Harry Potter again again

I watched the trailer for the new Harry Potter TV series on HBO. My overwhelming feeling is that it is so absurdly redundant to make this. Not even reimagined but to cosplay the movies so slavishly… the sets look the same, that same teacher with the same hat and the same Scottish accent… To make the series is a bonfire of human creative effort, think of what could have been done instead. I love it, I’m in awe at the endeavour. Did you ever watch Teletubbies? There was always a video interlude. Then the Teletubbies would yell "again again!" and we’d watch the whole thing again. If he were still alive, Jorge Luis Borges would write about HBO. Borges’ short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (Wikipedia): Menard (a French 20th century novelist), after his death, leaves fragments of his work to write an identical Don Quixote, originally authored by Miguel de Cervantes in Spanish in the early 1600s. He did not want to compose another Quixote–which is easy–but the Quixote itself.…