Diseased Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

[Apustajan apustaja]

In lore he was from Betelgeuse

That star is a red giant with variable output , you would get rather sunburned living close to it, so it kinda fits.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Controversial opinion here - as much as I enjoy Harry Potter and as much as I want J.K. to keep making money because it makes the trannies seethe, I don't want a Harry Potter TV show.

I think it will diminish the legacy of the films, which are already a perfectly cast, perfectly acted, largely perfectly adapted version of the books. The TV show is simply never going to be as iconic as the original films, which defined so much of the Wizarding World in the popular imagination. That shit was like lightning in a bottle.

Whoever they get to play Snape, he isn't going to be Alan Rickman.
Whoever they get to play Hagrid, he isn't going to be Robbie Coltrane.
Whoever they get to play Luna, she isn't going to be Evanna Lynch (who I think people forget was so good, and so inhabited that character, that J.K. Rowling herself admitted that in her later Potter books, she was basically just writing that character with Evanna in mind).

And most importantly, whoever they get to play Mrs Sprout, she isn't going to be me.

 

[Der weiße Teufel]

The only character in the book series who is canonically black is Dean Thomas.

I don't know about Kingsley Shacklebolt, they probably decided they could cast pretty much anyone in his role, and he did it well.

Shacklebolt was described as black in the books (which is why some "Rowling was bad all along" haters claim she gave a black man a name that implies slavery on purpose or something) and Angelina Johnson as well. Blaise Zabini was also later revealed to be black.

Also, nothing against Alan Rickman who is brilliant, but he was way too attractive to play Snape. I don't think he was supposed to be good looking and nobody imagined him like that in the books. Also, all the Marauders were cast too old, they were only in their thirties during the books.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Honestly, I think most of my reservations stem from the fact that the rights to a Harry Potter adaptation are owned by Warner Bros, and in recent years, WB have shown an attitude towards the many intellectual properties they own that I think I find genuinely offensive.

I know that this is nothing new in Hollywood, of course, and I've talked previously about how whorish Sony are when it comes to their franchise films, but I actually feel like that's mitigated somewhat in their case by how few properties they actually own (all they have is Ghostbusters and Spider-man), and by how seemingly incompetent the people at management level are. Warner Bros on the other hand, have been going for a lot longer and own a lot more diverse IPs. Enough that they can stuff them all into a Smash Bros clone, regardless of how tasteful or appropriate it actually is for the likes of Beetlejuice, Jason Voorhees and Arya Stark to be brushing shoulders with the likes of Bugs Bunny, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and the Iron Giant (with Mad Max, Gandalf and most bizarrely, Ted Lasso coming soon, guys, so be sure to buy that DLC when it comes out!).

Like these aren't characters that people love, so much as pennies jingling around in a piggybank. As Funko Pops in waiting.

 

[Pedophobe]

I think it will diminish the legacy of the films, which are already a perfectly cast, perfectly acted, largely perfectly adapted version of the books.

If the films are as good as you say then a basic bitch TV show has no chance of "diminishing" them.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

If the films are as good as you say then a basic bitch TV show has no chance of "diminishing" them.

It's not so much that the films were that good, it's that there's no reason to hope that a better adaption could possibly be made in this day and age.

 

[teriyakiburns]

JK, in her progressive era, said she loved the idea of a black Hermione and one got cast in a stage play, I think.

Got it backwards. A showing of cursed child cast a black girl as Hermione, a bunch of people got into a twitter slap fight about it, and then Rowling said it was fine if Hermione was black. She was trying to chill people out. People continued to be retarded. Rowling was still in her naive period over the whole woke at any cost movement, but she wasn't exactly wrong in this instance.

 

[Lone Star]

Shacklebolt was described as black in the books (which is why some "Rowling was bad all along" haters claim she gave a black man a name that implies slavery on purpose or something) and Angelina Johnson as well. Blaise Zabini was also later revealed to be black.

I find this funny because Kingsley Shacklebolt is just objectively an awesome fucking name. I wish I had a name half that cool.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Got it backwards. A showing of cursed child cast a black girl as Hermione, a bunch of people got into a twitter slap fight about it, and then Rowling said it was fine if Hermione was black. She was trying to chill people out. People continued to be retarded. Rowling was still in her naive period over the whole woke at any cost movement, but she wasn't exactly wrong in this instance.

She also smugly declared that Hermione's skin colour had never been specified. That was a pretty big reason why there was backlash against her.

 

[AnOminous]

But, it wasn't an intrinsic part of her, or his, character. Look at Ford Prefect from Hitchhikers Guide: on TV he was white, on film he was black. In lore he was from Betelgeuse, and David Dixon and Mos Def both nailed it.

I actually thought Mos Def in the HG movie was one of the few inspired choices. I mean obviously Zooey Deschanel as Trillian was the right choice, but also really obvious as she was the quirky It Girl of the time. Remember that Ford Prefect was a guy who picked that fake name because he thought naming himself after a mediocre Ford car was somehow inconspicuous, so making him black too just added to the fact he was ridiculously out of place.

Mos Def grasped that and played into it well.

I think the best incarnation of HG was the radio series, though. I used to have it all on vinyl.

She also smugly declared that Hermione's skin colour had never been specified. That was a pretty big reason why there was backlash against her.

That was goofy because it contradicted the text itself. She should have just said the race was unimportant, since it wasn't.

 

[CorporateMemphis]

why does that shared experience need to be changed?

It just doesn't matter either way. If you're getting your knickers in a knot about that sort of thing, you're thinking too much about it. It's a fictional story for childrens' entertainment. Rowling gets the final say, she invented the characters, she can fuck around and change them and it's all good. She's the queen. The beacon of sanity in an insane world.

 

[Pedophobe]

I actually thought Mos Def in the HG movie was one of the few inspired choices.

if only they could have gotten the real Owen Wilson to play Zaphod instead of the generic store brand version.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Controversial opinion here - as much as I enjoy Harry Potter and as much as I want J.K. to keep making money because it makes the trannies seethe, I don't want a Harry Potter TV show.

I think it will diminish the legacy of the films, which are already a perfectly cast, perfectly acted, largely perfectly adapted version of the books.

I could see that happen. And I guess it already has happened, with, say, star wars, game of thrones and Simpsons. If you keep churning out more content, it will eventually turn to dogshit.

But then again, people still remember Godfather I and II with fondness even though the third was a mistake.

I just hope that they dont go overboard with the greenscreen and cgi.

 

[teriyakiburns]

if only they could have gotten the real Owen Wilson to play Zaphod instead of the generic store brand version.

Don't you do my man Sam Rockwell dirty like that. If anything, he's a budget Gary Oldman.

 

[Dr. Butt]

There's probably a good name

"Two Girls, One Pug"

 

[Raging Capybara]

The money spent on making a 2-hour film will be divided into 8 or more episodes 1 hour each.

TV is fucking shit. I can't understand why people waste time with slop like that. The series will look cheap, use literally whos in the cast, and most importantly, they won't have John Willians, so why even bother?

 

[Gondolindrim]

I am a little worried about the Snape casting because Snape is supposed to look like a creepy, obviously evil old man. The twist of the first (and last) book is that he was cool all along.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

The movies aren't perfect by any means but lol at the idea of a new show not being a steaming pile of dogshit.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

I'm going to treat the tv series like I do the Disney star wars stuff. I'm not going to interact with it.

 

[Candidate No 7]

I am a little worried about the Snape casting because Snape is supposed to look like a creepy, obviously evil old man. The twist of the first (and last) book is that he was cool all along.

Snape is a contemporary of Harry's parents, so he's barely past 30 when the saga starts. Rickman was a good 25 years older than the part but no one minded.