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Post by Venti on Apr 12, 2023 13:35:12 GMT -5
One of the best things about working from home is that I no longer have to hear all the 40-something women in my department go on and on about being a Hufflepuff... Nothing wrong with that. They are just fans. I am a proud Slytherin. Whatever anyone thinks of Rowling, the books and the films are excellent. For real, I don't see how it's different from any other 'nerdy' fandom that people get excited about lol
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 12, 2023 16:33:35 GMT -5
The series will cover all the things the films correctly cut out.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Apr 12, 2023 16:35:27 GMT -5
The series will cover all the things the films correctly cut out. But will Dumbledore angrily ask if Harry put his name in the Goblet?
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Post by FinalGwen on Apr 12, 2023 17:23:28 GMT -5
Gonna bow out of discussing this now but honestly it's all just kinda funny. Their big reveal and what do we have? Same logo, same music, same castle (presumably because making a new one would cost more money and they don't wanna ruin the branding of the tour and video game). They can't even promise a fresh take because they're hobbled by needing to cash in.
Let's see if they can keep up this incredible momentum for 10 years of longform content on a streaming service (assuming it doesn't take longer making cgi-heavy full seasons of TV) at a time when they're notorious for cancelling projects a few seasons in, all the while JK ramping up her genocidal rhetoric in the background as execs hum and haw about how much to indulge her.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 12, 2023 22:26:15 GMT -5
They really just dragged the old score out of the mothballs. That's always a great sign. I think the two hardest hurdles will be: Best of luck trying to top John Williams with that new score.Best of luck trying to cast a Snape that won't be a discount Alan Rickman.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 12, 2023 22:33:47 GMT -5
It'll be funny watching the new cast squirm in interviews.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 13, 2023 0:50:39 GMT -5
It'll be funny watching the new cast squirm in interviews. If Rowling has any power over casting, the new cast: James Woods, Gina Carano, Kevin Sorbo, Roseanne Barr, Ronda Rousey, and that loser Billie Piper divorced.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Apr 13, 2023 1:49:31 GMT -5
I need to get this off my chest.
Death Eaters is a silly name. Deeply silly. Might as well name it Team Evil Jerkface.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 13, 2023 2:17:15 GMT -5
Would not at all be shocked if they end up trying to cut costs by having the hallways only ever have like six people in them at a time, there's a near total lack of non-humans, and they keep the magic to an absolute bare-minimum.
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Post by EP 54 is banned from Collision on Apr 13, 2023 5:11:31 GMT -5
I need to get this off my chest. Death Eaters is a silly name. Deeply silly. Might as well name it Team Evil Jerkface. How does eating death even work? It's like the worst team name an edgy teen could come up with. Joanne has an issue with names in general. Remus Lupin, did you guess he's a werewolf? He's basically called Wolf Wolf. (Let's not get into lycanthropy being some sort of twisted AIDS allegory, with a predatory older male werewolf who likes to deliberately infect young males...) Kingsley Shacklebolt is definitely dodgy ground for one of the few black characters... Cho Chang is literally racist.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 13, 2023 6:09:58 GMT -5
After Season 2 do they recast Lavender Brown with a white actress again?
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 13, 2023 6:59:39 GMT -5
I need to get this off my chest. Death Eaters is a silly name. Deeply silly. Might as well name it Team Evil Jerkface.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 13, 2023 8:27:50 GMT -5
Joanne has an issue with names in general. Remus Lupin, did you guess he's a werewolf? He's basically called Wolf Wolf. (Let's not get into lycanthropy being some sort of twisted AIDS allegory, with a predatory older male werewolf who likes to deliberately infect young males...) Kingsley Shacklebolt is definitely dodgy ground for one of the few black characters... Cho Chang is literally racist. Yeah, Cho Chang was the big one... until somebody pointed out Seamus Finnegan. You know, the one nominally Irish character, whose "thing" is blowing himself up, who blew himself up the first time turning his water into an alcoholic beverage. Now, I'm not gonna go any further because of the NO POLITICS rule, since the jaw dropper here is how similar his name is to an actual political party, but it's nasty. Nastier still when you remember she would have started the groundwork on these books in the early 90s.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Apr 13, 2023 11:09:50 GMT -5
Voldemort will be rebranded as a preening drag queen called Lady V. Meanwhile the ministry of magic will become a standin for the Scottish government and cancel Dumbledore when he refuses to call Draquelle Malfoy by his new name.
It's really not unlikely Rowling has this somewhere on her computer
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 13, 2023 13:05:46 GMT -5
It'll be amusing watching the same people who argued that HP was satanic and evil, now suddenly championing this series.
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Post by tafkaga on Apr 13, 2023 13:10:27 GMT -5
It'll be amusing watching the same people who argued that HP was satanic and evil, now suddenly championing this series. I was just thinking this. Funny how it's come full circle. When Satan affirms their prejudices, they just call him Jesus.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 13, 2023 13:12:46 GMT -5
Gonna bow out of discussing this now but honestly it's all just kinda funny. Their big reveal and what do we have? Same logo, same music, same castle (presumably because making a new one would cost more money and they don't wanna ruin the branding of the tour and video game). They can't even promise a fresh take because they're hobbled by needing to cash in. Let's see if they can keep up this incredible momentum for 10 years of longform content on a streaming service (assuming it doesn't take longer making cgi-heavy full seasons of TV) at a time when they're notorious for cancelling projects a few seasons in, all the while JK ramping up her genocidal rhetoric in the background as execs hum and haw about how much to indulge her. Yeah, I feel like we really know virtually nothing about what the project will even look like, which really just comes off desperate to have something to show before there's anything to show. Like, even if I step back and be objective and look outside my extreme distaste for Rowling, and think, yeah, I can see where mini-series could tackle stuff the movies couldn't, or do it differently, so it could work from that angle... it feels like this would have probably made more sense as an animated project. If nothing else, it would have spared the actors the extreme, uncomfortable scrutiny the originals were subjected to.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 13, 2023 13:14:02 GMT -5
A better idea for a HP series would be to just set it during the first Wizarding War. Otherwise most of it is just going over material that we saw not long ago on a bigger budget with better actors.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 13, 2023 17:01:59 GMT -5
Beyond PR the tricky thing about such a show will be the production cost of it. An HP series is expensive by its very nature, the budget will likely go up with each season giving the bigger scale of in story events, and that's without even getting into the salary of the cast. I almost have to assume the actors will largely be unknowns, not only to lower the upfront cost but also because more name value performers are going to be reluctant to get locked into a decade long deal with limited ability to renegotiate.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Apr 13, 2023 17:19:29 GMT -5
I'll only watch this show if Hagrid is a CG character rendered with PS1 graphics.
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