#434

Anyone seen the Harry Potter musical? [gonna leave this thread and live in hiding for a while, now]

#435

“Is this a Duggee I see before me?”

#436

community.drownedinsound.com has @Witches, are we childish??!!!?

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#437

LARPers freaked me out in Berlin so I’m fully on board with wiping them out.

But my pal does Napoleonic reenactments so we’ll need to be careful about the precise terms.

#438

I’m almost certain they’ll have done a Shakespeare episode, though I haven’t seen it yet.

#439

You’re childish, you big poo.

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#442

Budgie the little helicopter was just a jimbo and the jet set derivative imho

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#444

JIMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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#445

personally disagree with xylos assertion that harry potter is a pro-apartheid commentary. i see in the mise en scene far more echoes of and allusions to the break up of yugoslavia and the subsequent wars of the 90s :thinking:

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#446

HP is obviously a good, if problematic, work of imaginative fiction, it couldn’t have got as big as it is otherwise. But the themes in the books, on the other hand, lack imagination, are simplistic and are clearly meant for a child’s brain to easily grasp (which is why liberals love it so much). The division between what it is for something to be child-like and adult-like is itself a complex topic that children might struggle with and is, ironically, something that His Dark Materials, the far superior series, explores in the most beautiful way.

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#447

I think the major problem with HP is that it got big. The first two books are very light and not written with Big Themes really in mind. Then it became a Thing and Rowling had to fully realise a world from the childish fantasy of a hidden world of wizards who are hoarding their almost limitless power for some reason. It’s never entirely comfortable and Rowling wasn’t proficient enough, or simply didn’t want to clearly examine that dynamic in an accessible fashion.

#448

I probably shouldn’t admit that I’m seeing the play tonight and tomorrow.

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#449

Sorry didnt mean to reply to parsefone.

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#450

we’re starting a podcast

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#451

I like at country shows when you get the pro-larpers putting on a performance in the main ring and the commentator has to talk about whats going on, but he’s the posh guy who usually commentates seriously on the show jumping and announces the winning breeders but now he’s got to talk about the black knight’s revenge

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#454

I know we’re through the looking glass and satire news sites basically predict the future etc, but seriously Danaerys spends the last chapter of the last ASOIAF shitting herself alone in a wasteland with her dragon or something, so I fully expect JK to say this at some point

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#455

on the subject of Game of Thrones my housemate was watching some youtube thing a while back going into great detail on the characters’ family trees. it went back generations and generations endlessly on all these distant ancestors of the actual characters. very strange that this exists.

might make one for the ancestors of Eastenders characters all the way back to the Regency period

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#457

I love falling down rabbit holes watching fantasy lore videos, particularly about World of Warcraft. All well and good, but creators seem to fail to grasp that the author(s) literally make it all up.

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