There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

It worked so well for the game! Oh wait no, everyone just rolled their eyes and ignored everyone spreading their histrionic personality powered screeching.

Only because smooth brains like you don’t understand the correlation between what you consume and what is made.

they know best how we should live!! s/

Starfleet academy

Ah yes, the robin hood of entertainment. 

Pirating doesnt really hurt tv shows though More people watch then get drawn in and turn in Happened to game of thrones

That just makes you hypocritical. Don't watch it if it bothers you so much that you wouldn't watch it without stipulations.

Why even bother?

Such a strong and ethical stance, don't want to support something but still take the time to watch. /s

This is always the laziest argument. You might need a pair of shoes that were made unethically. You don't need a Harry Potter TV show.

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Maybe people can find joy in something that doesn’t subsequently fund a billionaire’s attempts at erasing the trans community. Just a thought.

It will break records for HBO this first season is going to be massive.

It was literally the only non Rockstar game to outsell Call of Duty in over 13 years.

yeah, it always backfires

>Is this going to be like when everyone was virtue signaling about the Harry Potter video game, only for it to end up being incredibly successful? What's your point? Some people avoided the game, some didn't. The show will be no different. However avoiding using a product isn't "virtue signalling" any more than your post is "virtue signalling". The consumption of Harry Potter isn't a default human action. Some people never consumed Harry Potter products likely because they were not the target audience, young children.

It’s like when the right got butthurt about the superbowl. Then held their own halftime show. No one noticed. Turns out folks just wanted to watch the superbowl halftime entertainment.

Maybe, maybe not, but these are not really comparable. A high quality open world Harry Potter game where we could play our own student at hogwarts is something the fans have been ~~asking~~ dreaming **forever**, me included. Not a surprise it got a huge success. **Nobody** asked for a remake of Harry Potter. Most fans are very fond of the movies and original cast. Just like the Rings of Power, it could very well be considered hot garbage.

But maybe we can just enjoy a show and not worry about the politics of it? I’ll watch anyways don’t ask my opinions, just count me in the audience.

>That doesn’t make me or anyone else who enjoys it complicit with JK Rowlings views. Completely disagree. This isn't like a cell phone where you essentially have to have one to exist in modern society. There are many things you have to purchase and have no reasonable more ethical options. This is an entirely optional choice you're making and it will have little to no impact on your life to simply choose not to support Rowling. By choosing to support her you are choosing to support her views.

jk rowling has explicitly said she uses the money she makes off the series to support anti-trans legislation. itd be different if it was a secret, but shes as upfront about that as possible, so yes if you spend money that goes to her knowing this, you are complicit with her views. you can still enjoy the series, just dont spend money on it.

It absolutely does make you or anyone involved in production or consumption complicit by promoting her products that she gets directly paid for. A+ for matching your username and statement though

So many people were involved in those movies and now this tv show. Yes she will profit from this success but so will the others who worked hard but this tv show does look c**** in comparison

How does it not make you complicit?  It doesn’t mean you agree, but you’re definitely complicit. You’re willing to put your own entertainment above the well being of a marginalized community. Like congrats on not caring I guess, but that is what you’re doing. 

Yes it does, sit the f*** down

> That doesn’t make me or anyone else who enjoys it complicit with JK Rowlings views. If you add to the viewer numbers on HBO - or even have a continued subscription to HBO, then you are directly contributing financially to Rowling's ant-Trans campaigns - however small. That's just a fact. It is a large contribution? no, it may be near statistically insignificant. If you watch it via some other means that does not contribute to the show's ratings or financially to HBO, then you aren't making any financial contribution to anti-trans causes via the show. Realistically, statistically if you as a single individual do or do not watch the show on HBO, it makes no real difference. And yes, the show will be a big success because some people are like lemmings for any popular IP. It would only make a difference if a large part of HBO's paying customers avoided the show. Which realistically is unlikely, because for whatever reason the whole Harry Potter franchise grips a lot of Millennials. So mostly the reason to avoid the product is for your own personal reasons. In my case I have zero interest in Harry Potter so I wouldn't be watching anyway. I can't say I'm really being inconvenienced by not watching a live action adaptation of children's books for grade school reading level.

This article being an expression of "support whatever they want". The irony is palpable and so is your low emotional threshold for otherwise benign media content, well done lol.

Many, many people care.

I'm going to watch it even harder now.

Ever heard of the internet archive?

That would get crowded and ruin the (local) environment and probably kill millions of important species. 😜

Probs on stolen land though bro. CHECK MATE

So why care about anything right???

maybe because it's an adaptation of the same book? The first film is very faithful, except for a few details. It was inevitable that it would appear superficially similar.

At this moment they’ve shown mostly new scenes but it does look like a parody compared to the movies. Where is the money going

> Being this performative is just cringe "Performative" seems to have lost all meaning, like "virtue signalling" since it's become basically automatic for some to dismiss anyone's opinion or actions as such.

Yeah considering Rowling makes money to bribe her way to make anti Trans legislation?

When the artist screams “support this is support for my cause” It’s very difficult

Difficult implies I even have a desire to separate them. There so many other worthy properties I can spend my time on. 

People will pirate the shit out of this show. 

HBO tracks how many are watching individual shows, it’s not like they’re going to just count a subscription as dollars that should directly go to HP. Unless you mean to say that people should not spend any money on any company that has anything to do with HP. Which is pretty unrealistic, you’d be hard pressed to spend any money if you did that for all companies that had anything to do with any bigoted or immoral people.

> My favorite part is that the boycotters see no problem with funding this show through their subscription. That's an illogical assumption on your part. Of course continuing to give money to HBO is what is funding the show. But the idea that "boycotters" (as if they were some organized club) are either subscribed to or haven't cancelled their HBO subscription is just your wild guess.

Not for me!? I don't have a sub.

The books were darker though.

He looks fine to be honest but they should make him a inch taller and make his hair look less stylized 

Lol keep crying on Listnook. Nobody cares in the real world.

Nobody has to explain anything. It’s their business and their decision. Period