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

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.

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.

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.

...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.

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

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

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

Cavill was the only person on this show that gave a damn

@@TheJadedJames I agree. It's amazing that one man was able to inflict so much good choice making against all that resistance. He wasn't able to save it all unfortunately but he gave it his all. Much respect for taking on the fight.

@@TheJadedJames Anya and Freya were also excited and with enthusiasm to play their characters. So i blame writers, producers, and other team members for their big fuk up.

Wait really? How goddamn out-of-touch are the writers? Like I knew they barely respected the source material but this is just... It's just plainly stupid and bad writing.

@@jesustyronechrist2330 they just don't care. They always intended on using a popular franchise to push their own agenda. That was their whole plan from the beginning and that's why the show sucked.

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 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.

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

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

“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

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.

@@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?

EXACTLY~

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

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'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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 😭.

And they keep Cutie.

Oh what the heck i'll laugh anyway.

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.

"netflix has greenlit another witcher spinoff" sounds like an insult... adding insult to injury.

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?

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.

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.

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)

Nightmare of the Wolf: ❌ Nightmare of the Jew: ☑️

Hard-core fans? The writers actively hate the source material. They've said as much, and we're caught mocking it multiple times..

Without them following the book I have no interest in the show.

Never 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

I count Leo as a good guy for getting rid of the rats.

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...

"all you had to do was not f up!"

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.

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.

Henry's come to see us!

My thoughts exactly.

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

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!

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.

thank you Isengrim 🫡🫡🫡