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Just finished season 2 of 1923
Very much more of the same, but I enjoyed it a lot
Someone in the first episode says "If you didn't have bad luck, you'd have no luck at all", and that very much sums up the writing style. A bit lazy/simplistic in that literally everything that could go wrong, does.
However it's not claiming to be absolute cinema - I've heard Yellowstone described as Sons of Anarchy on horses (that's my next watch), and it's an enjoyable watch
1883 (which is now on Netflix) is still my favourite of them so far, but this definitely scratches the western itch
Very much more of the same, but I enjoyed it a lot
Someone in the first episode says "If you didn't have bad luck, you'd have no luck at all", and that very much sums up the writing style. A bit lazy/simplistic in that literally everything that could go wrong, does.
However it's not claiming to be absolute cinema - I've heard Yellowstone described as Sons of Anarchy on horses (that's my next watch), and it's an enjoyable watch
1883 (which is now on Netflix) is still my favourite of them so far, but this definitely scratches the western itch
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Harry Potter series officially confirms cast – Paul Whitehouse signs up
We now know who will be joining John Lithgow in the central adult cast for the series.
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He'd have made a good Peeves, if they're including his character
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I don't know, I think Lithgow could make a good Dumbledore.Paul Whitehouse to play the caretaker will be fun. The only two that are very strange is Dumbledore and Snape. They really didn't think how bad that will be throughout the series.Harry Potter series officially confirms cast – Paul Whitehouse signs up
We now know who will be joining John Lithgow in the central adult cast for the series.www.radiotimes.com
In the films, Rik Mayall was cast as Peeves, but he was sadly cut. Unfortunately he told his young kids he was in it. So he told them he was Hagrid
He could be great, but his age his is completely against him. The Snape casting adds so many horrible issues it's unreal.
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Yeah, the critical drinkers going to make some money slagging off that one.
They walk straight into it at times. This is a character who's ignored and unloved as a child, rejected by the only person who was kind to him and he couldn't handle it. Bulled in school by Harry's farther and friends, grows up living a life of regret and misery and is manipulated by Dumbledore because of this for years. As an adult, he then gets treated horribly by Harry etc as they treat and acuse him of being a coward, a traitor, a thief, a spy etc.
The big twist of the books was he wasn't any of those things. He was actually someone who deeply regretted a choice when he was young, stupid and wanted to feel appreciated. I won't go into every detail, but unless they are going to make some serious changes to how his character is, every single one of them on the good side is going to look like a horrible, massive racist.
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You will get James and Sirius literally hanging a black man under a tree - years before the start of the "redemption arc"
Anyone else remember the grief that American Gods got for the lynching scene?
In a show that was NOT for children, and had the easy defence of "yeah, that's the whole ******* point Jeremy!"
ETA: is there an agreed upon male / gender-neutral name to use instead of "Karen"?
ETA2: any chance we can refer to the show as "HP-TV (not transvestite)"? Just to wind up JKR
Anyone else remember the grief that American Gods got for the lynching scene?
In a show that was NOT for children, and had the easy defence of "yeah, that's the whole ******* point Jeremy!"
ETA: is there an agreed upon male / gender-neutral name to use instead of "Karen"?
ETA2: any chance we can refer to the show as "HP-TV (not transvestite)"? Just to wind up JKR
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Snape was the original incel.
Dude repeatedly bullies and abuses a child because he was treated by **** by his father and couldn't bone his mother. He's an incel and part of the geek fallacy. We should not accept in those around us or literary characters.
I personally quite like the Snape character and storyline but I also don't pretend in general perception and as written we're supposed to forgive him of some pretty bad stuff.
Dude repeatedly bullies and abuses a child because he was treated by **** by his father and couldn't bone his mother. He's an incel and part of the geek fallacy. We should not accept in those around us or literary characters.
I personally quite like the Snape character and storyline but I also don't pretend in general perception and as written we're supposed to forgive him of some pretty bad stuff.
Must have missed that page in the book!
I don't agree he's an incel though. He's more troubled due to his parents being unsupportive. He definitely should not be allowed to work with kids though. We're not suppose to see his story as a redemption or anything, but to understand just why he ended up that way.
Yeah his patronus is Lilly just because he has perfectly normal feelings about her.
You have a mind I'd rather not explore, if that's how you saw it
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I think "boning" is underselling it - but it was definitely an unrequited love thing - and creepy as hell
I think its pretty explicit he has to have strong deep feelings for her for that to be the case. It hasn't changed over the years. Her courting and marrying James is pretty much the reasoning why he joins the dark side in the first place.You have a mind I'd rather not explore, if that's how you saw it
He was already friends with the "dark side" and that's what fractured him and Lily's friendship - she didn't like it. I don't think she even knew he cared about her beyond that (it's not stated anyway). The problem with Snape wasn't he couldn't be with her exactly, but he regretted the choices he made that lead to where things were - including not being with Lily. Dumbledore said it himself "Lily trusted the wrong people. Rather like you."
I don't think that makes him an incel, but he really wasn't fit to be a teacher. Dumbledore turned out to be quite a manipulative person though.
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If I remember correctly, in the book it's no where near as creepy as the film push it. That whole scene where Snape hugs her corpse with her dead husband and crying son around them is not in the book at all.
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I'll be interested to see what they do with the half blood prince series. Others say they ruined the film turning it into a teenage romance and adding the attack on the house which didn't happen in the book. Cut a lot of the back story of V out which is important. I still enjoyed it.
Frost as Hagrid will be interesting.
Frost as Hagrid will be interesting.
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