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Post by Tim on Sept 5, 2020 11:20:14 GMT -5
CTV Sci-Fi is celebrating the Labour Day weekend by having a Harry Potter marathon! Are they that out of touch? Don't they read the news about Jo Rowling's Twitter rants? By airing those films, they are supporting, albeit indirectly, a raging transphobe. Why hasn't CTV Sci-Fi severed all ties with that franchise?
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 5, 2020 13:50:29 GMT -5
CTV Sci-Fi is celebrating the Labour Day weekend by having a Harry Potter marathon! Are they that out of touch? Don't they read the news about Jo Rowling's Twitter rants? By airing those films, they are supporting, albeit indirectly, a raging transphobe. Why hasn't CTV Sci-Fi severed all ties with that franchise?
HP has f**k all to do with either Labor Day or sci-fi. Out of all the film franchises they could be showing, why that one? Why not something like Star Trek, instead, that's actually sci-fi and nowhere near as toxic or controversial? Is there even still a demand for HP movies?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 5, 2020 14:12:34 GMT -5
I know, Harry Potter is fantasy, not sci-fi. Plus they always seem to be showing them on the ABC Family channel along with the Narnia films. They could show the original Star Wars trilogy or like Betty said the Star Trek films if the network wants to show family friendly sci fi
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Post by Tim on Sept 5, 2020 17:12:10 GMT -5
Like its U.S. counterpart, CTV Sci-Fi has redefined the meaning of Sci-Fi (thankfully, they didn't change their name into something stupid, like the U.S. one did). Many of the movies they show now cannot be construed as Science Fiction (movies like Under Siege, for example).
However, what gets me is that, by showing HP movies, they are putting money in Jo Rowling's pockets, money she does not deserve.
As I said, I cannot believe that they are so out of touch.
Another Canadian channel, Crime & Investigation, used to show Live P.D. ad nauseam. They would give literally over hours of Prime Time for this show (probably because it was cheap). However, in the wake of George Floyd, C&I dropped Live P.D. like a hot potato. At least they could read the land.
CTV Sci-Fi, on the other hand, still seems to think it's the early 00's, when Harry Potter was mega-popular and Jo Rowling was still respected by all (because she had yet to show her true colours).
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 5, 2020 19:38:30 GMT -5
Like, the HP movies aren't even that good. The first two movies are just straight retellings of the books, while the rest of the movies are messy, slapped-together things that chop out major plot points and are barely understandable to anyone who hasn't read the books. They aren't even a hill worth dying on, especially in the name of a transphobic author.
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Post by Tim on Sept 5, 2020 23:25:06 GMT -5
And yet CTV Sci-Fi seems unaware of this. Wish I could get him touch with them and inform them that, by showing these movies they are giving their support to a transphobic bigot.
As I said, whenever those movies are shown, money goes into her pocket.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 6, 2020 10:54:43 GMT -5
Sadly, CTV Sci-Fi isn't alone in this. I still see Buzzfeed constantly spamming HP quizzes and listicles without irony, while barely giving any attention to JKR's transphobia. I guess her estate is giving them money for promotion, just like The Mouse so blatantly is (literally every other article posted to that place is a D*sney quiz or listicle).
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Post by Tim on Sept 6, 2020 12:02:04 GMT -5
You would think that Buzzfeed would have more sense than that.
Or they just don't care, and just take the money and run.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 6, 2020 14:27:08 GMT -5
You would think that Buzzfeed would have more sense than that.
Or they just don't care, and just take the money and run.
Buzzfeed is a clickbait hole, through and through. Occasionally, they'll post a good news story, but their pop culture/entertainment sections are 99% quiz and listicle brainrot. And, soooo very influenced by whoever's paying them, too. If Buzzfeed isn't shilling HP, then it's GOT, the KarTRASHians, or one of Mickey Mouse's 99 franchises.
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Post by Sunday on Sept 16, 2020 9:06:28 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Sept 16, 2020 11:23:06 GMT -5
Good grief.
Yeah, she's killed her own career. There is no coming back from this.
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Post by Squad 51 on Sept 16, 2020 13:42:55 GMT -5
Great. Anyone can live how they want. No matter the gender if you ask me.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 16, 2020 14:41:54 GMT -5
JKR's own pseudonym (Robert Galbraith) comes from a notorious proponent of gay conversion therapy. Of course, she denies it, but it's waaaaaay too close to be merely coincidental. Also, the HP books, for all of their "progressive" messaging, had some rather antiquated views on gender and sexuality just below the surface. In hindsight, shit like the Book 7 Epilogue and total lack of canon-in-the-text queer characters (sorry, Dumbledore) should've been a giant red flag that she wasn't as "progressive" as she seemed.
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Post by Tim on Sept 16, 2020 17:18:15 GMT -5
Interesting. I didn't know that.
But you're right, no way is this just a coincidence.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Oct 10, 2020 11:49:45 GMT -5
This is a very good article: The Time Has Come to Let Go of 'Harry Potter'I feel like this kind of thing inevitably happens whenever a franchise gets too big, and people start letting it take over their entire lives. Way too many people from my generation have an unhealthy attachment to HP, whether it's defining themselves based on what Hogwarts house a computer sorted them into or staging real-life quidditch matches. I don't think even Star Trek and Star Wars fans ever got this bad. And, let's face it, JKR never deserved the hero-worship people piled onto her in the first place. The HP books weren't original or groundbreaking in anything, and their vaguely "anti-racist" message was always rudimentary and problematic. At best, the HP books were above-average YA fantasy stories that entertained a lot of people, and I think people would've spared themselves a lot of pain had they left the books at that and not turn them into a serious allegory for RL or start hailing JKR as some kind of folk hero/literary genius. The more we lifted JKR up, the higher her chances of falling down.
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