We did but I didn't get that your explanation was because you watched season two.
My bad.
Seasons 2 and 3 of the witcher were absolutely terrible, the acting and set design were decent but the writing is horrendously bad and full of "And Then" moments. Had some hope after season 1 even though it was apparent the writers made a lot of things not make sense due to wanting to speed up ciri and yennefer as important characters. Makes no sense this was supposed to be netflix's flagship series and continue for a long time but netflix probably wanted girl power on screen ASAP and were totally willing to throw continuity out the window.
Yennefer wants to sacrifice ciri but then their relationship is totally mended to mother daughter after a few ice skating/training sessions? Cahir is actually an irredeemable psychopath in the show instead of a misunderstood noble knight but the writers still went with the same plot for him? Geralt goes from standoffish or neutral in the books to actually completely ineffectual whose "big scenes" are fighting a monster here or there and slaughtering mostly innocent people doing their jobs (and shows no remorse unlike the books).
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Absolute hell for someone who has read the books or played the games and expected a more nuanced world instead of yennefer hating the people who gave her beauty, station, and power because 'patriarchy'. Maybe you could enjoy it if you've never experienced anything else but the writing is honestly so bad and the pacing is so erratic it would probably be cheeks anyway
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Hopefully cavill's live action 40k turns out good. He's not my favorite but he deserved a lot better than this absolute travesty he took at a discount because he enjoyed the game so much
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Yeah it's crazy I haven't even watched the recent season because I don't feel inclined. This was a legendary IP that was run into the ground by bad writing. Netflix really putting the nail in the coffin for their whole "original IP" plan
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I feel bad because I probably spoiled it. But I thought you were like talking about those events
Anyway hopefully you just don't remember whatever I said and can go back and read it after you watch the second season
I watched season 3 after watching season 2 last week, even though 2 was honestly terrible I wanted to see if there was any hope even with cavill leaving. The first couple episodes are actually passable if only because they completely ignore a lot of the plot in season 2 (yennefer and ciri primarily). But the second half the of the season mainly being the thanedd coup is like 12 year old me dungeon mastering for the first time levels of writing.
- Geralt spares a guy but then says he needs to split up to kill him not 10 minutes later
- People just wander around and bump into each other when they need to 'because destiny' (the books specifically shit on this style of fantasy writing and make fun of it constantly)
- Ciri can suddenly control her powers (this happens much later in the books because she basically breaks any sense of continuity or pacing with her abilities)
- Recurring dialogue scenes in the middle of a battle (not off to the side literally in the center of combat)
- Yennefer gladly uses the gifts given to her by the mages but spits in their face at the same time (patriarchy insert most likely)
Man i could go on but it's not worth it, i honestly regret even putting in the effort to type this
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Holy shit
This guy is going crazy
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It really shouldn't be this hard to adapt fantasy to screen. Especially with a massive budget
Everything is already written for them, plus there are multimedia adaptations already. Look at LOTR. It's literally an auto-homerun, you have a devoted fanbase of nerds already (not that hard to please)
it's literally all that they just can't help hiring people who shoot themselves in the foot. Like they want to modify the source material to tell a political story, or they just think they are smarter than the original writer, or they're idiots/combination of the above (like with GoT)
Producers just love giving these fantasy adaptations to bad writers who ruin it, it's insane.
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I really didn't even mind the diversity casting, I think a lot of the 'out of place' actors performed well mousesack especially. Writers just seem to be so insulated from their audience to create such trash and then just bait them with garbage like that
That's what I hate the witcher is inherently political you don't need to shoehorn in modern optics, it's practically a fantasy metaphor of poland. They might have even thought they understood what sapkowski was writing about because they only digest things on the very obvious surface level without actually reading the story between the lines. The story constantly tells and retells the sad cycle of violence between those in power and those out, and how they feed each other to ever worse actions
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The funniest thing was the smear article on Henry Cavill for leaving the project - it was immediately obvious they were just ruining the series with bad writing and too stupid to understand why he was pushing back on that
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yeah they tried to smear his ass calling him a “toxic misogynistic gamer”
clowns
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About Alice in Borderlands.
You didn't.
I actually binged watched it all and didn't realize that I watched both seasons.
When a season is only 8 episodes it's an easy mistake to make.
Yeah I thought i had remembered you talking about stuff that happened in the second season
Watching The Deer Hunter again.
Robert Deniro and Christopher Walken are amazing.
I had to look it up. Didn't think it would happen because the ending was the actual ending of the manga and was pretty conclusive. But I think it will be cool if they continue from there and be like "actually it's still going hahahaha!"