The character in the comics was based on Howard Hughes, aka the Elon Musk of his day. So logically it made sense to update it, on paper.

I feel it's a side-effect of the fact a lot of entertainment is made by nepo-kids. Their sense of impostor syndrome (which in their case is maybe down to them being really impostors) manifests in characters who feel they are strung along rather than truly breaking out on their own.

I think that the books are fundamentally more about fame than magic. Like that's the fantasy of the books. So the Dursleys are crucial to sell that. The fantasy of the books isn't being magical, it's about being a famous wizard.

"The British class system rocks actually" is the theme.

Existential comics as always got it right.
existentialcomics.com/comic/391

Yeah, also apparently a parody and commentary on student radicals, if you think about it. Sirius represents non-conformity and student rebellion and a guy who took charge of his life at the age of 15 but JKR essentially presents him as this cautionary tale.

HP was fine when it was HP but then they decided to be Star Wars midway and that's not a lift anyone can just make. Like The Matrix are better films but it made the same mistake. First movie is great but the sequels are made well but also SW. The fourth movie picks up where the first left off.

The character is fascinating, because in the fifth book he sort of has this arc of taking agency but the conclusion at the end is, "in the end he too loved Big Dumbledore" only that's the happy ending! There's never a big get, where he gets to be right and the mentor is wrong that you get in SW.

The MCU thread a strange line between professing love and fidelity to the comics and then pivot to outright hostility to the material. It’s not different from “tee hee yellow spandex” it’s just under the surface and behind the curtains now.

Bro had values once but he traded his soul away.

They do not have the souls of poets, alas.

That’s a capital lambda, so it translates as Lamereedd

Is that in the movie? It’s in the comics I know.

If it's on twitter it's AI. You can immediately tell by how clean and flat it looks. AI stuff generally has no texture. You can get that even with Photoshop stuff, lol, or cruder fan art that you can't get with this.

Also why does Zohran have an Afro in that cartoon. The real dude doesn’t.

1) Is this AI? If not then maybe credit cause it sorta looks AI-ish.

2) Jameson would more likely be neutral over Zohran, and not see him as a menace at any rate.

FWIW Perfidia ends up becoming a more sympathetic character at the end of the film than Frenesi in the novel, her white counterpart. The latter basically ends up like Olivia Nuzzi or Bari Weiss basically. I think seeing the film in relation to the book it adapts helps illuminate the film’s choices.

It’s different. Doyle created many Holmes stories before he got tired. He had success doing other stuff (The White Company, The Lost World) in other genres. He also wrote a story where Holmes canonically only to later write one that undid it. Rowling hasnt done as much time with HP by comparison.