TheGamer's Best Features Of The Week: MTG Should Take Pride In All Body Types, Bugsnax And Failure, And Heartstopper Interviews
From Square Enix selling off some of its most notable IPs to Heartstopper taking the world by storm with its queer love story, the past week has been a busy and eventful one.
With it being Thursday, it’s that time again for us to look back at some of those highlights, both the good and the bad, like MTG releasing a card that’s a diamond in the rough, finally representing all body types, but shining a light on how little Magic does this sort of thing. Then there’s the memeification of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial, undermining what’s a very serious topic by turning it into an entertainment highlight reel.
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This week, lead features editor Jade King sat down with director Euros Lyn of Doctor Who fame about how he brought the Heartstopper comic to life in the Netflix show and how he’s handling such a positive reception from the LGBTQ+ community.
“It’s so exciting to see the show having an emotional impact on people,” Lyn told us. “Countless stories of people feeling empowered to come out to their parents as a consequence of having seen the show, or older generations of queer people watching the show and feeling slightly overwhelmed by the emotion of what might have been their memories, or what could have been, or what they once had.”
Interestingly, Lyn hadn’t come across the comic until he read the script for episode one. Afterward, he decided to read the graphic novel and through the two, he came to interpret Heartstopper as a story that’s all about celebrating queer love and how “wholesome” and “pure-hearted” it can be, that “love is love across any sexuality.”
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