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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2950 on: Mon, 28 April 2025, 07:17:40 »
Harry is a total twat, I hate the whole universe...



It comes out of a very ignorant and horrific person of an author. Nuff' said.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2951 on: Mon, 28 April 2025, 07:42:01 »

I hate the whole universe...


I disagree entirely. I read the entire series to my kids - it was our "bedtime stories" reading for over a year, we had finished all but the last book just a couple of weeks before the last one came out - and they were just at the right age, in the early stages of elementary school, to be quivering with excitement for it. And although the first movie or 2 had come out, I insisted that we finish the books before they started watching the movies.

Although JK Rowling seems to have turned into a nasty person, she crafted the HP books extremely well for her audience - the first book was short and simple, and by the end they were much longer and darker with an interesting crew of secondary characters. And as the father of 2 kids who were at just the right age to be her target audience, I appreciate her contribution to their love of literature.

That said, the movies were no better than most movie adaptations of books, but they did kinda sorta tell the stories ,,,, 

"Young Adult" fiction (aka YA) is a mixed bag with a lot of junk, and I read a good bit of it along with them. But some of it is quite good, and Scott Westerfeld also comes quickly to mind (but the movie made of "Uglies" was awful).

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2952 on: Mon, 28 April 2025, 08:22:56 »
"Young Adult" fiction (aka YA) is a mixed bag with a lot of junk, and I read a good bit of it along with them.

Developed nations export all the hardwork in the form of slavery to other nations.

Statistically speaking, experts in the field of Slavery contend that in reality there are MORE SLAVES today than 150years ago when slavery was abolished in the US.

Slavery is the result of excess consumption in the upper social class and wealthy nations.


HARRY is claiming victimhood,  only in the sense that he's got slightly less than his peers in material.  But relative to the GLOBAL perspective,  he's still a very lucky person, not working a field barely scraping enough food to eat in a day,  which represents the current VAST MAJORITY of HUMANITY.


The PLOT of Harry Potter, obscures that fact. It's the woah is me western tragedy, why must I eat pork chops while the neighbor eats lobster.  This is at the heart of everything that's wrong with the world.


The proper contrast is CITY OF JOY,  Rickshaw puller in India, Saving for his daughter's dowry, On hard times, having to sell blood.



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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2953 on: Mon, 28 April 2025, 08:28:27 »

HARRY is claiming victimhood


Well, he has had the most powerful and ruthless magician in the world obsessed with killing him.

PS - my name is also Harry and I have been profoundly grateful for the life I have since I was a small child
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2954 on: Mon, 28 April 2025, 08:30:13 »

HARRY is claiming victimhood


Well, he has had the most powerful and ruthless magician in the world obsessed with killing him.

PS - my name is also Harry and I have been profoundly grateful for the life I have since I was a small child


This is not a criticism of You, the Fohat.dig'n's   

We just have to innoculate people on where humanity is headed.    We're all going to be living in Indian Slums in 20-30 years.

Just be mentally prepared to pull Rickshaws and maybe having to sell blood more often than not.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2955 on: Tue, 29 April 2025, 15:56:18 »
Porzadny Czlowiek / A Decent man

Polish mini series made for HBO so you can watch it in english too.
One of the better ones I've seen recently, really enjoyed it. Dont know if in english its going to be as good as original, but I highly recommend it.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2956 on: Fri, 09 May 2025, 16:44:50 »
One Piece comes back after a 6 month hiatus

...then immediately goes back on hiatus after only 6 new episodes

It's like a joke at this point