Television

Hemotep said:
Already was pretty meh on it because of JK Terfing, but the show runners they announced for the Harry Potter TV adaptation leave a lot to be desired. Very middle of the road HBO CVs. I would be more excited if it was based on the official retcon version called Giuseppe Stromboli, who went to live with James' goomar and was forced to live in a bag of breadcrumbs.

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Who is the audience for a Harry Potter tv series? I would assume it is aimed at adult, even though they are children's books. Nostalgia can only get you so far.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Who is the audience for a Harry Potter tv series? I would assume it is aimed at adult, even though they are children's books. Nostalgia can only get you so far.
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I think it's going to be very popular, especially with them claiming they'll stay close to the source material. It still has an absolutely massive fan base. The video game that came out a couple years ago won a ton of awards and sold very well. Plus it being on HBO is likely to pull in even people who didn't read the books or watch the movies.
 
Hemotep said:
I think it's going to be very popular, especially with them claiming they'll stay close to the source material. It still has an absolutely massive fan base. The video game that came out a couple years ago won a ton of awards and sold very well. Plus it being on HBO is likely to pull in even people who didn't read the books or watch the movies.
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I still don’t get the allure of the books, but I was an adult when they came out so they did not cast their spell on me (sorry for the pun). Plus not having kids, I wasn’t able to share that connection with the books or movies with them.
 
Hemotep said:
I think it's going to be very popular, especially with them claiming they'll stay close to the source material. It still has an absolutely massive fan base. The video game that came out a couple years ago won a ton of awards and sold very well. Plus it being on HBO is likely to pull in even people who didn't read the books or watch the movies.
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Loved HP as a kid, both the movies and books, but did not get the game, and will not be giving Joanne anymore of my money. Begging millennials between 30 and 40 to move on, read/watch something else.
 
ayayrawn said:
Loved HP as a kid, both the movies and books, but did not get the game, and will not be giving Joanne anymore of my money. Begging millennials between 30 and 40 to move on, read/watch something else.
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As an old millennial, I never even watched one of the movies until I met my wife, who is a few years younger than me and the first books were around when she was the right age (I just looked it up and I was starting high school when the first book came out).
 
LeSamourai said:
As an old millennial, I never even watched one of the movies until I met my wife, who is a few years younger than me and the first books were around when she was the right age (I just looked it up and I was starting high school when the first book came out).
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Funny enough everyone I knew who was super into it was Gen X. I read the books as an adult and 4-7 were fun light fantasy novels. But JK is an asshole, not quite Kanye the abusive Nazi sex pest level, but still on the side of the spectrum of people the world could use none of.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
So they are divas then
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I mean no one ever has to like anything, but not liking things (beyond terrible people like she is as a person) that people have never tried and lots of other people like is always kinda weird to me no matter what it is. People like different stuff, so it just never makes sense to me 🤷

Not saying you ever need to try it, most people die never trying a ton of stuff, but I love new things and want to judge things for myself, which is why I pretty much universally don't like reading critics until I've checked stuff out myself.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
I kid a kid. I’m just picking fun at fine. I’m sure the Harry Potter movies and books are good.
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It's cool, I'm really not wanting to defend them, haha. Just think a lot of things get hated on just because they're popular. And a lot of popular stuff is not good imo, but I still like to see what the fuss is about myself. Plus I low-key love everything Daniel Radcliffe has done since then. And the other two main actors seem like they turned out pretty great too despite being child actors in such a huge franchise. Rupert Grint (I think that's his name?) was really good in that M. Night show on Apple until he M. Nighted all over it.
 
When 90% of everything is crap (Sturgeon's Law), fine can be pretty good.

EDIT: I post this to clarify that I don't mean fine as an insult. I was a pretentious literary-minded high schooler when the first book came out, so I was never the intended audience. I like a lot of books, movies, TV, and music that are fine.
 
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