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You are approaching it from perspective of anglosphere, probably from USA or UK. Personally, i read portals, regional ( from SE Europe), Italy, Austria and Germany. Italian portals for most part ignore anglosphere all together and focus on internal stuff. Austiran and german portals, they are...

All the cool 80&90s cartoons, be it sf or fantasy. Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Nathan Never comics. ST: TOS, Space: Above and beyond. SF B movies with cool covers i rented in local video store. Anime, i got hooked pretty early on anime, with Akira, Evangelion, Gundam, Legend of the galactic...

We got it later, in mid 90s. In my grandparents building, they had one antenna on the roof of the building and then signal from that one was routed trough regular tv cables in the building. Call it "building wide cable tv", just free. Before that, people had big fishbone antennas, and depending...

What people? I'm talking about international casual fans and casual fans in general. Regular people, mostly older now, for whom HP is just part of childhood nostalgia. They have bigger things to care than what some author of kids books said on social media. Things like rising prices of...

You would be surprised. Franchise ended, people grew up, had new interests and didn't follow author on social media. Specially outside of USA. Controversies are mostly on english speaking side of social media, and mostly twitter/x or reddit or specialized forums, it didn't really bleed in on...

That would be 83, right? Funny thing is, half my friends are born in 77-81, half are 86-89. But, we all had pretty similar childhood and grew up in similar way. Latchkey kids, riding bikes or on local school playground playing football till street lights came on, playing pirated games on...

It has solid potential to be big hit. It hit's on nostalgia factor. Generation that grew up with HP books and original movies is generation that now has kids that are in that age bracket first 2-3 books are aimed to. For them, new HP is perfect way to introduce their kids to bellowed franchise...

Thank you for answering. I figured you probably read it as an adult, just didn't want to presume it. I was 10-11 when first book came out and about 19-20 when last one came out, so i read it "in real time", being close to age of Harry. Lot of what you wrote about in your previous post, you don't...

I'm 38 so, do the math :D That would be now considered older millennial.

@Swanosaurus Out of curiosity, how old were you when you first read books?

Pretty much this. First 3 books are essentially books for kids aged 8-12 with heavy focus on school life. World building is in service of the plot. "It's not that deep bro" perfectly describes level of world building. And in books 4-7, it doesn't get any better, although it switches to more...

They also view muggle tech as crude, primitive and beneath them. But main thing is, HP is kids/young adult book series. Factor in that guns are that big culturaly in uk or europe in general, and it's easy reason why no one uses them. You also don't see anyone using cell phones ( Nokia 5510 was...

I'm following thread about this same topic on another forum (general one). In 60-ish post so far, 0 mentions of Rawling, her politics or politics in general, just pure HP based discussion and occasional shitting on studios for milking bellowed franchise. Here, on forum with geeks and fantasy/sf...

It can be done. So far, The Pitt has managed to do seasson a year. 8 episodes per season isn't that much, so it's realistic to keep it on yearly release schedule. Child actors grow up fast, specially in that preteen to teen years.

She's worth somewhere between 1.5-2 billion dollars. Someone would assume that's enough money to last you a few life times. I know, it's idealistic view. As for her view, i'm not touching that with 11 foot pole. I'm just sad that magical world created by her is "tainted".