separate art from the artists libs when they pay money for the artist-lead hate campaigns
same goes for leftists paying to see dicaprio btw
I’m predicting this now: the series will flop like nutrek
Bold of you to predict that slop-loving Millennials won’t absolutely love a 1-for-1 recreation of something they have already seen. The live-action Lion King movie was literally the highest-grossing animated movie of all time when it came out. Plus this new series is now a period piece, taking place in the 1990s with 1990s fashion, so it’s hitting the same nostalgia-dopamine centers as Stranger Things did for the 1980s.
Sorry for spoilers but…
About the Lion King
It wasn’t “live action” just animated different.
Hol’up you’re telling me they weren’t real lions?
Remind me if it does. I’ll love it
It’s moment may have finally ended
Seeing how well Hogwarts Legacy did even though most people seem to consider it mediocre, I unfortunately believe it will do quite well.
I think, at best, the first couple of episodes will do well, then the viewership will take a nosedive.
We’re at the point where millions of people think if it’s on TV it must be good, what it is doesn’t matter. They’re illiterate, it’s just pictures and sounds on screen
Did it do well? They sold it 80% off months after release?
Unfortunately, it did incredibly well. It made over $1 billion in revenue and is considered one of the best-selling video games of all time.
The generous sales seem to be just how WB Games does things. Batman, Lord of the Rings, etc. games from them were also like $5 barely a year after they came out.
Steamcharts says peak playerbase was half a million on steam alone at launch. Elden Ring had 950k peak all-time. I’d say that’s pretty good for a middling open world.
Honestly could see it flopping because it’s a PG13 show at best and that just isn’t HBO’s brand
When I think HBO I think Sopranos or Game of Thrones and there’s no way this shit doesn’t look weak compared to the classic HBO lineup
Even if we didn’t know exactly what happens the stakes are so low
All the replies are like “but everyone provably loves pre-existing franchise/IP slop!!” and I agree with them all but I do think there’s a chance the vibes on this end up being so off that they end up not finishing out the series. Especially if there’s another corporate shuffle over the course of that time.
Not convinced, but I do think the trend for this franchise was set in motion when the game released and people’s attitudes towards the franchise have been getting worse ever since.
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it would be really funny if the second Harry gets to Hogwarts she learns that transitioning is just a potion away and does it and everyone supports her and then everything else happens exactly the same just with a female protagonist.
Harriet Potter
Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, by Chuck Tingle
How many actually want to see it though? Fans of the movies and series are nostalgic for those actors and I’m not sure how many will be won over by an obvious nostalgia cash grab.
It might actually do well in the global south where kids are given Harry Potter to learn English and are the new nostalgic demographic for something like this.
The game was one of the best selling of the year. There are people who will mindlessly buy into anything because it’s Harry Potter the same way there are people who will mindlessly buy into anything because it’s Star Wars or Marvel.
I really want to believe it will be a flop, but while it definitely won’t do as well as the movies, I’m not putting too much stock into consoomers having a backbone.
Yeah I don’t think it’ll flop unless it’s genuinely bad. Maybe ina few seasons it’ll lose viewership if it’s mid but otherwise it’s probably guaranteed a win for HBO.
Really wish that money was spent adapting other fantasy fiction though
I pirated the game and I get the appeal. The mechanics are fun and all. Although there is no Fucking way JK Rowling is getting my money.
I can’t even bring myself to pirate it tbh. I used to like Harry Potter, but it’s been completely contaminated by Rowling’s bigotry (and realising just how problematic the books are)
Mechanically it looks OK but deeply confused
Like it was a soulslike for people who suck at actual souls games but with ubisoft open world shit and it was marketed as if it was an MMO despite being single player only
Really don’t see much appeal
Nah it’s way better than Ubisoft Slop. The world is pretty small. I want a game like this set in some other universe.
sadly, the game did pretty well afaik and the franchise still prints money, it’s the meat-eating of literature
I’m hyped, but im a sicko for bad media with shitty politics
I feel like HP fans are like Pokemon fans, they consume everything, no matter how shit it is.
I think the one exception is that awful play, they all hate that one
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One of the characters, Hermione, gets mocked for being anti-slavery and the book says that she’s wrong for her beliefs because the slaves like being slaves.
Rowling then retroactively implied that Hermione could be a black woman.
Oh, and Draco Malfoy was obviously given a forced redemption. The wizard Nick Fuentes. The Dursleys, a family of skinhead trash later on were also framed as just misunderstood.
All good though, Goku solos the whole verse.
Snape’s redemption is even more pathetic.
Wizarding Nazi who called the woman he lusted for the Wizarding n-word, treated the son of said woman like absolute shit and abused schoolkids and then it’s posthumously revealed that he was actually a double agent purely because the Wizarding Nazis killed the woman mentioned previously and not because he had any kind of morals whatsoever.
But it’s so romantic to obsess over someone who rejected you for very good reasons for decades. /s
The Dursleys, a family of skinhead trash later on were also framed as just misunderstood.
Also she shot down the actually interesting theory that because Harry was a horcrux he corrupted the dursleys. Which would have it’s own problems but at least would have been an interesting twist.
Oh, and Draco Malfoy was obviously given a forced redemption. The wizard Nick Fuentes.
Nick Fuentes is (surprisingly) a grown adult, the HP characters are kids. I’m not even sure they’re 18 by the time the series ends. A 16-year-old who was raised by wizard supremacists can absolutely still redeem himself.
Rowling then retroactively implied that Hermione could be a black woman.
I hadn’t heard about this, but this somehow makes the four books’ worth of mocking her for her hair texture even worse.
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She and fellow TERF Graham Linehan have also directly encouraged violence and the invasion of privacy against not just trans people, but anyone a person even suspects might be trans.
Rowling is also a Holocaust denier and has outright denied the fact that trans people were persecuted in Nazi Germany. She is one of the defining reasons myself and other genderqueer people’s lives are being made miserable where I live.
I definitely wouldn’t consider Graham Lineham a TERF. He’s just a misogynist ghoul who also hates trans people.
Yeah there’s an Asian girl named Cho Chang and a black guy named Shacklebolt. Reads like South Park sometimes
Don’t forget the Irish kid named Seamus Finnigan who’s constantly blowing stuff up.
Honestly HBO would be better off adapting something like the First Law trilogy, burning money on Harry Potter sucks.
Man, a First Law adaptation would slap if done well.
Damn I can’t wait to not watch this show
I’m going to pirate it just to not watch it
But then you still have to watch Harry Potter
not if I pirate it
Libs: “I’m fine with genociding Palestinians because they’re LGBTphobic”
Also Libs: “How dare you shame me for giving money to the Queen of Transphobes”They were pro-queer? News to me!
I always wondered how Rowling’s internal logic worked when she literally wrote a book about some boys sneaking into a girls’ bathroom and then transitioning.
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