Television ‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell

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Stuart Heritage has scribbled a ridiculous and slightly threatening article for the Guardian today under the above headline Such wilful misrepresentation of JK Rowling’s views after all this time can surely only be fuelled by misogyny?

It’s also as delusional as the people who believe you can change sex.
They wish she was as unpopular as they’d like her to be. Unfortunately for them, she’s not.

From the article:* *

“Parkinson has come in for especially sustained attacks, given that her breakout role was in The IT Crowd, made by Graham Linehan”

The actual reason is because she is a woman and women always far more criticism than men.

The whole article feels a little threatening to me. Do Harry Potter and we will punish you for many years.

It will launch the careers of some and it will relaunch the careers of others.

I'm sure they will get over it.

Especially since the bubble is bursting. Anyone shouting abuse ought to look at Simone Biles for instructions on how be a dickhead and get your PR to do a damage limitation exercise for your career.

The whole article is a threat.

If that's the image transactivism wants to push then they are welcome to. It won't end well.

This is a really shitty piece of shit stirring masquerading as disinterested journalism.

I have a feeling this series is going to be a huge flop. Nothing to do with the controversy surrounding JKR - I think they will try to be too faithful to the books and it won't translate well to the screen; at the same time there will be inevitable minor differences so the die-hards won't be satisfied either. So I doubt it will run for a decade; it'll be cancelled long before that. The actors have nothing to worry about. If I'm right and I'm still around I will come back and post "I told you so" on this thread.

Walk away....because of misogynist bullies like you, Stuart Heritage?

What a lovely progressive message from the Guardian there.

Why on earth is Parkinson linked with Linehan’s views ? The first series aired in 2006, so she would have signed in 2005 at the latest. Lineman didn’t start speaking out for at least a decade after that.
Women being responsible for men’s actions again, no matter how tenuous the link between them.

I presume she hasn't recanted for her sins.

Remember the campaign to boycott Hogwarts Legacy?

It sold 34 million copies

Does she need to say her Dylan Mulvaneys (or is that Mulvanies?) whilst being driven through a town naked, having shit thrown at her?

Archive link in case you don't want to give the Guardian clicks: https://archive.ph/N9OMl

Just read this and absolutely disgusted by it. The headline. Decades of social media hell? Only if deluded & reactionary misogynists have their way, Stuart.

I wonder why the Guardian didn’t open it up for comments to collect a bit of pleasing reinforcement of Stuart H’s view that there will be a witch hunt and subsequent career ruination of everyone tangentially involved with JK Rowling …🧐🤣

I read that earlier: what a horrible article.

It’s a rare day when they open even a tangentially trans related thread up to comments.

It's been two days. Parkinson has not come in for "sustained" attacks.

Looks like wishful thinking.

A large portion of fandom cares not one jot either way about this issue, and if SH thinks he can predict the burning issues of the next ten years, he's no historian.

Imagine if people supporting women's rights tried to bully people out of working on projects connected to trans activists.

You are aware that JKR is an executive producer for the series?

This really is just about a small bunch of very aggressive bullies whose views the Guardian decides to take far more seriously than they deserve. I’ve a feeling most people just don’t care.

I don’t know if the series will be a success but it has a great cast of actors, will have lots of money thrown at it, and will benefit from the improvement in special effects technology since the originals.

Yes, I'm aware, but her huge success so far has been as a novelist, not a television production executive.

As always , there is a new generation of children reaching the right age to watch it too . It’s not principally aimed at the generation who were the target demographic of the original films who are whizzing towards early middle age now . If it IS done well it may be very satisfying for them to watch something more faithful to the books they’ll be coming across for the first time

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But will it land with them in the same way? If it's faithful to the original, it's going to be dated in the eyes of the children watching it for the first time - but not dated enough yet to be classed as a period piece; and not nostalgic to them, obviously, because they won't be old enough to remember that era.

Are you always so optimistic?

She was an executive producer for all the TV adaptations of her Strike books. She knows what she is doing.

I think it’s going to be really popular and I also suspect there will be many TAs watching it under the pretence that they are looking for things to prove she’s a bigot!