Piracy is always ethical. And I will pirate and watch this show.
And then you'll talk to less tech-savvy people about it, and they'll FOMO themselves into getting HBO.
Congratulations, you're doing marketing for JK!
There's no reason to engage with anything Harry Potter anymore. There's plenty of less problematic fantasy stories.
Maybe I'll kill myself when I'm done /s
Don't but that a good answer for doomers. I share media on USB for friends. No ai surveillance can beat physical sharing
There are better things to watch though. Harry Potter started as a bog standard Hero's Journey story and devolved into Rowling's weird status quo reinforcing morality tale.
Epic games literally gave away HP legacy for free. That isn't even piracy.
Not really sure who this is even for. Most people who were excited for Harry Potter shit the first time round are in their 40s. The author has fallen into a rabbit-hole of right-wing nut-baggery. The movies did a decent job and weren't really that long ago. It's not like some 70s movie where everyone is clearly flying on strings.
It's the kind of thing I expect two seasons to be shat out on Netflix or Amazon or one of the ad funded services, and then everyone forgets about it and agrees not to do it again.
I just don't know what HBO are doing in this. I normally associate them with high quality shows and a streaming service that isn't available in the UK. It just doesn't feel like something they'd be doing. Maybe they've just fallen that far.
Yeah, I really don't understand who the target demographic is for this? It's not like they are doing anything interesting with the universe, it's just the same story again.
They could have done anything with this but they are doing this. Do a different time period or something.
It's Joanne being pissed that the actors who portrayed her characters have all embraced being normal and sane human beings and refuse to have anything to do with her.
She's trying to screw them out of their royalty checks by rebooting the series.
They just know it's an easy cash grab while there are ostensibly still people obsessed with the franchise (as we know from the video game a few years ago). Adult fans in mid-careers = they have no qualms dropping $70 on a game or $12 a month on a subscription.
There are a LOT of 'central' and 'right-wingers' that love her stuff all the more for her horrible worldview, and they'll spend on it.
To be fair, there are a fuck of a lot of people who despise the current government but are conflicted about the fact that they really love the HP fantasy world.
We have 1/4 of a theme park over here that is absolutely surreal with HP stuff.
There are a LOT of ‘central’ and ‘right-wingers’ that love her stuff all the more for her horrible worldview, and they’ll spend on it.
I'm not sure what will happen this time. The comment section of the trailer is filled with racist jokes because Snape is being played by a black actor - many on the right currently view this as part of the "woke left agenda". However, as we saw with the attempted Hogwarts Legacy boycott, if a very small minority try to loudly virtue signal about this kind of topic it often backfires and turns into a viral marketing campaign instead.
rowling is throwing money at it. that's why.
I'm absolutely not into that franchise, but when a game came out that was attached to the franchise it allowed it, based on the franchise alone, to be the best seller of that year. And what ppl did back then ? A website to list every ppl that stream playing the game. What did it bring ? Im always amazed at how insufferable you are and how easy it is to just go against everything you support
Just pirate that shit and make it your guilty pleasure. You don't have to go and talk about it with ppl. Keep it irrelevant
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