Been loving your stuff lately! I'll have to echo your dad's point that, as much of a train wreck as GoT was, I did love the first season of House of the Dragon. My hope is that they learned their lesson last time around, and since this source material has an end, they can do a coherent arc instead of stumbling into shit
Given that those who control Hollywoke have now obviously fully committed to cultural revolution, soon the question will be asked: They obviously aren't making any money at this, how are they still in business, and what's so important about The Message (tm) that they'll go bankrupt pushing it?
A writer with strictly average talent would write <i>The Silkworm</i> or <i>Troubled Blood.</i> As for <i>The Casual Vacancy</i> - it reads like the product of a disaffected social studies professor with an academic grant riding on how miserable and pretentious he can make the paint-by-numbers denunciation of suburbia. But the rest of Rowling's post-Potter oeuvre shows she's still got dynamite in her sleeves when it comes to writing a good children's novel or mystery.
I disagree strongly about Harry Potter; even tho the audience of Woke bugmen are very cringe, Harry Potter is a beautiful work of genius, and Rowling is an amazing, highly underrated author. But other than that, I loved this essay, very well written. (I do agree that Harry Potter the franchise is dead, the literary academic criticism for a children's book series won't compare to Tolkien, Harry Potter's setting is too weird to fit into a formulaic Hollywood blockbuster franchise, etc. )
Been loving your stuff lately! I'll have to echo your dad's point that, as much of a train wreck as GoT was, I did love the first season of House of the Dragon. My hope is that they learned their lesson last time around, and since this source material has an end, they can do a coherent arc instead of stumbling into shit
Here's my guess about the most likely ending of A Song of Ice and Fire, if Martin lives long enough:
The Mountain tortures all of the other characters to death. The end.
And that's as good as anyone is going to get, because Martin ain't finishing that fucker.
Given that those who control Hollywoke have now obviously fully committed to cultural revolution, soon the question will be asked: They obviously aren't making any money at this, how are they still in business, and what's so important about The Message (tm) that they'll go bankrupt pushing it?
A writer with strictly average talent would write <i>The Silkworm</i> or <i>Troubled Blood.</i> As for <i>The Casual Vacancy</i> - it reads like the product of a disaffected social studies professor with an academic grant riding on how miserable and pretentious he can make the paint-by-numbers denunciation of suburbia. But the rest of Rowling's post-Potter oeuvre shows she's still got dynamite in her sleeves when it comes to writing a good children's novel or mystery.
I disagree strongly about Harry Potter; even tho the audience of Woke bugmen are very cringe, Harry Potter is a beautiful work of genius, and Rowling is an amazing, highly underrated author. But other than that, I loved this essay, very well written. (I do agree that Harry Potter the franchise is dead, the literary academic criticism for a children's book series won't compare to Tolkien, Harry Potter's setting is too weird to fit into a formulaic Hollywood blockbuster franchise, etc. )