The Witcher series (Netflix)

CaptainRAVE said:
Particularly annoying this season just to keep the plot moving.
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I get that she pertinent to the arc and the game (whch i havent played). Its not necessarily the actors fault its the way she written and behaves in the show which is really grating. Its almost like Geralt is taking a back seat and she the main focus on the show.
 
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azazl187 said:
I'm not really sure what I'm watching here over the first 3 episodes....

Wasn't this series called The Witcher? Because I'm not seeing much of The Witcher in it, doing Witcher things.

It's now called "weak, annoying, corrupt, evil, treacherous, emasculated men being out shined by honest, forthright, kind, gentle, strong, tenacious women"

What on earth have they done to this series. Oh hang on, the same that woke film and tv series production companies and directors have been doing for years. Thank god that Game of Thrones was created before this plague started running through our visual entertainment :mad:
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It's been awful from the get go. Blaming the introduction of so called 'woke' tropes is a strawman for the show just being awfully written throughout. Season 1 got away with it because it was a touch more focused in it's monster of the week approach, but as the scope of the whole thing has expanded it's completely shown the writers up as hacks.
 
I have read the books and really don't see S3 (up to Ep4 so far)as doing them any sort of justice at all. Has overtones of "Rings Of Power" where elements of the story were used to build something at odds with the source material.

One problem is lack of clear captions when they switch to a location, also the dialogue at times is mumbled so you are trying to catch on to who is who. The books also went extensively into the politics of the various factions and what motivated many of the characters into the actions and decisions they take. It will be interesting to see where they go with the Conclave in the show as that was really a nexus in the books, everything changed
especially Ciri who got ported into a desert 100's of miles away, later fell in with a gang of thieves and cutthroats essentially having her own adventure quite removed from Geralt who ends up with an unlikely gaggle of companions on a road trip to try and find her. Will that be in the show? Who knows!

And as for turning Dandelion gay/bisexual - that is just total fabrication. At no point in the books is there any inkling he's other than 100% hetero - in fact his prowess as a ladies' man is what gets him into trouble on more than one occasion. Woke nonsense.
 
I mean look at the state of half the sorceresses they chose to portray the character compared to the descriptions in the book :| Did Keira Metz dirty :(

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Before the Witcher had regained the power of speech, a short, slim sorceress with long, straight, straw-coloured. He recognized her at once - she was the one in the horned agama skin slippers and the green tulle top, which didn't even cover a minor detail like the small mole above her left breast
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Yeah the casting is awful. The Sorceresses are meant to embody beauty and power but they're all pretty rough. Even Yennefer is pretty tragic in terms of casting.

Dijkstra is nothing like what he should be but the actor is actually ok. Phillipa is not what I envisaged. Dandelion going homo is pretty unforgiveable.

Time to let it die I think. Shame as the material is excellent and Henry was made for this role, but the writers needed to be cut loose long ago.
 
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Minstadave said:
Dijkstra is nothing like what he should be but the actor is actually ok.
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Trouble is, I can't but help think of him as the loud mouthed merc in the Rambo Burma movie.

One good thing about the TV show, it's actually making me want to start reading the books again (got several volumes of Sharpe to finish first) and maybe this time not skip through some of the political digressions.
 
Minstadave said:
Dijkstra is nothing like what he should be but the actor is actually ok. Phillipa is not what I envisaged. Dandelion going homo is pretty unforgiveable.
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Instant skip on that part, that's just Netflix trying to pander to the pride :(

I don't remember him being gay in any of the books or the game!
 
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Shamikebab said:
People are always like this with young characters. She's a 16 year old kid of course she's annoying.
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I think the trouble with writers, is the tendency to write every teenage girl as some mega sassy, super confident opinionated jerk.

The same happened in The Last of Us.

It's like whatever the time period, alternate universe, circumstances or up bringing, they all end up being a modern 21st century social media influenced teenage caricature.

Ciri isn't perhaps the worst example of this from modern films/programmes, but it's definitely there somewhat.
 
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ArcticHeron said:
It's been awful from the get go. Blaming the introduction of so called 'woke' tropes is a strawman for the show just being awfully written throughout. Season 1 got away with it because it was a touch more focused in it's monster of the week approach, but as the scope of the whole thing has expanded it's completely shown the writers up as hacks.
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No it isn't, wokery has has been a central factor as to why this show went down the toilet. You can see it all over the casting and writing and the fact they clearly hated Geralt and wanted yet another fem-centric (yawn) show instead, hence Geralt being sidelined and HC leaving.

Getting tired of this wokey defence trope, that it's never the wokery that's the problem, but the bad writing, when the bad writing is woke AF...
 
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I perhaps shouldn't admit this, but I'm not entirely sure what's going on... I guess it's a problem with having a bad memory, I can't really remember what happened last season and when they talk about people and such, I don't recall who they are so it tends not to link together. I had the same problem with GoT, which was much better the second time through when I could link it together better. This, I don't really have any want to watch a second time though...
 
AndyCr15 said:
I perhaps shouldn't admit this, but I'm not entirely sure what's going on... I guess it's a problem with having a bad memory, I can't really remember what happened last season and when they talk about people and such, I don't recall who they are so it tends not to link together. I had the same problem with GoT, which was much better the second time through when I could link it together better. This, I don't really have any want to watch a second time though...
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Unlike GOT your memory has done you a favour by not remembering what happened, this is your brain hoping you don't make it sit through S3.
 
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