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I've only watched the movies, and they're pretty timeless; with wonderful concepts and majesty... and the first three movies had a fantastic soundtrack. The older actors put so much into their performances and added such brilliant personal touches to the characters, it's super admirable. It's an extremely marketable series for all ages surrounded in magic, mystery, and drama. That being said, I'm probably not gonna read the books but I know a lot of differences. I know one of the directors was insistent about Hermione x Harry, and that's honestly the only ship that makes sense in the films- Ron and Ginny were badly written and poorly played in the movies. They, including Harry, Sirius, and Remus if not more- apparently had way more personality and complexity in the books. It's tragic they're so blank in the film.

Thankfully, we still have some gems. The creative high school drop-out twins who end up with the most successful business around... Luna- the neurodivergent airhead who is shockingly down to earth despite her belief in conspiracies... Voldemort, with a fascinating inferiority complex as an orphan halfblood, who has carefully manipulated those of high society to follow him despite his status and upbringing. His obsession with power ironically has led him to his own downfall, as the "chosen one” to defeat him was ironically, chosen by Voldemort himself, and in some ways, is also Voldemort himself. (The Horcrux) That's poetry right there. There are extremely iconic characters. The films "improved" some stuff though- removing the "elves LIKE slavery" nonsense- removing the convoluted "save my son from jail" nonsense with Barty Crouch Jr, though personally they should have gone a step further and just let Madeye still be loyal to Voldemort. Snape's character was also turned a good guy- Harry naming his son after him in the films makes more sense. In the books he's a slimey asshole. Hedwig died free, choosing to save Harry instead of dying in a dumb cage. Harry breaking the elderwand at the end of the film was symbolic.

Harry Potter's world as a whole has plenty of issues, though. Everyone uses owl feathers but not ballpoint pens. Or better yet, pencils- or even typewriters. If they can get a car to fly or a radio to work, they can absolutely bring phones or video game consoles to school. It's such a missed opportunity to not have The Cursed Child play showcase a modern wizarding society with intermixed technology. There are only three illegal curses? But the date-rape drugs (love potions) are fucking LEGAL?! Horrible oversight, absolutely stupid. (The Avada Kedavra spell is basically a gun, it leads to terrible fight scenes.)

The School is extremely dangerous and more children should be dead, even with magic at play. (trolls, moving stairwells, a tree that beats you to death, a basilisk, dementors, flying around at high speeds on brooms with little to no protective gear, designing a trials-event that attempts to kill you via drowning, dragons, and killer plant mazes, etc) this school should have been shut down YEARS ago, holy shit.

Cedric Diggory was such a one off character- Ron was originally meant to die, and it shows. The "I am Lord Voldemort" Tom Riddle anagram was stupid. Tonks having a kid with a man 13 years older than her despite both her and Remus being EXTREMELY queer coded was grossly disappointing to me. Fleur and her fellow classmates were written in a terribly sexist manner in the Goblet of Fire. I don't know if that's how they were written in the book, but that was awful to watch. There's plenty of issues with the series, but there are a lot of things that made it enjoyable too. ~~~

As for the JK Rowling controversy, I’ve skimmed this topic before, but I didn’t really get into the meat of it. HP is taboo to even mention in a lot of spaces of the internet because the creator supports transphobic legislation. After seeing a post telling me to kill myself earlier for liking Harry Potter, I’d like to be a bit more in depth about my opinion on engagement below:

Anyways what's your favourite character, and if you were to rewrite something or someone about the show what would it be?(NOT COUNTING PHANTOM PLANET which knowing you, there definetly is plenty you'd like to criticize about the end)

Hi yes. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched it though. Danny and Vlad were my favorite characters. I liked Jazz too.

I’d have to rewatch the show to think of a rewrite.i remember preferring Danny and Valerie over Danny and Sam, i might have written them as the main ship.

Honestly I just recall the series had a lot of loose ends. We were just starting Valerie’s storyline and Dani’s storyline. Dan Phantom was also locked away. Idk I just know there was plenty of material to continue the series for at least another season, would have preferred that.

I’ve watched a few episodes and it’s very cute!! I was relieved when Jimmy got Kara as a girlfriend and wasn’t the third wheel the entire show

Superman’s cousin being evil(technically) is an interesting twist and purpose for Kara’s character… She sort of feels like a legitimate star of the show at some point, even an actual threat or interesting character for a time, not just “the Superman for the girl audience” I’ve sometimes seen her as

There’s a handful of episodes if I remember correctly, where Lois and Jimmy, the two powerless humans, help Superman take down an enemy. On one hand I sort of appreciate that they’re given stuff to do, a way to help Superman, but on the other hand I’m like “one day soon you guys are gonna be in over your heads and die ASDFGHJKL”

I have not, but I've seen the play through. I don't usually do choice based games? I mean, undertale is technically one I guess? Maybe?

I'd say my top fav tv show might be Arcane as of right now? Favorite film..... Animated film maybe Wreck it Ralph. Unsure about live action movies, but I love a lot of stuff from the 80s and 90s, I consider that the golden age of film!

since we now know you like TADC, who is your favorite character? :3

Hi yes!! I plan to review it at some point, but I’m waiting for it to finish before I do so. This is the kind of show where I can’t predict what’s gonna happen next. They sort of brought up a ton of new stuff last episode- and it feels like we are dropping some plot lines and instead turning them into red herrings which has me a little confused how this will all end.

For now what I can say with certainty is: it’s a genuinely funny, mystifying show with some good character introspection. Current criticism: the dialogue has been going a little down hill when they started shoving in way too many repetitive “therapy sessions” and I’m really confused what they’re trying to do with Ragatha’s character.

Unsure how you got “I’m right you’re wrong” from “I can’t believe I’m still getting these asks”

I have not played either of those indeed-

But! I did recently watch a playthrough of the original Silent Hill and it was really funny because it was just a guy wandering through endless fog who gets attacked by a rabid dog and pterodactyl every 3 minutes

I watched Markiplier play Amnesia when I was a kid. I've also seen playthroughs of Fran Bow and the Evil Within 1.

I like some horror video games, I think my first exposure was Outlast, while Little Nightmares / Renanimal are more attuned to my personal taste.

FNAF's jumpscares were cheap, but the aspects of 8-bit storytelling, a man's shadow hanging, and Foxy running at you when the others froze in the face of the camera were unexpected and that's what made them great to the overall horror factor. I lost interest after the third when the story got too complicated and they started introducing weird hallucinogenic gas into the equation.

I'm also not keen on horror genres shrugging and blaming everything on a religious cult that summoned demons. Renaimal appears to have done that, and it felt out of place. Outlast 2 pulled something like that too. Just not my cup of tea is all.