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it's been noted before but Harry Potter is ultimately a children's series with suitably exaggerated mythic elements that relate to the target audience's lives in ways more muted, nuanced and realistic portrayals wouldn't. so: Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs (he shares a tiny room with his brother in a cramped council house)! Snape is an abusive monster (he's a strict teacher that doesn't comfort and coddle you like your nursery school teacher did)! Dumbledore hides the truth, keeps secrets and acts erratically for no reason (adults' lives are strange and they regularly have conversations you don't understand)! etc etc also with regard to house elves I think Rowling is specifically parodying "right-on" left-wing student politics of the 80s-90s, in which well-meaning but distant middle-class educated types become very invested in worthy causes regardless of the actual needs or lived experiences of the people they are fighting for. Rowling is I think a fairly standard New Labour liberal, not a Tory in the aristocratic tradition, so "serving classes know their place" probably doesn't apply which isn't to say she handles any of this particularly deftly or well, of course
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can't wait to watch the movie about the aliens who don't do anything
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Burkion posted:
no no, he's talking about the four elements: earth, fire, water and asia
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:There’s an Esquire interview where he whines about how getting huge only exacerbated his body dysmorphia. hoisted by his own PED-art
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on a very base level I did appreciate The Suicide Squad managing to hit the notes of a suicide mission/heist movie, like the initial mission premise, the hidden agenda, the rogue agent and so on. the Ayer movie seemed a little muddled in that respect (presumably because of the rewrites/re-edit?)
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Loki: not about timelines intersecting. TVA makes sure all universes follow a basic script (timeline, as in a literal line of events over time) that results in no Kangs. without TVA, the universes diverge as each timeline varies, each resulting in a different Kang. as TVA exists outside time and interferes throughout history, this process is retroactive (with some degree of handwavery to make a linear storyline for the audience) e: you see the ring of universes at the end - multiple threads that loop around in a circle, because they all follow the same script/timeline. when they are allowed to vary, they fracture and offshoots travel out in all directions - different scripts/timelines Lt. Danger fucked around with this message at 03:09 on May 8, 2022 |
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movies should be watched in silence or not at all 
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my son is also called Blackagar
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