Anytime anything popular gets dragged here there’s always a few “let people enjoy things” and “don’t ruin peoples fun” and “don’t be a weird cynical hipster” and what have you.

Except for the most popular series of children books in history. For whatever reason that’s apparently weapons free for Hater Team 6 to go to town on. I’ve seen people say was shouldn’t ruin peoples “favorite toy” when it comes to sports, Twilight, Marvel Movies and astrology, but what makes those sacrosanct and Harry Potter fair game?

This applies somewhat to Hamilton too.

  • Gosplan14 [any]
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    3 years ago

    It's by far the most obnoxious "media as political identity" from the libs, and even when ignoring the terrible person J.K. Rowling is (which you shouldn't), it's simply not that good as a work of art.

    The first three books and movies are alright, but mostly because they're good children's novels. Then it gets sloppy. Cringy romances (and characters whose only purpose is to be that LI), baffling decisions, redemption arcs for people who don't deserve redemption (because they still believe the ideals of the organization they left), etc. There's some good plot ideas in these later books too, but it's simply too badly written to lead anywhere.

    Especially Book 7 is a slog, and didn't finish it even during my H*rry Potter phase (I did it to have something in common with a person I was interested in lmao)