The Witcher Is a DISASTER | Netflix's Biggest FAILURE

[@michaelmcgee2026]

Im not even angry anymore. I'm honestly just in awe of the lengths Hollywood is going to destroy their own industry through.sheer.fucking.hubris.

[@crazyfingers619]

Never interrupt a Bond villain when they're lecturing you about how they're going to destroy the patriarchy.

[@lunarvision]

This experiment of women in leadership roles has been a colossal failure.

[@edyz0r]

OHHH BOY I just cant't wait for the very moment Hollywood completely burns to the ground and people start doing good movies/TV shows elsewhere while these scamers are angry that no one watches their shit products :p

[@thomyoutube3478]

Im hopeful. The quicker they destroy themselves, the quicker whatever replaces them will come about.

[@MorbidGames666]

Its because it's run by old man with no taste and just basically trust anyone to make a show.

[@YourKawke]

I honestly feel bad for Henry Cavill. The man was far more dedicated to The Witcher than the people supposedly trying to adapt it.

[@keungwan5901]

AIUI, he wrote some of the scenes better than the writers, eg Roach death scene. Okay, he's an intelligent guy, but what were the writers doing?

[@BobbyFett3994]

@@keungwan5901 The writers were too busy replacing the source material with their precious little agendas.

[@tomnelson341]

Agreed. The writing staff deserves every bit of shame that they are all recieving. All they had to do was adapt the books and everything would have been peachy

[@kentonbaird1723]

And now the man is working towards a Warhammer 40,000 series. Unquestionably, he is King of the Nerds.

[@DanielWW2]

Witcher did gave him the stage to really nerd out about Warhammer 40K to the point GW, always very protective about their IP, agreed to allow Amazon to make 40K shows with Cavill as Executive Producer. Basically he star in one of the most nerdy universes around and have a good level of creative control over it. Cavill would want to stay close to the 40K lore and that is exactly what GW would also demand. I say he won. 😅

[@OTBASH]

I will always respect Henry Cavil for this. He saw the bullshit that was going on and refused to be a part of it anymore.

[@OTBASH]

@@strangestecho5088 Giving someone respect isn't "pedestalizing" them.

[@civicparadox4644]

​@@strangestecho5088So you're saying he was fighting the good fight?

[@godmode9913]

@@strangestecho5088he called out the bullshit so big respect to him

[@ralf72004]

Agreed mad props to him for stepping away from this shitshow unlike Harrison ford and Samuel l Jackson letting themselves be humiliated

[@zztopz7090]

True. Most actors wouldnt speak out and risk being labeled "difficult".

[@justinabaddon8277]

As I recall, Ciri was essentially the pivotal character for a great deal of the source material, but her story is essentially told from Geralt’s perspective. So cutting him out of the show is just proof to me that the writers don’t understand what forms feminism can take. They had an opportunity to make a story about a strong woman, but they’re so devoid of creativity that they can’t comprehend that coming across without making the male leads useless and irrelevant.

[@rumpelstilzchen7871]

to be fair, she had a huge amount of own chapters. No "story told from Geralt's perspective". (I can't stand her tho so I would prefer more Geralt time too xD)

[@lysander3459]

You didn't even read the books, huh? Ciri is as important as Geralt. She grows up and changes a lot during the couse of the story. Almost half of the books chapters is told from her perspective.

[@esmee6308]

The witcher, aside from the short-stories, has a similar split-story as lord of the rings has, you'll have Ciri's story and Geralts story barely intertwining, much like the fellowship after Frodo and Sam split off. Ciri's story is mostly a coming of age, she has incredibly character development, starting relatively weak, making a big mistake, going through and growing from hardships until she's the woman most people know from the games. The show took the same route as many recent stories with 'strong female characters' have, make them strong from the very start without earning it and leaving no room to develop. They also butchered the relationship, especially between Jennifer and Ciri, but Geralt isn't much better off, so a lot of Ciri's driving force can't logically happen anymore.

[@alexshtyn6336]

How surprising a bunch of writers you've never heard about fail to make a good adaptation of a book written by someone quite well known for his work😂.

[@Assassins-RP]

lysander3459 Ciri is an important character, but Geralt is still the main pov in the books and games: why is he shoved aside in his own story?

[@Rybayashi]

I'm from Poland, and most of my friends have read Sapkowski's books and played the games. "The Witcher" is probably one of the greatest literary achievements of our time in our country. It's just a huge shame that it has been mishandled, and this failure will likely have a lasting impact on the lore and future productions.

[@kovalveli]

Wiedźmin był ok, ale Mickiewicz to,to nie jest 😂

[@DC_PRL]

do you recommend that I read it in Polish or English? I know a lot gets lost in translation. Dzieki.

[@Rybayashi]

@@kovalveli Czytaj dokładnie - of OUR time

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

Is Poland as diverse as London?

[@blackjackjester]

Need a Polish studio to take up the project

[@Halfort57]

It's astounding to me how these producers can't understand that "The world we currently live in" Doesn't look like downtown LA. Hell, the rest of the US doesn't really look like downtown LA

[@LuisSierra42]

They are too far into their own behinds that they are unable to understand that LA is not the entire world

[@vids595]

98% of California doesn't look like LA either. Mostly just downtown SF.

[@samithesmooth2970]

Woketards of Hollywood dont understand shite mate.

[@davidrustylouis6818]

Thank God

[@ichigotheg.o.a.t]

​@vids595 forreal though you go come there to any suburbs, in the suburbs, and other suburban, areas they find LA people weird bro, they dress regular with regular hair you hit downtown pink every where and every other colored hair thats not bormal, and, thats weird, if a color that is, it's fucking weird and al so west holly wood, it's just not normal as in average not weird or any thing like that just not average and they dont under stand that, people are quiet they want to be to them selves, some other dude on you tube I told that to if you live in LA county a whole bunch of women are mentally ill and he said what I said was non sense and i didnt know what i was talking about, but, that's all I see in down town la, and, other large cities in LA county the women are mentally ill, period, and the men of course, but, damn you know what I mean, I mean dating, any way, for sure,,,,,.

[@StopReadingMyNameOrElse]

Good job Lauren. Not only did you ruin the pure potential of Henry Cavill and his legitimate love for the material, but you just showed the entire industry a perfect reason to never hire you again. Love to see it, let the door hit you on the way out.

[@President-JonSnow.Malkowich]

Oh she will get hired again. All of them will. We will not be safe from their girl bossing for a very long time.

[@EH_1995]

The industry love people like her tho, she’ll defo be getting more work unfortunately🤦🏽‍♂️

[@enlightendbel]

Yet, people like that will get hired again before the corpse of this project starts to stink.

[@och70]

She'll get hired somewhere. Failing upward.

[@SomeOldGuyYellingattheSky]

You're wrong ... she will work again as this is the way ... the way of Hollywood to destroy anything and everything we love ...

[@johnstrife7]

Why do they always adapt medieval European stories and add non white people? why not do african stories instead?

[@karolinakuc4783]

Yup. French somehow could collect various myths from different countries of Africa and make an animation like Kirikou and Karaba The Witch. Either it is Afroamericans that aren't interested in their own culture or Hollywood doesn't want them to be.

[@robotube7361]

Because it has become the law in Holywood to put marginalized groups. Im not kidding- Moviemaking has a law

[@maryannarkham]

Woke agenda... Means go woke, go broke simple as that

[@DaviRafaelvis]

Because it's a fantasy world, not the real world medieval europe

[@robotube7361]

@@DaviRafaelvis Except is a fantasy world that has already been fleshed out and done. So the audience has expectations to see what they saw in the games and read in the books on screen. One thing is to start a story from scratch and do whatever you want with it. its totally another thing to change characters that have been created and the core audience knows how they look like and who they are.

[@thomaspunt2646]

For decades now, Hollywood has needed a 'book-slapper'. When the writer, director or producer of an adaptation makes an unnecessary change, someone slaps them with the book in question.

[@Hannahgirl193]

💀

[@harrys6231]

but only hardcover books. they should "feel" when they did a nono;)

[@m.p.7075]

Too many slappers being involved seems to be the main problem. (It's a British slang term if you need to check)

[@douglasarthur2673]

Join the queue as it’s fairly long already.

[@scroom1202]

Repeatedly, and while chanting "Shame!" so that everyone sees it happening to them.

[@thepepp4103]

It's actually crazy that a producer can say "the audience is too stupid" without any consequences or repercussions

[@shafta2010]

He's in the fuck around faze. Let's see what happens in the next episode of wait.

[@r0cketm00se3]

Rian Johnson did it and was worshipped, then the rest followed suit.

[@metalarmsgt4450]

It’s expected when you have the stick your head up your ass and see if it fits problem in his perspective I guess it fits

[@atharvadeshpande6907]

The consequences are literally that the show is failing.

[@haroldb1856]

Normally, they just call the audience r*c*ist.

[@praetorian3902]

"Netflix and Amazon did end up getting their Game of Thrones, except they went straight to Season 8". Gary you killed me.

[@vinogrono]

The best part of all this is Tomasz Bagiński, a Polish producer who collaborates on Netflix's "Witcher" series. Once highly respected in Poland, he now pursues a success strategy on Polish social media, bending reality and convincing utterly disappointed Polish fans of Sapkowski's prose that the series is still a massive success, and changes were necessary for foreign (apparently underdeveloped, in his opinion) viewers to understand. The guy is so slick and slippery, he should become a politician.

[@futureriff]

The irony is that having dumbed it down for a stupid American audience, that audience still turned away in droves! How about that? They're so stupid they are actually smart!

[@advchtube8208]

Poles need to expose his sham and selling out

[@Icbinideifreu]

FCK Poland 😂❤

[@angelalewis3645]

Yikes

[@Zero_2500]

I really wish the producers in Hollywood would stop hiring their girlfriends, wives, mistresses, etc to write shows. We need people of talent.

[@734ch3r]

Problem is, if you don't diversity hire, Big Daddy Gubment will come after you for sidelining the whamenz.

[@DotDusk]

They also need to stop hiring their boy toys as actors and writers. We all know how Hollywood likes to pass their young assets around. 🤮

[@jacobroper6276]

And not of ideology

[@Pimp-Master]

People of real talent wouldn't work for TV in its heyday. Sure ain't gonna work for cable TV.

[@MarieFirst]

Are these woman really wives, mistresses, girlfriends ? They're looking like "combat lesbians" for the most part. Who wants something like that? Don't you have real woman in the US ?

[@bugscheese]

Why wouldn't Netflix just have Lauren Schmidt Hissrich just write her own woke-stoked fantasy story? Surely it would be brilliant and successful, right?

[@jdogg448]

Because they're lazy and want easy money, therefore they hijack an already successful story with a built in fanbase and then push their own nonsense with it.

[@kentonbaird1723]

She did. "Witcher : Blood origin" Nobody liked it.

[@supremeboy]

No one would watch it and she is using other famous books to make TVShows. But ofc ruins it with her own agenda and woke vision.

[@bugsbenny]

I guess she is not talented enough to write her own garbage so she turns other people's great work into garbage

[@K_-_-_-_K]

"Evil cannot create anything new"

[@howsthepie1907]

They had the actor, the money, and great source material with a built-in fanbase It was a lay-up, and they found a way to fuck it up. It's impressive, really.

[@Wienerslinky]

i know right. all they had to do was stick to the source material and then the witcher wouldve single handedly saved netflix from going bankrupt

[@lazybaker1187]

You gotta dunk that shit!

[@warrickdawes7900]

It is just so ... WNBA really.

[@mrtreevis]

Never underestimate the hubris of a woman in charge.

[@gadget00]

"giving power to a woman is like giving a gun, to a monkey." --Borat @@mrtreevis The sorry state of the TV/movie industry apparently

[@sunslayer5528]

It’s a tragedy that this show squandered such an amazing opportunity for storytelling. Still hopeful for Henry Cavill’s Warhammer project.

[@tinyiko2949]

I’m black but I see no need in being inclusive when the story was written with certain characters in mind. If you want to be inclusive create and write an inclusive series don’t change other people’s work for the sake of inclusivity

[@izaakgray1718]

It wasn't done well, that's for sure, but considering Geralt's story is one of overcoming prejudice, hate and exile symbolised in the unusual colour of his skin, maybe that's what the text called for? Just done well.

[@NTLMBigBench]

@@izaakgray1718Its not called for. Its called “reading between the lines”, the beautiful thing about reading/watching stuff is that you can see the underlying tones of topics without it needing to being thrown directly in your face with the force of a nuke. Why do you think there is a literal race war going on in the Witcher universe?

[@thepunisher3640]

Absolutely, good writing and well thought out characters will transcend race and to an extent culture. So either today's writers are garbage and haven't the slightest clue what attracts people of different races and cultures or...they want their creations to do poorly.

[@izaakgray1718]

What you are criticising is the heavy handedness of the showrunners, which I agree with. What the vlogger is claiming is that this is because they're woke - but clearly the text itself is woke. So that makes no sense.@@NTLMBigBench

[@Fuzzycat16]

@@izaakgray1718 "The text itself is woke " The books? nah. Use actual words to describe something.

[@tgillies101]

The first show where backslaps and applause were for the fan favourite lead LEAVING the show. What an age we live in, we support Cavill and his integrity

[@filipvadas7602]

Literally the only one I feel sorry for is Henry Cavill himself. He fought tooth and nail to play Geralt, was so passionate only to be treated like an enemy by the producers. I dearly hope he gets the chance to play the character in a more faithfull adaptation

[@hotshot0409]

I am so impressed by Netflix's ability to ruin most things they touch. Witcher, Lucifer (it was my favorite show, they ruined it for me, cant even force my self to complete it anymore), Messiah, Black Mirror, Daredevil, Punisher, last part of mind hunter.. everything, just RUINED There are barely any series that are good there anymore, Also its so sad to se one of the best actor and human who was pulling that show out of the gutter to be ignored and treated like just a side cast.

[@xjudoflip7381]

to add to that, when they do make a good show, they cancel it early for some reason...Makes no sense.

[@PaolaRL]

Netflix got what it deserves and it still manages to blame the customers!

[@kingpin7610]

giving customers ice cream laced with 🌶🌶 when the customers complained about it they will get offended

[@Leonardfox01]

That's seriously WILD

[@7CZero]

The totally insane thing about all of the kind of "forced diversity" casting and sort of shoehorned-in "strong female" characters suddenly emasculating men left and right is that polling in mid-2018 showed that the _vast_ majority of Americans, so about 80% said they felt political correctness/identity politics had become a problem, and _more_ minorities than white people agreed with that statement, for god sakes. So, ironically, the data shows that it's mostly rich, humanities educated white people getting pumped out of Ivy League schools with degrees that cost as much as a decent home in a nice neighborhood who are pushing this historically inaccurate diversity, hamfisted identity politics and "social issues"-obsessed writing onto people's screens, when most people hate it. It's totally ridiculous to have a show whose source material have it essentially set in a fantasy version of medieval Eastern Europe look like the East Village in NYC.

[@roronoadzoro9429]

Netflix raised it price and made account sharing impossible I know a LOT of people that cancelled their prescription now

[@MrPuffPuff77]

The biggest disappointment is that there probably won't be another chance for a proper adaptation now. They had a golden egg, and they fucked it up.

[@freddied8479]

It could happen, maybe a movie... look at Hellboy. We're getting a third version of that character now, and that comic is nowhere near as popular as The Witcher franchise.

[@minidreschi2]

​@@freddied8479 True, yet Hellboy seems one of the kind. And even if. Who would do it? I think Netflix has the rights for some years, however i don't know the details or how Sapowski dealed it. The issue is, Netflix, even if wanted (i think not) to prove the fans that they can do better, they lost Cavill, and lot of fans trust. An HBO or other media of course, could do it as 'clear', but thats how the rights came into picture.

[@NoctLightCloud]

​@@minidreschi2The UK peeps need to do it😂

[@NoctLightCloud]

​@@minidreschi2"folks" I can't say? it's being censored by youtube... weird!

[@samsampleman2439]

"Netflix, like Amazon with their Rings of Power did get their Game of Thrones, only they went straight to S8." That burn was sicker than what Dany did to King's Landing.

[@alicjaobuchowicz]

I’m from Poland and I known Witcher from when I was a little kid. I remember playing the first game on my cousins computer when I was maybe seven or eight. And reading this books when I first learn how to read. I love this world, I’ve never seen another fantasy series where everything seems so alive. This world is so beautifully constructed. When I first saw that Netflix is going to adapt is I was very happy, that I heard about casting Henry Cavill and I didn’t like it (in my eyes he is to pretty to play Gerald), but still I waited, because I wanted to judge it only when it comes out. Then I saw rest of the cast and wasn’t pleased (especially with Triss who don’t have red hair in this adaptation). Than I saw first season, and thought that a lot o tv series don’t have great first season and than the start to be really good (like bojack horseman) so I waited for season 2. I stopped watching after they killed Eskel, without any reason or sense. Like cmon, we didn’t even get to now his character in this adaptation and they killed him. We couldn’t even form any emotions towards him. So I stopped watching. I hope that some day we will get a good adaptation. It’s a great source. It’s just sad what Netflix did to this world.

[@thearmourboy3254]

It just amazes me that these companies keep forking out fortunes for IP's only to completely ruin them on purpose.

[@bloodyspartan300]

Who names their child Lauren Hissrich Schiit, oh I get it.

[@Bryan-fb8dh]

Its not a accident. They get on boards and use public money to destroy brands and IP's they detest. Its on purpose. Bud light, its intentional. All of it is on purpose.

[@deadnorth8648]

It's more about controlling the narrative or speech over wrecking good characters

[@Javier-rm6ql]

I think that is the plan. Destroy the culture to destroy the identity.

[@spacegirl226]

Destroy your culture and traditions. There are no more heroes. Demoralize. All of this subversion is intentional. Demoralized people don't fight back. We have to fight back.

[@burnttoastspacegirlfriend8769]

Henry Cavill was by far the best part of this show. He deserves far better treatment, and though it’s a bitter way to end something that started off so promising, he dodged a bullet.

[@Skullet]

The minute Henry Cavill mentioned leaving the show Netflix should have fired the entire writing team, and then blacklisted them so they'd never be in a position to ruin another tv series.

[@yakityyak8894]

Then they wouldn't be allowed to go on strike

[@Elenrai]

Netflix cancelled Incognito and made Brickleberry 2 AND 3...this is not a company caring about our money lol

[@blackrul3z]

Nah. They dont do that... The writers implemented all basic Netflix values into the series to please them. Race variety, strong women, gay man.... They give their best... Its a shane we cant understand and value their work... :D

[@veryangryduckpl2122]

​@@blackrul3zForgive me if I dont understand ya, but are ya... Defending the writers?

[@blackrul3z]

@@veryangryduckpl2122 the :D at the end is there for a reason :) it was irony

[@alphakakcmeddlakadoofahkii3362]

The worst part is that they made the witches who were described as stunningly beautiful into absolute ogres

[@kingt0295]

Them being hot could’ve been woke as well since that’s what the books were going for, in the books Yeninfer talks about witches transforming themselves to look like hot 20-30 yr old women as a way to gain legitimacy and political influence, ugly /elderly women wont be given any respect and power in the Witcher world it’s still a deeply medieval society. A commentary on the world and misogyny or whatever. The same goes for the men. The men use magic to halt their aging in their 40s so they look like experienced respectable statesmen while staving off that senile older man look.

[@1993geekDude]

They should had hired them to play the crones instead lol

[@pr1est220]

Imagine how excited Henry must have felt when he got the role, like a childhood dream come true. To get the chance to play a character you absolutely love and to introduce the world of the witcher to a new bigger fanbase. And then it goes so far that he chooses to leave the show because he could not keep up anymore with the writers bullshit. I feel so sorry for him.

[@jonbaxter2254]

You could have everything you wanted, but life has a way of twisting it inot something terrible. Don't meet your heroes.

[@CLairsoftFTW]

You feel sorry for an A list actor who most women view as one of the most handsome men on earth lol I understand feeling annoyed about the situation but don’t feel sorry for the man I think he’s doing just fine duck

[@misanthrophex]

@@CLairsoftFTW what about women? A man does not need them. This man has honour, and for him sticking to the truth is what matters. Try to catch yourself when you look at things through the lens of jealousy.

[@AnonymousClutch_]

​@@misanthrophex I wonder why men have relationships with women and marry them. Well I am not smart enough to answer such a deep question

[@TheTark57]

​@@CLairsoftFTWq I 7,c8 25k re7🎉c

[@arthaiser]

the witcher does deserve an award, i mean what they did was very hard to do, you have to understand, when you have basically the entire plot of your story basically written in the form of some books, you have the perfect actor for the lead role and that actor in particular is the happiest one on the set because he actually loves said books, to the point that he can actually tell you when you dont do something right, when you have the funds that this project had... and you still manage to fuck it up in only 3 seasons? that is hard to do.

[@dethbefodisco3221]

Unchecked leftism ruins everything it touches

[@HeisenbergFam]

Props to Henry Cavill for wanting Netflix to be lore accurate, he truly cares about franchise

[@liamphibia]

Henry is one of us.✊🏻

[@Card1ax]

@@liamphibia yep... but it didn't help

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

That’s why he’s the best hope for a WH40k show.

[@John-tc9gp]

Props to the props department for their props.

[@gavincurtis]

Imagine if that thought process went into Star Wars.

[@dustin0579]

I'm a Polish-American. I loved the books and game being something huge and well known from my culture, only to have these idiots butcher and bastardize it and turn Gerald and the other characters into something they never have been. So sick of this diversity, woke bullshit.

[@jdlr369]

I don’t blame Hollywood producers not wanting to pay the writers in this show. They should probably never be hired again.

[@Furykidxxx]

Not only writers, but the producers who insist on the "woke tax"

[@brusso456]

the studio picked the producers, the producers picked the writers.

[@FlushGorgon]

Except... the writers are told what to write. By corporate managers.

[@YourKawke]

Ah, Hollywood. The place where the people are so entitled that they think they deserve a raise for doing their jobs poorly.

[@dont-touch-mepg1392]

Kathleen Kennedy is the Kamala Harris of Hollywood!

[@aubreezily13]

It's such a shame that when you have a lead actor like Henry who actually wishes to be faithful to the source material being adapted, he inevitably gets screwed over. Hopefully, he will move on to bigger and better things in his future projects.

[@nahtesalinas1917]

I sure hope so. Because he seems like a hell of a nice guy.

[@Knight_Kin]

He's involved with a Warhammer 40k project now last I heard. That peaks my interest.

[@aubreezily13]

​@@nahtesalinas1917most definitely. He is one of the few celebrities that I actively root for.

[@aubreezily13]

​@@Knight_Kinsame here! We will see how that goes!

[@ironhead2008]

I suspect he's already blackballed as "difficult"...

[@kimoralee6066]

I'm Asian, grew up in Africa, and have friends of all creed, culture and color but I dont want to see a story where the lore, history or culture is changed just to be inclusive! It makes me so angry and mad that these wjokesters frikup the original stories and characters.

[@1Mutton1]

but but but.....dont you feel unrepresented.

[@NdrsOrs]

they change everything only for stories that were written originally by white people. I didn't see diversity in Asian shows LOL. But for them diversity means less white people (strange because there's much more Asian people on Earth)

[@someonefromsomewhere6650]

Same here, idc about inclusiveness on everything, just so forced.

[@minidreschi2]

and even if!, they could do it in so better, i don't really mind some character look change as long as it's still a good character and fits the world, but thats not what happened in the Netflix's Witcher, sadly

[@brendonford3838]

It feels culturally insensitive to Polish culture at the very least

[@maxekodziesa2067]

Producers wanting more money for murdering a show is complete insanity

[@mechajay3358]

This should be a lesson for what happens when you bring in people to work on an established IP who hates it and its fanbase with an intense passion.

[@kinagrill]

Still amazing that there's no basic 'are you gonna follow the source material? no? then go finance it yourself'.

[@drakesilmore3760]

It won't be. Star Wars already was this lesson. Or FPS games going woke even though 90% of their audience is male an 100% of their audience is exclusively interested in calling eachother's mothers names in pvp.

[@ceshmate1953]

​@drakesilmore3760 it is not 90% anymore as many females play valorant.

[@AegisRick]

It's not even the bastardization they did to the source material that's got me heated. It's the lying. No accountability. Lying through your teeth to the entire world. No shame. She's a failure and a joke who somehow thinks otherwise. I get Netflix for free with my cell phone plan. And even then I can't be bothered to sit through anything they produce.

[@AncientDragon101]

Yeah the lies were on another level, every single season she said "This will be a 1:1 adaptation from the books, I PROMISE!!" She really has no shame or accountability.

[@Creamybokeh]

I swear at this point Hollywood is just making movies / TV for themselves. It’s become one big circle jerk.

[@Tom_McMurtry]

Yip. But also they want to force it on you/us and say hey look ag us and how moral and right we are. And how cool we are.

[@SourRobo8364]

I freaking hate the phrase "see myself." If you make a good character, anyone can identify with a character. Benjamin Sisko is my favorite Star Trek captain. He played it straight, knew when to by stern, or gentle. Losing his wife and having to raise his son by himself had me attached to him. I'm sure we all agree, I just needed to rant a bit.

[@animeangel1983]

That's because you're another practitioner of common sense and not a ranting and raging insane narcissist. I watch a lot of Korean, Japanese, Thai and Chinese shows, I'm not Asian and I've felt more for those characters than any that actually "look" like me. Granted the women in those are annoying when they act like immature children but I don't stop watching just because of that. I never even touched Season 3 of the Witcher, I knew what they were going to do and lo and behold, they did it. I saw the iceberg coming and lowered my life boat well in advance, now I watch from my island as the ship sinks.

[@jessicaavery1080]

MasterChief from the Halo games is one of my favorite characters ever. I'm female, so I guess Hollywood is confused how this could ever happen 🙄. Can't wait for it all to burn so maybe we'll get some good independent stuff

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

I'm not black so I'm not allowed to like Sisko apparently... I think that's how it works. It's confusing.

[@Diogolindir]

When I was a kid I played Perfect Dark for N64 and I wanted to be as cool as Joanna Dark. Im not a woman nor a spy but she was great.

[@leddmask]

I find myself in many characters that I have very little in common with! I totally feel you!

[@sankalp6872]

Hollywood has FORGOTTEN THE ART OF MAKING THINGS. In one line, "Studios are spending twice the money for half the audience". LOTR was released over two decades ago, yet people remember it like it was yesterday. It inspired people to tap into the Tolkienien lore and appreciate the world that the great author created. To its credit, even up until Infinity Wars, MCU was doing something along the same path. However, in their quest to monetize everything, they traded stories for agendas. The thing with AGENDAS is that people either buy them or don't.

[@daynechastant]

Peter Jackson had a vision and he was committed to it. He used the books as the foundation for the story, a cohesive story that was bonded closely with the source materials... To speak to the current writer group for THE WITCHER, I'm going to go with what Serendipity said in DOGMA, "And that is why HE IS THE KING...and YOU are a SCHMUCK." The LOTR trilogy is the fantasy epic that sets the bar for all other fantasy projects for the next CENTURY.

[@yourfeedYT]

It’s the most satisfying thing seeing these woke projects fail

[@schnecks2180]

They did entertain us after all

[@meshowzq1430]

I’m sorry but we should stop blaming Hollywood or Netflix or any of those woke studios for this shitty adaptations, we should blame the authors who willingly gave the rights to such well known Fked up studios… these guys are in it for more money even if it ruins their original work .. i think we should shift the focus and address the real issue here .. at least they should add a contract clause stating that if any diversion from the original source they required the author’s approval or something like that . Man this sucks so much.

[@John-tc9gp]

Normies are oblivious. They don't know the show has 'failed'. They've absorbed The Message and moved on to next product. Mission accomplished.

[@jijenikkke]

Yup! i refuse to watch this. Loved the games, but dislike the change they make purely on being woke.

[@feyrband]

I'd find it more satisfying to have an actual well-done and faithful show. This is an ok consolation prize, though.

[@snips55]

I've decided to stop watching season 3 after 2 episodes and started reading the books. I'm only 1/2 way thru #1 and already see the way Netflix screwed up. Thanks Nerdrotic, and all the others in your group, for saving me from this final season mess.

[@aaronhpa]

The first season is way better than the books, they improved it.

[@caps_lock_]

The entitlement and narcissism of these writers and producers to be given huge privileges and opportunities like this show only to turn around as victims and blame the audience for simply wanting the source material to be honoured is infuriating!

[@nickbrutanna9973]

}}} blame the audience for simply wanting the source material to be honoured is infuriating! Not having read it, some of us don't even care that it's honored (and we're VERY used to things not being honored, having seen dozens of abortions). WE just want it to be GOOD. THAT would be enough.

[@Asdone22]

@@nickbrutanna9973 thats fair, the source material wasnt honored and it was bad. lose/lose LMAO.

[@griff9899]

I ended up dumping this after episode 3 season 2. It was not because i couldnt understand it, it was because it was getting seriously s*it!

[@CubicIronPyrite]

As a writer, if you're not capable of creating new properties, you're not qualified to be writing for established properties.

[@SoldierSpiderx]

Netflix had a guaranteed hit on their hands with an actor who was beloved by fans and passionate about the project and they utterly destroyed it with their terrible "writing" and worse leadership that somewhere in an alternative universe HBO has the rights of Witcher and made a fantastic book-accurate show with Henry Cavill and the original cast and they had a potential goldmine with this franchise but managed to monumentally destroy it

[@johndoe-dj3iy]

HBO would make many of the same mistakes sadly though hopefully it would at least have a little more screen time for geralt

[@JeremyTheOtter]

You and your team are absolute hero’s. No longer do I have to watch any of these horrible shows, instead the comedic value you give to reviewing them keeps me up to date and actually entertains me. Something Hollywood can no longer do. And honestly the time you sacrifice is greatly appreciated. Have your self a wonderful day. Fingers Crossed no one gets in the way of Henry in his next projects coming up.

[@CorvusHyperion]

Agree, far better than the shows themselves.

[@gislo]

yeah, at least we get that :)

[@JeremyTheOtter]

Oh so much better then the shows. I almost watched She Hulk, I’m a huge fan of the She Hulk comics, but luckily this team saved me. Real life hero’s lol.

[@Willowy13]

Every ones of Gary's reviews is so well written and produced that pdow00d writers are just amateurs

[@larsklevberg1127]

Agreed. Nerdrotic, Critical Drinkal and the new vigilante Reaper is a trio worth follow.

[@mrsmith3540]

Netflix is like: "We made shit and you didn't like it. That's your problem."

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

I remember when fans were roasting Netflix over the casting and wardrobe for The Witcher, even on Henry Cavill, right up until he had that interview where he refused to call fans toxic; he called us passionate and stuck up for fans. The media up til then was promoting The Witcher really positively but after that, they started being against it. Anyone remember some of the citics who skipped most of the first episode to go to the middle of the season, then watched the end and complained it made no sense? Yeah. The showrunner had to do "Woke Damage Control" so she doubled down on the nonsense for season 2. Critics loved it, fans hated it. And then the low key black balling of Henry Cavill started. He went off narrative and stuck up for US, the Fans, so they've been punishing him since. And now that he's left, the writing sucks and we, the fans left, we get blamed AGAIN for the fact that they are talentless hacks who only know how to Woke Scold and have ZERO creativity. Learn to code, a-holes. Learn. To. CODE.

[@stevenjohannesson316]

Spot on!

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

This just goes to show that even mice and dogs are smarter than a certain group of humans... who could be given the acronym "IF"... They did a study on big mice and little mice. If the big mice didn't let the little mice win at least some of the time, the little mice quit playing. To borrow a saying from an old sci-fi movie, "The only way to win, is not to play." Well, in a lot of ways, the "IF's" are the bigger mice... but these "bigger mice" are dumber than actual mice... they haven't yet learned that sometimes they have to let the "smaller mice" win... So the "smaller mice" are quitting... refusing to play the "bigger mice's game". Worse... the "bigger mice" are getting mad that the "little mice" won't play with them anymore... and are off playing games (pardon the pun!) by themselves... no "big mice" allowed. So the "big mice" are invading the "little mice's"... uh... "burrows"... by invading and subverting the things that the "little mice" enjoy.

[@highlandlass9652]

So Lauren Schmidt Hissrich had the brilliant source material in Sapkowski`s books, she had a huge potential audience from people who appreciated the books and also the games and she had a great lead actor in Henry who was perfect in the lead role and somehow managed to entirely mess it up. She had a *sure bet* and lost it big time. Hard to believe really how anyone could make a bigger mess of it than this.

[@Blehstor]

not the first woman to screw a universe up. its happening everywhere

[@spookyghost3209]

Lmao women

[@Peterski]

I hope she has some good residuals clause in her contract, because I honestly wish that she never finds employment as a show writer ever again.

[@Asdone22]

@@spookyghost3209 facts

[@blessyourheart716]

Actually she initially turned it down because she doesn't like fantasy! Until **NETFLIX** told her to not worry about the source material or the fantasy genre and to just tell whatever story she wanted and then Netflix would still call it the Witcher anyway, and that's when she accepted the job (so she's not blameless but I was shocked to learn she initially turned it down). So if y'all are still paying Netflix idk what to tell you you're part of the problem.

[@Inxx89]

When Cavill was announced as Geralt, I was sceptical. But seeing him give 110% for this role, changed my mind. If only the producers did at least 50% the show would have been a massive success...sad times we all live in folks...

[@sandler800]

I love how each season the audience score goes down yet the critics scores go up. It's crazy how out of touch everyone in Hollywood is.

[@kemkoeut5924]

Crazy how companies are willing to lose money because they don't want to hurt a particular group feelings.

[@734ch3r]

If they hurt said feelings, Big Daddy Gubment comes in and hurts you in your pocket. Isn't it nice that women vote?

[@williampotts4404]

A VERRRRRRRY small group too

[@quitestiger2818]

It's called mafia

[@stephengazzola1025]

What makes it worse, that group is a very small vocal minority who would never watch the show anyway. They just use it as a battlefield to validate themselves on Twitter.

[@praetorian3902]

Companies don't care about that group's feelings. It's not hard for a selfish ego driven CEO to say "no, fuck off and invest your own 200 millions into your feminist bullshit" to that group. These company guys are ruthless they have no problem saying no or calling the fans racist (logically if they cared about hurting someone's feelings to that degree they wouldn't call us that).

[@WolfJustWolf]

For me, the best part about season 3 is that it made me buy the books to get the actual story. 4 books in (less than 3 weeks) and i'm loving it.

[@jackmeeks2294]

Do you picture Cavill or Hemsworth when you're reading lol

[@WolfJustWolf]

@@jackmeeks2294 Cavill , no contest

[@rickf6375]

Good decision. Read the books before this show came out and... well here we are

[@yuvraj6724]

​@@jackmeeks2294stupid question. Nobody has seen how Hemsworth portrays Geralt so can anybody picture it while reading

[@yuvraj6724]

​@@WolfJustWolffor me it was always cdpr geralt and thats how it should be

[@matthewbackhouse6309]

One of the big things that's not been really talked about that makes the books so good (and the games as well tbf), is that there is a real focus on the tensions between the different races and different kingdoms and neither shy away from showing the darker side of war and discrimination, this world is not a nice place to live at the moment, its cold, its being ravaged by war, disease and despair, the inhabitants of this world are having to make awful, disgusting choices, trying to survive. This is such a powerful tone that is a constant in the background of the books, yet watching the show apart from characters telling you they are on the verge of war, it just doesn't feel like it at all.

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

Wait, are you talking about the Witcher world or ours?

[@zeriel9148]

The problem is that the issues that the Witcher series confronts are considered too explosive to discuss IRL. So of course people who insert IRL politics into any fiction want to whitewash those issues. When any honest discussion of these matters is censored brutally IRL and online, you can be sure as hell a corporate media production isn't going to address them.

[@cici_0399]

Netflix’s biggest failure… *Cleopatra left the group

[@ekij133]

Hope Henry writes an epic Warhammer story himself and shows everyone that we want a good story that's true to the source material. Forget AI taking writers jobs, let fans take the writers jobs.

[@skizilla]

He's not going to do that, there's already 40yrs of cannon lore that's ripe for the screen. All Cavil has to do is ensure they stick to the source material, look good in Power Armor and the $$ will roll in.

[@tylzzr]

@@skizillacrazy how simple it is. not holding my breath though

[@wolfie54321]

@@tylzzr I don't know if 40k will translate as well as The Witcher could have.

[@cattraknoff]

@@wolfie54321 If he picks a good story it'll be fine. Warhammer has plenty of spectacle for the normies to enjoy. Base it on one of the better storylines/characters and it's an easy score.

[@StuSaville]

@@skizilla I would rather Cavill collaborate with someone like Dan Abnett to write a brand new storyline with new characters than have them adapt an existing story which will never live up to fans expectations. I want to be able to have fun with others online speculating with fan theories on the plotline without nerds dropping spoilers...

[@walterlowe7252]

I just never understood why the real world needs to be represented in media in the first place…

[@cameronrobinson3933]

I don't get how Netflix and the producers and the showrunners didn't realize how blessed they were to not only have somebody who fit the physique of The Witcher but also had a passion for the project.

[@734ch3r]

The MESSAGE is more important.

[@ikept_the_jethryk2421]

That’s not a blessing for them. The number one danger to a con artist is the genuine article

[@sianais]

Being white and male made him poison as far as they're concerned. The fact that he was beloved just pissed them off more. What sane people reduce the screen time for the most popular part of their show? I'm not even a Henry Cavill fan or a Witcher fan but I watched it because when a person seems to genuinely adore the story they're bringing to life it makes me want to check it out and I got to see this man get sidelined in another show that was supposed to mainly be about him.

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

Oh, they knew, more or less, how blessed they were... Blessed with the perfect opportunity to "bait-and-switch"... and "subvert expectations" with their intersectional feminist dog-poop.

[@roluevasreisa5730]

Well quite simply we can look at Budlight where a company CEO gets so arrogant so high on his pride and ego that he starts blowing away all the money driving his company out of business because he got rich and that's all that mattered to him Forspoken became Forgotten Ironically Netflix made a parody of themselves called Squid Game where you got rich people so beyond bored with life that they start toying with people tossing money down the toilet because they are such empty narcissists and it's why all these companies are woke because they are run by people who hate all of you and will gladly drive their companies our of business and make everyone homeless Why? Because they are bored and feel like it and no one is going to stop them Netflix and Disney and Amazon keep doing this and does anyone complain? No It's like their boards are puny whiny soy boys whimpering about how they shouldn't act like this And the CEOs just shove them over and then fart on their faces stepping on their faces snd walking out Nobody in these companies is stopping their CEOs The CEOs know this So they will squeeze every last dollar out of their company. Drive their company out of business and then retire living rich for life . And so long as no one in the company does anything about this It won't ever stop The companies will keep going out of business and assimilated by other big companies who will stick around until they go out of business ans are sold to another big company and rinse and repeat rinse and repeat

[@sasquatch7234]

I knew Netflix would fuck it up when I heard it was announced that they would be creating the show. I knew they would create their own story and crap all over the source material. Not to mention throwing their agendas into it. I'm just surprised it was really freaking good before it took a dump.

[@pedromiguelesparzagarcia2694]

The problem with the diverse cast is that they did'nt make it organically, there are different countries in The Witcher that interact with the Northen Kingdoms that could reflect that. Ofir, Hannu, Barsa, Zangvebar and Haakland to name only a few examples from the books.

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

They didn't really give any characteristics to the regions they went to either. Just not a capable show runner

[@jonbaxter2254]

Modern writers hate this idea that people from different parts of the world look different. They much prefer everyone looking like downtown LA.

[@ThePrashu31]

Amazon did the same with the Wheel of time. The story spans multiple countries in multiple continents. And yet in the show they have mixed race people living in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@ThePrashu31 with the side effect that the audience has ZERO context to see where the heck all the events are taking place. Any village is identical to another village thousands of km apart and the population is all random diverse people with generic fantasy clothing. Kind of like the blood origin weird cluster of a mess

[@alugificator]

Something they did well in Game of Thrones - all the people in Essos look different from the people of Westeros; Dothraki look like a distinct ethnic group; people of Dorne look Mediterranean as that area geographically looks similar to Greece and Spain, etc. You don't just get a random mixture of people with varying skin tones who have presumably been living in the same area for hundreds of years because that wouldn't make any sense. We get it in our cities now because we have mass international transport, but in fantasy settings it's just distracting. It needs to make sense in-universe.

[@morphling337]

From now on, seeing a writer who feels the need to refer to themselves as a "storyteller" will be a level 9000 red flag. That seems to be the keyword they all took away from the same summer camp.

[@zoebaggins90]

Correct! That summer camp is called Marxist Studies 101.

[@Peterski]

No, writers should be storytellers. That's what being a writer is. The problem is, in this case, it wasn't THEIR story to tell - they were supposed to adapt a really good material that was written by somebody with much more talent and skill than Lauren Hissyfit. Instead, they were trying to do their own spin on the story with all the diversity and girl power stuff. And here we are...

[@zoebaggins90]

@@Peterski no, writers adapting a story shouldn't write their own story!

[@williemurray2523]

@@Peterski Nah... The STORY was already there. They were supposed to honor that STORY and write according to that goal.

[@HerculesBallsInc]

As with most things, if you have to explain to people what it is you do, you probably aren't doing it that well. Truly competent writers don't need to explain that they put the words together and make interesting things. People get it.

[@tobystewart4403]

I don't get it. If the angry woman wanted to tell her story, why didn't she write her own book? Why did the angry woman take a job telling someone else's story, if she had her own things to say?

[@gargathulothhastur4981]

Unless you missed the show... She's clearly not creative enough to stand on her own. 😉

[@sneakyrodent1853]

Because she has no talent beyond twisting somebody else's work.

[@kentonbaird1723]

@@gargathulothhastur4981 Basically this. She's not creative enough to build her own thing. She is a parasite and must ride off the established success and love of another work. It's not about setting a grand stage, it's about making a platform to preach from; these are not creative or moral people.

[@ready2]

Because the IP is popular and thus she can get a very big audience to force her agenda down their throats and in the process she also destroys a story that for her is "problematic" (because it has a popular and strong male lead and too many white and pretty people). A win-win for her.

[@purspike]

Because evil cannot create, it can only corrupt

[@Leo-rj5ie]

Season 3 is really impressive. Never have I watched a series where I was dying to see the next episodes of season one to where I was torturing myself into watching the next episode because I had a tiny bit of hope that something good would come up in season 3.

[@GIBBO4182]

The show runners had a road map, in the books, and an A list Hollywood actor, who was all in, on board! And still managed to F it up! 🤣

[@adamp6320]

They truly thought they were better writers than the author who created the Witcher. Hubris.

[@kamil0162]

This is a true story, in my home village in Poland, upon hearing that a black man would be attending a wedding, half of the older women stood by the roadside to see what he looked like. Now times are changing and you can now meet sometimes people of a different skin color, but in the times when Sapkowski was writing The Witcher or the first Witcher games were being created, it was a great rarity.

[@dbf1dware]

You go Poland. Stand strong against the destruction of your culture and history. Stand strong against "diversity."

[@kinagrill]

Reminds me of a moment in The Dresden Files when a black russian guy who has picked up a blessed sword tells Harry Dresden about how he caused traffic accidents as a child cuz the remote russian place he had moved to had never seen a dark skinned person.

[@harry1178]

Yeah no shit, man. Black people basically don't exist in Poland. Asians and muslims basically still don't exist out there.

[@kavinskysmith4094]

@@kinagrill yeah not only that they fail to understand even the most basic thing about Geography, the reason why people are black because of the harshness of their environment and how their body adapted to it in africa, it was literally a trait of the environment they were adapted to, much in the same way if you stuck a white guy down there he would either get one hell of a sunburn, tan or worse with its massive UV and heat indexs, given its proximity to the equator, much in the same way as the color and the look of people in south asia adapted to their enviroment there, hell theirs even an island full of really tall people because of how good the fish are while most are 5 foot 6 while their five foot 10 and taller! and simply put, being in poland would mean natively that you wouldnt see people of that nature because of that, and how damn cold it is and how most wouldnt live there because of that, like why would you move to some frigid cold climate when you can live in some place nice in jamaca or the south west indies I mean theirs a reason the english literally invaded everywhere that was warm, nice and tropical, india included, hence the South Indian Trading company it was filled with EX pats tired of the mud and the cold who wanted to live somewhere nice and then brought the english language there with them, to say nothing of the profitablity of the trade like its the most dumb thing about this race and kumbai crap, it fails to understand even the most basic thing about biology, geography, and basic human nature and why you shouldnt look at quota's as the way the world should be, as it just doesnt work that way and people arent wrong for calling you out on it, as every culture, people and the like are different and generally not compatible with each other no matter how much you like to make it so, all you can do is be decent to each other and leave it at that, as to do otherwise would be a diservice to that culture and its people and if they grow to like each other, great, but that's up to them, not you,

[@Sokkamaibawls]

Just get this mans to 1 mil already 💯 this channel deserves more recognition for the amount of effort/energy is put in every video

[@97palm]

„Will I move through the book and start changing people’s cultural heritage or ethnic makeup or gender because I’m feeling really „liberal“ that day? No. That’s ridiculous and contrary to what ANY writer would do, because we are storytellers. Story comes first“ Lauren S. Hissrich

[@theghost6412]

This really has finally put a massive spot light on the Toxic Writers, Directors and Producers who have no interest whatsoever in telling stories that their Audience want to see and hear, only what they themselves want to see and hear. And they then wonder why their work flops and fails miserably in the worst possible ways.

[@lukejohnson1274]

How many books and lore will these leftists be allowed to destroy?

[@GeoffreyBangers]

Watching this season was like eating a spoonful of hot expired mayonnaise. I didn't expect it to be good, but was still surprised how bad it was by the end.

[@odinthorson1830]

🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant!

[@Yamazaki44]

Why are these writers aren’t charged with wasting money and time for the audiences and also the actors ? Things like these should go to court and make them pay back all the money that was used.

[@K_-_-_-_K]

Because the show achieved it's purpose. It's multiculturalism conditioning to facilitate mass demographic change the entire Western world is being subject to. Kids that grow up today won't know any other kind of media. That's the point

[@equivalentexchangeisalie5726]

Because the ones who hired them are the same way.

[@imnotraisinbran]

the show is literally called “the witcher” and henry has about 5% of total screen time lol they completely wrote him out & it’s a tragedy. it’s a disgrace to henry.

[@ComposedSage75]

Failure was always gonna be the end result with the way they had things going with that show.

[@nahtesalinas1917]

Why do these people hate white Europeans so much? What if the books were from Africa and they wanted to make them more "diverse"?

[@meshowzq1430]

I’m sorry but we should stop blaming Hollywood or Netflix or any of those woak studios for this shitty adaptations, we should blame the authors who willingly gave the rights to such well known Fked up studios… these guys are in it for more money even if it ruins their original work .. i think we should shift the focus and address the real issue here .. at least they should add a contract clause stating that if any diversion from the original source they required the author’s approval or something like that . Man this sucks so much.

[@chastion3689]

I loved the games, read the books (games are better) and I have yet to watch a single episode. The casting told me all I needed to know.

[@MMAallday67]

If you want a show to have a global feel, just write an original story!! Oh wait, that takes talent doesn't it..?

[@HanzosHart]

Of which they have none 😂

[@TKinfinity01]

Cavil may be the biggest name to have left the series, but I recommend people look up how many great people left the show before even him. A director from Game of Thrones ended up leaving due to similar reasons and they had to reshoot most of the pilot.

[@DaPhantomThief]

can't find anything online, do you have a link or can you tell us who left?

[@silverbirch-youtube]

Alien Platypus (another KZbinr) did a 5 part breakdown of why the netflix show sucked so hard. In part 4 ('Cavill was not the first to quit') he gives a detailed breakdown of the many people who jumped clear of this trainwreck. That director from GoT is mentioned in the video with some background.

[@TKinfinity01]

@@silverbirch-youtube That's what I watched. :)

[@silverbirch-youtube]

@@TKinfinity01 It was a great set of videos! Still working through them but it was cathartic watching parts 4&5. I still can't decide whether Hissrich is a lying two-faced cow or just the most pathetically incompetent showrunner ever 😆

[@enzannometsuke8812]

@@silverbirch-youtube .... or both ;)

[@officialemanuelvega]

12:40 I think this was the main issue for me. The show is called The Witcher and THE Witcher doesn’t even appear in it. Smh

[@ElewIV]

Another meme filled banger by Gary and Pierry. Y'all have perfected the format. Just the right amount of memes, concise script, and valuable information relayed.

[@PierryChan]

Thanks for the feedback! Cheers

[@Krysdavar]

"This book was written in a certain time" told me all I needed to know about these "people".

[@FN_Himothy]

Right? Who gives a fuck about when it was written tbh. These showrunners shouldn't be running shit lmfao

[@philmorton4590]

Yeah late 80s to the present day, so why again did it require a rewrite lol

[@Krysdavar]

Same reason why Disney ruined Snow White. (this movie coming out in ?2024? should be called "Snow Woke".)

[@MrThebigcheese75]

That line is an insult to the writer, who they wouldn't have a show without and now it looks like an expensive failure. No longer have Netflix, don't really know what I'm missing but if nothing has changed then they can keep their cheap reality TV push, let them eat cake and all that other churn TV. There are also much better and much less padded documentaries on decent KZbin channels too. Watch with a good adblocker. So long Netflix, what will you do when stranger things finishes?

[@dellarae]

If ethnicity is what you have a problem with that's kinda lame. The story made 0 sense, jumped everywhere that is what makes it bad. Not that a black person was cast😂 dingdongs

[@fringer6]

I've always been surprised at how popular season 1 was. Really shows how much Cavill propped it up, because season 1 was absolute hot garbage. Casting was terrible, music was terrible... Casting was absolutely terrible.

[@therealcharlieharper]

True. It was shit but really but still good shit after season one it is just so fucking bad and sucks

[@Ewacked]

Yeah, if Henry wasn't in season 1, it would have bombed so hard that there never would have been a 2nd season.

[@lihisluikku]

Wow it is so interesting how a story set in like, "medieval fantasy Poland" will have almost exclusively white and Slavic characters. And almost as if diversifying it for the sake of diversifying it, takes away from the setting and immersion. It's like if you write a story about ancient tribal Africa, you don't randomly shove in a few white and Asian characters that just happen to be white and Asian in an ancient African tribe. Or you don't write a story about the early samurai periods, with a few white and black samurai for some representation tokens. And it's not like people hate a diverse cast or a world setting with a lot of diversity. Game of thrones is a good example. BUT it makes sense in GoT setting, because there are multiple lands with their own cultures and predominant races. And the places where they intercept, are major metropolitan cities, where people from other cultures come to trade or travel. But in GoT it wouldn't make much sense if like 10% of the Starks and other houses living in the cold North just happened to be black with no explanation. They are supposed to be inspired by the medieval Nordic people.

[@fred89pj]

“Never underestimate Netflix’s ability to F* up things” B.Obama

[@iamstrider1375]

I am so pissed at people with money who take something somebody else made perfectly and then take a massive dump over it. Really loved the first season. What a sad death to what could have been an amazing show.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

Gonna be real: The Witcher Netflix series was DOA when the casting was announced (no one puts Triss in a corner) Henry’s charisma and source material knowledge kept the failure of a series afloat longer than it should have.

[@XBullitt16X]

Yep, I didn't give a shit till I saw henry's fight scene, the only thing I liked in it. I stopped watching after season 1.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@michaelxz1305 Eva Green or Claudia Black as Yennifer.

[@davidsloss8672]

Money doesnt matter. It doesnt matter how much money it loses, or how it is received. It is all about pushing a message, it has to be at this point.

[@robertonly8439]

They will print as much money as it takes until they can print no more.

[@elbarto8282]

They just cannot get away with this. We need to force the directors and everyone in charge to quit

[@karolinakuc4783]

You force them by deleting subscription

[@bry8636]

I tried for Cavill’s sake I made it to episode 3 of season 3. ‘Watched’ episode 4 mostly while playing on my phone. And despite downloading episode 5 and it being the only thing I could watch on the plane, I found looking out the window better viewing.

[@KarateWerewolf]

What they did to this show is one of the biggest reasons I canceled Netflix.

[@MrGorpm]

I'm glad you mentioned Altered Carbon, the first series was great - who replaced the writers for the second season?

[@nisimensitrea]

As far as I know, there was no source material for the second season. The story was concluded with S1. So they had to use what they had and make up a new story. Granted, not very successfully.

[@strider7008]

The same character in different bodies definitely threw mackie for a loop, who played himself basically. This aint dr who.

[@Loyal_Lion]

@@nisimensitreaNo, there's more books in the series. Pretty sure they used that material for S2.

[@andrewdopple6946]

If they wanted to make 10th century Poland "diverse" they could of at least made them good looking people.

[@unclientrandom5371]

I was humiliated with what they did with Witcher. I litteraly promoted this series to EVERY MEMBER OF MY FAMILY since its one of my favorite game series ever. I told them it will be good and they dropped that crap

[@JIGWIGPIG]

I didn't finish the game but I knew it was the best game created almost, and I promoted it too because I personally thuaght they would go lore way. I don't know why I thuaght that but I won't be ripped again. One piece gets destroyed and I'll go full homesteading life. I'm already 75% there. Best of luck finding entertainment

[@englishatheart]

Literally*

[@Jabberstax]

Imagine expecting the Witcher show to actually be about the Witcher character. That's like expecting Willow to be about Willow or Hawkeye to be about Clint Barton.

[@mudageki]

Crazy talk, man. Now report to your local re-education center~!

[@MaciejuCz]

This criticism is actually silly because Geralt is in fact not the main character of the saga.

[@HubiKoshi]

@@MaciejuCz It's more accurate to call him and Ciri deuteragonists. They are the main two viewpoint characters in the saga.

[@SeSeReRfRf]

Or the Obi-Wan show to be about Obi-Wan. It's like the modern Hollywood playbook is to use a well-known and beloved character to bait-and-switch in a more diverse character the writers wish would be as popular as said beloved character

[@HubiKoshi]

@@SeSeReRfRf This one you can't really blame them for though. Ciri was very much a second protagonist in the books.

[@laserbeam9261]

I knew Geralt got little screen time but when you actually hear the numbers it's just shocking.

[@Muti-y6d]

It's nice to present other cultures in a series or a book collection but everything has to be kept original. If I'm watching a series which was written off from let's say african literature, I'm expecting to see people from the same culture and race. Surely no one likes to see their originality gets played with just because of someone else's decisions. No one would appreciate it if black panther was a middle aged uncle from the Middle East.

[@fortcastellan1730]

I feel so ahead-of-the-curve on this show. I watched, but didn't particularly enjoy, season 1, and stopped there. Even back then, it seemed obvious to me that the writers didn't want to do a show that featured 'The Witcher' doing witcher things, and really wanted to make the show about the side characters.

[@jeffersonadams8711]

Honestly, I tried to watch the first episode of the Witcher but quit 10 minutes in. Maybe it was too soon after _Game of Thrones_ and I couldn't open myself up to another fantasy show, worried it might eventually turn out just as bad. Looks like I made the right call, and saved myself a few dozen hours of time.

[@Aedrion-]

Same here, I watched upto episode 3 of season 1 before quitting. It wasn't the Witcher, it wasn't good and it was obvious that it would keep getting worse. I googled the last episode of that, saw what was supposed to pass for an epic battle and that was all I needed to know. The signs are always there with these shows.

[@ChickenBiscuits]

I quit mid-season 1 because of the cringe diversity casting and they weren't following the books with dumb changes.

[@Peteruspl]

Even best ep in Blaviken had its point reversed - in books Geralt killed them all when they were preparing to leave, not start killing citizens. It was still nasty group of bandits but at that point he butchered them on wrong assumptions. Why screw it up? It was only made one dimensional if they was no hook. Does Hissrich think audience is so dumb that they would start hating Geralt like the towns people?

[@Hunkeykung]

Season 1 was a shit season as well. What a chaotic mess

[@aydenquincy1847]

I'm here in the US and I have LOVED The Witcher for years now and was SO excited to see Netflix was going to make a series of it. I was also a little hesitant to see it because I really didn't want them to do the things they did to it. What a disappointment.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

Henry made the right call to leave the show as soon as it went south. What. A. Man.

[@SPrince-t9u]

The funny thing saying that is about "Ciri", when reality is that Eredin wanted Ciri to breed an heir, the son of Ciri was the one who would of have had exploited the power of the elder blood, NOT CIRI.

[@BigSisterNeko]

Their biggest mistake was hiring an actor, who’s fantastic at his job, AND who gives a shit about the original material. Love you Cavill ❤❤❤

[@antonnym214]

Baginsky has an explanation as to why his show sucks. Right on target! There are some amazing polish writers, in addition to Andrzej Sapkowski. Stanislaw Lem, for example. He is just epic and always a fun read. If you like sci-fi, folks, check out these writers. Also, Janusz A. Zajdel's outstanding book, Paradyzja (Paradise: The World in Orbit 1984) would make an amazing series as long as the writers don't Fu*k up the source material. I have known lots of Polish people in my travels and gotta tell you that as a group, they are really good-looking people! I would like to have seen more of them cast for this show.

[@silverwolf6866]

It's simple they chose Baginsky by the same standard Hollywood chooses most of their producers and writers. By who can give the best head.

[@lamwen03]

Sorry, but they don't fit in Baginski's Witcher. Too European.

[@brusso456]

Diversity = Ugly People

[@theelder4797]

It's racicicist to cast hu-whyte peepo in a series written by them, set in a country full of them. Omigod get woke already!

[@grzegorzdumaa9321]

@@MarioLeCarre Greatest literary achievement in terms of the impact of the global culture, not in terms of being the best literature, I agree that Sapkowski is mediocre writer

[@guyincognito1406]

“Most of the men die, women most affected.” Damn Gary didn’t think you’d be dosing me with life today.

[@Jd1680a]

I would like to see Lauren Hissrich be tasked to either retell of an Sub Sahara African folktale in the 12th century or retell a Chinese Folktale, like Mulan also set it also in the 12th century. The Witcher could be assumed was based in the years of the 12th century so it could par with the timeline for Polish folklore was based on in the books. I would like to see Lauren Hissrich say "I could imagine everyone would imagine everyone in Sub Sahara Africa are black so therefore we are going to race swap half of everyone into East Asian and European decent to make it more accurate for the modern world, same thing to be set for medieval China where the likelihood of running to someone of European decent would be slim." I wonder if Lauren Hissrich would be willing to race swap people from other geographical locations where everyone could imagine where most of the people living there would be one single race before the 20th century ocean liners and airplanes had existed.