Current Events > Witcher Blood Origin is up on Netflix.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Yeah I was reading through a few of the reviews, it's getting obliterated. I see a lot of stuff like "race bending" so i'll judge for myself. If it's getting blasted because elves shouldn't be Asian or something, that isn't going to matter to me. Gonna try it in the next few days.

I imagine the types that complain about that also complain about Black elves in the LotR show

i heard it has basically nothing that feels like The Witcher in it

no Geralt, dont care...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/2/3/AACT2jAAECFj.jpg

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Henry cavill actually read the books and played witcher 3.

The yennefer and ciri actresses couldnt even be bothered to read the first few books.

And then witcher season 2 turned into yennefer show.

They just gotta go n fuck it up.

To be fair, its perfectly justifiable to not want to copy the source material for the show tbh. People get too caught up in that especially when it comes to nerd culture.

Then why even bother to call the show The Witcher? People get hyped when adaptations are announced because they liked the source and they have expectations of what happens in the story

If you aren't even going to attempt to follow the story, is it even the same story? It doesn't have to be a perfect adaptation, but the actors should be required to read the books

To be fair, its perfectly justifiable to not want to copy the source material for the show tbh. People get too caught up in that especially when it comes to nerd culture.

To be fair, its perfectly justifiable to not want to copy the source material for the show tbh. People get too caught up in that especially when it comes to nerd culture.

To be fair, its perfectly justifiable to not want to copy the source material for the show tbh. People get too caught up in that especially when it comes to nerd culture.

Right now, there are small waves of people attempting to shut down any and all criticism of Blood Origins by citing critique of Lauren, her team or the show as nothing more than Misogyny, bigotry, prejudice, racism etc.

There is a certain degree to which this is true and a threshold at which it no longer is, and pretty much every big adaption that's been tried lately has crossed over the threshold. Fans of things are generally fans because they, assumably, like the way stuff was. It's one thing when you do stuff like make the cast multiracial, or switch up the timeline or deviate into original stuff here and there, but this current trend to go "I am unbound by the thing I am adapting and we are going to change everything to try to surprise people" is real lame, and furthermore, doesn't seem to work very well in terms of getting good publicity.

I've seen them called "trojan horse adaptions" recently and that's a pretty good descriptor for them. They use the facade of a popular piece of media to get funding and a baseline of an audience, and then once stuff gets going the trapdoor opens and you start getting washed over by original stories writers wanted to tell regardless of setting but couldn't get the funding to get onscreen without the recognizable face.

To be fair, its perfectly justifiable to not want to copy the source material for the show tbh. People get too caught up in that especially when it comes to nerd culture.

like Jay-Z once said:

N****s like your old shit?
Buy my old album.

Things are allowed to change and drastically so. If it doesnt work then so be it but to chastise people from executing their vision because it isnt someone elses vision is dangerous in artistic endeavors and leads to less creativity.

Granted this show is absolute garbage still.

I have one episode left. It is generic, the elves are the exact same as humans, the CGI is suspect, and this is a complete retcon of what Andrej intended. But it isn't as bad as the audience "ratings", and the vast majority haven't even watched it. It is somewhat entertaining.

Michelle Yeoh's character and the dwarf are great. The rest of the characters are meh.

Is it as bad as the Legitimate critic ratings from actual media? RT has it a 33% and my friend seems to think it's appropriate.

Wow, the last episode is just an insult to everything the books, the games, and even the main show created

i have to know what they did and i don't really want to watch the show to find out. spoil it for me, what did they do?

The conjunction of the spheres is just an afterthought in the last 5 minutes, like oops, we tore the veil, now there are humans! And the problem is that the so called "elven culture" are exactly the same as humans. There is no difference whatsoever other than ears. So how did the humans come and take over? Humans are supposed to take over because they are more ambitious while the elves are more balanced and attuned to the world. There is nothing here about that at all. So how did the elves lose when they outnumbered humans like at least 1000 to 1? And why should we care about elves' plight in the current timeframe when they are stand ins for humans? The whole thing is pointless and dumb.

Plus, the episode wanted us to care about characters that were never developed and a romance that came out of basically nowhere. Plus, the dialogue sucks, the main bad guys are inconsistent which I think the writers mistake for complexity. And the CGI was godawful. Oh, and a tacked on ending with Ciri that makes no sense.