Punished Miku
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I watched the 1st season and then just let it go. Got to see a few fights, and it was kind of clear nothing else of note was ever going to happen.
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FoxMcChief
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Great picture usage.In 2 season? lmao
VolticArchangel
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2 more seasons of this shit.
Really hope Sapkowski is directly involved with the next media venture the IP takes.
I wouldn't mind another TV show, if it's done by HBO though, or rather make movies, fully fledged 3 hour movies like LoTR.
Really hope Sapkowski is directly involved with the next media venture the IP takes.
I wouldn't mind another TV show, if it's done by HBO though, or rather make movies, fully fledged 3 hour movies like LoTR.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
It's sad, this series was really promising when it first started. And Cavill was great. But they had to fuck it up.
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Trogdor1123
Member
So they changed stars, are just starting shooting for season 4, and already approved 5? What could go wrong?
Euler007
Member
True. Made it 2-3 episodes into the second season before neither me nor my wife could take anymore.
Soodanim
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The tweet looks like it struggles to say anything positive, the quotes aren't much different, and the table read looks awkward and forced. That was the best footage they got?
I don't get the impression that anyone from start to finish particularly cares about any of it.
meech
Member
It already is.
iHaunter
Member
Season 2 was a mess. I still like Season 1.
LordBlodgett
Member
I loved the first season even with its inconsistencies, second season had some flaws, but was still watchable. But the third season? Holy hell what did they do to this adaptation. Stopped after just a few episodes and I'm pretty much done with this garbage. They had a perfectly cast witcher, and ciri was also pretty decent, but then the writers just murdered everything. How the hell do you mess this up? All they needed was a faithful adaptation of the books, with plenty of game specific references for gaming fans and boom they could have taken this thing to 7 or 8 seasons with no issue. What a fucking waste.
Randall365
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It seems that Netflix and Disney are incapable of understanding the notion that a camel is a horse designed by commitee.
If you drag a writers room together of people with different views on everything deliberately - many of whom want to rewrite the source material, you get a complete mess. Just get competent writers who share a love of the source material or are able to be respectful to it. You need a creative vision.
It would be impossible for Star Wars or Lord of the Rings to be made now. They’d need to shoehorn another 10 characters to pander to everyone, tell their stories and make them 12 hour series rather than 2 to 3 hour movies.
If you drag a writers room together of people with different views on everything deliberately - many of whom want to rewrite the source material, you get a complete mess. Just get competent writers who share a love of the source material or are able to be respectful to it. You need a creative vision.
It would be impossible for Star Wars or Lord of the Rings to be made now. They’d need to shoehorn another 10 characters to pander to everyone, tell their stories and make them 12 hour series rather than 2 to 3 hour movies.
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FeralEcho
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Diversity and inclusion represents the death of creativity and passion. When you are confined to having a certain amount of characters that are a certain ethnicity or having a specific gender then your whole creative story goes tits up as you now have to think within the confines of the box you've created.Diversity is literally like putting shackles on your self as a writter.
That's why I stay as far away from anything woke since what all those projects have are fucking checklists and propaganda not stories and certainly not characters. It's no different than watching an election,everyone involved knows it's all bullshit but they want to peddle it to the people anyway and they make sure it's wrapped in a nice box so you won't realize the smell of shit until it is too late which is what happened to Disney and Marvel Studios fans but now everyone and their mother knows it's bullshit,up to even the higher ups at Disney but they are all intent to die on this hill of shit it seems even despite knowing the viewers are now onto what they try to peddle.
The Netflix Witcher show will die a slow painful death as viewership begins to dwindle even more from the abysmal numbers it has and the only good thing about it is knowing Netflix will lose alot of money and all the writters involved will have this shitstain on their resume.
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ChuckeRearmed
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That picture reminds me of that last season GoT picture where the actors were reading the script.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
not even gonna toss em a coin
Can anyone explain what happened with Cavill? I thought he left the show to focus on DCU then they cut him out of the DCU or something like that. Why didnt he go back then? Anyways I stopped watching the show during or after Season 2 I forget but I was always curious about the politics around his exit.
SRTtoZ
Member
Same. I started watching 2 but it was a huge step down from 1. They should have called it quits when Cavill departed.
Bernardougf
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Cool two more seasons of Yennefer and Ciri - The Show.
Silver Wattle
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Idk how the fuck this thing wasn't taken out back and shot after Henry left.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Such a shame that this series had writers who were more interested in DEI than respecting the source material. Henry Cavill carried this show for a while. The first season was OK, but everything after that was trash.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
I'm not sure if he's openly stated his reasons for leaving (besides wanting to reprise his role as Superman) or declining to return, but it's well known that he was in conflict with the showrunner Lauren Hissrich and the writer's room over their continuous disregard for the source material. Cavill is a huge fan of TW3 and read through the entire book series after playing the game, and he stated in every interview his primary desire was to see the source material faithfully adapted. Hissrich and her writers, on the other hand, apparently thought they could do "better" ... and failed miserably.
If that is true then he is a real one for sure.
McCarth
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I'm not even sure that's true, Season 3 was absolutely horrendous. Some of the unnecessary book changes were just as bad if not worse than S2's.
sankt-Antonio
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This will be canceled one month after the release of season four.
DaciaJC
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It might be a while before we hear concrete reasons from Cavill or Hissrich themselves due to NDAs or whatever, but yeah, there are plenty of interviews where he expressed dissatisfaction with the way Geralt was written for the show or certain other writing choices. For example:
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Yep, the first season was okish, not great, and went downhill immediately in Season 2. What a fucking waste of a source material.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
From what I could tell the writers kind of hated the source material and most of the characters. Hence the shit show that we got lost Season 1.
I dunno, in S1 I think she did a pretty good job and she is certainly attractive enough. But they DEFINITELY didn't get the essence of Yennifer and wasted her in S2 (pretty much that whole season was lost due to setting up that failed prequel, I think) and by S3 it was too late because the damage was done. Any chemistry she had with Cavill to power the Geralt/Yen romance was fizzled and the shift over to all the politicking, leaving Geralt largely out, was the death kneel. That the actress staying in pretty good shape but never had scenes like in S1 hurt as well; sensuality, salacious nudity, and eroticism are key elements for making shows like this work, IMHO, otherwise the dramatic writing needs to be ABSOLUTELY TOP TIER and that ain't happening by any stretch of the imagination.
Now a more traditionally casted Yen with more emphasis on her and Geralts tumultuous relationship probably would have gotten more folks on board for much longer, you can see the excitement for the show straight up fizzle when their romance did.
Hardensoul
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Witcher was greenlit for 7 seasons. Cavill contract was for 3 but had options to to stay for all 7.
But we saw how showrunner ruined the story veering off the source materials. Cavill opted out! Really don’t blame Cavill.
I was done after seeing season2. I don’t even bother with S3.
manfestival
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so like I have only watched the first season and I enjoyed that. Should I even bother watching anymore of the show or just let it be and move on?
Move on
CityHunter1981
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Who is still watching it? I enjoyed the first season, but had to quit during season 2, it was just so boring at that point. So from my point of view, I am surprised it got 5 seasons..
DanielG165
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Stopped caring when it was announced that Cavill was leaving. You had the most passionate dude towards the Witcher IP cast as Geralt, and you don’t utilize nor listen to him in order to make a better show? Did the show runners simply not want to have big viewership numbers, and make money? I feel bad for the other actors who have to stick with this corpse, but am glad that Cavill left when he did.
Hopefully, he can get his Warhammer project off the ground and have it be a massive success. The man deserves it after being burned by both this, and WB regarding the DCEU and Superman. Then, he can go back to painting Warhammer figures and building PCs in peace lol.
Hopefully, he can get his Warhammer project off the ground and have it be a massive success. The man deserves it after being burned by both this, and WB regarding the DCEU and Superman. Then, he can go back to painting Warhammer figures and building PCs in peace lol.
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Operations66
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I tried watching Season 1, but I found the Yennefer actress very unappealing, even off-putting. Plus the show was boring, even then.
JackMcGunns
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I believe it, he's an avid PC gamer, loves Warhammer and someone who has played The Witcher series and read the books is sure as hell going to side with faithfullness to the original material.
Mr Wonderstuff
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I enjoyed it. Shame to see it ending. Must be the only one as the jaded cynicism on display here (quelle surprise) seems total.
The Inventor
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Thankfully.
And never come back (without Henry and a good script)
And never come back (without Henry and a good script)
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