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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Same thing with the Cormoran Strike books, which likewise feel very "We Demand To Be Taken Seriously" "I am NOT just the wizard book lady, I have Important Opinions"
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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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