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A lot of things happened in such a short period of time during this past week that it sort of feels like a fever dream, but that's just kind of on par with what 2020 is.
++ Biden won the U.S. election. Thank fuck.
++ Apparently, Dean/Castiel was made canon in the third-to-last episode of Supernatural? (Sorta? Kinda?) I stopped watching the show eons ago, so imagine my surprise when I saw this whole thing explode when the episode aired (it was trending on Twitter, there's been tons memes, the fandom side of Tumblr reverted to what is used to look like circa 2012, etc). Yes, when I watched Dean/Castiel was my OTP, so this definitely kind of took me aback, but other than that I don't know how to feel about it. I don't have much of a leg to stand on with what's been going on in context of the show since I don't pay attention anymore aside from things I know through fandom osmosis from people I follow online. Although I will say that this whole thing went viral the moment it happened and I've read some pretty...interesting "hot takes" surrounding it, some that I agree with and others that I don't, but mostly I do want to say the criticism towards the show and its handling of things is absolutely valid and fair since it absolutely deserves it.
++ Johnny Depp has been fired from the Fantastic Beasts movies. Finally. Good riddance.
It's also been reported that the third installment has been delayed until 2022, but they really should just scrap the entire franchise, to be perfectly honest. Nobody really wants these films, especially not after the disastrous second movie. Hell, I was only interested in the first movie because of Colin Farrell, so unless he's coming back (which, while preferable, I highly doubt) this was just something I was never that invested in. And yeah, most of it was because of the JD casting, but everything surrounding these films are just a mess from the start. And quite frankly, with how much of a controversial figure JKR herself has become recently with her openly bigoted views and quickly becoming unfavorable in many people's eyes, unless she relinquishes creative control over it entirely it would be easier and waste less money to just axe the whole thing.
++ Biden won the U.S. election. Thank fuck.
++ Apparently, Dean/Castiel was made canon in the third-to-last episode of Supernatural? (Sorta? Kinda?) I stopped watching the show eons ago, so imagine my surprise when I saw this whole thing explode when the episode aired (it was trending on Twitter, there's been tons memes, the fandom side of Tumblr reverted to what is used to look like circa 2012, etc). Yes, when I watched Dean/Castiel was my OTP, so this definitely kind of took me aback, but other than that I don't know how to feel about it. I don't have much of a leg to stand on with what's been going on in context of the show since I don't pay attention anymore aside from things I know through fandom osmosis from people I follow online. Although I will say that this whole thing went viral the moment it happened and I've read some pretty...interesting "hot takes" surrounding it, some that I agree with and others that I don't, but mostly I do want to say the criticism towards the show and its handling of things is absolutely valid and fair since it absolutely deserves it.
++ Johnny Depp has been fired from the Fantastic Beasts movies. Finally. Good riddance.
It's also been reported that the third installment has been delayed until 2022, but they really should just scrap the entire franchise, to be perfectly honest. Nobody really wants these films, especially not after the disastrous second movie. Hell, I was only interested in the first movie because of Colin Farrell, so unless he's coming back (which, while preferable, I highly doubt) this was just something I was never that invested in. And yeah, most of it was because of the JD casting, but everything surrounding these films are just a mess from the start. And quite frankly, with how much of a controversial figure JKR herself has become recently with her openly bigoted views and quickly becoming unfavorable in many people's eyes, unless she relinquishes creative control over it entirely it would be easier and waste less money to just axe the whole thing.
