to claim that the entire idea of trans people is ideologically driven, but they have it in reverse - the gender binary and anti-trans movement is ideologically driven, while the position that trans people exists and should have gender-affirming care is based on actual empirical evidence. The science shows reality is much more complicated than the gender binary, and that being trans is biologically determined, genetically inherited, and part of natural human variation throughout our history as a species.
So it seems acknowledging the reality and gender of trans people is not so much ideologically driven as much as it is more aligned with reality than the status quo of assigning gender according to a model of binary sex based an a quick inspection of genitals at birth, which we know is ideologically driven. The only reason to reject the undisputed science is for religious and political reasons, there is no actual debate or ambiguity about the science. Every single major medical and scientific association endorses gender affirming care for minors and adults, there is a firm consensus on this. These organizations are typically conservative, not “woke”, and they only support those treatments because they are the only known effective treatments of gender dysphoria.
The anti-trans movement has more in common with young earth creationism, the anti-vaxx movement, and other anti-science movements, which are often politically motivated and intersect with conservative forms of Christianity. These are truly ideologically based movements, and they support views of reality based not on what is empirically demonstrated but rather based on a dogmatic interpretation of religious texts.
For example, Matt Walsh’s anti-trans film What is a Woman was compared to antivax films like VAXXED or the anti-evolution film Expelled!.
I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge #occupotty
there are estimated to be equal numbers of trans men as trans women, they just don’t get the same attention.
And this is a stunning example of the power of male privilege.
and the fact that transphobia is mostly motivated by misogyny (see Julia Serano’s concept of “transmisogyny” outlined in Whipping Girl).
Even transphobia against trans men is misogynistic, e.g. when trans men are treated as just vulnerable / hapless women or girls that need to protecting from “trans grooming”, which is patronizing and conventionally sexist, or when
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corrective rape is used on trans men to re-assert their assigned gender, e.g. Sam Nordquist and Brandon Teena.
The violence trans men face is ultimately connected to violence against women, even if it is being applied to men to deny them their gender.
Wow. People really sicken me.
yeah, tough to stomach some aspects of humanity - but it’s worth keeping it mind it’s only a small minority of people, I try not to generalize the exceptional violence of the worst of us onto the rest of humanity.
I hear you, and I do try to practice that. I find so many to be disappointing, though. It definitely helps to remember that I can’t control others, just my own actions/reactions.
Well, if I watch it I guarantee I won’t pay for it.
Be better. Don’t watch at all.
Nothing worse then when people don’t even want to pirate your shit.
EXACTLY! Pirating let’s them know you’re interested.
They’re not even gonna fuckin know lawl
https://screenrant.com/games-thrones-most-pirated-tv-show/
Yes, they will. The GoT showrunners used to brag about it during interviews.
I support this man, and his ideas.
The Last of Us spoilers
What are they gonna do? Kill him off?
Defeating the Terf queen, rowlings
!I he shows up throught the second game in flashbacks, I think he will be done after this season, unless they keep bringing him back…but after this? He is 100% gone lol!<
FYI your spoiler tag didn’t work on this comment. Also I heard they’re adapting Last of Us Part II into 2 seasons of the show, since it’s so much longer plot-wise.
Odd, I see it blacked out on my side. Apologies to all.
I don’t see Pedro even working for HBO going forward. He is attacking another HBO show, and you know it’s all about bottom line. Could be wrong.
Regardless, Pedro is the man.
Meh, I don’t think character shows up in flashbacks after their death is something that’s spoiler tag worthy imo.
There is the whole episode of season 1 with Otterman that’s a flashback
Last of us season 2 spoiler
I’d be more bummed about “after his death” then “flashbacks”
I just read that… You should edit to either remove or correct the tags. Anyway, I will remember that so no worries… But for others.
i have no clue who this guy is, but he seems pretty poggies :3
i have no clue who this guy is,
Well essentially, he’s one of the most qualified guys to turn straight males gay. I know that because I’m a straight dude and it’s basically him and Henry Cavill that I have a mancrush on. That’s the complete list.
Anyway, things you may have seen, or heard of, where he’s played a role, ordered from least important character to most: Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Last of Us, The Mandalorian and he’s set to play Mister Fantastic in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie.
Most importantly, he’s just a very charming actor who seems like a great down to earth guy. Might be because it took him about a decade and a half to score his first moderately big role, rather than reaching peak fame at the age of 20. Bits I just found out while fact-checking myself: He also has a queer best friend (Sarah Paulson) and his little sister is a trans rights activist who says he’s been hugely supportive.
Polygraphs are bullshit, but this is a fun watch.
TL;DR: One of the coolest/nicest people in Hollywood
Oh neat, so he was Oberyn Martell :3 Thanks for the video, I’ll check it out
Done. I havent watched any of the other one either. lmao
Yeah, I wish there was a way I could meaningfully boycott something which I had no interest in to begin with. But oh well.
