I think that annoys me most about all of these adaptations and reboots we’re getting these days are these adaptations and reboots that take the basic premise of the original story they’re adapting, look it, laugh derisively and smugly announce “Seriously? You think we’re just going to adapt this classic time-worn…

This is probably more parsing than this movie really deserves, but OK, yes, Peter does all that stuff in the book. But any parent of a small child or perhaps owner of a disobedient pet will recognize that behavior. Peter Rabbit has no redeeming qualities in the book that make him a hero. He’s just a dumb little rabbit…

Wow. Peter Rabbit? This movies whizzes past “cheap brand-recognition cash-in that appeals to lazy parents” straight to “cheap brand-recognition cash-in that appeals to lazy great-grandparents”.

never thought i’d say this but, wow. you don’t deserve harry potter.

“Fun side note - all relationships do not default to romantic until proven otherwise.”

I don’t agree at all with your premise (you may be shocked to learn that most books still feature straight people, by a large majority), but would that be a bad thing if he was a black trans kid? Would that detract from the story? If so, elaborate as to how.

you should probably look up the definition of a metaphor.

I honestly don’t know how you can read Harry Potter and not realize it is already an SJW love fest.

Yes, and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a poem about a guy looking at some snow. Moby Dick is about a whale. No work of writing has ever had subtext or employed a metaphor.

yes, true, but the way Remus was introduced in the books, he was such a clear gay metaphor that i am crushed to this day that JKR didn’t have the nerve to continue with him that way. he was an empathic man, an outcast among most of his kind, taking refuge in academia, discriminated against for his “condition,” and he…

To be fair we don’t know that Sirius wasn’t gay. Lupin, otoh, would have to be bi to make it work with canon. Otherwise that would just be being shitty to Tonks.

Or the Cursed Child.

At its worst fanfiction is 50 Shades of Grey.

A peek inside the casting room:

Responding with a point of vociferous agreement.

I love that scene! Watch the top of his head and the edge of the screen. It really is amazing to watch him get ~2 inches taller, just like that.

The dreadful Marlon Brando scenes are a lot like the dreary Russell Crowe scenes in Man of Steel. Both movies made a huge mistake digging so deeply into Superman’s backstory, which just isn’t that interesting. The very first comic had the smart choice of establishing his powers and his origin in just a few panels, and…

hopefully me

THANK you. Ugh. So many of my "LGBT ally" friends keep recommending this show to me…homophobic trash.