Lol He wanted to look the part and be the best Witcher he could be…

I actually laughed.😂

It's because of all the flying around saving people it keeps you jacked

Boom!

Henry Cavill is the hero nerd culture needed in these dark times.

At least Amazon didn’t race swap well established fan favourite characters!

Don’t forget halo… They got in on that sweet sweet cringe woke shit too!

Disrespect is an understatement. It's total bastardization.

@@JackEverton101 It is *all* of them now. We're generally just too focused on one show at a time, and then the next and so on, but the bigger picture is undeniable, when you look at the output from the entertainment business as a whole. And that's how social engineering experiments usually are carried out on an unsuspecting population, until one day everybody suddenly wakes up and goes, 'Holy fuck, I'm living in Russia in the 1950'es!'

It's the same with Wheel of time.

Cavill is a rare type of guy in Hollywood.

He deserves better for sure

Saw maybe 5 chapters and left unfinished... Necer even tested second season.

Agreed. One of the very few.

Not that it is hard to him - he has plenty of options, basically he's setting rules now.

It’s the propaganda arm of the Marxist long march thorough the institutions

Completely agree those hack writers were a bunch of narcissistic jerks who thought they were better than the original source material, I can only hope the controversies of this show haunt their careers.

What I cannot understand is why these studios keep hiring showrunners and writers that know nothing about the source material? Is it that hard to look for writers who do? Or did the studio think that if you adapt the material faithfully only a few people will like it?

@@fc7307 Because the goal is to ruin things. Weirdos who hate the fanbase, the culture in general or find something to be "problematic" will infiltrate everything and install gatekeepers. Companies are largely doing it to themselves, by allowing the mafia-style shakedown of "Diversity Inclusion and Equity" boards to control a lot of the hiring. It's probably pretty easy to pitch the suits on bad ideas, if you have charts representing twitter moods as real-life.

If you want Better show, watch Spartacus Blood and Sand! It was made with love and passion. Even the cheesiest moments have heart in it

Many of the BTS team were equally passionate about it. A guy on YT called Tod Cutler made weapons for it and has a couple of videos where he and the armour talk about the swords etc. Every one told a story about the character who used it.

Reminds me of John Cho with what Netflix did to Cowboy Bebop. Except that show got cancelled before he could quit.

@@toms7114 Honestly, John cho and the guy who played Jet were excellent and we're as good as they could have possibly been for the roles they were given. It was Faye Valentine's actress, the writers and the various creative decisions that sunk that show. It's always a shame to see people who give something they're all but they're completely screwed over by things out of their control.

Henry Cavill was born in the wrong decade. Had he been maybe 10 or 20 years older he’d have been a super star on the level of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Snipes, Cage, Russell and Reeves. Everything about Cavill is the antithesis of what modern Hollywood has been looking for in a male actor over at least the last 8 years. I’m positive he’s been shunned by the Hollywood machine cause of the !mmutable characteristics he was born with and definitely because he doesn’t tow the line.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu ​ John Cho is underrated and definitely looked over as an actor in Hollywood imo. He was great in “Better Luck Tomorrow” and of course has great comedic roles as well. He’s due for something to take him to the next level. Too bad Cowboy Bebop wasn’t it.

The problem is some authors just want to see a one to one translation of their book to film but the thing is all the stuff readers fill in the gaps with ourselves have to be filled in on script. For example in a book we can be given an inner monologue, or be told a certain amount of time has passed by the narrator and not any specific character but to have two scenes like that back to back there has to be something visually representing that on screen to convey to the audience what's going on.

Love it, we've had 3 good narratives from that series and a number of Novels, I'd rather them lean into its madness and produce an off kilter, but faithful, and narratively compelling indie film, than a big budget blockbuster that appeals to "the wider audience".

I hope Brandon Sanderson remembers to put such a clause in all of his contracts, now that Hollywood has come knocking at his door. 🤔

@@cosmicprison9819: Please let this happen. His Mistborn Novels are amazing and deserve faithful onscreen adaptations.

Someone should hav egiven him Jim Butcher's phone number, asked him when the 2nd season of the Dresden Files was coming out.

I bet that regardless of what he thinks of the writing in the show, he'd be unable to play Superman and the Witcher at the same time and ultimately that was the main reason why he left. But you guys wanna ride his dick so hard yet you can't admit you just find him hot.

Absolutely

From the trailer i knew this was gonna be garbage, and then returned to rewatching Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Speaking of which, go watch Spartacus: Blood and Sand, its much better than most of hollywood

If you want good show from 2010s which is FAR BETTER than Witcher TV show(Both Der Hexer and This one), its Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Man fuck Netflix and fuck the Twitterati.

Well put. His scenes we're the only highlight. The rest were cringe

yeah i can imagine them seething behind their grey masks when cavill was putting them straight about what Geralt would and wouldn`t do.

Just look at who the showrunner is. Another example of this tribe appropriating and subverting European cultures. It's deliberate.

@@Balandrus they really don't like us as a general group. They only seem to tolerate us as long as we can be taken advantage of without complaint. As soon as the complaints start, the '-ist' and '-phobe' labels get thrown out. And if there are pointed complaints at the tribe, well just look at Kanye and Kyrie Irving, as well as Mel Gibson before them.

They did the same thing with LotR and WoT

The show should be cancelled at this point.

The show was fucked from season 1 episode 1. What a boring, uninspired mess.

Season 2? I couldn't get past 4 episodes in season 1.

@@remusventanus5341 I looked at the casting call and laughed. Then i looked showrunner and writers twitter and decided not to watch anything these know nothings are involved.

Same

Don’t wanna be that guy, but they should absolutely just cancel now and save us all the disappointment…

Pretty much.

I like Liam Hemsworth, but yeah he isn't saving this.

Ya there is no way he can suddenly come in and save it, why can I see the coming failure and the people that get paid are blind

You have to get rid of the tedious distractions before you can present to the world how amazingly forward thinking you are.

coughStarWarscough

Even yennefer is a side character who only gets her pov shared in couple of chapter until like the fifth book

Add that 343 made it almost neccessary to read the atrocious post-Reach novels to understand the trainwreck plot of their games, as well as the huge amounts of fuckups and glitches that have plagued their games.

The only qualification you need in Hollywood is be woke

It's basically an inevitable situation. Writers that are published enough to even be considered for a high value property such as this, will be talented enough to believe more in their own ideas rather than the source material. There just isn't going to be overlap between hardcore fans of the material AND a famous writer(s). This is true of most things nowadays, not just he Witcher series. The only theoretical solution is to to have the original writer calling the shots, but there's good reasons that rarely happens. Either they can't write for the screen, or they are busy with other projects.

@@deanfirnatine7814 Having no foreskin helps.

100%, but also I think it was simply made at the perfect time in terms of pre woke, technology, director, cast, set, ect.

Jackson says something very interesting in the bonus material, (I think it is from the FotR bonus). He says the Lord of the Rings is the "biggest amateur film ever made". I think he nails the reason why these movies are so successful and relevant today. They weren't the product of multi billion dollar worth overlods who came up with an agenda or a political statement. They were just movies made by a passionate bunch of Tolkien fans who tried to do justice to the books while bringing it to a wider younger audience and doing something fun about it. Basically, these movies were made by people just like us, fans, only more talented than us in their specific field. Which gave life to a very organic production. Like the artist single handedly doing Barad Dur destruction animation during his Christmas holidays. Like these horse riders answering the call and traveling all the way to their own expense with their horse just because they had the opportunity to portray rohirrim for a couple shots in the movie. Like these guys who attached chainmail and lost their fingerprints by the end. Like these countless artists who had the book by their side to channel the best out of their love for Tolkien and his words. That's all, no agenda, no behind the scenes messages, nothing else than fans, love for the source material, and the will to work hard to make the best out of it.

No, it wasn't because it was made in NZ. It was because it was made in 2001, well before all this stupidity started to gain traction.

Write to appease the 🌈 mythical modern audience 🌈, of course.

It is a show of tremendous arrogance and sheer f*cking hubris on the part of the "writers", they think they know better than the author so they treat the story like a vague guideline, axing all the stuff that doesn't suit their sensibilities and replacing it with ideological puritanism. These are the people that George Orwell warned us about.

Could've been the next Game of Thrones (at least the first few seasons), what a waste

Practice, practice, practice.

Ego and narcissism

Because a story which tackles issues like racism and has many strong female characters apparently wasn’t woke enough for them

Because they hate.

Yeah he has impossible shoes to fill, but I won't be watching season 3.

Writing a good story is hard work, and a strong work ethic is difficult to maintain when someone's primary interest is posting Tweets and waiting for validation. The people Hollywood is hiring as writers have stunted imaginations, bloated egos, and a lack of interest in storycraft beyond the praise it might garner them on the Internet. They're really not cut out for the job, but they get hired because they'll work for cheap and push fashionable politics.

Dumping social justice down your throat is more important than presenting a good story.

For realz. I’ve never played the game or read the books but I don’t remember Major thing Henry’s character did in season 2

In the books sometimes the focus was on Ciri and sometimes the focus was on Geralt. But the writing is iffy.

In the games, it moves to Ciri at times. But, it’s not even that, it’s the complete butchering of the source material and characters. There are examples of other shows that moves around several main characters that are successful.

Legit, the whole time I was like “where is Geralt?!” Had barely any lines or story line for that matter. Didn’t even fight many monsters 😭 It was all the wamyn characters (who were also destroyed and turned into the usual unlikeable, obnoxious and 2-dimensional ‘boss bish’ stereotype we see in every hollywood flop today). No wonder this show failed!

@@penelope3926 I agree they ruined the wamyn characters, as well. This weird boss bish trope is old already & the irony is that it's really for the male gaze anyway, bc actual women don't have power fantasies in the same way that men do. There are plenty of powerful women in history but in different ways

The Witcher is a personal hero of yours? Good lord, we're doomed.

@@joeterzio7175 don’t worry - Biden just said he is in good shape🫡 Although, if Daniel is like the witcher, I will pay him in coin🪙🐺

@@joeterzio7175 Not a personal hero but very much an interesting and complex figure. He can certainly be a catalyst for examining aspects of people in tough situations. Plus, he fights cool shit.

@@joeterzio7175 Then we've been doomed since the stone age. People have been looking up to heroes since forever.

Tales of the Jedi....its good.

@@oldsoul1758 That looks like meh Disney Wars content

@@oldsoul1758 why keep supporting the company that keeps destroying classics and franchises and insults you?

@@oldsoul1758 "damn. Disney keeps making mistakes and ruining things!" *continues to support them*

Book of Boba Fett was Favreau and Filoni too, love rubbing that one in

It doesn’t hurt that James Gunn is overseeing DC. The very opposite of a red flag

No Cavil was a fan before the show. He read the books and played the game before and I belive he read the boks again after he got the role 👍

@@angelofverdun456 Which is completely irrelevant to the current subject. Work on your reading comprehension, its terrible. Nobody said a single thing about DC and James Gunn, this is a Witcher comment. Smh

@@spacequack5470 he’s playing Superman again… that’s the point, duuuuuurrr

Yes starring Frosk.

Those powers will be perfect, when used by a woman.

And Dylan Mulvaney as Ciri. (If you don't know who that is, count your blessings and don't search it)

Lmao, the fact that the female version of a “Witcher” is just a witch, lmao.

@@Theendman42 The Woman Witcher.

Season three may kick off with some large but constantly dwindling percentage of season one viewing figures, mainly because Cavill is still in it, but those figures may be close enough to zero by the end of the season to lead to a cancellation of season four. How long can Hollywood keep wasting money on this commie Woke nonsense and how many franchises can they destroy before the tide turns? Let's hope that it's not much longer now and that Superman's return will be as non-Woke as House of the Dragon to help kill off the Woke commie virus.

i read that he left the show because the ruined it before it even started? but yes he put his name on it I guess, same as Lucas sold the soul of Star Wars

Zapkowski is a hack, he created a neat world, which some claim is copied from another, but either way his book story is crap. His books wouldn’t even be translated in English without the success of the games( I played and loved all 3)... let alone a tv show.

@@ravenheartwraith I'm enjoying the books

Fun fact: The initial offer from CDPR would have made him filthy rich, but he rejected it anyway. He was so insistent on his delusion that 'no adaption will ever reach the ingenuity and authenticity of a book, therefore this will fail hard' that he demanded a laughably small one time payment instead of earning a small share for every copy sold like they offered him. He didn't even care what exactly they were going to do with his source materials, he was just in it for the quick money grab - leaving CDPR with an almost free blank slate to work on without any restrictions. It's kind of understandable that he wanted more after the game series exploded, but oh boy did he work hard to NOT get paid adequately in the first place... Looks like history repeats itself once again, except that he seems to have learned his capitalism lesson this time.

Sapkowski said he was very happy "with Lauren's work", so...

They hire the cheapest, not the best, unfortunately.

@@Komix777 hell I’d write for the cheap But it’s not about quality anymore, it’s about “the message”

@@thomasace2547 Left politics are also pushing it, its US/Europe agenda and all over the place which includes stuff like pushing puberty blockers for teenagers after making them unsure about their gender. There is something really sinister going on. Its not just some idiotic showmakers.

@@Komix777 Just stop calling this incompetence. It's intentional.

Brought to you by.... the HR department.

Everything feminist turns to shit

yeah and they confirmed it by hiring Liam Hemsworth. A teenage Witcher...

It would be unlikely to get a season long arc in the nineties. Also it was really hard to get any sort of passable special effects for a show at the time. You would probably end up getting something totally episodic and really cheesy, like Xena: The Warrior Princess. I'd say it would work better if it was done in the noughties, perhaps around the time the first game came out in 2007.

If they followed the books, the problems you list would go away

Don't forget that they killed Eskel right after they made him into a douchebag that makes Lambert look like a nice person.

It's the Witcher, not True Detective. The books are full of violence and sex. What you want is something even worse than what they produced.

My suggestion would be: watch Spartacus blood and sand from Starz. It is what the Witcher show wished it was.

I hear you there. The problem I'm suffering from is: "Oh hey, I have various cool scenes in my head...but...all the stuff that goes *around* them?" Wat to do ;(

I hope your daddy can afford to get you in, because thats the only way to get a gig in hollywood.

Good luck! I understand, that in some way these horrible story writers and showrunners can motivate one self.

I feel the exact same way Like seeing all this bullshit and then thinking Nah fuck it I can write a better story than that

@@Ilyak1986 Be me listening to music and suddenly "yo wait there's a cool scene i can write around this" It's a curse isnt it?

Still support a show that hates the source material? Why? You're giving them what they want.

@@Dravianpn02 Well I'll wait for reviewers that I trust to review it before watching it such as the Drinker. If it's woke trash I absolutely won't watch it.

@@joedirt6222 I meant just on principle overall, not one of the products they make.

@@joedirt6222 What are you talking about IF it's woke trash? It's people like you who give them a thousand chances that keep these shows going. Season 1 was barely passable and season 2 was offensively bad. Just walk away.

The Triss thing really gets to me🤦🏾‍♂️

Yennifer isn't too bad but Triss is just awful

Triss pissed me off that as soon as I saw her, I only managed 1-2 more episodes. Then I gave up

@@vincentfalcone9218 yennifer is a fine actress tbh I’m not a fan of how they portrayed her and I don’t think the actress is attractive.

Aren’t those characters supposed to be the most beautiful/attractive women in the world?

They are the same people who chose to keep Cuties on their platform, still there. Despite its contents, the backlash and the loss of subs. Why are we suprised they did what they did?

Becuase they are stupid AF. They are no fan of any of this, the leadership is only fan of money so what would they know? But they will when season 4 shit hits the fan.

Because they are following the woke script and doing exactly what Netflix want.

I'm grateful Starz didn't made Spartacus blood and sand in today's world, and they called Raimi as Producer.

Capaldi allowed himself to spout the shit dialogue. Turning the first doctor racist/sexist should have been a no go to Capaldi etc. He didn't seem to mind the writing. Sad.

Exactly. He was forced into this shit, and now he is so angry and betrayed that when they asked him to go back on, he told them to go fuck themselves. So they went to Tennant who basically made sure he had a way in what the direction would go. Doubt they'll listen, but hey at least he's trying.

Sadly Netflix can’t do shit and is woke af

And the last line on the movie being "... And you can't take the sky from me" with no context.

I'm a leaf on the wind

Better solution - we will wait again 2 decades for TV adaptation and after next huge failure people will start watching first TV version with subtitles

He seems like just a nice guy tbh, and having "catastrophic melt downs" or "flipping a shit" on twitter isn't nice guy style it's undignified and unprofessional. I think by leaving the show graciously he's still taking a jab at these showrunners but giving the ppl who would critisie him no ammo to use against him which is smart.

@@Fe7Ace or maybe he’s an actor and fakes the meltdown to get them fired and get the project moving forward again?

@@Xplora213 he's still a nice, polite, well-mannered and well-spoken guy (from what he shows publicly at least, but if he's faking a persona then he is putting a lot more effort than most actors nowadays) so I don't think he'd consider faking a meltdown. I do believe what he did end up doing instead was much better, as it gets a lot more people talking while he also gets to keep his dignity. Unfortunately for the fans we'll have to wait for a better adaptation to come, but Henry has done all he could with this one and probably wishes to see a proper adaptation just as much as any of us.

Well put

i thought that was the gist of the whole thing (that he is some awesome monster killer) and i didn't like how it just became a soapy.... so stopped watching it after 1st season as i was hoping it would get better... i guess he is helped leaving the show as he has somewhere else to go and being offered plenty of money....

I remember watching the first ep of season 2, it's him and Ciri playing monster detective and figuring out who the monster really was, and I was hoping the rest of the season would be that. Instead we got... I've honestly forgotten.

The only difference is The Witcher had Henry Cavill, Halo had no one.

I watched the first episode of Halo and dropped. And it's a fucking shame, because the Space Marine were on point, and special effects were great. But they pushed so much messaging in only one episode! I can't believe what they've done in a whole season

@@KurtAngle89 oh so you didn’t see the part where they had master chief have sex with a prisoner of war who just so happen to be a covenant sympathizer who had an energy sword fingernail… All the while Cortana watched from the sidelines!? This is true… This is a real thing that they made happen in the show!

Who is your Daddy and how many Steins and Burgs are you friends with?

Feels like bullying the geeks was always the point. I remember being bullied in elementary/middle school so much ;(. Apparently the bullies never left.

As a pole you should be pissed that a stolen story is pushed as great polish literature

@@jamesrustles8670 What's the stolen story? Please dont say Elric....

@@jamesrustles8670 Most of the stories and books are inspired by something, it is what it is.

@@jamesrustles8670 Lord of the Rings by Tolkien is an amalgamation of stolen works. What's your point?

The polish adaptation from way back when was better

Haha, he had better coal his face or come out as gay then.

Dont try to put your insecurity and racism here. We have actual real problems and no time to indulge manchildren.

Yennifer is a great character. She pays her dues for her power. And they actually had an honest to god, beat the crap out of the young princess training montage, which would pay for her skills. I felt like they were sort of on track the first season then they just lost it season two. Sorry of like you saw. But the show was always lacking something. I think it might be the alien polish monster mythology. That was all world building without an immediate emotional reaction like vampires, werewolves and so on. The Bruja was pretty good despite never having heard of one before. I also wonder if it was sort of a harem show without being a harem. And it did seem like a lot of the bad guys were old white men.

@@macmcleod1188 I think you would both like the books (or at least the games) and understand the dislike of the series better, if you read/played them, and why many people believe that Henry left because he felt disappointed with how they handled the story. Trust me everything you said you liked about it, was ten thousand times better in the books and games, Yen was more mature than she was shown in the series (but it is true that she had to pay a high price for her powers, and she ends up finding the child she wants in Ciri), the training with Ciri is much more well-written in Blood of Elves, as she does have to work hard to be able to do what the mutated witchers can do despite her not undergoing any mutations, and the witchers are realistic with her and tell her she's always going to be slower than Coën for example and she isn't doing anything wrong, that's just how things are and she has to learn to work with what she has. But they're also very understanding and friendly towards her which from what I have heard from people who both read the books and watched the show, it wasn't very well shown in the series. The bruxa story is also from the books (possibly with some changes), and if you like vampires then I can strongly recommend the Witcher books and games (the Blood and Wine expansion for the third game especially). Furthermore there are other monsters that are unique or less-well known which are present in the books and I'd say here especially the games, like for example the Leshen or the Hym (but if you are interested in playing the games or consider doing so after reading my comments, please spare yourself the spoilers and _do not look up either of these monsters_, they both appear in Witcher 3 Wild Hunt but they're best discovered by playing, not reading about them on the web.) So yeah I would say that it sounds to me as if you would quite possibly like the books if you were to read them/listen to them (many people liked Peter Kenny's English audiobook) and the games if you were to play them, as they have everything you said you liked about the show but handled each element with more care.

He aight. But he's also on the sidelines of his own show. F*CK Netprix

Exactly. It has about 5% to do with woke agendas and 95% arrogance of the writers who want to be the "star" of the series.

Disney doesnt own netflix.

@@salmasultana6258 >.> Then Netflix is just stupid, and is also speedrunning self-destruction.

They know less or they just care less, they just use famous good stories as vessels for their bad ideas / messages

I'm pretty sure Cavill will find a way to diplomatically spin it as to how there was a scheduling snarl, and maybe a few minor creative differences, and that he was happy to let ghetto Thor have a bite at the apple.

@@Ilyak1986 what about Lauren Schummee the showrunner?

Henry's testicles are too big. Ryan kisses elitest ass to keep getting his "roles" which always involve being a Dane Cook-esque knock off. I don't dislike the guy, but he's been close enough to the proggers that I don't entirely trust him.

@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Good point and sadly this is true. Ryan will bow his knee to Hollywood, but I don't see Cavill doing the same to stuff up The Witcher, anything else maybe, but not this. Would be a nice dream though.

That's kinda what the showrunner is doing on the X-Men cartoon reboot.

From my vague recollection Yennefer's history is there in broad strokes and in a vision that Geralt cannot be sure if its real or not. Granted I have not read the books 5 times so I am willing to believe I am wrong. I just remember a kind of magic mind meld type moment that they share.

This. So much.