People should care but a hell of a lot don’t - look who might be the next US President. Far too many people don’t know and a hell of a lot either agree with her or don’t care. There’s a party from my work going to the Studio Tour next month - two dozen Caucasian adults who when I taxed them with the transphobia said, and I quote, “She’s entitled to her opinion.”
It’s far too easy to live in a bubble and think everyone thinks the same way. They don’t
Bullshit. Nothing is settled and people can be made to understand why this stuff matters. Pretending like nothing was ever changed by making people aware of injustice like this is ignoring an awful lot of history…
Also… do you mean people from the Caucasus mountains? 
The books were published generations ago
There should be compulsory licensing at some point, like with how musicians can cover each other’s songs as long as they’ve been released before
This just makes me sad. There is so much to do and see in and around London. What a waste of time.
Ha! I was staying in King’s Cross with my daughter earlier this year and it literally never popped into ours or anyone else’s minds.
I passed through the station a bunch of times too.
Platform 9 3⁄4 is just a sign on the wall next to the Harry Potter grift shop.
Ah. I think we walked past it then.
I’m old school and when I think of buying stuff in Kings Cross it’s like heroin and sex. Place was quite changed.
My understanding is they’re doing prequel /sequel movies about the largely “off camera” parts of the story, not retelling the previous story. Whereas the Potter franchise is doing a full recasting and retelling of the seven books.
At some point they will remake it, i would say it’s a certainty. After all it’s the 2nd go at the story, the first one being the animated Rank & Bass ones (which aren’t great but still very charming).
I suspect there will definitely be “the all new adventures of Frodo and Sam” in 2044, once it enters public domain. The degree of financial success of the Potter reboot may partly determine if the Tolkien estate rolls the dice on a new retelling before then.
Toxic Eructations is the the name of my speedcore band.
Isn’t that basically the 2024 Amazon show? Only without Frodo and Sam.
I think the main issue with LotR stuff is simply where the rights are at any given time. Jackson had weird limitations (I read them at various points, it was kind of dull then) so he could only allude to some things. The current one has to include Sam Gamgee types that are only mentioned as existing in the source material. I don’t think they have any reported speech. Why would they in a High Romance Historical Epic? Fucking peasants!
No, a previous commenter thought people from South East Asia were the primary customers of Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross Station, this does not apply to the coachload going to the Harry Potter Experience from my work who are all as whitebread as possible, now there were some of us who refused to go. We were in substantial minority.
Anecdotes aren’t data… 
I go past that to platform 10, I see the line on a regular basis, and I said Asia, there are loads of people who seem to be Chinese, Korean, and other ethnicities, as well as South Americans, obviously, I can’t tell if they’re tourists or not, but loads of them look like they are.
My point is, these visitors often have a fairly limited interaction with western media, things like Harry Potter make it over, but most of the news about it probably does not. It’s always possible they might know and don’t care, but a decent percentage of people even in primary markets aren’t that invested in the issues or the news around the cast, etc, and just don’t know.
It’s included in the Japanese guidebook that I got when I went to London. Harry Potter spots get more pages than all of Shoreditch.
To be fair, Shoreditch doesn’t have much heritage. It’s just a fairly recently gentrified area like Hoxton, which a lot of small creative and new media businesses place themselves in thanks to network effects. Nothing against them – I’ve spent my years working in similar – but given the amount of history, art, architecture, and social change around London, if you want to ignore King’s Cross Station, there are plenty of better places to go than Shoreditch.
Most people going touristy in shoreditch were there to see current trends, hipsters graffiti, etc, and things like brick lane are nearby.
Agreee there’s loads of more interesting parts of London though.
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