Yeah a big part of JK Rowling going off the rails was how the Fantastic Beasts movies are her trying to be taken seriously doing gritty adult material -- making the Harry Potter universe deal with sex, politics, the Holocaust, etc. -- and people generally not buying ithttps://twitter.com/ErrantNerd/status/1313010045789982720 …
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Tbh I almost might like Fantastic Beasts better if they fully committed to it, like if it were an R-rated franchise instead of PG-13 Just full-on blood, gore, swearing, wizard sex, lay it on us I'm contemptuous of it partly because I know she'd never ever do that
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Fantastic Beasts 2 *invokes* the Holocaust, it *shows images related to the Holocaust*, but it isn't actually *about* the Holocaust, it never specifically names the thing it's talking about when talking about no-maj atrocities and hatred etc. And that's fucking shitty
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Wanting to have your cake and eat it too, you know, "I'm wholesome but not TOO wholesome", bleah
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Closest you can come EVEN NOW to just saying Dumbledore and Grindelwald fucked is the "Closer than brothers" line But then in interviews you're all "Oh yeah they totally had an 'intense sexual relationship'" This was the stuff everyone mocked you for before the TERF thing Jo
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I really can’t wait for the billionaires with bad opinions era to be over.
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Not to mention The Casual Vacancy, which was, um...
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Oh good lord, I just re-read the plot summary and its even worse than I remember
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My parents were watching the BBC version of Cormoran Strike and I was already groaning before I even knew what it was just because of how bad the characters were at their jobs.
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Strike, a private detective, assaults a guy in his own home to get him to confess to a gay affair, while his assistant goes "undercover" and gives her REAL NAME to the gang leader who promptedly googles her.
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