‘stop scrolling and take a minute to read this’ is usually reserved for posts about people who are in mortal danger or are suffering great injustice.
If you use it every time you’re shitting a brick about your favourite TV show, it will quickly stop meaning ‘hey here’s something that’s really important’ and will quickly start meaning ‘hey I’m about to moan self-importantly about something that you probably don’t care about and even if you do care about it I’m still going to be talking about it in a really over-dramatic way’
It’s desensitising people to a useful phrase through misuse and that’s really annoying.
PS: I don’t know or care who David Yates is, and if you think I want to engage in a discussion with you about whether or not he should stick to Harry Potter, whatever the fuck that means, you are sadly mistaken.
wasn’t this debunked as a rumor like yesterday morning
Yes, it was
ballin
Last I heard this isn’t a RUMOUR rumour, but in that Yates has the ideas he wants to do and BBC is considering it. It’s in, like, pre-pitch concept stage. 90% of anything in that stage never survives. So it’s not a rumour, it’s just a verbal thought that’ll never happen.
Regardless, I still DO NOT UNDERSTAND why this is a problem. It will probably suck, sure. But who the fuck cares. There are already shitty Doctor Who movies, there are REALLY shitty episodes, and the show goes on. In a show that only just recently decided to have a continunity and re-invents itself with a brand new fucking lead every few seasons, a ‘myth-reimagining’ pitch is hardly pissing on the concept. Then again I’m a comic fan, and having three billion different versions of the same concept is old hat to me.
honestly, I’d be waaaaaaaaay more upset if Yates was deciding to use the existing characters and story and go with it. That’s actually something to screw up.
