@@Mecharnie_Dobbs that's a terrible business model for anything outside luxury goods. it's the complete opposite of how entertainment media operates and has operated since the 20th century.
I see the point and I agree but I believe the producer of the Witcher, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich even said in an interview that they were going for a show that pleases an audience that is already familiar with the universe to whatever extend (since there is video games too). I actually only really got into the Witcher and started reading the books because the show was kinda vague but still very interesting and I wanted to know more about it. So for me personally it didn't fail entirely 😅😊
After LotR everyone copied LotR (big battles, dark lords, wizards). After GoT everyone will copy GoT (edgy, "dark", political, dragons). These companies think that the best way to succeed is to rip off what's successful, but that literally never works.
I mean, it sometimes works. Batman v. Superman was only made to ape on the success of the MCU and whatever your thoughts on the film's quality, it made a lot of money.
@@JamesTullos Hey James, can you do a review of _The Children of Hurin_ since you said Tolkien isn't a "dark"/"edgy" writer (and the Silmarillion and other stories set in the First Age clearly _are_ dark and edgy)?
Children of hurin gets more classic drama dark, really lots of plays are that dark in theatre, not edgy dark. I wouldnt call it dark in an edgelord sense. More taking cues from older dramas. Shows can do that if they develope their own identity within that and the creators have somewhat their concept.
As someone currently reading through the Wheel of Time, I can't express how excited I am for the show simply because of how much those in charge of the show care about it. There is a general feeling that they genuinely love the source material and are dedicated to adapting the story to a new medium to the best of their ability, while also being up front about how they've had to make hard decisions to make it work on screen.
3:42-4:31 This is why I think that most High/epic fantasy book series would be better adapted as animated shows. They'd have enough time to properly tell the story without having to spend a shit ton of money on realistic special effects. Castlevania is proof of how good animated fantasy adaptations can be if done well.
I've been saying this for years and I don't know why animated book adaptations aren't a thing. There is such a large market opportunity there, but for some reason, these companies seem really reluctant to adapt a story in a 2D medium. Hell, any book series that isn't super grounded would work amazingly as an animated series simply because the medium is more abstract and dynamic. Plus the fact that a lot of tropes, scenes, and characters don't translate well into live action. You would think, that a book, being an experience that is highly imaginative and abstract, would be adapted into a medium that can be stylized and manipulated to reflect those attributes into a visual medium. But no. As for why no one has capitalized on this huge market, it's beyond me. The ever expanding influence of anime in the West is proof that such a demand for adult animation exists here. We have so many amazing, niche IPs of our own that we could use to compete with Japan by offering unique, Western storytelling experiences. But I guess companies don't really care much for innovation when you can just keep rehashing the same ideas for a decent profit.
@@martyr_lightsilver1833 at the end of the day, it all comes down to profit. Live action movies and TV shows earn a lot more than animated ones even if it makes for a shittier adaptation. And animation is still looked down upon by many as a lesser medium.
Green&Blue Productions yeah, it distracted me as well. The Confederates fought bravely whatever their goal was, and to deny that is disrespectful to thousands of dead.
I'm just waiting for a decent non-medieval fantasy adaptation. Like Dune. I'm so sick of all of the sets looking the same. Forests, town markets, colorless castles... so boring.
@@Shiv-dw9pc attack on Titan is thoroughly medieval European in its aesthetic up to season 4. The Walls, the keep in Trost, the palace within the innermost wall are all flat grey and all the architecture is literally just copied and pasted bits of late medieval German towns and cities. There is plenty to praise SnK about, but having a non medieval European aesthetic is definitely not on the list
I wonder what you would think o Netflix's Hilda. It's "urban"-folklore-fantasy-adventure taking place in Scandinavia, but calling it urban fantasy might paint the wrong impression because it's more about a somewhat modern town dealing with classic folklore creatures. And seeing an underrepresented folklore is amazing. Things like pagan house spirits, tiny elves, water spirits, Draugen, even the trolls are folklore accurate as they turn to stone at sunlight. It was cool experiencing an entire world of fantasy creatures and not the same old ones.
I sort of blame Netflix for the upcoming market saturation, you mentioned the Witcher and Cursed, but they also had A letter for the king, and all 3 to me were different levels of mediocre, and the only one I liked was the Witcher because it did have some uniqueness to it, while the other 2 felt completely generic...and what the fantasy genre doesn't need right now is generic shows, Netflix had 3 all in one year! Netflix's approach of just producing so many mediocre shows will probably end up saturating many genres, and I would not forgive them if the sunk Fantasy!
They will have different genres. Shakespeare wrote some plays without any English or American characters. Like 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. ' Where was Tom Cruse? You couldn't write something like that now UNLESS it was fantasy.
Things would get mixed up over time. Sleepy Joe Biden slumbers for a thousand years but keeps hitting the snooze button when he's supposed to wake up and conquer the world
So interesting what you said about mixing up the setting in light of the huge fuss about The Watch, while some of the changes made are highly questionable (While I love the character and the actress playing Sybil in it, she really isn't Lady Sybil Ramkin), I've found myself enjoying the series thus far a great deal.
It isn't necessary to read Witcher books to understand three different timelines, but it requires paying close attention, which I think should not be necessary. It might not be particularly helpful anyway, since first few books (which first season of show adapts) are arguably worse with that, since they are collections of stories told out of order.
Yeah, I will give the Witcher show props for telling the story the way it did. I felt by the end it all flowed together. But there really should have been more effort in differentiating the timelines. One idea I had was maybe Ciri hearing about these stories of Geralt, Yennifer, and Jaskier as she was fleeing. Oh well though. I have a feeling season 2 will be a lot more straightforward.
I'm still waiting for an Anne McCaffery adaptation. Any of the books. Just as a proog if concept that Planetary Romance can work as a movie/show in the modern era.
@@vinfacts11 Not it is not. Sapkowski might be Polish, but nothing in Witcher is Eastern European. Witcher series contain two monsters named after creatures from Slavic folklore (kikimora and koschei), but they just names randomly slapped on unrelated monsters. The only Eastern European thing in entire popular fantasy is vampire and even it is changed to unrecognizable form through long chain of reimagining: Slavic folklore -> Romanian folklore -> Carmilla -> Dracula -> Classical Gothic Literature -> Modern Pop-Culture.
@@vinfacts11 hardly, there's actually more celtic and norse folklore than slavic in the Witcher series. I'm not saying it's something bad, just that it's still very "western European".
Sometimes I wished Dune was a web series produced by HBO instead of a 2-part movie. Also want to hear your thoughts on the upcoming Shadow and Bone show on Netflix. The trilogy was quite bad and they had to adapt Six of Crows with it to add more depth into the plot. (though I think they could have done it with just Six of Crows)
I can't wait for a Stormlight adaptation. Could you imagine the release timeline with Stormlight series and Mistborn films woven together? Punctuated by a Warbreaker graphic novel?
The Outpost is one of my favourites of the recent fantasy adaptations. I nearly stopped watching halfway through the first episode because it was so generic, but I'm glad I kept going. It feels a little like an older show, with the terrible CGI and all, and the characters are wonderful.
Bridgerton isn’t really a ‘fantasy’ series but kinda like Cursed it had a decent concept and both shows ended up kinda bland/mediocre because of subpar acting, meh styling, badly written scenes and dry romances. I sincerely hope these shows don’t create a trend of mediocre historical fantasy shows... However I do hope Bridgerton and Cursed will start a trend with more fantasy shows featuring a more diverse cast and cultures that aren’t European.
I think fantasy book adaptations don't work because of the very niche aspect of the fantasy genre to the general public. Everybody knows LOTR because it's almost a pioneer. Most English-speaking countries know about Discworld, but they just know about it. They don't read them. And then Wheel of Time... Err. Well, it certainly is famous among the fantasy community, but honestly... GoT is a special case, the controversial nature of the show is what made its success. It's also pretty easy to understand and follow, unlike many fantasy books were the lore is mandatory for the story. It's the case for GoT, but the story IS the lore. I think other unsuccessful shows lack of recognition could be explained by how bland, cookie-cutter, Hollywood Quota-checking they were. It wasn't genuine, it was just a Yes man's checklist. The Witcher was booed. I don't need to give much of the reasons why, I would be banned on RUclips. Fantasy is just... Hard to make in cinema. Maybe smaller movies with smaller fantasy elements could work, but filming armies and dragons and whatnot requires tons and tons of money. And not a whole lot of directors are willing to go through what Peter Jackson had to go through to make LOTR (and not be fucked over by Weinstein and political softies). And they're willing to the risk of making a movie that doesn't work.
if you see the way the books came out (Witcher), there were 2 books of short stories that were structure the same way as you see in the show..... i didn’t have trouble understanding it like you did. I did watch it twice, but not out of confusion, but because I just wanted to. i have now read the books and think it is one of the better adaptations out there, even as a stand alone tv show. the conjunction of the spheres is something that fucked the whole world up, it is one of those things that you keep on getting more info about as a slow trickle. In my opinion having read the books and seen the show before, the show is trying to do the same thing, which I appreciate even more than I did before reading them.
What I'm looking most foward to, OTHER than the Wheel of Time TV Show, is for a Mistborn adapatation. I'm still waiting for it... and it will come out... eventually... uh... if it does come out... they better not screw it up. (also for sci-fi, I'm waiting for Dune)
"the LOTR TV show is trying to be all dark and edgy, which LOTR really wasn't." You've never read _The Silmarillion_ before, have you? It's about the First Age of Middle-Earth, and the rise and fall of the Elven Kingdoms of Beleriand in particular, and it gets _spectacularly_ dark. The Dark Lord Morgoth, to whom Sauron was but a lieutenant, tried to destroy Middle-Earth and _almost succeeded_ before being overthrown in the War of Wrath. The sons of Feanor lead the Elves on a reckless and ultimately suicidal crusade of vengeance against Morgoth simply to recover their father's jewellery. One prominent human hero commits _explicit incest with his amnesiac sister_ before committing suicide. And there are quite graphic depictions of forced marriage, torture (one character is _nailed to a cliff by his wrist_ ), and mutilation. The epilogue explains that Elendil and Isildur were in Middle-Earth in the first place because Sauron had seduced the people of the island of Numenor into literally worshipping Morgoth and invading the Undying lands to claim immortality, which meant Eru (the God figure of Middle-Earth) had to sink the island and _turn the world into a sphere_ to stop the attack.
So a couple weeks ago, you were talking about cults and took an opportunity to dunk on Jordan Peterson. Can you give us an in-depth book review of _12 Rules For Life_ and go over each chapter to explain why you think Peterson is a cult leader?
It's not because of his books it is literally because of the fanbase that makes him an icon in their minds. I've seen a video of a grown man crying trying to get on stage of a Jordan Peterson panel talking about how he wants to gets to know him and how he loves him. There is certainly a cult of personality.
Animation and aanime short that can keep up with the costs of effects if it cant be shown by using narrative tricks? And taking cues from actual bit diffrent cultures, , how about venice? Polynesia. There is a great newealandian fantasy zombie series the dead lands, with maori. Or apocaplyptic fantasy(not in america) The shaman stuf could be really intereszing to deal with, invisible montrs with god writing, shadowrun thats in germany.
I have a setting idea but I feel like people are gonna call it medival europe for having a simular climate. Like I sometimes feel people call eveything medival europe even tho it's very diffrent. Not you btw.
They did do a anime adaption of Ronja, the Robber's Daughter, anzoku no Musume Rōnya (A swedish medieval fantasy) It feel totaly bizarre to see Scandinavian landskape (the forest and waterfall is important plot point) but the robbers eat rice and dress in japanes? clothes and some viking insperied clothes. How do you have rice plantation in a snowy spruce forest.
hi james, this is irrelevant to the video, i'm just curious: what does your arm say? but yeah i agree with you. once media execs see something working they all seem to just latch onto it like leeches or something
I found 'Cursed' hilarious. It's an... interesting show. Not good, not even remotely, but it's impossible to watch it without wondering at the creative process behind it.
Dude youre spot on about the witcher. I think the first season was too ambitious, too big for its britches. It was a good try for sure but they need to give this second season more time to untangle the strings of their plots and timelines.
That shirt makes it hard to watch this... Have you ever talked to someone in the south? Whose family been here since we help give the US its freedom in the first place? Let me know and we can talk that is just insensitive you know better.
@@porkerpete7722 He can but he also anti-southern in his other videos. Imagine the backlash if the confederate name was replaced with the United States or LGBTQ.
@@XaurianQueen ...We are still different people you know the civil war never solved that... and it's still our identity... Like the many flags of nations that flew over Florida. Besides what about the people that died on our side? What about my 5x great grandfather who died tending to his sick family?
@@XaurianQueen Your attitude started just before the civil war and was light on fire by the Nexon and Clinton impeachment. Your Political movement in this country of making us divided is what lead to Trump being elected and the angry mod that invaded the capital building your hate did that not my 5x Great grandfather or me.
"if you have to read the source to understand the adaptation, it's a shitty adaptation." why is this such a hard concept to grasp for so many people?
@@myduckisonqauck7227 I went inverted from the future to write that comment.
@@myduckisonqauck7227 no theyre a Christopher Nolan's Tenant
If a book is popular enough, then there IS a market for an adaptation that only people who have read the book can understand.
@@Mecharnie_Dobbs that's a terrible business model for anything outside luxury goods. it's the complete opposite of how entertainment media operates and has operated since the 20th century.
I see the point and I agree but I believe the producer of the Witcher, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich even said in an interview that they were going for a show that pleases an audience that is already familiar with the universe to whatever extend (since there is video games too). I actually only really got into the Witcher and started reading the books because the show was kinda vague but still very interesting and I wanted to know more about it. So for me personally it didn't fail entirely 😅😊
After LotR everyone copied LotR (big battles, dark lords, wizards). After GoT everyone will copy GoT (edgy, "dark", political, dragons). These companies think that the best way to succeed is to rip off what's successful, but that literally never works.
I mean, it sometimes works. Batman v. Superman was only made to ape on the success of the MCU and whatever your thoughts on the film's quality, it made a lot of money.
It can work if the right people are on it, but if the money is the only thing being pursued, it's doomed to fail
@@JamesTullos Hey James, can you do a review of _The Children of Hurin_ since you said Tolkien isn't a "dark"/"edgy" writer (and the Silmarillion and other stories set in the First Age clearly _are_ dark and edgy)?
Children of hurin gets more classic drama dark, really lots of plays are that dark in theatre, not edgy dark. I wouldnt call it dark in an edgelord sense. More taking cues from older dramas.
Shows can do that if they develope their own identity within that and the creators have somewhat their concept.
welcome to capitalism
As someone currently reading through the Wheel of Time, I can't express how excited I am for the show simply because of how much those in charge of the show care about it. There is a general feeling that they genuinely love the source material and are dedicated to adapting the story to a new medium to the best of their ability, while also being up front about how they've had to make hard decisions to make it work on screen.
I'm a bit skeptic with WoT on Prime now... We'll have to see. Wary that they adapted into few episodes
I did a whole presentation in my film business class about the boom of the fantasy genre in television.
So, morale of the story: we need to adapt _Mistborn_ with a big budget and professional crew who loves the book.
This thumbnail IS actually very cool. It's pretty. Made me wanna click more
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This is why I think that most High/epic fantasy book series would be better adapted as animated shows. They'd have enough time to properly tell the story without having to spend a shit ton of money on realistic special effects. Castlevania is proof of how good animated fantasy adaptations can be if done well.
I've been saying this for years and I don't know why animated book adaptations aren't a thing. There is such a large market opportunity there, but for some reason, these companies seem really reluctant to adapt a story in a 2D medium.
Hell, any book series that isn't super grounded would work amazingly as an animated series simply because the medium is more abstract and dynamic. Plus the fact that a lot of tropes, scenes, and characters don't translate well into live action. You would think, that a book, being an experience that is highly imaginative and abstract, would be adapted into a medium that can be stylized and manipulated to reflect those attributes into a visual medium.
But no. As for why no one has capitalized on this huge market, it's beyond me. The ever expanding influence of anime in the West is proof that such a demand for adult animation exists here. We have so many amazing, niche IPs of our own that we could use to compete with Japan by offering unique, Western storytelling experiences. But I guess companies don't really care much for innovation when you can just keep rehashing the same ideas for a decent profit.
@@martyr_lightsilver1833 at the end of the day, it all comes down to profit. Live action movies and TV shows earn a lot more than animated ones even if it makes for a shittier adaptation. And animation is still looked down upon by many as a lesser medium.
Thanks for this t-shirt.
Castlevania and the Dragon Prince kick ass
The Dragon Prince is friggin' amazing! :D
@@OwlEye2010 and they green lit it all the way to the end :D
@@lukacvitkovic8550 I know! I can't wait! :D
@@OwlEye2010 right!? Im checkin literally every other week haha
I like the T-shirt.
I was not ready for the My Immortal voice at the end. I am shook.
Nice shirt, funny
Distracting though... as someone whose 5x great-grandfather died after walking home to tend to his sick family...
Green&Blue Productions yeah, it distracted me as well. The Confederates fought bravely whatever their goal was, and to deny that is disrespectful to thousands of dead.
I'm just waiting for a decent non-medieval fantasy adaptation. Like Dune. I'm so sick of all of the sets looking the same. Forests, town markets, colorless castles... so boring.
At least Medievel fantasy not set in Western Europe would be cool. But that's even to much to ask for.
Colorless part is especially terrible, because Medieval Europe (and Classical Greece and Rome, for that matter) was quite colorful and vibrant.
@@Shiv-dw9pc attack on Titan is thoroughly medieval European in its aesthetic up to season 4. The Walls, the keep in Trost, the palace within the innermost wall are all flat grey and all the architecture is literally just copied and pasted bits of late medieval German towns and cities. There is plenty to praise SnK about, but having a non medieval European aesthetic is definitely not on the list
You might like Shadow & Bone on Netflix.
Man I dunno why but I love your low production effort but high quality content vibe
I wonder what you would think o Netflix's Hilda. It's "urban"-folklore-fantasy-adventure taking place in Scandinavia, but calling it urban fantasy might paint the wrong impression because it's more about a somewhat modern town dealing with classic folklore creatures.
And seeing an underrepresented folklore is amazing. Things like pagan house spirits, tiny elves, water spirits, Draugen, even the trolls are folklore accurate as they turn to stone at sunlight.
It was cool experiencing an entire world of fantasy creatures and not the same old ones.
I never know whether you say not a prick or not a prep. It will be my immortal question.
Also can't believe they canceled Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, smh
This decision made me so upset. Why did netflix wait a year before telling us it was cancelled? Got my hopes up for nothing.
my man, why did you read the patrons in a furry voice, what are you hiding
Dat waz the My Immortal voic u stupid prep
...how do you know how a furry sounds like?
I would love to see Fonda Lee's Jade City adapted (with a proper budget), its setting feels mid-1900's east Asia. The action and lore are awesome.
NBC is adapting it for Peacock!
Ok, that t-shirt caught me off guard, hahahaha!
Like a white British flag eh Yankee?
I sort of blame Netflix for the upcoming market saturation, you mentioned the Witcher and Cursed, but they also had A letter for the king, and all 3 to me were different levels of mediocre, and the only one I liked was the Witcher because it did have some uniqueness to it, while the other 2 felt completely generic...and what the fantasy genre doesn't need right now is generic shows, Netflix had 3 all in one year! Netflix's approach of just producing so many mediocre shows will probably end up saturating many genres, and I would not forgive them if the sunk Fantasy!
I mean it won't saturate a market, the good ones will rise above the mediocre.
Centuries from now, do you think there will be high fantasy stories with settings inspired by the 20th or 21st century?
Nah we won't last that long
The days befor cellphones would be an interesting time in which to tell a story. But could we identify with those people?
A 'Game of Thrones' knock off: The 21st century but with just the violence and r*pe.
They will have different genres. Shakespeare wrote some plays without any English or American characters. Like 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. ' Where was Tom Cruse? You couldn't write something like that now UNLESS it was fantasy.
Things would get mixed up over time. Sleepy Joe Biden slumbers for a thousand years but keeps hitting the snooze button when he's supposed to wake up and conquer the world
I love your shirt xD
Revelant shirt
I did chuckle because Iberia is the most Western part of Europe. But overall, good video.
Dig the shirt.
lord of the rings trilogy might be not "edgy" but damn read sons of Hurin, that has quite a bit of dark shit inside
Yup, same with the Silmarillion. Tolkien knew how to contrast sublimely beautiful with tragically dark to VERY good effect.
"If you're watching my chanel you're probably pretty hardcore"
*me watching having no clue what the movies and book he's talking about are*
Nice My Immortal reference
Like your t-shirt
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The main points of the video are fine too I guess :)
So interesting what you said about mixing up the setting in light of the huge fuss about The Watch, while some of the changes made are highly questionable (While I love the character and the actress playing Sybil in it, she really isn't Lady Sybil Ramkin), I've found myself enjoying the series thus far a great deal.
It isn't necessary to read Witcher books to understand three different timelines, but it requires paying close attention, which I think should not be necessary. It might not be particularly helpful anyway, since first few books (which first season of show adapts) are arguably worse with that, since they are collections of stories told out of order.
Yeah, I will give the Witcher show props for telling the story the way it did. I felt by the end it all flowed together. But there really should have been more effort in differentiating the timelines. One idea I had was maybe Ciri hearing about these stories of Geralt, Yennifer, and Jaskier as she was fleeing. Oh well though. I have a feeling season 2 will be a lot more straightforward.
I'm still waiting for an Anne McCaffery adaptation. Any of the books. Just as a proog if concept that Planetary Romance can work as a movie/show in the modern era.
Could we see fantasies based on cultures outside of Europe and Japan in the future?
*Outside Western Europe.
@@minskghoul i would;ve actually said that, but then i learnt witcher is eastern european.
@@vinfacts11 Not it is not. Sapkowski might be Polish, but nothing in Witcher is Eastern European. Witcher series contain two monsters named after creatures from Slavic folklore (kikimora and koschei), but they just names randomly slapped on unrelated monsters. The only Eastern European thing in entire popular fantasy is vampire and even it is changed to unrecognizable form through long chain of reimagining: Slavic folklore -> Romanian folklore -> Carmilla -> Dracula -> Classical Gothic Literature -> Modern Pop-Culture.
@@vinfacts11 hardly, there's actually more celtic and norse folklore than slavic in the Witcher series. I'm not saying it's something bad, just that it's still very "western European".
The game Darkwood is about Eastern European folklore and stuff, banshees and parasitic trees and shit. You should check that out
''Thumbnails are cool'' so are bowties
Sometimes I wished Dune was a web series produced by HBO instead of a 2-part movie. Also want to hear your thoughts on the upcoming Shadow and Bone show on Netflix. The trilogy was quite bad and they had to adapt Six of Crows with it to add more depth into the plot. (though I think they could have done it with just Six of Crows)
I want a Conan the Barbarian series. They are making it on Amazon Prime.
Great points! 👊
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I can't wait for a Stormlight adaptation. Could you imagine the release timeline with Stormlight series and Mistborn films woven together? Punctuated by a Warbreaker graphic novel?
The best fantasy screen media are the animated ones.
The Outpost is one of my favourites of the recent fantasy adaptations. I nearly stopped watching halfway through the first episode because it was so generic, but I'm glad I kept going. It feels a little like an older show, with the terrible CGI and all, and the characters are wonderful.
The most important question...how many of these upcoming shows will star Sean Bean?
or wear the red cloak over the armour!
Bridgerton isn’t really a ‘fantasy’ series but kinda like Cursed it had a decent concept and both shows ended up kinda bland/mediocre because of subpar acting, meh styling, badly written scenes and dry romances. I sincerely hope these shows don’t create a trend of mediocre historical fantasy shows... However I do hope Bridgerton and Cursed will start a trend with more fantasy shows featuring a more diverse cast and cultures that aren’t European.
Oh my god, the My Immortal patron read 😂
I think fantasy book adaptations don't work because of the very niche aspect of the fantasy genre to the general public. Everybody knows LOTR because it's almost a pioneer. Most English-speaking countries know about Discworld, but they just know about it. They don't read them. And then Wheel of Time... Err. Well, it certainly is famous among the fantasy community, but honestly...
GoT is a special case, the controversial nature of the show is what made its success. It's also pretty easy to understand and follow, unlike many fantasy books were the lore is mandatory for the story. It's the case for GoT, but the story IS the lore.
I think other unsuccessful shows lack of recognition could be explained by how bland, cookie-cutter, Hollywood Quota-checking they were. It wasn't genuine, it was just a Yes man's checklist. The Witcher was booed. I don't need to give much of the reasons why, I would be banned on RUclips.
Fantasy is just... Hard to make in cinema. Maybe smaller movies with smaller fantasy elements could work, but filming armies and dragons and whatnot requires tons and tons of money. And not a whole lot of directors are willing to go through what Peter Jackson had to go through to make LOTR (and not be fucked over by Weinstein and political softies). And they're willing to the risk of making a movie that doesn't work.
Everyone has heard of 'Dungions and Dragons' So could they adapt that?
16:00 oh, you just said what my first thought was, lol
if you see the way the books came out (Witcher), there were 2 books of short stories that were structure the same way as you see in the show..... i didn’t have trouble understanding it like you did. I did watch it twice, but not out of confusion, but because I just wanted to. i have now read the books and think it is one of the better adaptations out there, even as a stand alone tv show. the conjunction of the spheres is something that fucked the whole world up, it is one of those things that you keep on getting more info about as a slow trickle. In my opinion having read the books and seen the show before, the show is trying to do the same thing, which I appreciate even more than I did before reading them.
Epic shirt
Not even watched the video yet, but I love your shirt!
I miss small fantasy shows, like xena and hercules... you don't need everything to be a multi million dollars political drama set in ancient land
What I'm looking most foward to, OTHER than the Wheel of Time TV Show, is for a Mistborn adapatation. I'm still waiting for it... and it will come out... eventually... uh... if it does come out... they better not screw it up.
(also for sci-fi, I'm waiting for Dune)
Nice shirt
Sorbo's evil Hercules was awesome
"the LOTR TV show is trying to be all dark and edgy, which LOTR really wasn't."
You've never read _The Silmarillion_ before, have you?
It's about the First Age of Middle-Earth, and the rise and fall of the Elven Kingdoms of Beleriand in particular, and it gets _spectacularly_ dark. The Dark Lord Morgoth, to whom Sauron was but a lieutenant, tried to destroy Middle-Earth and _almost succeeded_ before being overthrown in the War of Wrath. The sons of Feanor lead the Elves on a reckless and ultimately suicidal crusade of vengeance against Morgoth simply to recover their father's jewellery. One prominent human hero commits _explicit incest with his amnesiac sister_ before committing suicide. And there are quite graphic depictions of forced marriage, torture (one character is _nailed to a cliff by his wrist_ ), and mutilation. The epilogue explains that Elendil and Isildur were in Middle-Earth in the first place because Sauron had seduced the people of the island of Numenor into literally worshipping Morgoth and invading the Undying lands to claim immortality, which meant Eru (the God figure of Middle-Earth) had to sink the island and _turn the world into a sphere_ to stop the attack.
"Rand al'Thor vs Ishamael" hahahahahha
i like your hairclip it is fun
So a couple weeks ago, you were talking about cults and took an opportunity to dunk on Jordan Peterson.
Can you give us an in-depth book review of _12 Rules For Life_ and go over each chapter to explain why you think Peterson is a cult leader?
You guys really love to watch him suffer :D
It's not because of his books it is literally because of the fanbase that makes him an icon in their minds. I've seen a video of a grown man crying trying to get on stage of a Jordan Peterson panel talking about how he wants to gets to know him and how he loves him. There is certainly a cult of personality.
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I think I’m gonna give you $20 a month to do a onetime public review of the drizzt series
Animation and aanime short that can keep up with the costs of effects if it cant be shown by using narrative tricks?
And taking cues from actual bit diffrent cultures, , how about venice? Polynesia. There is a great newealandian fantasy zombie series the dead lands, with maori.
Or apocaplyptic fantasy(not in america) The shaman stuf could be really intereszing to deal with, invisible montrs with god writing, shadowrun thats in germany.
I have a setting idea but I feel like people are gonna call it medival europe for having a simular climate. Like I sometimes feel people call eveything medival europe even tho it's very diffrent. Not you btw.
They did do a anime adaption of Ronja, the Robber's Daughter, anzoku no Musume Rōnya (A swedish medieval fantasy) It feel totaly bizarre to see Scandinavian landskape (the forest and waterfall is important plot point) but the robbers eat rice and dress in japanes? clothes and some viking insperied clothes. How do you have rice plantation in a snowy spruce forest.
hi james, this is irrelevant to the video, i'm just curious: what does your arm say?
but yeah i agree with you. once media execs see something working they all seem to just latch onto it like leeches or something
The wheel of time Show was not really good in my opinion so maybe the lord of the rings Show will be better
Someone watched too much Burgerkrieg thumbnails?
I found 'Cursed' hilarious. It's an... interesting show. Not good, not even remotely, but it's impossible to watch it without wondering at the creative process behind it.
I agree, the Witcher show is fine/mediocre on its own merits. Having read the books, I'll say that as an adaptation it is really bad...
I'm sorry, but to me you always look 15 lol
Dude youre spot on about the witcher. I think the first season was too ambitious, too big for its britches. It was a good try for sure but they need to give this second season more time to untangle the strings of their plots and timelines.
That shirt makes it hard to watch this... Have you ever talked to someone in the south? Whose family been here since we help give the US its freedom in the first place? Let me know and we can talk that is just insensitive you know better.
Dude don't be those people that get offended by dumb shit. He can wear whatever he wants.
@@porkerpete7722 He can but he also anti-southern in his other videos. Imagine the backlash if the confederate name was replaced with the United States or LGBTQ.
Your side lost, grow up. You still have perfectly decent state flags to use.
@@XaurianQueen ...We are still different people you know the civil war never solved that... and it's still our identity...
Like the many flags of nations that flew over Florida.
Besides what about the people that died on our side? What about my 5x great grandfather who died tending to his sick family?
@@XaurianQueen Your attitude started just before the civil war and was light on fire by the Nexon and Clinton impeachment. Your Political movement in this country of making us divided is what lead to Trump being elected and the angry mod that invaded the capital building your hate did that not my 5x Great grandfather or me.