yet I feel I have to mention how much I hate JK Rowling every time I talk about them.
I get that in way but on the other hand it's like – do we really have to put this disclaimer in front of it every time? I don't know. Maybe. I get that you and I and I guess everyone with compassion wants to seperate themselves from her social media misinformation and whatever hatred she is spreading. I think when you say "separate yourself from the problematic aspects of her books" or in extension the FB movies … though they are not so prominent there yet – I'm not sure I agree. I think this is something we need to acknowledge and need be kept aware of, so that when we consume other media, we will be able to identify and expose it. I mean for me as an adult reader and perhaps also because of my heritage, a lot of these things were a lot more clear to me on the first read though then I read some interviews with her where she overexplained things (like the HIV and werewolf thing) that I didn't really understand from the text itself as such ... it's just a lot what is wrong there. So I don't think you should embrace this as good ideas but cutting them out of canon/changing them and separating yourself them is also not a good idea in my personal opinion. It's there, and we need to acknowledge these things as part of a flawed canon.
I felt a lot of it was the general "canon is ew" vibe I felt around fandom
My limited experience with this fandom was that it was all about canon unless it was about male slash and SSHG. Both of which is not my cup of tea. But okay if it's yours. But I have to say canon itself is, apart from the bits that I felt were really problematic, fine/whatever by me... I just have this problem with with the Epilogue and JKR wanting to dictate through Pottermore how anything in this world is regulated in detail so that it is really stifling for anyone who is imaging anything else. Like when she wrote that Cho married some Muggle. It's oppressive and I don't consider it canon though apparently her fans do? Why do this? Why not let people come up with their own ideas like oh idek Cho eventually gets engaged to Oliver Wood and they are the power couple of the Quidditch World. I also do not understand how JKR can say that The Cursed Child is canon when it openly contradicts her novels in parts.
To me there are a lot of problems in canon but they are so deeply ingrained that they cannot be fixed. On the other hand, there is no denying that JKR is not a bad writer and has brought together a lot of materials from different sources to craft a semi-orginal but interesting story with HP. For me it was always Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch meets WWII to a degree with some other Enid Blyton-esque adventures thrown in and other little bits and bobs here and there. Maybe why I find FB more compelling because there is more going on with more adult and female characters.
I didn't really like the last movie, but know a lot of people who loved it.
The extended cut was a bit better because there was more more show and less tell. But I agree that the regular version suffered terribly from an enormous amount of lengthy exposition. I particularly hated JKR killing off Leta for the sake of bring Newt and Theseus closer together in their manpain. As uncomfortable the whole Nagini controversy made me to an extent I have to say that Claudia Kim and Nagini were easily the best part of the whole movie, one of the reasons why I'm incredibly excited for this and need this series to continue and end properly.
I almost feel like enthusiasm about anything needs to be muted these days.
I feel like we are not really living in a super enthusiastic world. And you want to be careful who you are sharing this enthusiasm with lest it gets dampened immediately or you are told you are wrong to feel that way.
I think about posting but then I'm like will anybody reply even?
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Date: 2021-11-15 02:35 pm (UTC)I get that in way but on the other hand it's like – do we really have to put this disclaimer in front of it every time? I don't know. Maybe. I get that you and I and I guess everyone with compassion wants to seperate themselves from her social media misinformation and whatever hatred she is spreading. I think when you say "separate yourself from the problematic aspects of her books" or in extension the FB movies … though they are not so prominent there yet – I'm not sure I agree. I think this is something we need to acknowledge and need be kept aware of, so that when we consume other media, we will be able to identify and expose it. I mean for me as an adult reader and perhaps also because of my heritage, a lot of these things were a lot more clear to me on the first read though then I read some interviews with her where she overexplained things (like the HIV and werewolf thing) that I didn't really understand from the text itself as such ... it's just a lot what is wrong there. So I don't think you should embrace this as good ideas but cutting them out of canon/changing them and separating yourself them is also not a good idea in my personal opinion. It's there, and we need to acknowledge these things as part of a flawed canon.
I felt a lot of it was the general "canon is ew" vibe I felt around fandom
My limited experience with this fandom was that it was all about canon unless it was about male slash and SSHG. Both of which is not my cup of tea. But okay if it's yours. But I have to say canon itself is, apart from the bits that I felt were really problematic, fine/whatever by me... I just have this problem with with the Epilogue and JKR wanting to dictate through Pottermore how anything in this world is regulated in detail so that it is really stifling for anyone who is imaging anything else. Like when she wrote that Cho married some Muggle. It's oppressive and I don't consider it canon though apparently her fans do? Why do this? Why not let people come up with their own ideas like oh idek Cho eventually gets engaged to Oliver Wood and they are the power couple of the Quidditch World. I also do not understand how JKR can say that The Cursed Child is canon when it openly contradicts her novels in parts.
To me there are a lot of problems in canon but they are so deeply ingrained that they cannot be fixed. On the other hand, there is no denying that JKR is not a bad writer and has brought together a lot of materials from different sources to craft a semi-orginal but interesting story with HP. For me it was always Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch meets WWII to a degree with some other Enid Blyton-esque adventures thrown in and other little bits and bobs here and there. Maybe why I find FB more compelling because there is more going on with more adult and female characters.
I didn't really like the last movie, but know a lot of people who loved it.
The extended cut was a bit better because there was more more show and less tell. But I agree that the regular version suffered terribly from an enormous amount of lengthy exposition. I particularly hated JKR killing off Leta for the sake of bring Newt and Theseus closer together in their manpain. As uncomfortable the whole Nagini controversy made me to an extent I have to say that Claudia Kim and Nagini were easily the best part of the whole movie, one of the reasons why I'm incredibly excited for this and need this series to continue and end properly.
I almost feel like enthusiasm about anything needs to be muted these days.
I feel like we are not really living in a super enthusiastic world. And you want to be careful who you are sharing this enthusiasm with lest it gets dampened immediately or you are told you are wrong to feel that way.
I think about posting but then I'm like will anybody reply even?