[ SECRET POST #4422 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4422 ⌋

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

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[Jimmy Carr]


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[Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Stargate Atlantis]


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[Harry Potter]


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Comments

[hey_hey_hey]

christ you people take the HP books so fucking seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because our lives are otherwise hollow and devoid of meaning or pleasure.

But hey, it could be worse! We *could* be spending our time telling other people what to talk about :D

[(Anonymous)]

Which AYRT is not in fact doing, but hey.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, backlash/turning of the tide/whatever you want to call it that's been happening over the last few of years, towards the HP books is...really intense.

All anybody seems to what to talk about is how all the once-beloved characters are actually the worst, the once raved-over world-building is actually garbage, and the plots people stayed up all night in a state of ecstatic fanaticism to see through to the end, are actually lazy and lame.

It's not a response I can relate to at all. Maybe it's because I was a fan of the books, but never a "Fan" in the fandom sense of the word. I've never thought the books were perfect, but I always thought the series was an exceptional phenomenon I was lucky to experience as it occurred, and that's still how I feel about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. For me personally it's definitely a case where there are some parts that I really dislike but a lot of parts I love even despite the flaws. But there do seem to be some people for whom the books are just bad across the board. And at that point, like, OK, that's a valid point of view, but also at thay point you're not really a fan of the series anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

People do focus so much on the flaws, especially with the characters. Every character in the novels is flawed but that doesn't make all of them irredeemable or worth hating.

[(Anonymous)]

Part of the backlash is she won't shut UP. Seriously, the movies were coming out with the books plus four years. Then she kept bringing it up on twitter, bringing it up on twitter. And now she's doing the Fantastic Beasts series (and mucking it up.)

If she'd kept QUIET. Maybe, just maybe, people wouldn't be so willing to dig in and go "okay, these books aren't as great as we thought they were."

I mean, Twilight. Is anyone still talking Twilight? No. Meyers has the sense to keep QUIET.

I agree the books were a phenomenon. One that never hooked me. But I was about 5 years too old and already into Star Wars and Pern.

[(Anonymous)]

Part of the backlash is she won't shut UP.

I get that this bothers people. It doesn't bother me. When I'm not interested in the new material and her tweets and such (which is most of the time), I just don't pay any attention to it. When I am interested, I check it out. That's it.

[philstar22]

I think for me, it was just that I loved the early books, but the last two books were notedly weaker than the earlier ones (and 5 also was a bit weaker than the first 4, though not as much as 6 and 7). And I moved on to other fandoms and books that seemed a lot stronger to me. So my mind started making comparisons, and I started seeing more and more flaws (or at least things that seem like flaws to me).

I still like the world. I'm currently rereading some HP fics. But I feel like JK came up with these ideas that she just didn't have the writing skill to make them reach their full potential. I think there are a lot of fics set in that universe that are just better than the books.

But that's just me. I'm happy there are people who still love them.

[(Anonymous)]

I get where you're coming from but I also get why, in this example, somebody would have an issue with the bullying stuff in particular.