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Similar but different, I can't imagine I'll ever be inclined to watch the new version of Harry Potter.  I just don't want to watch new actors playing those characters.

This is the killer on reboots for me.

This is the killer on reboots for me.

The thing about the forthcoming Harry Potter is that it doesn't feel like it's been long enough for a reboot.  But, I don't have data on how much time has elapsed compared to other properties that get rebooted.  I'm getting old enough now for a lot of things to feel like "Hey, they just did that not long ago" (by which I mean, like, 20 years or something)

Finished the short season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms last night.  I liked it quite a bit and found it a pleasant change from the OG Game of Thrones.  Actually, I liked GoT a lot, but Martin's nihilistic world wore thin on me after a while.  While the Seven Kingdoms world is the same and his underlying philosophy is still there--and it lead to some typical GoT-world moments I thought would've been better if the show would commit to a bit more traditional story-telling--it had a couple of strong protagonists that I found myself rooting for.  They were a nice contrast to the power-is-everything, the-strongest-rules ethos that generally pervades that universe.  The story-telling, acting, and directing were all superb, as per usual for that franchise. 

I just finished it. Really liked the different perspective in the same world. It had a much lighter feel to it, without losing the grit and power dynamics of the original.

Prestige TV is a different medium than a movie, see the Golden Compass vs. HBO's His Dark Materials. For Harry Potter, the movies left a lot of the books out, so I can imagine why someone might want to make each book into a season, although even that is tough because there isn't that much in book 1, but there's a lot in books 4-7 (except maybe 6). 

I wonder how much the enthusiasm for this has faded from overexposure and changing views on the author. Without getting into politics, there are plenty of people who no longer want their money to go to her. Enough to make a big dent in viewership? Probably not. But with the failure of the Fantastic Beasts franchise, one wonders whether the people really want this right now--much as you're saying. On the other hand, 25 years since movie 1...it's been a while. There have been four A Star is Borns, the first three only about 20 years apart, each.

As much as I don't think there's much need for this, if I'm subscribing to HBO, I'll probably give it a shot.

Some people just love to complain.

I don't watch most of the superhero stuff based on previous IP. Just doesn't interest me at all. But I'm not complaining--good for those who enjoy it.

I love to complain about superhero movies.  I do enough complaining for the both of us. 

The only thing I can tell you for sure is that LOTR will get remade at some point, and I'm going to hate it.  Peter Jackson trilogy 4 lyfe. 

You know Hollywood'll screw it up by blowing off the source material. They'll screw it up with odd casting choices meant to fill quotas mandated by studios, actor's/writer's unions, and qualifying requirements for the Academy Awards. They'll screw it up by "casting" a preachy director that hasn't read the books and dislikes the fans. They'll do all this all in he name of "modernizing" another IP, and Jackson's Trilogy is about the last major IP Hollywood has left to remake into the tiresome corporate slop that's plaguing most everything Hollywood remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, or turns into "live action." Especially with Fantasy series (see below).

Overall Hollywood is in an irrevocable decline. This is due to the Big Tech takeover that's relegating Hollywood to a side hustle, the de-mystifying of celebrities, the "streaming wars" upending Hollywood's longstanding distribution model, film production fleeing Los Angeles, actor's/writer's strikes and AI threatening jobs.

Film was the great art form of the 20th Century. I assumed that Film would always sit at the cultural apex, with Hollywood as the global destination for the highest talents, while its celebrated product made icons of artists of all kinds. So much so, that it still feels weird to be moving on from the Film Era.

For those of us who've celebrated Film, it's time to go back to the older shows and movies we liked. Or in my case trade the screen for books. In that sense Hollywood is competing against itself.

The last point I haven't heard discussed anywhere is whether we're in a time that can foster and raise up new IPs? At the time, audiences were open to adopting and latching onto new stories in film, like Blade Runner (based on Philip Dick novel). I am not sure an equivalent Blade Runner could work today. Audiences are too cynical towards new or riskier material, movies inevitably feel more derivative of previous works, and movies don't stand out as much, either as a cultural apex or as a distinction from other movies/shows which mostly all look the same.



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I don't buy this at all, since it's obvious that our ancient ancestors were obviously aliens who desposited some of their population on earth and then left them, for reasons we don't yet know.

But isn't our part of the galaxy/universe "relatively" new?  As in, there are other galaxies out there that are in fact, much much older? Like billions of years older?  Also, I read that "new" suns can't produce any possible life, because only heavy elements can be made after the original sun goes supernova.  So even in our own solar system, the sun we have now is the 2nd sun formed from the remnants of the first one. 

It all makes my head hurt.