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[@mckrinoleon1069]

Henry Cavill "I don't consider it as toxic, I consider it as passion." what an absolute legend

[@MT-UK]

This is why the Witcher is doomed DC is on fire after James Gunn pissed everyone off and fired him And everyone is now excited for the Warhammer Cinematic Universe that Amazon has now approved AND given Cavill the EP position, starring role and huge control in deciding writers, showrunner and Directors Honestly any game adaptation going forward should just have this guy consulting at the very least

[@RampidWarthogStudios]

It’s so refreshing seeing someone like him actually “Get it” Love Henry

[@CorwinTheOneAndOnly]

@@MT-UK Holy what? He's the EP? I thought he was just going to be an actor? THE TIMELINE COULD BE SAVED!

[@TheJeevo92]

He's God-like.

[@TheJeevo92]

He's right.

[@athenaeum4030]

"he's just mad it's not about himself" Mcconell: The show is literally called THE WITCHER

[@axos3130]

it's more than that - you aren't trying to "make it all about yourself" by saying "hey maybe the protagonist of the show deserves to have SOME type of recognition". it's a typical "let me pretend it's 100% in the other direction" idea, where it's AS THOUGH witcher was 100% of the tv shows and poor poor hirsrich was simply trying to shine 10% more light on under-served female characters. which was not the case, she intentionally nerfed geralt and put him in the background and made the background characters who are of the correct demographic the protagonists. from a writing prespective it's extremely obvious what she was doing.

[@LEWIS1992]

I don't understand why comments like this get upvoted. Like, it's just repeating something from the video.

[@luminatron]

@@LEWIS1992 humans are shallow lul. don't overthink.

[@troudbalos333]

The only time i can agree with McConnell tbh

[@TheOmegaCloud]

McCool dropping truth bombs.

[@Bkbarracas]

Cavilles clearly a man of deep integrity. luckily rumour is hes going to be leading a warhammer 40k live adaptation. I wish him all the best

[@nationalsocialism3504]

Him & his girlfriend of several years. He's going to be an executive producer on the show & she's an executive at Vertigo who got the rights from Games Workshop (I figure she probably deserves a lot of credit for it happening cause it's her job to put deals like this together.) That covers the creative/business aspects of creating a show between them as a team

[@nationalsocialism3504]

Him & his girlfriend of several years. He's going to be an executive producer on the show & she's an executive at Vertigo who got the rights from Games Workshop (I figure she probably deserves a lot of credit for it happening cause it's her job to put deals like this together.) That covers the creative/business aspects of creating a show between them as a team

[@snugglestruggle8437]

This is a good thing, about a year ago Warhammer hired some female writer with pronouns in their bio, with clearly a misguided perception upon reality like so many female writers in entertainment today, and when the writer for the Warhammer series was first announced people became very concerned from what said writer was posting on social media. She had roughly a year to bring forward a script, something that stayed censored from the public, likely a script that Warhammer rejected outright. Now to hire Cavill to write, direct, star in and basically alter course of the Warhammer franchise, it likely means whatever that previous "woke" writer produced was literal garbage that was tossed out. The prequel to Game of Thrones prior to the series that was produced was rejected too, for the writer to "blow a raspberry" at the journalists asking her how she felt about her adaptation being rejected. It was a farse, these writers do not care about why these fan favorites are fan favorites, they only see the opportunity to hijack and exploit these franchises through Marxist intent and it's abhorrent to behold. The amount of profit to be made from being willing to subject the public to indoctrination in place of canon, to force "Lecturetainment" instead of entertainment, into a belief of conformity and obedience instead of liberty and freedom, it speaks volumes by itself, and it should see all these regressive writers fully rejected by the entertainment industry already.

[@sauravsaha7465]

@@snugglestruggle8437 On some level I blame today's industry more than the writers. The execs only buy these IPs as they want the built in fanbase so that they can build these franchises that they can cash in for ages. But at the same time they buy into the media (news media) rhetoric that the popular watchwords will be promoted across the board (online, TV, news, etc.). So when they received these fanfic scripts for their "adaptations" in the past, they greenlit them expecting that the media backing would silence the vocal fans opposing their shows and browbeat genuine critics by calling them racist, misogynist, transphobic, etc, for not liking their adaptations. *_This_* emboldens writers to send scripts with no actual understanding or respect for the source material to send in the scripts believing that the media shield will protect them. They are also stuck in this situation as they cannot push these scripts for original stories as these execs are not willing to invest too much on new shows as everyone is chasing the dream of being the next MCU. The good news is that it seems some studios are finally realizing that this tactic doesn't work in the long run and that no amount of media browbeating can make audiences watch a badly written show and at least *_some_* creators are trying to find writers/directors/producers who actually know/like the source material.

[@snugglestruggle8437]

@@sauravsaha7465 You have forgotten about the seditious ESG scoring that plagues our nation, CRT, D.I.E. and "infinite pronouns and genders" nonsense to outright confuse youth in order to dumb down society beyond recognition through Ideological Subversion (an old KGB tactic which is from the Marxist toolkit in order to destroy foreign nations, that has appallingly been adopted by those within our own nation instead so that they retain generational power through such exploitations), it's superficial bigotry and division on crack!! This is how our own government along with a monopoly upon all industry and all these stock market corporations that hold the golden tickets are pressing all these companies to pursue ESG above all else to confuse, deride and anger the public and to cause infighting, Ideological Subversion and destabilization through purposeful destructive intent by the elite, to the detriment of all the franchises from here on out and for the purposes of bringing forth the end to the last bastion of freedom for the profit of the few. These entertainment companies can play it safe and simply make a product nobody will like and receive egregious amounts of tax payer dollars to fund their endeavors (to the direct harm of society through the blatant theft of our nation's capital and GDP that is funding our own divisive infighting to begin with), or they can hope to appease the fans during a time where "cancel culture" is promoted by those that hold the power structures through nepotism, "right think" and favoritism, where people more so enjoy watching content creators destroying these writers superficial bigotry and malice by exposing just how awful their content is as those in power, while those in power simply receive massive profits personally from our own tax dollars, from our own government funding such regressive ideals meant to subvert the people, to cause our liberty and freedom to eventually be refused by the public through such reckless propaganda, and for the people to instead demand "safety and security" in its place. No government can provide such things, to try would only cause anarchy to ensue. Those who are given the ability to manufacture consent through social engineering and manufactured "our truth TM" pursue reverse segregation, backwards Jim Crow, a complete absence of diversity by pointing at "representation TM" (diversity of thought is the only diversity that matters and that has been fully gutted), all while those in power prepare for the majority to become the minority, and for our government to then revert back centuries and allow the evils of the past be once more repeated, this is done so that they remain hidden behind the outrage and hysteria, they retain power while the people lose their minds upon one another instead of directing their ire where it should reside. Instead of being held accountable, society crumbles and they wait until the infighting stalls, for them to once more take power and lead us into a new future of true despair instead of them all going to prison for life. The Chinese government harvest their people's organs for the elite, I'm sure there are ample amounts of elitists in the West who would love this right in the West too, these people are in fact parasites!! Africa's governments have already enslaved 6 out of 10 of their citizens in order to pay back the predatory loans that were exploited upon them, the CCP instead siphoning off African nation's natural resources for their own profits in return, African leaders pleading for Western Intervention while Corporate Media remains silent, and our global agencies pretending to not see what's going on because they want to do the same. it's pure evil. they have purposefully chosen to undermine our free nation and to indoctrinate youths to press into a future of Idiocracy to come, this alone should have forced inquiry to begin years ago. The epidemic was a sham that Fauci along with other elitists like Obama had already made public years prior to said epidemic occurring (as though a mock trial of societal compliance and obedience alone and done when President Trump gave Americans another taste of prosperity and hope to further hinder the elitists regressive desires), it allowed the largest wealth transfers this world had ever witnessed to occur, and somehow nobody is going to be held liable for all the harm their actions have caused, even after Pfizer has all but been proven to have made a product that was completely untested outside Pfizer knowing such twice redefined "vaccines" would be lethal to society, all because of the emergency powers our leaders falsely hold onto because they refuse to even study alternative treatments in order to retain said emergency powers to do as they please without the public being able to hold them liable. If our own government were forced to accept that Ivermectin is a viable alternative remedy, which it should literally be the gold standard treatment against this epidemic, that would end their emergency and epidemic, and all the damage these elitists had caused would have to be resolved by all the profits being brought back to the people that it was stolen from. The elite demand their Oligarchy upon the West, and it's now gotten so out of hand that many elitists should have already been sent to prison for life, but haven't, thereby that is why "the truth" has been replaced by "my truth TM" and there is no accountability nor liability to be found. I mean, scientific theory has been replaced by "pop culture" and Democratic rule, "The Science TM," even if a brilliant scientist found the cure to cancer, our own government would point to all the "yes men" scientists who would obey tyranny for personal profit and claim it "conspiracy," after all Big Pharma has pivoted from aiding the people and to instead find methods to retain extended suffering and inhibitors instead of treatment and cures for the highest profit margins through continual payment requirements. Our medical industry has become an industry of death for profit, the last thing our hospitals want to do is offer you a cure!!! But this intent to maximize profit off extended suffering of the elderly and ill has also been subverted by elitists regressive ideals of their claims of this planet being overpopulated, as Canada has adopted government assisted suicide to such oppressive degree, their number one cause of death has become government assisted suicide now and the Canadian government even run advertising to plead with Canadians to consider doing as much, which happened to replace the previous number one cause of death which was "unknown," even though everyone knows full well what that "unknown" really is from all the leaks and updates that have taken place regarding this massive fear tactic our own government perpetuated upon society to re-instill hopelessness, apathy and despair, and it's shameful this madness is still being perpetuated. Sedition seemingly has become normalized within government; the youth have been taught to hate this nation by the product of propagandists that are only lecturing about the bad this nation has done while fully censoring the immeasurable good our free nation has made possible for the world. A one-sided narrative that was doomed to fail, and only continues due to the oppressive amounts of gov't mandated government agitprop that is pushed by our own news companies, who by happenstance are funded by our tax dollars and royalties from Big Pharma to shill their products. And when you have such people claiming positions of power, people who despise the nation they belong, the first thing they'd be willing to do is sell state secrets for personal gain, as we've recently witnessed an influx of Americans caught red handed trying to sell state secrets to foreign nations, it's because they have no sense of belonging from the broken system we've adopted by the elite trying to subvert this free nation, the entire DOE has been weaponized against our nation, and imho, the entire Department of Education should be charged with sedition if not treason for what they've put upon the public trust!!

[@LonShevu]

What I don't understand: you already have a strong woman written into the source material with Ciri, if you let her have her responsibilities and trust her in the games, you get the arguably best ending and fans had nothing against that narrative to my knowledge. Why switch/disregard it for a Yennefer strong woman plot and reduce Geralt's overall impact?

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

@nlmod See they made the mistake of being absolutely truthful about how a superficial existence of beauty, fame and power fails women over time and that to get the deep love they crave, which they foolishly sacrifice in their youth, is to have a family. A child of their own. So when life throws hardships and betrayals at you, having the love of family, of your own child, is priceless. It's Yennifer's whole story arc in season one. Well we can't have *that*, so in season two they make Yennifer a power hungry grasping desperate woman who would even sacrifice a younger, innocent girl, one who has the affection and protection of the man who she spurned, to an evil witch just on the chance of regaining her powers. She only stops when she realizes Ciri is super unique and powerful and important. Not because it's wrong to sacrifice someone for her own gain. Not because doing so would be a betrayal of the man she still loves. Yennifer can go eat a d*ck. They could have focused on Gerault and Ciri's adventures but now we gotta make The Witcher a cameo in his own damn series. I watched season one 3 times (I hadn't ever really heard of it before I watched it) but season two I struggled to finish. Hated all the episodes without Gerault. Did not care AT ALL about Yennifer's struggles.

[@TheBigJord]

@@sarasunshinemt4444yeah the ending of season one where yennifer is coming to the conclusion that she scarified something she never should have was really intriguing to me like I was about to get to watch her go through this whole character arc of coming to terms with the things that really matter. I thought that pain would open her up and then boom she didn’t really change at all in fact it felt like she went backwards. I shared your sentiment, having not played the game I was intrigued by season 1. Watched it twice then fell asleep multiple times watching season 2 and gave up… it was horrible what they did with all the characters. But yennifer took the fucking cake on characters I wanted to push off a mountain… I thought the Ciri and Geralt as a mentor relationship could have been really cool but it felt like he didn’t really get to step into that role all that much cause God forbid a big strong man have anything to teach to a perfect girl…

[@snugglestruggle8437]

Because these regressive ideologist's main fault in logic is believing women cannot succeed so long as men are in their way, thereby these writers somehow have to make Cavill incompetent, somehow acting in error all too readily and for their revised Yennefer to be morally correct, always. Ciri to be "better than thou" simply because she is female, nothing to do with Elder Blood but instead menstruation itself, and it's gotten quite tedious to see it done in literally all these "reboots" that do the same with all the beloved fan favorites. Hijack, exploit, pollute and then lecture the fans for daring to enjoy anything fun, it's the epitome of "toxic femininity."

[@LegionShade]

because that strong woman doesn't fit their agenda for obvious reasons. These people are the worst in terms of racism and they don't even see it.

[@Juvelas3]

Pretty much all important women in the witcher are badasses, the issue is that it wasnt the right type of women

[@nslater1388]

What’s wrong with the little girl wanting to be a Witcher is that in this world people are supposed to be afraid of Witchers, whom are viewed by most as monstrous and inhuman. But instead of showing that, the first interaction we get between Geralt and a normal person is her saying how much she wants to be a Witcher and that it’s stupid girls can’t be Witchers. That is a Real World opinion, not an opinion consistent in the lore of the Witcher’s world.

[@razcipherff7272]

They seriously put a line like that in the show? It's almost hilarious in the books how much shit Geralt gets for being one due to "Medival open-mindness", I could swear there is a mention in the books how parents use Witchers to scare their kids while going the usual "You better not do X otherwise Y will eat you..." Not to mention he is described as almost looking like a walking dead due to how mutations changed his body(I think the cinematic for the first game of the Witcher series got that look the closest.) which makes it immediately obvious who and what he is.

[@godzillazfriction]

@@razcipherff7272 yep but for ingame, the witcher 2s ingame face model looks almost the closest as what it was described from the books because geralt looks very creepily weird in a good way for being a witcher

[@moon1night7]

Its all just a political point for them instead of telling a story thats already been written... spoiler alert Cirilla is a Witcher.

[@crispybatman480]

Exactly

[@whosey2807]

It would be good if it showcased the innocence of a child, like all they see is some cool hero and no ones told her why she’s supposed to fear him. But it seemed a bit too standoffish imo.

[@adamfreddo5703]

At this point I just want an animated series that straight up adapts the books and has the video game voice actors.

[@Rini2g]

This

[@wujekstalin1]

Netflix animated series about Vesemir was actually very good but I dont know if it would work as "main" series

[@laran1708]

Just read the book and imagine the game voice

[@seabasswallyworld]

Animated by Genndy Tartakovsky.

[@chromesucks5299]

I had been saying this from the start, it would also skip the cringe from weird cgi monster designs and other 'spectacle' things

[@ChumblesMumbles]

Deadpool comparison is spot - on. The difference was Reynolds was basically the one creating the show and making it happen, so it fit his vision. The audience is lucky that Reynolds' vision for it was innovative but also spot on for the character from the comic. So it felt authentic and appeals in the same ways that the character appeals, but he's not just copy-pasting the plot from a 20-year old comic book, he's creating new stories and new growth and development for the character. Imagine if Deadpool had been studio run by a team like the Witcher and they're telling Reynolds to "quit your whining and just say the lines we're telling you, actor".

[@rivershen128]

When Reynolds leaked the semi green screened Deadpool trailer submission to Fox that never got a green light, I was still in highschool. That was the smartest risk taken ever. Fox said no, so he let the fandom force fox to say yes. Why doesn't this work anymore 🥲

[@leskobrandon8454]

Henry was a DAMN GOOD Geralt. And I absolutely love him for it. ❤

[@PitchBlackYeti]

I admit he came out better than I expected, that said I still believe he's a bit too perfect. Geralt in the books was kinda ugly/rough-looking, in large part due mutations and scars yet still women found themselves attracted to him because he was emanating masculinity.

[@LukiKruki]

He's too handsome to be a book Geralt but enough to look like the game Witcher 3's Geralt.

[@tonynittoli4792]

He had a few things against him in this post reality we live in. He is a straight white male. We are devolving as a species by design from the globalist shills. By the time the woke wake up it’ll be too late.

[@Fallenbrave]

Netflix didn't make an adaptation. It made a fanfiction.

[@Jo24689]

Hatefiction*

[@mattvoelker241]

They seem to do that a lot lately.

[@mattvoelker241]

@@Jo24689 Fanfictions don't necessarily follow the lore. A lot that I've run across are more "I'm going to fix X because I think it's wrong." In some cases it's interesting, because of the butterfly effects(character doesn't go into mine to fight monster because it's easier to do it another way, thus doesn't find a chunk of mithril that would have been used later to build sword and now has to fight boss with flimsy steel sword), but it can also be very grating, 'specially with self-inserts that fix everything and have no ill effects from the changes. Did one myself with a character becoming an advisor and saving the king from a poor decision and it drove a noble to poison the king.

[@luminatron]

@@mattvoelker241 the point is they're not fans, so you can't really call it fanfiction as Disparu says, it's just fiction. generic, boring fiction.

[@NightZ2_]

@@mattvoelker241 The show runners actively dislike the books, so they are not fans.

[@RangerErnsy]

We don't deserve Henry. He's too good for this world.

[@trololkhil9868]

him getting turned down from this and Superman might mean we get a halfway decent warhammer movie lol.

[@Y4ngCP]

@@symphonixblades fuck yeah, and he loves warhammer just like or more than witcher... i hope they give him liberty to make it an amazing W40K series

[@pizz0wn3d]

Jesus christ stop idolizing people. He's just a good actor who also happens to like all the nerd stuff fans of his work also like.

[@mikes8268]

he doesnt fit in with woke hollywood so its good hes doing the tom cruise thing and producing his own series with warhammer 40k. This is what actors should do now to avoid getting shit woke writers is hiring their own.

[@axos3130]

true

[@Katya_Lastochka]

Henry was legit being lore master for free.

[@lunaredelvour2972]

Issue with the girl in Blaviken is that no one likes witchers. People are scared of them and want nothing to do with them, there's no reason for the girl to even want to be near Geralt in that scene, let alone opening up to him. There's also the fact that girls physically don't survive the trials/mutations (even most boys don't) - can't remember if this is common knowledge in-universe, but if it is then she has even less reason to be complaining to Geralt about not being a Witcher

[@Juvelas3]

I was under the impresion that the process is so horrible that it even got discontinued due to how brutal it is, heck even the witchers get pissed, when they get proposed to do the ritual due to how inhuman it is

[@infinitewisdom8400]

@@Juvelas3 No that's not the actual reason. The reason why they no longer use the Trial's of the Grasses anymore and subsequently why no witchers are made at all by the time Geralt is a witcher is because there was a massive attack on Kaer Morhen, shortly after Geralt and his fellow new witchers were made, which lead to the destruction of most of the witchers and all knowledge on how to attempt the Trial of Grasses. This makes Geralt and his fellow School of the Wolf witchers some of the last or the last created Witchers in the world which also means they never had to make other boys into witchers.

[@Juvelas3]

@@infinitewisdom8400 well maybe in the books but in the third game, they use it to restore, the muteted little thing into his real identity to get further clues to find ciri

[@infinitewisdom8400]

@@Juvelas3 Yea, I am not sure what CD Projekt Red's reasoning for that was to attempt it that way; but the attack on Kaer Morhen is the reason, for the lack of new witchers, given in the books. That's why in the books and in the games everyone, especially Geralt, kind of makes a big deal out of them being the last witchers, because they know they cannot make new ones and so they are an "endangered species" who is also still mostly hated, feared and disgusted by most people.

[@Griever_Plats2021]

@Juvelas3 yes and also because the Witchers in Kaer Morhen became victims of a pogrom and were killed

[@ramigilneas9274]

It’s the usual tactic… 1: Pick the most toxic members of the group that you want to discredit. 2: Pretend that they represent the entirety of the group although in reality it’s just a tiny irrelevant minority. 3: Dismiss all valid criticism by attributing it to the toxic minority.

[@troudbalos333]

1: make a netflix show based on a well known and overwhelmingly liked ip. 2: engage twitter crazies as writers. 3: dismiss every criticism by pretending its homophobic, racist and sexist. 4: repeat

[@ExeErdna]

@@troudbalos333 They never learn! lets invest 10+mill into this project, appeal to the fans, ignore the fans and the blame the fans when it fails.

[@levivass]

Yeah it's literally bigotry

[@troudbalos333]

@@ExeErdna they dont care about making good shows anymore. They are litterally too big to fail. The only thing they want is views. Bad or good attention doesnt matter. Clicks matters. Sometimes i wonder if they are making bad stuff on purpose just to get views... or maybe they are just following a hype train that cant be stopped or they will lose all their viewers aka twitter cancelation.

[@ExeErdna]

@@troudbalos333 They're trying to force lightning to strike on anything. Yet if it does they ironically sabotage it

[@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4]

Mad respect for Henry Cavill for departing. We need more people who not only love the source material but also aren’t willing to sit there quietly as the writers and directors ruin a series just because they get paid. The amount of adaptations that end up like this is too common and has been going on forever.

[@mckrinoleon1069]

Not to mention for an A list actor he was getting massively underpaid, granted he was still getting millions but compared to other A listers it could be considered humble.

[@xenech]

Lets be honest, it's not only just to get paid but to push a real world political narrative

[@danii7584]

chances are he took the role on due to the universe being a passion, and accepted a paycut so his big salary doesn't tank the show before it has a chance to shine and increase it's budget. and then they moved away from the source material and it wasn't that passion project anymore, so he left. also there's a chance his deal included options for pay increases on the back end when then budget increases, but it only increases if the popularity/viewership increases, and given the decline in quality this wasn't likely.

[@snugglestruggle8437]

The writers are clearly sexist, they pressed Cavill to get naked more and more in the series, to Cavill's discomfort and concerns that went upon deaf ears. This was done for 'representation,' to garner female interests by leaning heavily into the "female gaze" which somehow is treated like the opposite of the "male gaze." This was not about garnering the fans interests but instead to get women to watch with the promise of Cavill's naked body being displayed upon said content, for these women to soak their sheets. This will continue so long as "Toxic Femininity" remains censored from public discourse, the bigoted and sexist regressive ideals of these writers is truly shameful to behold. I'm glad Cavill fled, season 3 of the Witcher will be no different than the Willow series, a complete lack of interest following that Blood Thingy spin off that looks abhorrent.

[@danii7584]

@@snugglestruggle8437 maybe, but to be fair, geralt does whore around quite a bit in the books.

[@Jason_Burgess]

The problem is that they take something people have grown emotionally invested in and make it feel unfamiliar. When people have spent years reading, playing, or learning characters and you make them feel unfamiliar it disturbs people. Expect rejection when you make the familiar feel like a stranger invading your space. It's like coming home and finding your family has been replaced by a diverse group of pod people...(need a gif of Sutherland shrieking -_-).

[@MarC-te4he]

@Jason Burgess Wow! Thank you! This is what I have been trying to say! I couldn't find the words, and you did! Thank you! They call it "new energy," thinking we'd be dumb enough to be fooled into that.

[@sabsinoname]

👏🏻 for this comment. They should make their own, new storys and not ripping apart the old ones, like rings of power 😪 peter jackson understood it.

[@soapbox435]

not only that as someone who writes i can understand that they want to ADD something of their own imagination but when MOST of the WHOLE script is written out you dont REwrite it all in your image

[@Jason_Burgess]

@@soapbox435 Anytime you add to or take away from an already established product you are loading the gun and spinning the chamber...hopefully you don't shoot yourself in the foot. It is also mostly about respecting the medium that you are painting with. Most people don't mind some deviance, but it still has to feel true to character and retain it's familiarity. Otherwise you are creating something that that will be unsettling to most that appreciated the original. As for touching (adding), let's hope when it's done it's a "good touch" not the "bad touch". Which is the gamble anytime someone does such things.

[@grammeatticus2172]

It’s storytelling bait and switch.

[@dylanisonfireOG]

"As a Polish fan of the books and the games at first, when they announced that they gonna make The Witcher show and Henry is gonna be Geralt I was skeptical, not gonna lie, in my imagination, Geral wasn't that bulky and had much rough face. But seeing his interviews, the way he is passionate about the characters, the lore, and that he is a fan of books and the games and watching him in season 1... now I do think he's a great Geralt. Netflix had a golden goose and they butchered it before it really goes off... The books were finished, the story completed, and the fan base already established.. all they had to do was just stick with the lore and Slavic culture... but nope 'we love all cultures but not that one, its too white' so they cram in some woke feminist agenda... now they begging us to stay and watch that crap... hope it will get canceled and HBO in a few years will make a proper adaptation." -In Coma

[@dominiclane8538]

Don't worry about it too much lol lord of the rings got the same treatment

[@jordanzdebski5132]

I hate when ppl type, ''as a polish'' as it if holds any value in the court xD It's a piece of culture not a great polish epic, Bogurodzica or sum shit like that

[@kamilosowski3889]

@@jordanzdebski5132 Yeah but not a lot of Polish culture becomes popular and we are simply proud of this particular one. This is part of our legacy, it has Slavic vibe, tells stories based on Slavic legends and we simply hoped for a good representation of part of our identity. And what we got? Something that can easily be called a cultural appropriation. The Witcher is one of the best fantasy series ever and it could have become just as popular and beloved as Lord of the Rings got after the movies were made. But instead it was butchered and there is no chance for it becoming a fantasy landmark as we hoped and as it deserves. For Polish fans it's not just another poor tv series... It's a lost chance for piece of our legacy becoming well known and appreciated.

[@babyjiren9676]

HBO? Dude… Velma

[@mirrorflame1988]

They do the same bs with Indian, Chinese and Japanese stories too. Look at the atrocities they have done to "Journey to the West" or Dragon Ball movie. These pessimistic pests hate anything that gives joy to others and they try everything they can to pervert and destroy it.

[@ReleaseMyKrakken]

This is Luke and Mark Hamill all over again. There are instances where the actors understand and embody the content much more than the writers and it's fucked when this happens

[@Thisguy2532]

Yeah I mean considering Luke died he was just probably like sure I’ll go with it but the fans aren’t gonna like but whatever I get another million dollars

[@computarzan]

mark saw the future and accepted that they should end luke before the toxic woke writers of the future butcher the character

[@leifanderson3487]

@@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it Corpos and wokeness? Corpos? Conservatives, after generations of defending corporations non-stop, are finally becoming anti-capitalists? Oh thank god. There is hope for the world.

[@Giriko3490]

Cavill understands fans cuz he's a fan himself. And I return fans acknowledge what makes him so awesome. I hope the people in charge of his 40k project treat him as well as he treats the fans who watch him

[@Xc31]

Even if its just 90 minutes of Cavill marching around in space marine armor its bound to be a win. Just look at that glorious jawline!

[@jeromeace1282]

40k licensed stuff is basically cannon fanfiction anyways so ironically enough the 'make your own shit up' approach probably works better there as long as it's not changing established characters (might as add more)

[@MastaRavenkroft]

Dude is working on Warhammer cinema? That is dope

[@Chuck_N0rris]

The witcher would have been a huge success if he got the same level of respect there. Netflixs loss anyways. He will make a hit with Warhammer.

[@ricomock2]

Unfortunately, i have doubts if Amazon will let him do 40k right. An Eisenhorn series is probably the best bet for Cavill to have real success with the general public, while keeping existing fans happy

[@WontStopMeNow]

24:36 "There's nothing wrong with this. What's the difference between this and what Eowyn said?" Eowyn didn't say she wanted to be king of Gondor, she said she wanted to fight for the people she loves. This woman specifically said she wants to be a Witcher. Also, it takes away from the empowerment of female characters in fantasy, when every female character is an empowered badass. The Rings of Power greatly diminished the accomplishment of Eowyn in Lord of the Rings. Eowyn is also a main character in the story, the bar maid is just a throw away tertiary character at best. Her only purpose in the scene was to push an agenda, not further her nonexistent character.

[@ViciousGreeneyed]

True.

[@stcsuntzucreed]

it's honestly annoying what the writers did... Ciri and Yennefer are fascinating characters in both the books and games. Especially in Witcher 3 the lenghts Yen would go to to save Ciri and what Ciri does by the end. They made literally some of the best female characters in modern fiction annoying to watch

[@nickkoyle3599]

The garden in Skellege I thought shes willing to become a villain for this... In the show I thought holy... Shes willing so sell that.

[@dragonstryk7280]

There's a secondary problem to Cavill's departure, that we don't look at enough: Cavill is actually a trained swordsman. Rewatch the Blaviken fight, they are able to stay with long, steady shots of Geralt going through everyone there, because the stunt-people don't have to try and make him look all that much better than he actually is. If season 4 does happen, it's going to have a lot more quick cuts in fight scenes, to compensate for differing skill levels, which means they won't be as gripping and immersive as they have been. So s4 is going to have at least one area with a noticeable drop in quality before we even get started.

[@frostydelusions3066]

Henry called up a stunt/fight coordinator he knew from Mission Impossible to come in and help with the action scenes on the show so yet another thing you can credit Henry for.

[@turkalpha6884]

He also had some experience from his time on The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) and Immortals (2011).

[@ogrimtodeshammer2739]

And now compare it to Galadiel fighting these numenorian "trained fighters" where you can litterally see them standing around while she fights one!

[@dragonstryk7280]

@@ogrimtodeshammer2739 Or the multiple you can see them clearly swinging basically anywhere but AT her during the fight.

[@ogrimtodeshammer2739]

@@dragonstryk7280 Thats a difficult move in swordfighting it's called fighting the Spot where you were before, in case you timejump back there!

[@BillyKone]

Imagine how awesome this show could have been if it was just 90% Geralt smashing monsters and poon

[@Jackthastyle]

Both Witcher Seasons basically had 1 'Monster' Episode that nailed the tone. it was basically like doing a Quest in W3. the rest of the show was mediocre at best,

[@K4inan]

@@donventura2116 I prefer the witcher movie that was made in poland. It's cheesy but I love it

[@trophyhunt711]

​@@K4inan that motherfucking golden dragon made of gum, but yea, movie was good and imagine it with budget of 3-4 episodes from netflix witcher

[@axos3130]

1 yes 2 beyond that they really made geralt a background character who was basically a character with no motivations no insights or thoughts or opinions on anything that was happening.

[@ashtonk4h19]

Anyone who disagrees with this his criticism is this: They are white, men (in name only), bulimic teir skinny, glasses, small-skinny face, and toothpick arms. That is who disagrees.

[@pledgebigmike2977]

Amazon writers are gonna have a fun time trying to change the 40k source material to "tailor to a more modern audience" with Games Workshop and Henry Cavill on the team 😂

[@abbasazeme7720]

although amazon has a bad rings of power on its list. it also has a well written "the boys" on air. so i'm actually hopeful about them making a good warhammer 40k series

[@buca117]

@@abbasazeme7720 It also has Jack Reacher, an excellent adaptation of the book Killing Floor.

[@hehexd9212]

cant wait for all female orcs

[@TheManBehindTheSlaughter6669]

@@hehexd9212 I mean does it matter what the orcz look like? they spread through spores like fungus so in my eyes as long as they are big green and mean it doesn't matter.

[@llamaczech]

I mean, there's a big difference between Eowyn and that girl who wants to be a Witcher, first being that in-universe the process of mutating someone into a witcher is so hard on the body that only males have even a slim chance of surviving (and likewise, the mutations to create sorceresses skew heavily in favour of women surviving that, iirc the male sorcerers that exist have a natural ability to use magic but can't reach the same potential as sorceresses because they haven't been engineered for weilding it). Secondly, being a witcher isn't a thing anyone on the Continent wants, its not like being a knight who goes off for adventure and fights monsters (a thing that also exists in universe), being a witcher is being a "subhuman" monster without any honour because they're mercenaries who steal children. Thirdly, the first interaction Geralt has with a human in the series isn't one of loathing (for being a witcher), one of him being someone to look up to, and showing people accepting him. Geralt is absolutely not someone to look up to, and is basically only barely tolerated because he's good at what he does. Also, side note, the Witch King of Angmar (in the book) wasn't killed because Eowyn was a woman (she was still a Man, as in human). He was killed because Merry, a Hobbit not a Man, stabbed him in the back with a magic sword that broke the spell granting him immortality and THEN Eowyn cut his head off.

[@FuFightersStudio]

The difference between Eowyn and the random girl is that Eowyn had a story and reason to be there - the girl is there for 3 seconds and her only line is a commentary on why the rules of how Witchers work are stupid - and since it has no reason to be there it seems to be literal hatemail from the Writers.

[@wujekstalin1]

Also being Witcher is not a good life. It's literal shit. Why any woman would want to be one? Yes it's cool to be witcher in game but in reality not so much. Girls sounds like "patriarchy" prohibits her from being a monster hunter. The truth is barely anyone survived the witcher trials, most of boys died let alone a little girl. It makes no sense why she would wanna be one. Ciri wants it because Geralt is her role model but thats it. BTW polish Witcher TV series actually has female witchers but I dont remember what was even point of them

[@trophyhunt711]

​@@wujekstalin1 yes! And being witcher never was a choice.

[@amandaaddmana]

I think the point of the character is to introduce new audience to the Witcher world. She hasn't seen a witcher before, and probably didn't believe when adults told her scary stories about them. And by the end of the episode she is completely disillusioned, and doesn't want to live a witcher's life anymore. Since it's the first episode of the show, she could actually be a relatable character for viewers who know nothing of the Witcher universe, and think that witchers are just some cool mage-warriors. Who wouldn't want to be a cool mage-warrior, and go on adventures instead of staying in some boring village? To be fair, the "girls can't be witchers" part is a cringe, but it does serve its purpose: it tells the new audience that in this universe only boys are trained to be witchers. And new audience might also think "but why can't girls be witchers? who came up with that rule?", because just as the character, they don't know shit yet, and have all the rights to question how the show's world works.

[@wujekstalin1]

@David José Reisinho Yes

[@NightZ2_]

@@amandaaddmana I would accept your idea if we didn't know the writers actively hate the source material and are desperate to inject their cancerous ideology in it.

[@SpookyRumi]

I understand where Asmon is coming from but if he knew more about the Witcher's universe he'd know that it's nothing like Eowyn. No kid wants to be a witcher except Ciri because she already has powers and doesn't have to go through genetic mutations that's basically child torture with 70% fatality rate.

[@PaulusAlone]

Exactly! Becoming a Witcher is like becoming a Grey Warden in the video game Dragonage! It’s as likely to kill you if you can’t handle the doping and in Dragonage it literally will transform you in the end after so many years and you will need to seek your death before that time comes. In other words it’s a hellish choice only taken because of dire survival necessity.

[@danielb7143]

If he knew more about the Witcher's universe wouldn't he know that Geralt is a celebrity, famous in epic ballads about a Witcher, his love for a sorceress and his Child of Destiny though? Lots of kids in that universe absolutely want to be Geralt of Rivia. Lots also hate and fear Witchers, they obviously don't know about the Trial of Grasses though, since the Witchers don't even remember the details of it themselves and seemingly neither does Geralt's own mother when he questions her about it.

[@KyriToe]

I really look forward to season 4 stuff Netflix straight up destroying the series that makes the high ego whamen that write this woke fanfiction loose money and their jobs to cry in twitter Gives me so much joy

[@fl-ri-]

I don't remember any of that from the books though. I remember Geralt dying in relative obscurity after getting skewered by a peasants pitchfork, and Ciri never being seen again.

[@danielb7143]

@@fl-ri- It's definitely in there though. The whole reason that the rulers are looking for Ciri is Dandelion's ballad about the Witcher and the child. Geralt repeatedly has to tell him to stop telling it but he still gets kidnapped multiple times (by both Djikstra and Rience) because of his famous songs about the Witcher.

[@P.Whitestrake]

Lesson no. 1 in adapting a story: NEVER change the lore.

[@BluSky1]

This is exactly what happened to the 4th Thor movie they made chris hemsworth a supporting actor in his own movie to the ladies, He has expressed similar comments saying he will only do a 5th thor movie if the writers and director change and OMG the train wreck Matrix 4 was as Neo became a supporting actor in his movie...

[@sis6157]

The worst part of all of this is if Netflix actually stuck to the source material they would have actual mature commentary on “the patriarchy” and “racism/diversity” Human prejudice against non humans is a very powerful theme in the books, it’s basically the entire struggle of the elves/scoiatel and how the northern realms and Nilfgaard treat them. The witchers themselves are another example of dealing with prejudice because they are “different” Racism is a big theme in Sapkowski’s work. And finally the lodge of sorceresses! Powerful females advising/controlling the kings of the northern realms to suit their agenda of ensuring magic has a dominant place in the world. But instead we get no talent losers with out a creative bone in their bodies shitting all other material they couldn’t dream of creating themselves.

[@spectralassassin6030]

Ah but you see, that wouldn't beat you over the head enough with the message they want to send. They're also not smart enough to notice that any kind of mature commentary in the first place.

[@denkerbosu3551]

@@spectralassassin6030 They wanted to make a joke out of the death of Geralt's companion, and Cavil fought back. Ofc, this led to him being labeled "difficult to work with whamen" lmao!

[@NovaSoldier]

Nothing happened to the elves but they had it comming

[@l03j27]

You nailed it with this, couldn’t have said it any better. As I’ve been playing Witcher 3 again, I’m reminded of the incredible and compelling themes in the world of the Witcher. The source material was rife with amazing lore and themes, yet it is squandered by lesser modern writers in today’s studios

[@roiking2740]

actually the witcher massage more antifeminist and pro patriarchy.

[@karlklein2263]

My favorite part of the show was when Hagrid showed up and said "You're a witcher Henry!"

[@Munkle555]

Then hands him a lightsaber and tells him to raise the shields

[@KoalaBerzerker]

And then they set out to find the seven Dragon Balls

[@CosmicSpider69]

@@KoalaBerzerker but they found infinity stones instead.

[@jackr.ripper601]

@@CosmicSpider69 But they found out that Thanos is gay and married to Vin Diesel

[@404-file-not-found]

Writers: "It's called The Witcher... So it needs a witch, amirite??!"

[@DianeBethra]

I watched the tv series having read the books, and played all the games and it still baffles me how they messed up so badly, the had all the back lore and the stories and plots already sat there open to them. So instead of Ciri being a child who was upset when learning magic (from Yennifer at the Temple of Melitele) and she wrecked a garden shed, we have a weird teenage hybrid who screams trenches across the landscape. Yennifer who had a specific character arc both in the books and games leading to her becoming Ciri's mother figure and trusted by both Ciri and Geralt to always put family first we now have wanting to turn over an innocent kid to a witch. I don't care what the skin colour of a specific actor or actress is, I don't even mind too much if they change plot lines a little bit if it moves the story along (I understand perfectly that what works on the written page sometimes doesn't work on screen), but I care about the story and the writing and they they must never change character arcs. Personally I like Yennifers character arc in the books and games and Ciri is an interesting character but Geralt was the main protagonist, the 'hero' of the books and the games and relegating him to the role of onlooker to other peoples stories seems totally weird.

[@BrokenWiener]

Also a fantastic example is Charlie Cox who plays DareDevil. He absolutely loves the comics of daredevil and because of it, he plays Matt Murdoc so perfectly.

[@WhoFlungDung]

He was amazing in Stardust(whom Henry Cavil was also in). Stardust is literally my favorite magical love story movie and I always hoped he would find more big roles and he finally did.

[@danii7584]

@@evilkamatis542 marvel good at pleasing fans? you are being silly, aren't you? phase 4 was a catastrophe, and she-hulk dragged DareDevil into the mud. marvel isn't marvel anymore, it's disney.

[@hadayimosi]

@@evilkamatis542 They used to be, sure, but now? No, not really.

[@Brainlags]

Also what a lot of people forget everytime, is that the Lord of the Rings movies were made with a far lower budget than comparable movies and they improvised a lot of the costumes like the orks. The costume designers did an insane job with the recources they had. Also reminds me about the old Jurassic Park movies where they also still used actual machines to make dinosaurs instead of crappy CGI, you can absolutely see the difference.

[@jeromeace1282]

Did the old Jurassic park movies not have cg for the dinosaurs?

[@Anthonyspartan514]

@@jeromeace1282 yes they did but the were blended with the machines to make them seam more real

[@maydaymemer4660]

they were actually made with a comparable budget of their time from what i read and heard, about 100 million per movie. however that was considered the ceiling and you had to earn that 100 million. if the first movie didnt do well the other two would have went straight to DVD apparently. nowadays they kind of throw around absurd amounts of money for nothing, like 500 million for one season of a tv series

[@snugglestruggle8437]

Yes, all these companies are currently borrowing as much money as they can before the petrol dollar tanks completely in value, they are taking advantage of the public trust and it's abhorrent. Disney owes over 200 billion in long term net debt, and they'd rather pay that back when the petrol dollar is worth a fraction of what it once was worth, mainly because companies like Disney borrow so recklessly that it causes the dollar to deflate. The Fed allows this through their fractional reserve banking, yet somehow citizens are refused from the same borrowing and spending habits?! I'd gladly take on 5 billion a year and turn no profit too, but that's the problem, I must push this regressive ESG scoring and CRT nonsense over all else, if I wouldn't there would be no funding even if I had a company similar to Netflix. It would have to be the promise of revising fan favorites to force superficial bigotry and hate, it's embarrassing!! Americans are having more and more issues buying homes, all while trillions of dollars are thrown away for such regressive intent and quite insanely forced out of our nation through governmental delusional needs to fight a battle we simply cannot win. The Warsaw Pact, the Cold War, the Biden Admin is busy trying to force this into being now that NATO has spent the past few decades moving eastward, exactly what caused the Cold War to begin in the first place yet Corporate Media refuse to even mention the wrongs Western nations have been doing. I'm no apologist for Putin, but Putin did request a global tribunal, but Western nations refuse to even allow Putin to do this because far too many Western leaders would have to likely resign, possibly be investigated for abusing their power and violating their oaths of office. Sending trillions into Ukraine, I'd wager we'd be lucky to investigate where just a few million dollars went as it's become the largest money laundering agency of the world, FTX all but laundered American tax dollars to fund Democrat midterm campaigns illegally and now somehow without prosecution, directly after the largest wealth transfer this world had ever witnessed took place with the epidemic, in which our leaders had proven just how ineffective they are with such blatant failures at wide-scale margins of misplaced trust and failed leadership displayed to the public trust. Our gov't refuses any inquiry or scientific study over using Ivermectin as a prophylactic, simply because it would end their precious emergency powers and then Big Pharma would be liable for all the harm they've caused instead of getting the free pass they currently benefit from to the detriment of society, Ivermectin likely being the current gold standard of treatment proven as much from all the studies that took place in 2019 and usage during the epidemic like in Uttar Pradesh that showed better recovery rates and less deaths than all nations that used the twice redefined "vaccine," which our Western Media refused and still refuses to cover, instead our gov't doubles down on the poke and boosts because of the royalties they receive under the table, all the money to be made during the usage of emergency powers, all while emergency powers keeps them from ever being held liable and accountable for all the harm they've caused to the people. Evil!! Netflix borrowed 5 billion per year for 3 or 4 years straight until two years ago where they borrowed 20 billion, no clue how much they borrowed last year or even this year, but it must be similar if not more. And these companies enjoy that egregious amount of "free money" at the direct cost of the public, when they crush this nation with oppressive amounts of debt that is when the petrol dollar loses all trust, and Disney can then pay back their 200 billion plus with just a year or two's worth of borrowing the next year when the system is broken, where trillionaires are the new millionaires, for the public to be enslaved through indentured servitude. When minimum wage is 250 an hour to simply buy food and water, the inability to afford any sort of housing, all while these companies now borrow 5 trillion per year next and to repeat the same failures. Somehow, the Fed has created this idea that debt is value, and the higher amount of debt you carry, the more money you can borrow...Even when these companies are coming in the red each quarter, they are still given billions per year in loans!!! That has been devastating to our nation's economy, the byproduct of ESG scoring and for our own government to fund Corporate Media and entertainment pressing D.E.I. and CRT, and it's to the direct harm of Americans and especially our elderly that worked all their lives and to see their retirements become near worthless. It's immoral if not blatantly evil!! At this point, I don't even believe our nation will be strong enough to have a Presidential election in 2024, or the mono-party will simply arrest any who would dare run against them, there would be far worse failures in our electoral process than witnessed in Arizona. Our freedom has been stripped from us by elitists abusing their positions of power, and inquiry must begin. For the epidemic, Nuremberg Trials must start, they should have started 2 years ago for the outrageous human rights violations that have been caused.

[@Transformers217]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy cost 300 million in total at that time, so they were expensive. Peter Jackson just made them great films!

[@MrHeorhe]

The reason I think eowyn in lotr is different is because the bar wench is saying it for the sake of saying it, whereas eowyn takes action and becomes the badass riding into battle and ends off her character arc killing the witch king. Bar wench says the same stuff then just disappeared. Like she isn't even a character she just becomes a trope at that point right?

[@bogdanlupu3679]

7:00 Samuel Jackson rocked as Nick Fury. He had carisma, presence even when he wasn't even talking and I didn't give a ... of the skin color. He nailed the character and was not there for diversity but because he was good af in the role.

[@TaiFu2323]

24:20 in books Geralt and Yennefer are fantasising about living simple life as farmers, so exactly how this girl lives, cuz they never had chance to be part familie and their lives are full of dangers, Geralt poropably would think that this girl just didn't know how lucky she was. Books clearlly depiting that the trial of grass was extremaly traumatick for Geralt and after that living as witcher wasn't much better cuz almost everyone treated him as abomination, not human yet this girl talked about witcher like some supeheroes that everyone wants to be.

[@liarwithagun]

From what I understand of the lore, it is literally impossible for a woman to become a witcher, just like how sorceresses have a special procedure only they can go through that makes them look forever young. I think the problem of that clip and why it annoys so many was that it was just the girl saying this without any other character responding to it, so it felt like the show trying to get on a soap box.

[@lordthruxawe504]

@@liarwithagun it probably wouldn't have been even noticed or made a note of at any other time, but we're inundated with media that constantly tries to push progressive messaging so it can be hard to read it any other way.

[@theobell2002]

@@lordthruxawe504 Or.. (more likely), you've been gaslit by right-wing media to believe shows are pushing "progressive messaging".

[@viermidebutura]

That why the scene would have been more impactful if she'd focus on her pessant social status

[@Verienn]

@@liarwithagun its mostly impossible because the procedure has insane casualty rate , we are talking 1 success out of 10 ON AVERAGE.

[@spacejunk2186]

Eowyns story is not at all like the scene with the girl in the Witcher. Her arc has a fundamentally different premise. She does not want to join the army because she feels caged into the role of a woman, but because she has lost hope and thinks everyone is going to die, so if the has to die anyway, she at least wants to die in glorious battle. Eowyns arc is about her finding hope at last, and true love, not the false love she sees in Aragorn. It concludes with her finding peace and deciding to become a healer. Not with her overcoming the oppressive patriarchy of Rohan society or some other modern nonsense. Her initial desires are treated as wrong and missguided, while the line from the girl in the Witcher feels like a meta comentary of the writers shitting on the world they are writing about.

[@Ihavehadmanynames7779]

People are too mush brained these days to understand these sort of concepts. All by design.

[@innocentsmith6091]

Exactly. The reason it's insufferable seeing the same arc appear in every fantasy franchise (other than the repetition) is because it's such a specific ideology in a specific geographic region of modern day planet Earth way of thinking about things. It's like, "if I were a woman in this fantasy world, I would be a total girlboss and change everything!" Yeah, but YOU aren't in that world, and your way of thinking is not the most obvious and correct way that everyone in the universe would agree with.

[@danielb7143]

...You all missed the part about her taking Merry with her to the battle just to prove those soldiers laughing at him wrong didn't you? They state very explicitly that he is not good enough to fight because while his courage is fine, courage is not enough. He needs to be big and strong like them, you know, a man? She evidently disagrees. You really want it to be different though because in your heads woke = bad so LOTR can't be woke because it was good. Your brains just can't rationalise it.

[@grischad20]

also, in the story (the books) everybody hated witchers. they were pariahs that you only ever called if you had no choices, barely more than trained hunt animals that might end up biting you in the process. no average joe or joedette in that lore would be like "yo what you doing kinda cool, i wanna do it too" and finally, even if women could be witcher, lore wise she's too old. if i recall the mutation has to be done around 9 years old

[@ngVAT579]

@danielb7143 the main reason he said Mary couldn't go was lack of horses and the risk of the added weight exhausting the horse if doubling up.

[@RenegadeVash]

25:00 the girl wanting to be a witcher doesn’t make any sense. Nobody wants to be a witcher because they are viewed barely better than the monsters they kill. At best they are tolerant of their presence and hunted at worst. Also anyone who knows about the trial of the grasses would nope out. She was an insert for “modern sensibilities” to opine about patriarchy.

[@TimoRutanen]

You could make an argument that no matter what it is, someone somewhere is going to want to be it. "Can't be worse than what I am right now".

[@kirakira1212]

As a woman, I know for a fact a lot of women watched the first season because of HENRY cavill. When they announced HC is no longer playing the Witcher, I know a couple who will stop bec what's the point 😂 same as me 😂

[@TheQuietOne937]

Saying you want to be a Witcher is saying "I want to be tortured, potentially die, turned into an inhuman monster, and live for centuries treated as a leper "

[@riotd.r.8363]

But I get to throw fire, perform force pushes and hypnotize the weak-minded.

[@MrWnek]

Yes, but most people in the world don't understand that process. The ToG is a pretty closely guarded secret.

[@kerrell95]

@@MrWnek But people understand they are mutated monsters who steal your children if you fail to pay to remove a beast you never asked for. That's just what I got from the games anyway.

[@minhtruong8856]

Yes please

[@pizzapicante27]

Whats different in that scene and the one with Eowyn in LotR is that Witchers are supposed to be feared and despised in that world, nobody in their right mind would want to become a Witcher in-universe anymore than they'd want to become a monster or a mutant, and if I remember correctly there isn't a narratively valid reason for her to say that either.

[@Khalid-kd4fu]

Plus the Witcher transformation process is incompatible with women so there’s that...

[@dzintisruzaikis8192]

I loved how "New Amsterdam" introduced, one of the gay characters, you just could not tell, imagine, the guy was a deep, cool, smart character on its own and we did not need to hear that he is gay every 10 minutes. When it was revealed, you were like, nice he has a husband and they have a daughter, the love each other, and everything in the story was natural like how it is in life, in general no gay person goes around and declares that they are gay or need to tell the world they are gay and how gay they are and why they are gay, they just are, and its good for them. These shows which try to pour their agenda in our brains so hard, are soooo bad and i wish more unbiased directors/writers could get their hands on the big money and make shows/movies which are just amazing.

[@soapbox435]

indeed being gay is not all they are i dont know any gay guy that says im gay every few minutes

[@Ibm19000]

Funny how the witcher 3 was all about Ciri but in a way the story was alround playing with Geralt. Basicly the main characters were inseperable and they were equally well written.

[@Henchman.24]

Good point, they even had multiple sections where you can play as Ciri, which honours the importance of the character and incorporates her POV into the experience of playing the game. If only the shows writers were as competent

[@keku_mclovin]

The writers of the series really thinks they own the witcher LMAO. Theres a really good fanfic written about Witcher 3 that i recently read, its titled The Divine Hunter. Its so well written that he beats those writers in the series hands down.

[@nivada94]

@@ayoCC sadly holy wood writers of today, can only try to destroy good material, in a twisting of the source material in a way that is unrecognisable. It is the only thing those little writers can do, cause they are too inept to ever create something as good as the thing they try to twist . If you would ask them to create a show that is totally new based on no other big series, they would still put in the same drool they put out now, but without the driving force of a estabilished title behind it.

[@cosminxxx5287]

imagine Cavil as Arthas in a well done warcraft movie . god..

[@derpasaurus155]

He has the jawline to play Arthas.

[@kuwa333]

@@derpasaurus155 And the body, I want a Warcraft series to be about Prince Arthas to Lich King, and Henry is the actor.

[@infinitewisdom8400]

At 28:08 he says that it was in the book, but that scene where the girl is talking to Geralt is in fact not in the book or atleast not from what I read about a year ago. There is actually quite a bit that was changed about that story from what was shown in the show. The biggest change from what I remember is that the aldorman, who from my understanding is the leader of Blaviken, actually had a role in that story and was actually quite friendly and helpful towards Geralt and he even helped Geralt discover what Renfri and her gang were up to while in the show I don't remember them showing him at all. I even checked now if the girl was in the original story and she wasn't so that's interesting.

[@SolidBold00]

Love Nerdrotic... common sense indeed

[@selendile030]

To be fair, in the mainline book series after the first two books which are a collection of short stories, Ciri and Yenn DO get a bit more focus. But yeah, Geralt is never a background character. He’s always the lead. And he’s the reason the books are popular.

[@BoxBishop]

that is my take on this. Yes, the show is called the Witcher, but in books called the Witched i felt like he's secondary character (especially in later ones). I literally felt like i read 100's pages about Yen doing laundry or something instead of Witcher adventures.

[@ken7786]

@@BoxBishop Always blows my mind on that kind of stuff. People complain its not like the books...which the games were not like the books and dear bob the books after the collections of short stories were questionable at best? I love reading me some fantasy but it was mostly a tired Geralt walking around.

[@Jo24689]

Only book 6&7 is focused more on ciri. There is no ciri in book 1&8 and around 20% in book 2. Book 5 is like 60% geralt and 40% ciri book 3&4 are split between geralt and ciri. Yen doesn't have much part when you compare her with geralt and ciri, even some other side character have more part than yen in some books.

[@selendile030]

@@Jo24689 to be fair, I believe Time of Contempt had almost no Geralt. Don’t remember if that was the right book but ONE of them has very little Geralt.

[@johnnyrayh5858]

If I recall correctly the first season actually did a pretty good job of following the short stories from the first one or two books. Either I’m Not Remembering that right or lots of people didn’t actually read them.

[@joemama114]

So let me get this straight. A piece of media is super popular evidenced by 3 very successful games and one spin off card game. People really seem to like it, for it's deep character development, amazing fantasy setting, gritty and brutal conflicts and all together high quality. Production company SPENDS MONEY acquiring the license to produce a live action show based on this popular story. Writing crew proceeds to essentially change massive swaths of the story and attempts to make THE TITLE CHARACTER nothing more than comic relief. Actor playing title character who knows of and admires the source material, pushes back against such changes. Actor is labeled toxic. To any normal person, HC is totally justified and this show no longer has him carrying it. He is the only reason people tuned it, him and the bard were overwhelmingly the highlight characters.

[@Cleron_O_Andarilho]

"Hate woman", Nerdrotic is married hahaha

[@danielschiman767]

Plus Gary has multiple woman co-hosts and guests every week.

[@cameronjames3499]

@@danielschiman767 The main issue is that Gary's video is effectively a 201 or 301 class. It assumes you already know the wider context in which he's speaking and some of the shorthand, assumptions and implications. If you come in from a 101 perspective, then you're obviously going to misunderstand/misconstrue some of what is being discussed.

[@danielschiman767]

@@cameronjames3499 yep

[@TheAmazingBoogeyMan]

The problem that I see in these failing series is a matter of passion. Henry Cavill had passion for the character he was portraying. IF ONLY the writers and showrunners had that same passion.

[@MAGAMAN]

The writers and show runners openly mocked the source material.

[@melonetankberry5211]

that "i wish to be a witcher" scene isn't really comparable. you can not become a witcher because the process to create them kills most boys and ALL girls. a witcher is a drug infused mutant, not a simple goal to achieve with grid and determination.

[@herewegoagain4033]

In the games the Cat order I believe had some female witchers.

[@carlson8334]

​@@herewegoagain4033 that info only comes from a old Game, that itself is based on books.If i remember correctly is in connection with the original. "The Witcher" Movie. Besides that: No one wanted to be a Witcher. People are afraid of them and hate them, not only in the games but in the books is pure racism against witchers(mutants),dwarfs and elves. No one wouldve wanted to become that. In the Books, Witcher are only accepted, because they hunt monsters, nothing more. The popularity is more constructed through the games.

[@INMRuben]

About the comparison between Éowyn and the random girl from the first episode of The Witcher S1... No, they are not the same. Éowyn is an established, solid character with a background that we've already seen in various scenes (and read about in books). We understand her context. We understand that she wants to carry a sword and fight. We understand that she feel left out in a society that only leads men into battle. We believe it. This random girl who appears 4 minutes at the beginning of the series has no background, we have not asked to hear from her nor is she there to contribute to the plot (or she does it in a poor way). This girl is there to introduce a political message down our throats just from the start about how terrible the patriarchy is in the first minutes of the series without knowing her at all, with an absolutely unnecessary, cheap and cringy speech and stealing precious minutes that could used to improve the plot, which was kind of weak and unnecessary confusing to be honest. There's a world of difference between a deep, meaningful, well-developed character whose truths carry weight and are believable, and a flat, bland character with out-of-the-blue political discourse. You care about Éowyn. You believe her speech and feelings. You have seen why she feels that way. You don't care about this wierd town girl with less than 5 minutes of screen talking about something no one has ask her. So no, they are not the same. Anyways, glad to know Cavill is out of this circus.

[@leifanderson3487]

You almost lost me at the meme worthy, shoving X down Y throat, but good post overall.

[@JM16714]

I agree but still was 0% shocked to see a young teen "tom boy" character. She didn't say anything cringe.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

Also the fact that they throw that girl's line at us and Geralt just says nothing. Yes, that's sort of in-character for Geralt but the way it was portrayed felt like the showrunners wanted us to think "yeah why are there no cool female witchers?"... The thing is there are literal in-universe reasons for that. No woman survives the trial of the grasses (they tried in the passed and it just resulted in a lot of dead girls) because there are some biological differences between men and women and I am not even talking just about muscle-mass or endurance or any of these much talked-about topics. It could be down to simple things like maybe the female reproductive organs are too heavily damaged by the Witcher mutagens. They also make men sterile so there is obviously some stuff going on with those organs during the trial of the grasses, maybe it is just worse for women and causes it to be 100% lethal. But we never get any of that, in fact they seem to have gotten rid of the whole mutagen dangers/results in the show, to the point where Vesemir, the basically father of Geralt would allow Ciri, which he knew was kind of Geralt's adoped daughter and thus his grand daughter, to take those mutagens just because "Ciri felt like it". Overall the show dropped the ball on all the bad sides of being a witcher, compared to the books. Being a witcher seems like being the stereotypical cool superhero who helps people but gets not much love for it... where in actuality being a witcher is an endless torment. Insane training that even kills kids prior to the trial of the grasses, then the trial that you will very likely not survive, a huge amount of pain for a long time and then you lost your chance to ever have kids or a family, you are visually branded so can never blend into society again and are forever an outcast. Your whole life is just killing monsters until you get killed by one. If an angry mob of people that you previously helped doesn't hang you first. But yeah man, being a witcher sure seems pretty cool, right? They did the same thing with sorceresses and mages too though, the automatic end of your fertility is a major thing for them, because it signifies that they will never have family and their own kids (adoptions aside) and so can or rather have to focus only on magic and power because that is kind of the only option they have left. In the show witchers and magic users are all just generic fantasy spellslingers without any of the special, gritty flavor that Sapkowski gave them. Anyways sorry for the TED talk, I got into a ranting mode after writing the first few sentences. :D

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

Also, pretty sure Eowyn never killed the family dog cuz it annoyed her and then sold the corpse like the Random Town Girl did.

[@Greitone]

I agree that it's not the same as eowin. However, I don't agree that the scene doesn't add anything to the story because at the end of the chapter, we see the truth of her character when she turns on geralt proving that she's wiling to NOT "be more" and "stay in blaviken for the rest of her life" after all, as long as she doesn't have to face the reality of what the world is outside the walls of blaviken, where she has people looking after her and she's safe (safer than outside at least). I'm pretty sure it was not the intention of the writers to subvert their own message, although you might argue that it reveals the hypocrisy and inconsistency of the woke mindset, but in any case in my opinion it made the situation interesting.

[@WolvesHart79]

Imagine an industry so bereft of creativity and imagination that they have to adapt every IP under the sun, rather than coming up with their own, and get mad when the fans of said IP get upset that the showrunners/writers dumb down the IP and disrespect the source material...who would have thunk it.

[@adamp4350]

Geralt: “Wait a minute. This isn’t my world…. Disappointed!!!”

[@displeasedsociopath5939]

It's all for the best. HC is going to be on a WH40K show on prime now, and is apparently getting the lead and executive producer status. He's getting his dream job, and apparently enough creative control to make the show honor it's source material. WB and NF can eat their loss. HC is going to do just fine.

[@nationalsocialism3504]

His girlfriend of several years is the executive at Vertigo who is making the show... it would have been her job to put a production deal like this together. That's what he left Witcher for... not the stupid idea about Superman (though a selling point but not the reason.) Selling the idea of Cavill starring/executive producer on the show & her being the studio executive as a team... seems like that would have been a strong pitch. They have been together for a couple years but just started making public appearances together recently right before the Warhammer 40k universe deal was announced.

[@ThiccolasCage01]

This sounds great

[@fredthaboss9287]

Henry is going to focus all his energy into the Warhammer series Amazon is funding. If done right that shit is going to be beyond legendary. We all have wanted a warhammer mmo that was legit and followed the expansive lore. Hopefully this series pushes those ideas into a proper video game.

[@snugglestruggle8437]

Warhammer already hired a "woke" writer about a year back, and the fans were very concerned after looking at her social media and commentary, her profile harboring this idiotic "pronouns in bio" nonsense as a dead giveaway to their regressive ideology superseding common sense and logic. She likely has the same mentality as the writers for The Witcher, and after a year of being on the payroll for the Warhammer franchise she must have already produced a script she had made for the franchise, a year of writing that likely was forced to remain under the radar for just how awful it was, a script which must have been outright rejected if they are now hiring Cavill to write, direct and star in the franchise. I'd like to see whatever it was that this "woke" writer produced for the Warhammer franchise, whatever she produced in the past year at least, seriously just to know the abject failure that was planned by, yet another "woke" writer infecting the entertainment industry in order to hijack and extort yet another beloved fan favorite. These regressive ideologists posing as writers produce what they call "Lecturetainment," instead of enjoying escapism, they produce content to condemn, mock, goad and deride the fans of said franchises that are exploited in such ways, and it has happened all too frequently. The intent is to conform belief into a collectivist mentality of submissiveness and compliance, to not question authority and to be willing to accept indefinite enslavement through generational warfare. The next generation will likely not know or understand liberty nor prosperity, those in government are seeing to that as the big banks pleaded with Biden to make sure American's buying power was stifled, and when the next generation demand "free money" without understanding the failures in such practices, they will enslave themselves through financially crippling our nation. This crippling inflation just began and the value of our currency drastically deflating, all products price points escalating as American's savings and retirements are becoming worthless, we are being enslaved through Federal exploitation of our currency, the borrowing and spending habits to reckless degree of insanity, for politicians actually claiming we cannot inquire or investigate where the money goes as we don't have enough time to enforce the most basic logical measures to prevent extortion and fraud. FTX was allowed to happen because our government wants to destroy the petrol dollar. The Pentagon cannot tell the public where 2 trillion dollars went, and somehow this failed practice is allowed to continue at even more alarming rates than before!! Look to Ghostbusters 2016, probably the worst case of "Toxic Femininity" that can possibly be shown, for the owners of the franchise to "reboot" off this regressive Marxist "reboot" and cause the entire entertainment industry to lose their minds that the owners rejected Ghostbusters 2016 from canon. The entire entertainment industry is in on this grift, and they hate the fans, clear as day!! While the Ideological Subversion takes place, our own government is enforcing hopelessness and despair through failed policy measures and the exploitation of our nations strengths, which are now being made weak. The American military was a juggernaut of a system without equal, and now with LGBT and "Pride Flag" political nonsense the "wrong think" soldiers are being forced out, those who did not comply and take the poke and boosts given dishonorable discharges, and now our military is in a very weakened state during a time of turmoil that the Biden Admin have purposefully put us into!! Thankfully it seems Warhammer is going another route instead of following the same playbook of these "woke" writers, the previous writer is most likely still on the payroll however, and Cavill will be suffering the same difficulties he had suffered in the Witcher writing room. The only diversity that matters is diversity of thought, and we've seen the entertainment industry that has been completely absent of diversity, and they instead point to "representation" as some sort of replacement, to claim "diversity" through superficial bigotry and regressive ideals replacing fun, a regressive intent that has clearly failed a few years ago if it weren't for ESG scoring and our tax dollars funding this Marxist fraud upon the public trust, which is nothing more than dividing society into as many groups as they can get away with!! This intent by these "woke" writers is called Ideological Subversion (watch Yuri Bezmenov's lectures to understand the depravity of this criminal application being pressed upon the public which is meant to enslave), which was once used by the KGB against their political opponents through the usage of propaganda and government agitprop, the same way these Extreme Leftists and the DNC currently deride society for simply enjoying escapism, having "fun" is not tolerated by these "woke" writers, they expect you to be as miserable as them. The intent to subjugate through indoctrination, to push government agitprop in order to infect society with the belief that conformity, obedience and subservience is more desirable than liberty and freedom, it should have already been met with government inquiry regarding the intent behind such regressive methods to enslave the mind, but instead our gov't seems to be in on the take. These writers in entertainment press such mentality within all the franchises they infect, it's a generational game to make the next generation not know what liberty and prosperity are, thereby entrapment through exploitation, for the government caused demand of UBI (Universal Basic Income) to eventually be our downfall and enslavement!! The same failures can be shown by so many industries today, the monopoly upon all industry has gotten so oppressive that there are likely not enough anti-trust measures to be implemented to stifle the elitists desire for an Oligarchy upon the West, to enslave the masses by stripping the public of their Constitution and Bill of Rights. George Soros all but publicly admits our freedom is the one obstacle he suffers, and this globalist model is extremely harmful to the West. 6 out of 10 citizens in Africa are currently enslaved by their governments to uphold the predatory loans that were enforced through bribery, extortion and coups to replace leaders who refused, our elitists in America want the same in America only it would be called indentured servitude seeing how slavery has been weaponized by our educational systems pressing for conformity and obedience too. It's immoral if not downright evil!! The first attempt at rebooting Game of Thrones with a prequel had the franchise owners outright reject the script the "woke" writer produced, too horrid to even attempt and for that to go public. I'd like to see the same with the "woke" writer hired a year ago to make a script for the Warhammer franchise that clearly was rejected. When the prequel Game of Thrones writer was asked by journalists how they felt about her writing being rejected, she literally "blew a raspberry" in response, proving how petulant and utterly entitled these "Toxic Feminists" are in entertainment. They are crybullies, indoctrinated superficial bigots, the writers in The Witcher franchise were sexists forcing Cavill into more and more naked scenes he did not want to do in order to generate more female viewers through the "female gaze." The double standards and hypocrisy in our power structures have such crippling amounts of nepotism at work the entire system has broken outright. Now they protect one another because any inquiry and/or investigation would likely see far too many in power being faced with extremely long prison sentences for what they've transpired upon Western nations so willingly.

[@aztkshorty9138]

@@snugglestruggle8437 bro holy shit you went on a rant. I don’t disagree but it’s a stretch off of the topic of Henry cavils warhammer. Henry has said he won’t do it if he can’t keep it to lore, the instagram post he made said that he intends for it to completely follow lore warhammer. He’s grown up since 10 years old playing with warhammer figurines. If anyone can make the show it’ll be him. But otherwise I skimmed through and agree that wokeness is killing politics and all types of art and media. The funniest thing is the politicians and big corporations that push this shit don’t give a damn, and the percentage of people who care about it is a very small minority that barely plays games or watches shows like the Witcher.

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

God getting drunk and making Cavill: "ok ok look guys I'm in a really good mood today...lets make the perfect being." angels: " but we alr....." God:" SHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh....shhh" angels: "FINE...."

[@damunzta]

Cavill is an absolute class act. Netflix screwed themselves over by wasting such talent and passion.

[@mackadam5894]

They made a show for people who do NOT care about the IP. As a result, not only did they NOT attract new people to the IP (because people who don't care about an IP tend to NOT care about that IP), but also, they lost the fans of the IP because they didn't make a show for the people who actually cared about the IP.

[@JBlynx88]

It's really weird seeing these worlds collide. I never thought I'd see Asmon do a Nerdrotic react. Happy days.

[@fantasyfighter98]

The Wokeism is too apparent now

[@mattiasautio559]

Same dude, i watch more nerd and the drinker than goldenass :D this is awesome

[@wujekstalin1]

@@mattiasautio559 We really need Asmon X Drinker crossover

[@bobgorski9258]

Thosr bastards at Cern did it again xD

[@mattiasautio559]

@@wujekstalin1 that would be too much for the internet to handle :D

[@homicidalviolence2950]

I love the discount Hemsworth catching him off guard 😆

[@menschalter1582]

The sadest thing about these series is that the lessons that companies will learn from this wont be "go woke, go broke" they will think that adaptations of games or books and games dont sell

[@Yumpa2k]

It was bound to happen that asmon would watch Nerdrotic at some point, and it is great. All HAIL Friday Night Tights!

[@Gray-soul_81]

Truth. Though, as per usual, Asmon has a couple of thoughts that are incorrect.

[@anti-rioter-15]

@@battleangel4833 Gray-Souls.

[@theobell2002]

Soy! I hecking love culture warriors on the right!!

[@pyrosius2748]

@@Gray-soul_81 agreed

[@Mr.Fridaynight]

All hail FNT!!

[@zerimarz9928]

When Mcconell said "Witcher and Friends" I lost it 😂

[@mikevik100]

The Eskiel travesty made me want to trow the glass into the TV

[@anbuookami13]

I call Cavil as the King of the Nerds. A crown well earned

[@knightghaleon]

Henry being a Witcher nerd even gave them advice about certain things from the books because he cares.

[@kyattohime]

Season 1 was so good, I watched it when I was living in S Korea and shared it with all my friends. Everyone agreed Henry is the best, so tragic the writers fucked up what could have become an iconic series.

[@Surtur99]

Its literal garbage

[@nudistofdespair]

There was nothing tragic about it, just seeing the main director and her interests on twitter should have informed everyone on what was going to happen

[@xYzBuLlet]

I really was hoping it would have continued WITH the same quality as the 1st one. I really was hoping.

[@sowianskiwojownik5973]

The whole show was trash from the beginning.

[@P.Whitestrake]

For real. Henry's a class act. He understands the source material & he understands the fans.

[@LaughingBearGames]

A lot of what made LotR successful was they handled the lighting on characters to match the CGI of characters being inserted. They were very careful about using very limited CGI as well which helped keep you immersed in the movies.

[@andreanecchi5930]

I can't wait for Cavill to say: For the Emperor!

[@andersfrandsen7077]

The best thing to come out of this is that the name of Lauren Hissrich is now so firmly rooted in my mind that I won't accidentally support any other project she works on in the future. So that's great.

[@WontStopMeNow]

They ditched Geralt for the women. It's painfully obvious that the writers were using The Witcher show as a feminist platform. People online were calling it all the way back in season one and they were right.

[@hadayimosi]

You almost had it. I agree with most of what you said. The comparison between Eowyn and that Witcher lady is not the same thing, at all. I don't know who she is as I didn't watch the show. One is a woman who can fight and wants to fight and proves that she can at the most critical time. The other is a woman who wants to be a Witcher and can't based on the universe's established rules, in that she would almost certainly die in her attempt to become a Witcher, in the trial. In The Witcher books, females don't survive the Trial of Grass, as I recall. Even the males, only have 30-40% chance to survive. Sure, Ciri was trained to be a Witcher, she came close but she never took part in the trial, therefore Ciri was not a Witcher. There is NO comparison there. One was part of the original story, the other was current era attitudes placed into the story with no respect to the lore. Nerdrotic knows this and that was his point. Apart from that point onwards, you were pretty much spot on as far as I am concerned.

[@nickkoyle3599]

The girl in Blavikan I took to be meaning more like she understood how capable he was and she wished for that to leave. She worked for a Mage so of course she wouldn't exactly be normal. Far as the trial if grasses I love to imagine Hagrid showing up to Harry Potter and instead of You're a Wizard Harry saying You're a Witcher Harry. Even Mud bloods in Potter universe had a greater chance surviving Voldemort.

[@Cookie-_]

The thing is with most of these adaptations, if you remove the source material from existence and say it's a new IP they are decent shows. But what's happening is people are taking amazing source material and changing it to something that's worse and that's what people are pissed about.

[@lilericsilva]

Respect the lore you won't have toxic fans. It's when you destory what they love when they get mad.

[@Domtronic]

Henry is a chad. They hate him because they envy him. The fans have his back. I'll be there for Warhammer. I'm excited for the journey.

[@olafontart]

Imagine if every showrunner and writer had the same mindset of respecting the lore and source material like Henry Cavill. We would be in a golden age of entertainment.

[@hydraphoric604]

Lmao McConnell with the mid-piss commentary was perfect

[@ShapeshifterOS]

I personally can't wait to see Henry in 40k. For the Emperor!

[@harvoc94]

Netflix just cant do stuff in Live Action... But Arcane, Edgerunners and night of the Wolf...this shit works. Lets Stick with this stuff...

[@axxey]

I like that you bring up Lotr, where they started down this slope. Arwen replaces Glorfindel(a super badass that can stand up to ringwraiths) barrel riding a grey horse through the woods with the ringwraiths instead of confronting them then driving them into the raging river while his pure white horse Asfaloth takes froddo.

[@helliswhereiwannabe313]

Not a huge issue really.

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

Imagine this: the entire first season is just Geralt doing witcher stuff, we get to know what the world is like, with all the racism and shit, and how witchers aren’t really liked, they’re barely treated like people, but they’re needed to slay monsters. We do the whole thing with the first episode/chapter, but this time we can focus more on Geralt, and we do the chapters into episodes like in the book. We call the first season “The Path of the Witcher” Next season, we introduce other important characters, like Ciri, Yen, Triss et.c. Now we focus about half of the show on them, and the rest is Geralt-time or Geralt with company. We learn of THEIR hardships, et.c. Since we already got to do so with Geralt in the first season, and the story really kicks off. That would be better imo.

[@h3II0MN123]

This is happening to so many established IPs that the fans are over sensitive now. Fans now cannot be excited for their series getting a live-action adaptation anymore. Marketing for HoTD is an good example, everyone rolled their eyes watching the trailer and everyone got surprised by how well the show actually is. The marketing departments for major productions need to fire their data analysist that just runs their code on Twitter; neglecting the rest of the world.

[@razcipherff7272]

HOTD?

[@FatalFatalisFtFts]

@@razcipherff7272 House of the Dragon, I think

[@dazza761]

@@FatalFatalisFtFts it was based off the prequel series George RR Martin made called... You guessed it "house of the dragon". If they go over what was written it'll probably get trash as well.

[@ramigilneas9274]

@@dazza761 It’s probably harder to f that show up… Even if it runs for 20 seasons it will one day end up at the beginning of GOT… so they can not change that much.

[@Bancheis]

It's not that the fans are over-sensitive, it's that they are tired of having narrative after narrative shoved down their throats when all they want is to sit back and enjoy a movie or show without having to think about the stress of real life. It's just like they said in the video, it's all about the escapism. If I want to hear about people being evil because they said some mean words to someone or voted for the wrong guy, I will turn on CNN. If I want to hear about evil people raising an army of skeletons and assaulting a dwarven mountain, then I go to watch fantasy films. I don't want the stuff I can get from the news or a TED talk being pushed in front of the story where I feel like I signed up to listen to a lecture instead of paying to see a movie.

[@ViciousGreeneyed]

That bar maid saying she wants to be a witcher, is as some random Rohan girl said she wanted to be an orc. Witcher is not something you wish to be in this universe. It's totally different from Eowyn. Tha's the reason Nerdrotic said what he said.

[@felipecampos3045]

all hail nerdrotic

[@gametime2473]

Great point with the Nick Fury example. He did so well in the role, I actually never even thought about it, lol.

[@sonnyzhao2309]

Yeah I watched the avengers when I was a kid, after seeming Samuel Jackson’s acting now I kept forgetting Nick Fury was a white male in the cartoon

[@greyjedi1272]

The thing is Jackson is amazing and shows the narrative around race swaps to be dumb. People like geeks and gamers were calling the Witcher woke because there were black background characters. Unless the black actor is a big name people like GAG will always be there calling something woke. I don't know if he has done so but I bet he will do the same to the Little Mermaid..

[@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm]

Its also way diffrent in a modern day setting, as opposed to something based on Medieval Europe. Tolkiens cultures and races are for the most part based on it. But if they wanted diversity Rings of Power could have EASILY used Haradrim or Easterlongs to bring in their colorful cast given they invent the story anyway. By making dwarves WHO LIVE UNDERGROUND black they not only fked lore.. but the reason dark skin exsists. Sunlight. Guess how much sun is underground.

[@YouTubeExecsTouchChildren]

@@greyjedi1272 Bro, one example does not defeat the blatant truth that Hollywood and corps push progressive diversity propaganda literally everywhere. You see far more gays and minorities in commercials as mixed race or non-hetero couples than exist in life. They are brainwashing you, and you lap it up.

[@Lizzyzil]

The movement is on to woke up or feminize what is considered to be male romance. Romance, not erotica. I think instead of remolding these stories around other genres, they should balance them with other kinds of stories while allowing others to enjoy these types of stories as they are. We like them how they are. Some of us just aren't afraid of male culture. There's no need to demonize any of it. Just let it exist side by side with other options. They just can't because these stories always make the bucks.

[@RB_003]

How the show runners made the film by transcribing the story from spark notes… inspiring.

[@koozeronenine6971]

What a shame, what a damn shame. It had such promise. I'll forever remember that opening scene of the very first episode. And also a sword fight with some chick in the first season, it was so well done.

[@dominiclane8538]

They get deluded in there own success

[@jasonong3681]

New rule of thumb: if the title character is not getting the most screen time, it probably will suck

[@danielballinger9680]

Cavil directing the warhammer series is gonna be exciting, I barely got into it with darktide and have been on a lore hunt with a lot of stuff. I would KILL for a warcraft movie with proper effects, and Cavil being Arthas, I can picture 0 people who I would prefer or can perform it as much as I would trust Henery.

[@ES21007]

If the grim darkness gets to you, there's also stuff that sheds a little light. Ciaphas Cain's stories detail the career of a commisar who's a hero to most people but the man himself secretly despises how selfish and dishonest he is on the inside. Part comedy, part serious, all great. There's also Gaunt's Ghosts, about another commisar and his unit, going on secret missions that most don't know about. Far more serious than the Cain novels, it's a darker, but still heroic look at 40k.

[@DolzzDesign]

I love when Mcconell pops in right as Asmon leaves cam :) my fav moments

[@therealdezza90]

Yep i was one of those who were not a fan of Henry Cavill being cast as Geralt. But after (before watching the Series) hearing him talk about the Franchise i heard a little Nerd and Fan speak and i was sure that at least one Actor will play a part in that Series that he loves, sweats and bleed. Really hyped for his Warhammer 40 k Series and Films that will come.

[@FireJach]

It is fucked up the first news is Henry Cavill is out but they didnt confirm anything on Ezra Miller future in DC 🙄

[@KingPancakez]

Hollywood is gonna regret what they did to Henry. Best Kal-El since Christopher Reeves.

[@YTDariuS-my6dg]

"Patriarchy smasher" sounds like a nickname you'd see in an alternate universe CoD lobby. Like, "xXxPatriarchy_smasheRxXx"

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sam jackson is in the ultimate universe, they used his likeness in the comics when they did nick fury of that universe, I think they even asked permission, long time before the movies....ofc cap also got superpowers in the ultimate universe, 5 ton i think, which he does not have in the real earth 616 universe and ofc fury is white there, so mcu is a version of the ultimate universe