Netflix Witcher is officially dead
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Netflix Witcher is officially dead, and I’m so happy 
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Respect to Henry Cavill for caring about the show more than the writers did
Is almost funny in a sad way the fact that he cared so much about it compared to the actual writers, I've never been the biggest Henry Cavill fan but after this I definitely respect him and appreciate him a lot more than before
What do you mean according to sources the writers of the show openly hated the source material and insulted Henry Cavill for being dedicated to the source material.
The writers should have been fired when they openly should disgust for the source material and when they insulted Henry Cavill.
Had I been in charge first I would have read the books and even played the games.
So when the writers deviated from the source material, I would demand a explanation.
Fact is Netflix and Amazon are so woke they can't be fixed.
@@EvilMalaiseтогда ответьте мне пожалуйста,как фанату вселенной Неверленда.Если кавилл был таким ярым фанатом ведьмака,то почему он в принципе пошел сниматься в этом бредовом маразме ? Может он какой то начинающий актер и ему очень нужны деньги ? Он видел сценарий,он видел весь этот бред Хиссричихи ещё с первого сезона,но все равно снялся в этом @#!?_;:#€¢^£°¢ . Вам не кажется часом,что плевать ему на вселенную "Ведьмака" ,а?
@@user-hm2ux1bg4l He had the contract before any script existed. As soon as he got the info that a witcher show gonna happen, he told his agent to get him the role of Geralt. There was not even a page written when Henry's agent started to negotiate with netflix.
@@kevinc8955 Get out of the basement already instead of being toxic on the internet
The fact that Henry “I’ll stick around for ten seasons if they do it correctly” Cavill decided to dip out from his dream role like that tells us everything we need to know.
I really really really hope they won't screw up him again in new Wrahammer series
@@chistovmaxim I think it’s the reason he put himself in the production side of it as well.
@@chistovmaximhe fought tooth and nail to have an equal say in production this time. He learned very quickly from Witcher.
Dude thats never been confirmed his actions says he was after the superman role he litterally was after while he was still in witcher after that he didnt get the supermam role since they went after a younger version after when he heard that was right after his announcment to leave the witcher that he said that he would leave if things change to much during season 1 doesnt mean its what he actual did hes just after roles that give more money like all actors hes not any diffrent... Everyone works to earn money the more money the better and henry is no exception best to just accept it then be like a fangirl who doesnt wanna see the fact for instance these youtubers they dont care about to everything to get viewers to earn money thats what they want they are basicly just actors but instead paid by movie paid by viewers but still same..... Never wondered why they usually cast less known actors for series and more known for movies? Series earn alot less money....
@@bionic3500 That’s BS, he could’ve done both. He was doing Mission Impossible AND Night Hunter at the same time while filming the first season of the Witcher.
He wasn’t “after” the Superman role, he already was Superman during that time. The Witcher was a role he actively pursued more than any other. His actions do say what happened, and it’s not like we couldn’t see his frustration during interviews having to explain crazy concepts like why they shouldn’t be laughing over a dead horse in the show.
Netflix had the gold mine of the decade. A literal step by step guide, well established fan base, and tons of money to grow that franchise into a billion dollar diamond.
Naw Netflix prefers coal...to diamonds
Don't forget, they also had an A-list lead actor who absolutely loves and understands the original media.
@@RandomisedCrabright??? like when you think you’re fucking up…remember how badly Netflix botched the Witcher universe
Then again, everyone respects the writers too much, and then tragedies like got finale occur, when cocky writers think they know better.
They fucked it up for the simple reason and one reason alone the main character of the witcher was not in fact a female.
It died when s2 came out, strayed from the source material, and we found out the show runners hated the books
The first episode wasn’t too bad, because I did like Nivellen story in the book. But after the second episode, I just sat there wondering “what the hell did I just watch”
@@Engine33Truck I 100% agree, I loved that first ep
lmaooo it does the moment it began cause they literally made plot line and casting choices that were entirely idiotic
@@SummerThymeMadness I totally forgot abt that too lmao
Show ended when eksel was killed off for no reason
The moment I heard Netflix got Witcher my first thought was
“Damn, wish HBO got it.”
HBO's adaptation of His Dark Materials was really good. Not 100%, but a decent 80% or so. It's a shame they didn't do the Witcher.
Why? They butchered asoiaf.
Netflix, HBO, Amazon and of course Disney... same s--it.
@@sherikrupp when they ran out of source material. Witcher is complete.
@stlawstlaw7585 from what I've heard, that was less HBO and more specifically Dave and Dan. HBO and George R.R. Martin were fine with them taking way more season than they did to finish it, but they specifically wanted to finish it by season 8 after like 15 episodes so they could move on to the star wars project they had lined up, while also fighting against them just stepping away as show runner and lead writers.
Netflix screwed up The Witcher so freaking much!
Edit: Us Witcher fans would have CHAMPIONED this series IF they had simply FOLLOW the books & faithful to the lore!
Plus just decent scripts. their scripts in terms of pure storytelling (independent of the lore I mean) were horrendous. But yeah who wasn´t originally excited about the project!!!!
@@Aalisrocklist Let's face it as long as we had Henry, loyalty to the source books us fans would have eaten it up even with trash scripta imo.
egomaniacs get into those positions so they can piggyback off another IP's success and sate their egos by pretending to be writers not to actually do those series justice and make a proper adaptation.
@@Nathan_Coleyno, it was woke garbage
@@Nathan_ColeyI watched season 1 and could NOT take the wokeness
They did a great job making the next Game of Thrones. They were so efficient that they were able to jump straight to seasons 5-8.
This comment is so underrated
Iconic. The speed run skills are unmatched
5 and 6 weren’t particularly bad though, they just faded in comparison to the previous ones. 7 was quite trashy, no doubt about it, and 8 is an absolute disgrace that should have never seen the light of day.
@@Makevilfor people who read ASOIAF season 5 was the one where we saw the show going completely off the rails, they murdered Barristan, they made up the ridiculous Dorne plot, they completely butchered Stannis and his story line, maybe Arya story extremely stupid, came up with the Sansa marries Ramsey Bolton plot ridiculousness plot, waited way too long to introduce the IronBorn and made them generic pirates, completely left out Victarion, butchered Euron, I could go on and on. Season 5 was when D&D had ran off GRRM and went wild with their actor Fan boy Fiction.
@@irisamanda3922 +1000000
The "why" is actually super-simple to explain: These show-runners, executives and writers genuinely think they are smarter, more creative, and better writers than anyone else.
They saw this opportunity to shepherd an IP as a chance to show everyone everywhere just how much better they are.
This is modern entertainment's cancer: zero respect for the source material, authors, and fans and a certainty that they can improve on anything and everything to such an extent that their changes will be embraced as the new canon.
EXACTLY~
source: I made it up. weird para socializing people you have never met.
I don’t think that’s it. I think they’re intentionally destroying these IP’s as part of the culture war.
Never forget what Netflix has done to our beloved witcher series.
...or forgive
I don't want his mother to see him this way. Look how they massacred my boy.
Personally, I'm happy to forget it. I heard the word of mouth and never even watched it
I don't care what they tell you in books. The main character of the Witcher has always been Jeniffer.
I don't care what they tell you in books. The main character of the Witcher has always been Jeniffer.
we went from "we might just have the next game of thrones on our hands" to "thank fuck this got canceled" so sad as a massive fan of the series
Sad but its true , i had so much hope to this series back im the day i was sooooo hyped for that , but yea...
For real!!!
The Witcher was a side character in his own story.
He shares fate of new He-Man
well in the main 5 books that's kinda true, it's like 50/50 the company and ciri until they start to come together
Just like poor Alan, eh?
In the hopefully not-so-distant future, I do hope that HBO gets the chance to give us an adaptation of The Witcher. No made up stories, no side characters getting so much attention, and the plot stays the same. Just pure Canon Witcher stories.
Been a fan of the series in general since 2012, and was absolutely gutted with what they did and will continue to do with it. I just hope it all ends soon and someone else gets the chance to give this insane story a good adaptation.
lol, you wish , the series is gone forever
I think it should've been an HBO show from the beginning... Then it'd have a chance.
It takes talent to fuck something with so much going for it THIS bad.
Rather no talent and all the hubris
lauren h is just THAT talented
Talented malevolence to deconstruct a culture.
Its like asking to copy your buddy's homework but you change every answer to the wrong one.
Blame falls way more over Sapkowski's uncontrollable greed than anything else, that because he is alive... The DMG here, though, doesn't come close to Amazon's "Rings of Girl-Powah", which was made over Tolkien's corpse, waaaay more aggravating
Imagine what this series could've been if they had just respected the source material and Cavill's knowledge/skills. Such a shame.
I mean, that Renfri vs Geralt fight scene was great. But that was it. The whole rest of the show is just bad
Cavill and the first season WAS the only reasons I wanted to get into the books. Thankfully my imagination is far better than the writers/show runners that I'll be able to do it more justice than they could.
This happens when untalented people in charge think they know material and story they adapting, better than the original author.
@@Kintabl exactly!
I never knew how bad it was. I went to it blind when it came out. I literally skipped over the scenes with yenefer and other characters. I love the games which made me read the book. and just seeing it twisted into something unrecognizable in some parts was just jarring.
"I'd love to hear why certain decisions were made"
I'm still stuck on the scrotum armor from Season 1. What the HELL was that? Who approved that, what happened there?
Oy vey.
The "official" reason behind Nilfgaard's absurd aesthetic of that weird wrinkly armor and oddly elongated helmets was to make it look "alien" and "made on the march".
Rumors say the real reason was to use phallic imagery to make Nilfgaard look like "the evil patriarchy". And considering how insane the twitter profiles of the Netflix Witcher's lead writers are, I believe it.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 wow
You joke, but scrotum armor is histoircally accurate. Not even exxagerating.
@@AL-lh2ht when?? Where? 😭 I’m genuinely curious from what I’ve read standard armour was plate for the rich, chainmail for the better equipped and gambisons made of whatever thick textiles available for average guys. Who was making ballsack armour
I personally am glad that this happened, since the 2nd season I had a feeling that this would all end. What happened in season 2-3, "The blood of the origin", it was a nightmare for me as Witcher fan. Epecially the last one. I hope the next rights holders for the live-action, animated adaptation will be much more respectful of the original source material... Netflix showed us what not to do with live-action adaptation of Witcher books (or even games) and this is to some extent good and it showed how some decisions of a certain person can affect the entire universe and kill it in its infancy.
I'm in love with the game (not the books tbh) and I watched all of season 1 & 2 . Is watching S3 going to hurt as much as S2 did ?
By the way, there is an older movie about Geralt made in Polish. It's a bit low budget but it's wayyy better than the show. Can't remember the name sadly
Edit: I found it, it's called "Wiedzmin". However, I don't know if anyone ever bothered to make an Englisch translation.
"Netflix has green-lit another Witcher spin off sounds more like a threat than a headline" 🤣🤣🤣☠☠☠☠☠☠ Make the t-shirt. We will buy it.
“The spinoffs will continue until morale improves”
This spinoff? Is it to go with the spin off they already have of the entire "based off the book" series so far?
HAHAHABABA
Such a damn shame. People in charge of this show should never have a job in the industry again.
Oh they will continue to fail their way up the corporate ladder
@@sayuas4293 Hopefully in indie projects now. It takes a special kind of stupid to screw up (the kind that thinks they could write the books better) The Witcher. The novels needed an adaptation, not a rewrite. And that's the problem.
This will be the new future of cinematography though. The writers strike causes woke/left wing extremists to infiltrate the industry now forcing their ideology into it. If you ask me, people should stay away from the big 10 hollywood studios when it comes to movies or series, especially disney, amazon and netflix. The money you might make from selling your rights to them isnt worth the destruction of your work
It’s not the writers or show runner’s faults, Netflix is a financial mess, that’s why.
@@Talleyhoooo It's definitely also the writers and show runners faults, they have a huge influence on the series
Can someone get Denis Villeneuve to read the books and fall in love with them as he did with Dune so he can take care of the next Witcher adaptation? :D
it's amazing Henry is powerful enough to quit whjile he was ahead. a lot of productions like to drag their actors down the dirt when they turn bad. kudos to him for that and respecting the source material like a true fan!
I mean he was already taking a pay cut to do it.
The showrunners had one job: make a show that followed the books. Instead they got it in their heads that they could make something better than the story's author and what came out was sheer garbage. The Witcher (like many destroyed IPs) could've been a money-printing machine, but they managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Well played, fools.
Not really IMO. They hate the original stories and wanted to mold them to their liking. They will view this as a draw and try again on whatever else to destroy. If anything, they find it funny you don't like what they made and it only motivates them further to destroy something else.
Same thing happened to night watch. Mangled a perfectly good Terry Pratchett story, several in fact. It was like someone went onto Goodreads and inserted quotes into random patches of dialogue where it lost all impact of the context that built up to it. It's gotta be a studio decision to use popular novels and hope they can tap into an existing market and just hire fan fiction writers.
A lot of showrunners are incompetent hacks that somehow fail upwards. Constant disdain for the source material they're adapting and thinking they're better than both the original writer and the fanbase, as if the source material they're adapting somehow got popular by a fluke.
@@nixi7688 If they hired fan fiction writers, they would get better results. Those people have respect for the source material and some of them are better writers than the screenwriters from Hollywood.
There has been a book of Witcher fan stories selected by (I think) Sapkowski. It's called "Andrzej Sapkowski przedstawia: Szpony i kły. Wiedźmin". They were written in Polish and I don't know if the book ever got translated, but some of these stories were very fun to read and did not completely disregard the source material. My translation of the title would be "Andrzej Sapkowski presents: Claws and fangs. Witcher".
I'd love if one of those stories about Cain found its way into the Witcher games. The Witcher games stand before a hard choice of a new main character and that story is an interesting story suplementing the books.
It is a money-printing machine lol, just not in Netflix's hands. CDPR should have done what they did with Cyberpunk Edgerunners and make the Witcher show animated and from a Japanese or American studio.
Netflix keeps throwing cases of money to the void and Hollywood has the audacity to wonder why they are dying.
They think it's the mean ol fans ruining their great ideas.
It’s the diversity hires that aren’t actually the best in their field or up and coming talent
Hollywood isnt dying tho. They have huge investors and for them its basically not even worth talking about keeping the woke cinema industry afloat
@@freddym99what are investors truly worth if the industry isn't making all that money back?
Do you know how much money they have to make back to consider it an actual profit?
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Writer's ego. The writers are basically like this:
"Ha! Yo! This OG source material is sh**! People like this? I can do it better: Eskel is Lambert and Lambert is, basically, Eskel...and Geralt kills Eskel! BOSH!!! It's like, 'mind blown! Whaa?'"
"Yo, and then check this sh**: Yennefer betrays Geralt...like what? That's never happened before. Then, for season 3, I say we get Count Dooku up in this sh**. Geralt will be like, 'this ain't your film, in it?' and Dooku will be like, "This series now belongs to the Sith!"
Yennefer absolutely betrays Geralt in the books, there's that whole short story where she's cheating on him with Istredd.
@@agilemind6241 No, I'm not talking about their relationship/ sexually. That's a two-way road lol. She's never worked against him. Killing Ciri? Heck no! She was immediately smitten with Ciri.
Still pisses me off that they hired awful writers who just wanted to make their fantasy using the Witcher name.
It's a disaster that seroulsy hurt the credibility of Sapkowski's story, to the point that I doubt we will ever see a faithful adaptation
@@EcardEcardian that is also awful
The Witcher has books and games. I choose to ignore everything else and pretend it doesn't exist.
Yeah I agree. When I recomend the books at work to customers so many replies with that they've seen the show as a rejection to the books. Every time I need to explaine quickly that they are compleatly different and the show didnt adapt the books that much at all and changed the caracters personality. Some buy but most wont and they're really just missing out and these are the people searching for good fantasy books.
Nah. It wasn't perfect, but it definitely wasn't awful. It managed to capture the essence of The Witcher much better than Netflix and with a much lower budget and resources.@@Mere-Lachaiselongue
It was the next GoT. They just did it at record speed. From a great idea to a dumpster fire. Think of all the money they saved by cutting the middle. That pesky good story that could pleased the fans. We wouldn't want that now, would we?
Sad how this could be the next Game of Thrones...if they had good Writers and heard Cavill out
They shit the bed thanks to the showrunners’ ego.
That’s kinda “the next Game of Thrones” for me.
I mean it kinda was, they even botched it just like the GoT writers did in the end.
@@bluebird2540 >they even botched it just like the GoT writers did in the end
except they botched it from the very beginning
It WAS the next Game of Thrones. Only difference is that it screwed up out the gate, not five seasons in. No, people, season one was NOT good. You'd know that if if you actually read the books or played more than the third game.
@@nont18411 Yeah but atleast GoT was amazing for some Seasons
I was so confused to hear you say Season 3 actually followed source material in some way after Season 2.
Super level take, and you were pretty fair to separate the actors from the writing they had to perform. Looking forward to future videos!
Thank God it’s finally over.
Netflix never should’ve been given the rights to make this show.
I’ve read the books numerous times since playing the games and watching the show hurt me to my core.
Unfortunately that also means that this universe is likely to never get another (and proper) cinematic adaptation.
@@Gapis321 Not true, CDPR will mend the public opinion with future Witcher universe games and we might get a new attempt in like 10yrs.
@@anitaremenarova6662 I doubt that honestly. CDPR isnt the studio it was back when Witcher 2/3 came out. Witcher as a mainstay is effectively dead.
@MyActualThoughts Cyberpunk was still a good game but it sucked at release in a technical way and that CDProject wanted to release the game for as many platforms as possible, even old consoles and they didnt delayed the game one year.
@@MyActualThoughts Basing that opinion on absolutely nothing I see. They have new witcher games in the oven and Thronebreaker was still excellent, we have nothing to worry about.
I wonder if there'll ever be another book adaptation with a lead actor who:
- is a skilled, fairly versatile actor
- is popular with the same fans who like the IP
- can look exactly how people imagine the main character with little effort
- is a huge fan of the IP
- knows the source material so well they can quote specific sections on set
- is liked by the author to the point that they imagine the main character with that actor's voice now
The last three are completely unnecessary for a good adaptation, maybe with an exception of the last one.
Cavill's passion for the role made him a good casting, but he looks basically nothing like how Geralt is described in the book. They cast who people consider to be one of the most handsome men in the world to play a character who is basically supposed to be ugly.
@@grottphd9090 Yeah a lot of people forget that Geralt actually looks like an unsettling, pale, sickly and veiny abomination to people in the books. Even more inhuman looking than other Witchers. They made him more handsome in the second game and one of the most handsome characters in gaming in the third game (trust coming from a fangirl). They even made him very muscular and gave his skin a lot more color than he's supposed to have. All this to the point Geralt in TW3 doesn't even resemble the character in the books very much at all beyond the white hair. I think that's why people think Cavill is a good fit. Don't get me wrong I picture TW3 Geralt when I read the books now, I like the look, it's just not accurate.
Cavil didn't know the source material that well, he was just a fan of the games but had never read the books before he got involved with the Netflix series. The series was supposed to be about the story in the books though, not the game. If there is another book adaptation, any other actor could read the books, too, and would habe the same level of knowledge than Cavil.
Modern hollywood specifically looks for ppl who are NOT fans of the original IP. They want to tell their own stories, no one gives a crap about the source material.
I wish someone had the guts one day to take a show and make a 1-1 version of the books, the BELOVED books, the stuff we read, re-read and re-re-read.
Great video my man, had to sub after watching that
they had gold.......pure gold in their hands. and it just took a few writers, a keyboard and an ego the size of the moon to fuck it all up. I truly would slow clap, but just like Henry, I'm too jaded to even bother.
The Last Airbender will get 2 more seasons to finish the story.
Season 1 was fine ( for a life action version ) and the same people will also make the other seasons.
NOOOOOOOO ZOLTAN 101 HAS BEEN CANCELLED 😭😭😭 WORST DAY OF MY LIFE
We could have seen some professional poker games
Unironically a Zoltan story sounds more interesting than all Netflix comes up with.
Ngl I would watch that😂😂😂
That Adam Sandler movie about the Israeli hairdresser?
@IronmaninfiniteThey'll never travel to the outer space and find the aliens now 😭.
I wonder if they do another Witcher show (correctly this time) if they could get Henry back. I didn't know about The Witcher before the show, and Henry's passion and charm has gotten me invested in the games too (I'm even planning on buying the books).
the bigest tragedy of the witcher being a netflix adaptaion is that now all the new printed books have that ugly ass sticker that you cant remove
The directors and writers had just about every advantage possible, and they just chose to put their pride and politics before success, fame, and fortune. It'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic
Oh what the heck i'll laugh anyway.
Netflix, the company that will cancel the good shows after a single season and spread out the bad ones for much longer than anyone wants.
And they keep Cutie.
I’ll probably miss the actors, music and songs the most
Me not ever playing the games or read the books: Season 1 was so cool!, look foward to the next seasons!'
Season 3: This sucks
*"netflix has greenlit another witcher spinoff" sounds more like a threat than a headline*
holy hell man, I can't stop laughing xDDD
"netflix has greenlit another witcher spinoff" sounds like an insult... adding insult to injury.
As a fan of the books and games who never continued watching after Season 1, hearing you recap what they did in Seasons 2 & 3 was shocking lmao
I dropped it after suffering through season 2.
but season 1 was awesome
Both seasons 1 and 2 were as entertaining as punching a cactus
I couldn’t bring myself to watch season 3
@@DaxRaidernah, it strayed too much even then. Writers made choices that simply weren’t in the books. Including Ciri in scenes with Geralt when he hadn’t even met her at that point in the book, etc.
@@DaxRaider please stop.
the mission... the nightmares... they're finally over
Loved s1 and haaated s2… thanks for giving some closure
Netflix has earned my eternal emnity after screwing up such an easy assignment to make the greatest show ever. Season 1 wasn't even that good, but compared to seasons 2 and 3 it is goddamn Mad Men / Sopranos level of tv.
Glad I got out after watching season 1.
Watched one episode of the Halo and got out before it really went off the rails.
Fallout is maybe the only good video game adaptation I've ever seen. *I've been reminded about the Last of Us. I have not played the games but the series was decent. Had ups and downs.
@@simpsondr12 Ласт оф ас - ужаснейшее дерьмо,в сравнении с игрой.Особенно главные персонажи.Я не являюсь фанатом "Ласт оф ас" но друг является и он бомбил не меньше,чем я от " ведьмака" Shitflix
@@simpsondr12same I also got out after watching Cahir ragdolled Vilgefortz.
As soon as the cast was revealed, the show was dead.
@@TheStraightestWhitest Yeah only Henry was cast right the rest is like wtf?
I was so annoyed Netflix decided to greenlight ‘The Rats’ and yet refused to greenlight the Six of Crows spin-off. The Six of Crows was a far more popular and far superior option as it already had two books worth of content to adapt (along with existing plot lines to tie up from the S&B show which was cancelled…) Not to mention The Six of Crows had six perfectly casted actors. No Witcher fan wanted The Rats to get their own spin-off. I don’t why Netflix was so insistent on making a Witcher-Verse when they couldn’t even manage to find reliable success in their main show. It’s mind-boggling because you have this wonderful book series, and on top of that, a game trilogy wherein the most recent game won the literal Game of The Year, and you still mucked up the adaption? People wanted to love this show so bad, and they literally had all the lore and plot lines written for them… and yet.
My theory about why they wanted to do a spin-off about the Rats is making Ciri into a LGBTQ character. Saw a few W3 streamers, who were like: "I play Ciri as a lesbian", when she was written as a bisexual. Which I don't mind... the developers gave that choice to customize some parts of the story, while not influencing the whole narrative. And I am all for that.
But some of those streamers don't know, misread, or FULLY ignore the part, where Ciri's relationship was really not healthy. Intentionally. And yes, the Rats were the most annoying plotline of the books.
I can fully imagine how the showrunners would totally ignore Ciri was forcefully taken advantage of, roped into drugs, by brats, who wanted to "stick it to the MAN", and make them into rebels against conventions, banished because of their ideologies, and all in all fully positive characters whose last action is protecting Ciri. And we know... WE KNOW, the Rats would've abandon Ciri to save themselves.
@@madmanarrivednow Oh that would be horrendous: Mistle raped Ciri in the first night at them. Displaying that could only get wrong, als toxic or rewritten as romantic. it is just - nope, not a good pairing
RIGHT i'm really curious as to why the hell they are so obsessed with The Witcher considering no one f*cking likes it. the Six of Crows spin off not happening is such a shame...
I don't know what flora these producers were imbibing but Ciri in the books was being m***sted by one of the dudes, "saved" and then promptly r***d by the one female member in the Rats. I'm really afraid they're just going to whitewash that scene to serve an agenda.
This is about netflix losing faith on the IP more than the actors performance tbh. The IP has lose soo much trust among the audience it seems illogical to throw more money into it.
Even handed review. I like the positivity, or rather how restrained you are on the negativity. And a great take... let's get that clock ticking
I think if they ever make the The Witcher again, it should be a fully polish/ slavic production. It would just be so cool to see a show made within the culture and language it originally came from. I hate the desire for big productions to try and Hollywood white wash a show just to appeal to western audiences, especially nowadays when foreign shows are becoming more and more popular and destigmatised.
Yes I completely agree!!!
"and sacrificing Ciri to a demon"
I still cant believe they expect us to see them as hardcore fans when they did this!!!!!
Hard-core fans? The writers actively hate the source material. They've said as much, and we're caught mocking it multiple times..
this is legit the best thing Netflix has done so far as i am currently reading the entire books again for the second time after watching the show which has driven me nuts so far so that I can see how they further butcher the last two seasons, being an avid Witcher fan i am sure you can understand also
P.S Seeing Henry leave was the major deal breaker but as ironic as that is it also made me happy because he did this for his personal love for the Witcher and looked out for us fans adios to what could have been a solid series as usual mauled by various forms of propaganda
In a way, I feel sorry for Liam Hemsworth. Cavill had a much stable career in the industry, when he picked up the part and even that choice was criticized by fans at the early stages. Even with his traction he had to prove his worth. Now that everyone and their grandma loved Cavill in the role, this could mean a career crash for the guy. I know, the season will suck ass, but but I don't want any of the actors to suffer for that, especially when it's an actor who has to work under two shades (his brother, and now his predecessor). Cavill is pretty much the gentleman who tries to soften the blow on the guy, by showing him in a positive light.
@@madmanarrivednowLiam is a decent actor and does not deserve the hate. I really liked his performance in the Independence Day. To be honest he seems to fit Geralt quite well (in my opinion better than Henry based on the face only). I think cancelling the show would've been a better option than dragging it for one more season and it won't be finished properly anyway.
@@wiktoriajedrzejewska7287 I just came back to agree!
I think the last two or three episode of the third season were pretty book accurate tbh.. but they were also the worst part of the book for me(the rats I hate them)
In other news, the animated Witcher series seems to be looking promising and they even got Doug Cockle back to do the voice.
I didn't even know there had been new series since the "Cavill update" some years ago.
Thought it was the end back then already to be fair.
Me too lol dont look like we missed much
I want justice for not just Henry but Joey Batey. His vocals are INCREDIBLE and I want to see the show where he got to play actual Jaskier/Dandelion instead of the wild ass version they wrote. Screaming, crying, throwing up.
Edited to add, I am not going to watch the new anime although I didn’t hate the Vesemir one. The thing is, A Little Sacrifice is my favorite of the short stories except for A Shard of Ice. I love Little Eye, I love Dandelion and I love Geralt’s characterization in this story. The ending absolutely gutted me. I also enjoyed how it just barely touched on the underwater war - the world Geralt lives in is vast and complex and so much more is going on than anything in just the Continent. To expand on it and make Geralt almost certainly a central figure in it, in my opinion, cheapens it. It’s cool because he is NOT a part of it, yet it is happening.
I never watched much of the series. I'm almost finished with the third book. I knew there was some sketchy stuff with yen wanting to sacrifice ciri or something because I saw one of these videos in the past. But when I heard "Radovid and Dandelion are lovers" I almost spat out my drink. Wtf have they done with the source material.
Just wait till you finish the books - you’ll see how truly disrespectful the show has been to Sapkowski’s original story and intended journeys for the characters to go on.
Dandelion being gay or bi didn’t bother me at all, he likes sleeping around and I think he never expressed disliking gay relationships in the books, so why not. The show fucked up pretty much everything else, but this is one of the few points which I viewed in a neutral way. I have to say, I didn’t watch the third season because the second one was enough for me, so I don’t know how they portrayed bi/gay Dandelion.
@@einindividuum5428 I see. However, Dandelion's not the problem for me either. I just cannot imagine him hooking up with Radovid and vice versa. It's fucking Radovid.
"Wtf have they done with the source material?"
They used it to line their cages
@@lukewilliam4208 yeah, that’s a really fair point. Why had it to be Radovid, they could’ve chosen another character who suited better. This proves one more time the producers and writers didn’t care for the books and the games.
i will miss it so much
Lesson to any future adaptions/adaptions of any other franchise that people love, the reason it's popular is because of the preexisting source material. Follow that as closely as you can. There might be things you need to change like Tom bombadil in LOTR but stay close to the source material. Writers come in and think they know better and they basically want to write their own stories but use the franchise as a safe basis to get some fans. No one cares about what you want to write. We're fans of the franchise because of the source material. If you want to write your own series and are convinced it will be great then write your own series. Don't gut a franchise for it. You won't please original fans and it will turn out crap so you want get new fans
The nightmare is finally over!
Nightmare of the Wolf: ❌
Nightmare of the Jew: ☑️
Oh no. As a final fuck you to Witcher fans they are gonna turn Little sacrifice into another Aquaman movie. I truly hoped that at least the fishpeople are gonna be spared.
I think that the movie will at least be fun anime action... much better than what they're gonna do to these final 2 seasons...
4:27 That is cursed and will haunt my nightmares... good lord, what IS that.... thing?
I was really hoping to see A Little Sacrafice, back when I still believe that the show would be good.
But now it seems they will gut this one as well!
I remember back in 2006 when the Eragon movie came out. I was a huge fan of the novels and I was extremely excited for the movie. Needless to say I was devastated by how bad it was. However I remember thinking that there's at least one positive thing to come out of it. That one thing being that the writers will have learned from their mistakes when it comes to adapting fantasy novels.
Now nearly 20 years later it's still happening. Why don't these people learn from the past?
Look at Harry Potter, those films were mostly faithful to the books and they were a huge success.
They need to cancel netflix
100%
THIS
Netflix used to be awesome but somehow they have turned into a platform that prefers quantity over quality
i never paid a penny to those rats.
Vote with your wallet. Very simple. Cancel your Netflix subscription.
@@viktorvondoom9119 just like Disney
thanks Melitele!
Is this a Stupendous Wave spin off channel?
As a massive Witcher fan, glad the nightmare is nearing its end. I dipped out after like the first two episodes of season 2, the writers of the show have never heard of subtlety and can't help but change every single character for the worse. The actors were carrying the show but now the horrendous writing crushed them too.
I hated the rats in the books and didn’t understand why Netflix wanted to make a show about them, thank goodness for Bonhart though
I count Leo as a good guy for getting rid of the rats.
I didn't even finish season two LMFAO. it makes me so mad the way they threw the source material in the Garbage...
Literally all they had to do is just follow the book...
Nah that's not really how TV works, is it? You still gotta trim, restructure, merge characters and maybe change internalisation/inner monologue to actions that reveals the same things about the respective character. It _is_ a vastly different medium.
Doesn't mean they didn't fuck up, just that I wouldn't discredit screenwriting like that. But then again, I haven't read the books. Maybe each of them are already perfectly structured for a 12-episode season, idk..
The Witcher book series has two types of stories, both of which are a piece of cake to adapt to screen:
1. Short stories focus on either monster / curse of the week or a specific main character that will develop a bond with Geralt
2. From ToC onward books take a more political tone with many different POVs, just like a political fantasy show (ala GOT) would do.
There are some gaps in the books and some issues, but apart from pacing and the order the chapters appear in across the books, majority of it is just perfect to directly adapt. That is especially true when one considers lack of long monologues or thoughts of characters in the story, apart from that one part with Triss in BoE.
I fully agree.
The long monologues and thoughts of characters were almost exclusively presented in the dialogue of Dandelion and Geralt. Dandelion was the one person who knew Geralt the most, he also was the one person that Geralt respected and appreciated his company. The screenwriters could not catch that. The character of Jaskier in the show is an abomination. Geralt addresses him like he's a pest. Jaskier doesn't even have a horse to ride next to Geralt.
Just one example of how the 1st point - characters developing bonds with Geralt - has never been noticed by the screenwriters. They failed to pull a single relationship between Geralt and another character to then put it in the show. And they were all there in the books - in the actions of the characters and in the dialogue. They skipped over the most important short story for the saga (Brokilon - "The Sword of Destiny", the TITULAR short story, as if Sapkowski hasn't made this clear enough that this is THE most important one!). Unfortunately, I feel like Hollywood really lacks smart writers nowadays. These books might have gone over their literally-processing american heads.
I swear every time anyone talks about the Netflix Witcher there's always something new that's just jaw-droppingly awful in the mix. This time it's the romance between Dandelion (aged 40) and Radovid (aged ~13 in the books) - Netflix are never beating the pedo allegations! Also very glad this Rats spin-off is part of the time-honoured tradition of Netflix ordering a new show and then unceremoniously cancelling it!
PS what is that golden armour in 3:30 cos it is gorgeous and I don't believe I've seen it before!
I can't fully tell from the back, but isn't it armor you get in Toussaint?
Did they butcher Jaskier's characterization now as well? I stopped watching the clusterfvck after they went to Kaer Morhen and the most fever dream of fanfictions transpired there.
@@colbunkmust i watched a bit later in the vid when he fights in the armour and youre rights, its knight armour from toussaint, cant recall the specific name but you can see the colour of the armour before you buy
When you go to the "Land of Fables" in Toussaint to rescue Syanna, swim around in the water surrounding the Long locks/ Rapunzel's tower. You will find a will o' wisp, which would lead you to body of a dead knight wearing that armor.
@@anitaremenarova6662 they made him an idiot
The Witcher should’ve been a story about a father and his beloved daughter. I read an article that even Freya Allen is glad that the shows ending earlier than planned. Said she “mentally checked out”. First the star of the show quits and now the other star mentally checks out. And Good God they were planning on making a kids show? Oh Gods that would be the equivalent of Teen Titans Go! I’m praying for a new adaptation that is faithful and is actually good.
Episode 1 of Season 2 told me everything I needed to know about the show going forward. Everyone acting stupid and irresponsible and the messed up messaging.
Nivellen: "I robbed, burned and killed people"
Gerald/Ciri: "You're still a good person"
Nivellen: "I also graped a woman"
Gerald/Ciri: "Go PK yourself"
Lmfao true!
I'm happy that they pulled the plug. I have to applaud the showrunner and writers though... Their skill at managing to completely fumble the bag is LEGENDARY. You had excellent source material, you had a lead that knew the series in and out, and you already had a good fanbase.
"all you had to do was not f up!"
I'm sure it is the fault of the fans who don't respect interpretation by the writers.
That was hard to type without cracking up.
Re: Factor.
I tried a few boxes a year or so ago and never found a meal that I didnt like. Highly recommend getting a discount box and trying a few.
When you get a gem handed to you on a silver platter and you still F it up. I hope heads roll for this.
Never Forgive..
Never Forget..
Never Netflix..
FINALLY! Should have ended with Season 1.
My thoughts exactly.
I wonder if they had ignored Cavill's incessant asking for the part, who they originally were going to have play him.
The source material is right there, how can you mess that up so bad
i hate netflix with passion, i actually read a witcher fanfiction called "The Divine Hunter" made by a random chinese dude and its WAY better than whatever the fuck netflix came up with.
Try reading a chinese fanfiction called 'Witcher: The Half Elf' its a interesting read with the plot being an isekai twist with original characters, i dont know why witcher is such a popular thing to write fanfics about in china other than douluo but hey.
Haha I'm so happy with this news. Thank you, Henry!
Henry's come to see us!
Im honestly devastated how they handled the Witcher, look how they massacred my boy😢
Sorry Henry. Bad luck mate!
The ending with Sapkowski had me on the floor.
Again, NeonKnight hits the nail on the head. The show is truly a masterclass in missed potential. But, as always, great video, can't wait for more Witcher content
thank you Isengrim 🫡🫡🫡
I was really sad about this ending any chance of a good Netflix Witcher adaptation..... until I found out they were planning on a spinoff for The Rats (aka a group so awful I had to take a break after first reading about them because reading what they did to Ciri actually churned my stomach)
This could be adapted to like a huge 3-5 movie franchise, could be insanely profitable if you create it with just some love for the books and some Common fucking sense
Dimensional Traveler here. Came to say where i come from The Witcher's rights were given to HBO from the very beginning, and the show is awesome.
Damn bro, I am jealous. What happened to GoT in your dimension, writers shit the bed in the last seasons here. Happy to report that Fallout season 1 is fire though.
@30CZEchpoint bro, HBO tried to save game of thrones 😢 dumb and dumber didn't listen
@@sadrakeyhany7477 You're not wrong and those guys obviously shat the bed in the end, but in the interest of fairness, they were left with the unenviable task of trying to finish a series based on source material that simply didn't exist. That doesn't excuse the incompetence bordering on malice, but there were mitigating circumstances. Hisrich and her chosen team of hacks don't even have that excuse Dx
@eldara3 at least I'll give dumb and dumber that, they did finish, however of a trash ending it was
Oh man- I bet in your universe they also kept Master Chief's helmet on in Halo. Though I bet Fallout sucks over there.
Although H. Cavill is no longer our Witcher, some ppl in twitter or tumblr are still bashing him for ruining the series by making their own assumption based on past interviews and BTS scenes.
He lives in their head rent free now.
The final straw for me was non chalantly revealing that Emhyr var Emreis is Ciri's father
That's after the unrelated to the books plot which I was ok with. I saw that as a contract in the game.
But that reveal did it for me.
To me it felt from season 1 and then season 2 strengthened that feel, that the lead writer, Lauren Hissrich, was a big fangirl of Yennefer, as how much her role was elevated in expense of both Geralt and Ciri and then in second season a full plotline from Ciri was transferred to Yennefer and that was the whole losing her ability to use magic. I did not watch third season because how bad I have heard it was. But it was obvious from the first two seasons which character was the creators pet so to speak.
Leo Bonhart could redeem the show about The Rats... If you know, you know
Leo was an absolutely intriguing character in the books
@@branddiddy8169он был редкостным ублюдком ,но да,все же интересным. И один из самых приятных моментов,это когда он вырезает банду крыс ,расправляясь со всеми сразу
@@branddiddy8169 Not intriguing, menacing for sure though. Definitely the most memorable villain, can't wait how they'll fvck that up.
It`s the only thing left in the show that I am looking forward to seeing because they chose an interesting actor to play him
With an exclusive appearance of Lauren Schmidt Hissrich!
Needs a follow-up about how the showrunners are unable to find a new project after this.. we can hope anyway.
Man, hopefully some other big studio will pick this beloved IP back up in the near future and get lore dedicated writers and Henry at the helm of it producing if not acting..
Do a video of what would Geralt do for the Blood and Wine expansion please 😊
It has been dead to me since the second season. Moved on to other shows, never gave it much thought, and that's it.
You're no Witcher fan.
@@LNER985 Yeah, I guess I'm not. Playing all the three mainline Witcher games to completion as well as Thronebreaker, reading the Dark Horse mini-series, and the books even before Witcher 3 came out weren't enough for me to be considered a fan. I just have to like them all blindly. Poor me.
man i really wanted Philippa and Ferb....
If they stick to the books then there is a chance they can adapt all of the 3 remaining books.
I am basing this on how much time 2 seasons (16, 1h episodes - total of 16h) have and how much time Harry Potter movies had per book adaptations. which are all pretty great and tell the "full" story.
The Longest HP book is the fifth one and it was adapted in 2h40min.
So lets say they need at minimum that runtime up to 3h for one book. There are 3 books left so all together they would need around 9h at minimum to tell the story.
At least that would have been the runtime if we were getting movie adaptations.
Based on that the series have around 16h to tell the full story of the remaining 3 books and based on HP adaptation it can be done almost in half that time.
But based on previous seasons I highly doubt will get anything better then the current quality of the adaptation.
I would have never remembered that an Artemis Fowl adaptation had come and gone if it wasn’t for this reminder 😂