Interesting! 🖤

I'm one of the few people who liked the changes, though I've only read the first three books of the Witcher

Great eye for detail you've got! 👀 How is he going to pick the lock then? 😂🤷‍♀️

The one from the bathroom scene

@@aranystudio is it in crooked kingdom? I haven't finished the book

@@dianat6286 Yes! ❤❤

He is piratelicious for sure!

Agreed! She's amazing!

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Yeah, they should repair their toilets

Love the charisma development, though it was ableist that she removed her disability (and I know Sapkowski started it)

Mage*

@@aranystudiotruly ableist. To be an effective mage is to be “perfect”? But what constitute “perfect”? Whose gaze are we deriving the beauty from?

Yes to all of that!

Queen! 👌😌👑

Whenever he threatens your heart remember that he prefers Lord of the Rings to SoC 😝😂

Jaskier is better (Dandelion was too misogynistic, though the name was better). Personally, I love show Yennefer, Ciri and the women banding together - wish those were in the books too...

Freddy is so evious of Amita, I swear 😂

Sorry not sorry for the confusion 😂

@aranystudio it ok I loved this show

My favorite part 😏🔥🔥🔥

OMG you're right! I totally should have included it! 😏

Gosh I loved that 😂🔥🔥🔥

And giant wings 🤩🤩🤩

Nos livros ela é muito forte sim, é uma das mais fortes

Were the top 5 mages in the novel men? Because if yes 😝

I love her 🔥

Gotta love some Jesper self love 😌🥰

Queen is whoever she wants to be 👌😌

OMG! You're right, I totally forgot that one! 🤣🤣🤣

@@aranystudio 😅😅 all good my friend. Fire edit tho

At least it's better crap than the books 😆🤷‍♀️

Hotter garbage than the books? 😒😂 I, for one, liked the series better - at least they improved on the misogyny, queerphobia & racism

🤷‍♀️ it's from Witcher

For example?

She cast a spell with her foot. Her magic level was greater than all the sorceresses shown here. She did not exchange the flower for power. She has always had it. This Yen is very much a caricature of the original.

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Woke is good! I only read the first three books of the Witcher and Yennefer was patronised and discriminated for being a woman and for being polyamorous in a mononormative world (by Geralt and Istred among others). Geralt also promisses to never save a girl from rp again because the girl who had just escaped rp throws up instead of batting her lashes at him? WTF? There are so many problematic things about the books I can't begin to list them all. Some of Ciri's badass scenes were actually Geralt's in the book. That's boring and disappointing, the men doing 95% of the badass work and the women being there only to support and want men in bed. I'll give Yennefer that she had ATTITUDE in the books, which was a delight, but are there more badass scenes beyond book 3? Because there were far too few in the first three books and I'm glad the showrunners saw beyond the misogyny of the books.

@@aranystudio First of all, you managed to cram one comment with every "woke" keyword a vocabulary has to offer. You are not writing a CV, that's gonna be proofed by an AI to qualify, so relax. Secondly, let me adress what you wrote about step by step. Also, I will ignore the possible differences in the translation of the books ( I read it in Polish and I don't know which words were used to describe what happened in English). 1. Geralt-Yennefer-Istred. No discrimination, no patronising. Not from Geralt and Istred anyway. You are using words where they don't belong. The sorceresses in the books were promiscoues and some of them would sleep with women. Some people would judge such promiscuousness, some wouldn't care. Because people had different views, you know? Like people do sometimes. Geralt and Istred were in love with Yennefer and didn't want to share her with anyone else. Yennefer too would get angry every time she heard about any of the witcher's other love affairs. They are even in that regard. Geralt and Istred had every right to demand monogamy from Yennefer and she had every right to deny them both anything. What happened - happened. She made her choice. 2. Have you ever been depressed? Maybe questioning your life's choices? Your principles, your views and your place and role in this world? If so, then Geralt's crysis, during which he was recalling the rescue of the rped girl, shouldn't be such a shock to you. He never said "i should never help another rped girl ever again", he said something along the lines of "I am not getting involved into any of society's shit ever again". The case with the girl was the very first of many many many more situations he kept getting involved in. 3. The book is called "the Witcher" for gods sake. Not "Ciri", not "The Sourceress". He is a 70+ year old mutant, the strongest of his kind and Ciri is a 13 to 16 year old girl, who barely controls her magic. Who do you think would pull off more badass stuff? She is given as many killing scenes as a 16yo would, I suppose. Also Ciri is made out to be the center of Geralt's story anyway, so I don't really understand your point on this. Yennefer? She is described as very powerful and independent and has enough badass scenes in the books for someone, whom the books ARE NOT ABOUT. You say "they saw beyond the misogyny of the books", I say "you are promoting misondry, justifying it with lack of good female stories". This is a very communist thing to do, mind you: "let's take down the ones who have more, because we don't want to do more ourselves". Just get off your ass (not you specifically, but ppl who work in this field or are not happy with it) and create new compelling stories. Stop using "male driven stories" (Geralt's in this case) as a trampoline for female characters. Well written characters can stand on their own they don't have to feed off the success of the others. And before you start accusing me of probably being a white male, I should warn you - yes, I am. I am also gay and I LOVE a good badass female character. I just don't buy into hypocracy of "let's lift a woman, but we can only do it by downputting a man".

​@@RTGames21Yes, it is called the "Witcher", but it's also a saga with hundreds of characters being adapted as one of the few fantasy series with more than two seasons in today's streaming offer, so more than a white het male centric story is in order and they can only profit after such amounts of money is being spent on the show if it appeals to everyone, not just white men. And it's not that female-centric, queer fantasy doesn't exist, it's that a world biased towards white het men will favor financing many seasons of fantasy stories biased towards white het men. The Witcher books have been written in the 90's - they reflect the views of the author as a male product of that problematic time and improving on some of them is the least they could do. Also I don't see how Geralt was downputted when he had plenty of badass scenes. About the depression I don't know, I haven't gotten to that part in the books, it was a struggle to read through the first three as it is. Come to think about it I only bought the books because I was impressed by show Yennefer and her added badass scenes. Imagine my disappointment at the absence of those scenes in the books and I honestly wish I hadn't bought them at all. I feel I was duped to spend my money on stuff that I don't enjoy tbh. As a gay man how do you feel about Jaskier being bi in the show as opposed to the books? Out of curiosity - do you know Shadow and Bone or the Six of Crows books? I'd be curious of your opinion of them if yes.

@@criss9607 as much as I enjoyed seeing the Jaskier actor making out with Radowid (who is a different kind of weird, I can't quite put my finger on it,but he rubs me the wrong way), I can only see complications and plotholes stemming from that one plot line. Shadow and Bone I watched on Netflix, it was good. Not great, mind you, but just good. When the last season had ended, I wanted to know what happened next, so I downloaded the books, but couldn't get past the first one (half of it tbh). As an eastern european I felt super duper weird trying to comprehend and accept some of the word/name choices. Words that have their specific meaning in russian, used as titles, job descriptions, even entity names- "Grisha" for fcks sake. The words were in the TV show as well, but seeing them weirded me out. Also the style of writing was a bit different than what I was used to, so I quit. As for the plot/premise/gender roles in them/whatever - Alina was fine. Lacked in the badassery department a bit, for my taste, but one could explain it with her background, -ish. She was a tad too delicate in the show for an orphan. ,Her tracker whatever his name was, was a bit annoying: this loyal, brought up on the streets archetype, a romantic pseudo thug, if you like. There was nothing to him in the show that sparked anything in me. The crows were sort of cool. I don't think I can say anything more.

Agreed that the Jaskier- Radovid thryst had to be ill-fated to match with the books or whatever, so feels a bit off in terms of representation. As for Shadow and Bone, you have gay depression representation with Wylan, but it's more obvious in the Six of Crows books than it is in the show. The SoC duology has a different feel to it than SaB and many people find it much better, in case you want to give it a go. I also like that the Grishaverse proves that there's room for badass women, male depression, queer people, white badass men and so on and so forth... maybe that's why it got cancelled - it's empowering rather than divisive, doesn't align with the interest of the ruling class. Also there's a drepressed bi man in Iron Widow books (+ badass women & polyam rep) if that interests you. Also An Ember in the Ashes quartet has some depressed men, including a gay one (but the gay is secondary). Sorry about the rec spam 😆

Absolutely!!! 😭😭😭 We are fighting every day!

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The edit is a pamphlet, ofc. I also believe that if Kaz wasn't jelous of people who get to be phisically close to Inej, he wouldn't feel threatened by Tolya. As for book Inej only wanting Kaz, though I agree that she seems written that way (provided Kaz rises up to her expectations), I think that it's mononormative to think that she could never fall for Tolya, because of Kaz. In a society that didn't raise people to believe that being with solely one person is the only posdible form of relationship, Inej could be with more than one person. Not to mention that even if she were in a monogamous relationship with Kaz, she could still fall for other people, but choose to not act on her feelings. That's how things are, tbh, for a lot of monogamous people.

I can understand why 💜

It's a shame the producers didn't respect the books and made Cavill mad as a result. The whole series is doomed until those silly girls swallow their pride and call him back.

@@mugenmugen9632 I agree with the changes to the books - there were problematic aspects

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Forever 😭

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We are fighting to get it back!

🤝 the entire fandom be like 😭😭😭

I like show Yennefer better tbh and I though the source material was misogynistic... 🤷‍♀️

Good brains

YES FR

Louder for Netflix in the back! 📢

Thry are too sweet! 🥰🥰🥰

Me too 💜💜💜

The Wraith would gladly haunt the dam 😜

@@aranystudio OMG ILY FOR THAT 🫶

For me, the worst part is the "burning a nilfgard army" with just "chaos" lol

@@pablosebasthian Don't remind me about it, god damn it.

I found the original disgusting, so I'll take the fanfic any day

@@aranystudio an indian princess yennefer dressed at H&M swinging a sword. PEAK writing and cinematography.

Much welcome 😈

Agreed 💯 but I'd still love Nikolai in a throuple 😏🔥 also Paddy was pitch perfect!