[ SECRET POST #4384 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4384 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mystery Science Theater 3000/The Flintstones]


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03.
[Celebrity chef and food critic Andrew Zimmern]


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04.
[Fantastic Beasts 2]


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05.
[Jake Lacy]


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06.
[Romeo + Juliet]


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07.
[Anna Faris and Chris Evans in "What's Your Number?"]


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08.
['Into You' by Ariana Grande]








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Comments

[ayebydan]

She told us she had more in her head and so I don't think it was a hugely bad thing to hope she would share it. Star Trek, Star Wars, Middle Earth ect all started as a set of something finite that opened up and had more information given outside of their original media. (Trek not so much as it was a continuous flow).

JK just executed it badly.

And I think far too many forget she wrote a children series. Other series just do not get held up to the same scrutiny and so when I see some comments of 'well nostalgia or looking back or'. I mean I started reading them at age seven so I did not know enough about the world to question where the Black or Jewish characters were or why Cho's name was SO bad. Especially as where I lived and even the cities I visited as a child, JK's world WAS pretty accurate. It was growing up that I learned to go 'huh...actually'.

Also like, we're asshats on the internet. She's a grown ass rich as hell woman. She can feel free to ignore us aaaaanytime.

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely agreeing, especially with the comment about HP being a kids series. It's old enough now that a lot of the kids who read it have grown up and are dismayed that the series didn't grow up with them. Being a children's series doesn't mean you can't criticize it, of course, but I also think that there's merit in realizing that no, a series that was initially written as a whimsical fantasy for seven year olds will probably not stand up to the same standards of worldbuilding as one written for adults. And honestly sometimes it feels a bit bad faith criticism to me, like I've seen people criticise HP by noting how HP's worldbuilding pales compared to, say, LOTR and it's like yes because one of those was written specifically for kids and the other was not (and also to be fair, one was written by a man who could afford to spend years carefully crafting and creating his world and the other was at least at the start written by a single mom with an unstable financial situation just trying to get by).