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Phew.
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I really should give it another viewing one of these days. I've not seen it in a while.
What do you mean by it not being all a dream though?
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It's weird, I can't fathom it. And like I say, I do think a lot of people will watch it, just nowhere near enough to justify the vast costs in time and money.
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Sorry to grumble, and in my years of thinking about it I honestly like to have my mind changed because it does look and sound lovely and has some fantastic imagery, but it just comes off as a bit too much style and not enough substance for me.
I really do want to be wrong about this.
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Well, something probably would have come of that in the series, but as it is it's only there because hey, weird stuff happens in dreams. For me the story we get could maybe have made a tight hour or so, but I just can't see enough there for it to really work at more than twice that.
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I'm always intrigued by this, because I find it one of Lynch's weakest films. For me, the reveal that it was all a dream renders the first section pretty inconsequential. Elements that are hangovers from the tv plan really stand out - like why is there the weird monster behind the diner?
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Baffling, isn't it?
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Chinese sales, maybe? Oops.
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And when you figure in leftists pissed off about Rowling, conservatives pissed off about Black Snape, and hardcore fans pissed off about American Dumbledore, I'm really struggling to imagine where on earth even they can think they're going to get the kind of numbers they need from.
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And that's not just my negative views about the Harry Potter franchise in general. It may well be very popular - but there's no way it's going to be popular ENOUGH to justify the massive expense. Anyone can see that, but media financers don't think the same way as the rest of us for some reason.
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Like with Sandman, everyone's banking on this being the biggest hit in streaming history. Like with Sandman, all those grandiose plans are going to abruptly dry up when that inevitably doesn't happen.
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Mate at least buy them dinner first.
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lmao
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Yes. She's apparently planning to launch her own Free Speech Social Media this summer.
Nobody knows why.
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This is up there with Samantha Niblett this morning insisting she just chose her green office colour scheme entirely by herself and it's in no way a Labour rebranding effort.
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No, he left completely in 2018. Musk and OpenAI are currently suing each other
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It definitely does.
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This is something you chose yourself, is it? And it's a total coincidence a whole load of other Labour branding just happened to choose the same scheme at the same time?
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Hi have you considered wondering why people are so angry with Labour right now?
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A cloaca is the orifice that serves as the combined urinary and excretory outlet in birds and reptiles
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I remember Small Robots briefly took to using "Ladies of a Certain Acronym" but rapidly stopped because people kept turning into CLOACA and it was insufferable.
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I think what gets me most is when someone pops up to say "Actually I prefer to call them Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes! lololol" as if it's some brilliant original witticism.
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It's quite remarkable how many ex-pats are like this.
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I was also thinking Paapa Essiedu is way too young to be playing Snape, but then I remembered Snape's meant to be the same age as Harry's parents and in Rowling-land everyone immediately gets married and starts churning out kids the moment they finish school, so 34 is actually about right.
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"Bad news, Voldemort knows everything Harry knows. Good news, Harry doesn't know jack shit"
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I'm jealous, I was really trying to get blocked by her
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Oh, and the books keep mocking Snape for having nasty unkempt matted and dirty hair. We can only hope they drop that one because it's going to look horrendous.
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"Our noble heroes try to burn the black man alive for something he hadn't even done" is going to look great.
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Yep, there's a scene in the first book where Harry is being magically attacked, and Ron and Hermione see Snape muttering a spell, so to distract him they set fire to his clothes.
It eventually turns out Snape was actually casting a counter spell to protect Harry from the real villain.
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I think the weirder Christians are definitely going to have issues with it.
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I dunno. My partner collects dolls, and I recently found a boxed Monster High doll in a weird evangelical Christian-run second hand shop. They weren't sure if they could sell it to me in case it was "promoting witchcraft" - but eventually decided it was okay because it wasn't Harry Potter.
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follow your heroine magdalen berns into the void of non-existence you scumsucking fucks.
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The good old thing like how in the original TMNT, the Foot Clan were all robots so the Turtles could fight them
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Still, the actual Gospel of Thomas does seem to have been rejected on purely theological grounds. It's an interesting one, probably the earliest surviving gospel outside of the canonical four, possibly roughly contemporary with the Gospel of John or at least the later epistles.
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I think you're absolutely right in general that the early Church Leaders who developed the canon actively wanted to avoid wild stories - a lot of them really weren't keen on the book of Revelation and it only narrowly scraped in.
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The clay sparrow story isn't in the Gospel of Thomas itself though - it's in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which is an entirely unrelated text despite being attributed to the same Apostle. The GoT itself doesn't really have any narrative parts at all, it's a collection of "Sayings of Jesus"
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Kind of impressive that they've gone straight to this, without even going through the thing that surely must have happened with a management accountant yelling at the Showrunner "You offered David Jason HOW much???!"