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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It might be that a different idiom would work better when trying to describe this kind of thing, as “too seriously” implies a defect in the seriousness level. Whereas reacting badly to / blustering over the problem being mooted suggests a creator not being serious *enough.*
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(Also, anytime i end up in a Twitter conversation with Diane Duane in it i privately squee a little. Or maybe more than a little.)
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Here I am, extremely late to the party to suggest that you mean "self-important"
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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