• ninjabard@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I finished season one and everything (save like two actors) just absolutely sucked. I have no desire to go back. “What if Harry Potter but horny” just doesn’t do it for me.

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      21 hours ago

      Fair. Don’t take this as pressure to watch this. But for what it’s worth, “Harry Potter but horny” is exactly what I grew tired of after S1, and they drop that hook pretty thoroughly.

      S2-5 is more like “there’s no such thing as a chosen one. We’re all just fucked up in different ways, and the only way to get meaningful change done is if we try to be better, together - regardless of if we ever manage to grow past that damage”.

      Except Alice. Fuck Alice, she never not sucks.

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        21 hours ago

        Alice was the Hermione-ish stand in, right? What little I remember, I remember disliking her character the most.

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          21 hours ago

          Yep. They changed her pretty drastically from the way she is in the books (which was probably a good idea), but way, WAY overcorrected. I also don’t really like the actor for the role, but that is secondary.