The Witcher series (Netflix)

Actually quite enjoying the new season, no Henry Cavill notwithstanding. They seem to have gone back closer to the story from the books already a little condensed.

Thought Lawrence Fishburne a stroke of genius being cast as Regis the
reformed vampire
and looking forward to seeing what Sharlto Copley can do with Leo Bonhart.
 
Watched s4 as I don't like quitting from shows I've already invested time in no matter how bad it gets and with the final season already confirmed wanted to see what it was building up to, I do wonder how much money they wasted on CGI to replace Henry's face in some of the flashback scenes when it wasn't required, as much as I enjoyed Henry and his screen presence, Liam's Geralt is still decent enough with the writing they've given him (not sure anyone could make this writing work well) and the fight choreography was good, parts of it felt closer to the combat in the games especially with mixing more witcher powers in that felt fluid rather than an after thought, it did start getting easy to spot when a combat scene was about to start as it usually always happened as soon as they got to an open empty area similar to how Power Rangers used to do their fight scenes back in the 90s, Freya looked bored most of the time she was on screen especially after seeing her in the last Planet of the Apes movie and when the did flashbacks to her in previous seasons.

Did feel like they were stretching out the journeys of characters for the sake of padding, which with a 8 episode season run isn't required.

How they spent $27 million an episode on s4 is a mystery, I remember s1 had some really cheap looking sets and the rubber armour but s4 doesn't exactly look like a big step up in quality even compared to s2 / s3.

The Rats didn't do anything for me at all and felt like they were put in purely for the spin off that Netflix had so much faith in they dropped it without any fanfare, had to search Netflix to find it to see if it was actually out.

I'll give s5 a watch when we get it just to see how they don't nail the landing, what a series to fumble especially when we've had shows like Fallout that show when you respect the audience and don't change it up because 'you know better' as a writer what we can have.
 
Glanza said:
The Rats didn't do anything for me at all and felt like they were put in purely for the spin off that Netflix had so much faith in they dropped it without any fanfare, had to search Netflix to find it to see if it was actually out.
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Believe it or not, but they started making The Rats as a TV series and clearly thought it was so abysmally bad they cut filming short and cobbled what they had into a still terrible movie.

I honestly cannot comprehend how the people behind these shows not only still have jobs, but keep getting money thrown at them to make more seasons.
 
Gray2233 said:
Believe it or not, but they started making The Rats as a TV series and clearly thought it was so abysmally bad they cut filming short and cobbled what they had into a still terrible movie.

I honestly cannot comprehend how the people behind these shows not only still have jobs, but keep getting money thrown at them to make more seasons.
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Thanks saves me wasting my time. It didn't look appealing tbh.
 
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Thanks saves me wasting my time. It didn't look appealing tbh.
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It's an hour and twenty minutes salvaged from what I assume is multiple episodes, makes you wonder how bad the material they cut must have been.

Skipping it is absolutely the correct course of action. :cry:
 
Gray2233 said:
Believe it or not, but they started making The Rats as a TV series and clearly thought it was so abysmally bad they cut filming short and cobbled what they had into a still terrible movie.

I honestly cannot comprehend how the people behind these shows not only still have jobs, but keep getting money thrown at them to make more seasons.
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The Rats feels like Netflix's version of the Snow White movie
 
I bet Andrzej Sapkowski feels pretty insulted by the whole thing.

A toxic showrunner and bunch of nobodies took his writing and changed it (injecting all sorts of DEI nonsense along the way) thinking they knew better. They didn't... and the whole thing has failed massiely and unlikely to make a comeback after this. They had probably the best actor they could hope for with Cavill but refused to listen to him, or the fans.
 
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A toxic showrunner and bunch of nobodies took his writing and changed it (injecting all sorts of DEI nonsense along the way) thinking they knew better. They didn't... and the whole thing has failed massiely and unlikely to make a comeback after this. They had probably the best actor they could hope for with Cavill but refused to listen to him, or the fans.
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just wait till they remake stranger things in about 10 years lol... hopefully society shifts by then
 
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I bet Andrzej Sapkowski feels pretty insulted by the whole thing.
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Any creator that flogs the rights to a beloved series these days (especially to amazon or netflix) without retaining some of creative control deserves everything they get.

If you would have told me 30 odd years ago that there would be £200m fantasy and sci-fi shows being made and none if them are worth watching i would have laughed :(
 
It's getting dumber as it goes along. They are pretty much just making it up as they go along now. Killing off a lot of good characters etc. and inserting nonsense. Is it to reduce the budget for the 5th (and very likely final) season or something?

Fishburne is upstaging everyone and barely has any screen time.
 
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Laurence Fishburne absolutely running the show this series.



Shame the rest of it, other than ...


the rats getting absolutely wrecked, which was great viewing,


has been pretty pretty terrible.
 
Azza said:
Laurence Fishburne absolutely running the show this series.



Shame the rest of it, other than ...


the rats getting absolutely wrecked, which was great viewing,


has been pretty pretty terrible.
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Not got to that bit yet but sounds like they stuck close to the book, then. I was sceptical about the guy from District 9 doing Bonhart, but apart from the dodgy pseudo Scottish accent so far he's nailed it pretty well. Just finished Ep5 last night and yes the fireside chat seemed a bit of padding, though they worked the
Dunny/Emyr
connection in which is much more convoluted reveal in the books. Kind of relieved to hear there will be a Season 5 as I was scratching my head how they would fit all the events still to come in three episodes (though I suspect Ciri's time/space excursions and King Arthur land will be omitted).

Oh and I still really hate the gay/bisex overtones they keep attributing to the Bard. Ciri/Mistle yes, that's canon from the books, but nowhere did Sapkowski depict him as being other than red blooded and horn hetero.
 
Watched it because I liked and played the game. I'm not sure about the last season though. Everything feels a bit odd.
 
I just watched the first two episodes and surprisingly, I didn't hate it. The change of Geralt wasn't nearly as jarring as I thought it would be and even the rats didn't phase me, they are just a phase in Ciri's becoming after all. Looking forward to another two episodes tonight.
 
Last episode was good. At least we won't have to suffer any more episodes following that **** again :D

They killed off some significant characters which they shouldn't have though, so the series can't be considered canon. Like the games already are.

The actor playing Bonhart works, he did it well. Fishborne works, the dwarves as well. Liam Hemsworth as Geralt doesn't work. He's being upstaged everywhere and why does he have that silly gym-bro walk. They should have stretched a bit and got Chris instead.
 
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