They just can’t let it go until Iron Maiden actually retires, eh?

The amount of famous people cameoing in a film is inversely proportional to how good that film is.

Your comment about “lesbian True Romance” made me laugh about this:

The could be some humor if the movie was centered around the death of all the members of the band, and it is done as kind of a retrospective with interviews.

Katy O’Brian has serious Snoo Snoo energy:

You can do that when you have an order for another season in your hands.

I bet it was fucking expensive. I was watching the boat scenes in Shogun and they looked so cheap compared to OFMD.

If you don’t end every season on a deeply satisfying note, you are just plain irresponsible as a writer.

I mean, I’d think Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street-theme weddings would be weird too.

Yep, that’s very real as well. A whole bunch of kid Potterheads grew up into young adults who were just tremendously let down by their hero. Probably led to a lot of discussions about separating art from artist (which I think can be done, but that’s a whole other thing).

I was thinking the other day about how in Back to the Future, the difference between 1955-1985 was DRAMATIC.

There’s something to this. Star Wars was at least gone - except for increasingly ludicrous books and some primitive video games - from 1983 to 1997, when the special editions came out.

Harry Potter won’t even go away for that long.

I think one of the reasons so many Potter adults (and Disney adults, and whatever other way-too-hardcore fandom of children’s entertainment you can name) are unable to let go is because nothing ever ENDS anymore.

The sports thing is a solid analogy, as is the idea that the real problem is picking any small sliver of culture and making it your whole personality.  I was a lit major, so I love me some Shakespeare, but the people who only read Shakespeare are also weird as fuck.  

...are Potter adults still a thing (or at least a prominent subculture)? Maybe the death of tumblr has cut off my exposure to them, but I get a stronger impression the series lives on through kids discovering the books/movies; many of my nieces and nephews went through Potter phases which distinctly ended at a certain…

Counterpoint: have you tried rereading those books in adulthood? There’s plenty of childhood media I return to regularly, but rereading Potter I quickly realized they’re very much for kids and best left in the past. I wouldn’t publicly censure adults for still being in the pocket for Potter, but I’d be keeping some…

She’s not a bitch for this.

Adults should not be constrained by what’s considered mature or not, but people who have theme weddings are going to the Bad Place.

Eh, not even a Potter fan, but I don’t see it as any different than people being rabid sports fans. So long as people can recognize that escapism isn’t a place you fucking *live* in, whatever.