Netflix's The Witcher TV series

The creators of Netflix's "The Witcher" TV series based on a saga written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski seem to be just sinking and digging themselves deeper and deeper... lol

It looks like that according to our very own Tomek Bagiński Americans are too dumb and unsophisticated for the real "The Witcher" and that's why they did all the changes and deviated from the books so much:

forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2023/08/03/the-witcher-producer-blames-stupid-americans-and-emotional-young-people-for-the-shows-failures/amp/


This. ☝️

I'd like to apologise all Americans for this Bagiński idiot. We are suffering inside too when we're reading what he's saying, trust me lol 😭

How is he wrong? The show has been bastardised and is nothing like the books which delved deeply into Slavic mythology. The show is another Game of Thrones rip-off.

You must be one of those low iq poles if you enjoy this show. Thankfully there are the three computer games that are faithful tol the source material.

Anyway we already had the discussion that netflix is the mcdonalds of television.

Who?


I know that...


Aaand... how did you draw this conclusion exactly?? o_O

O.k mea culpa my bad, i didn't realise you were being sarcastic. ;) I hope the polish producer doesn't get fired now.

o_O

I see you don't understand... Tomek Bagiński, the Polish producer, is one of the people responsible for those changes, for that "bastardisation" of "The Witcher". He claims that deviating from the books was necessary. He is being heavily criticised by Poles, especially by Polish fans of "The Witcher" saga.

Didn't you read the article?

into the swamp.


Yes, but being much older than you, I can tell you it has always happened to films and series which are book adaptations. :):) They do it to show they don`t depend solely on the original but are also able to create sth new on their own. These new ideas are usually shyt, but they don`t realise it.

Starting with the basic thing, the choice of actors by Netlfix evokes mixed feelings - Geralt is OK, Ciri, too. But Yennefer of a complete disaster.

Well, you know, there are changes and there CHANGES... :) I'm a Tolkien fan and even though they made some changes in the movie trilogy they were minor enough and they didn't mess up the plot and the characters. I loved the movie. Netflix's "The Witcher" is a different matter entirely... Also, LOTR movie was great, some even say it's a fantasy masterpiece... You can't say that about "The Witcher", unfortunately...

To the stocks with him! Who will throw the first rotten tomato at that bastard???

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Yup, I agree.


lol
Thanks to your comment I just had an epiphany why that review site Rotten Tomatoes is called like that ;D

When they sentenced an offender to a punishment of the stocks, the crowd had fun abusing the perpetrator in different ways - one of them was throwing rubbish, waste and dung at him.

How did Netflix get this project funded without at least one gay guy, a lesbian, and a 100-pound blond successfully fighting off - all at the same time - six 250-pound guys...Amazing...

In 2019!

I didn't watch the whole 3rd season yet, but it looks like they're going to turn Jaskier into a bisexual...

Luckily, the viewers will be spared a spiritually uplifting story about a transgender "woman"...

My cynicism never fails to deliver ...

Let's start with this feminist "women are as strong as men" crap as exemplified by the attached picture.
No, they are not. Not even close. To prevail, they just nag men to death.

And, then the reviews...I will post only the titles:

Great story, great cast, destroyed by a crazy woman

Season 3 is garbage

Boring and Confusing

I feel like the writers were drunk writing Season 3

Waste of time

How to ruin a masterpiece? Give it to Netflix!

Writers of this show should stay on strike...

This show has made me bigoted

The last comment had this in it: ...and it's a diverse bisexual nightmare.

Memo to all: Never watch American anything. It's always woke garbage.

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You didn't read "The Witcher" saga, did you lol


Well, in "The Witcher" books they kill them with spells and swords, etc. :D

Relax, Novichok, it's just a fantasy story ;D

Of course, not, so I am not commenting about the books.
I don't read fiction of any kind.


I didn't know THAT!!!

But in the books Ciri is fighting with a sword. So what were they supposed to make her fight with in the TV series? With a broom? lol

AR-15. Just as likely...It's a fantasy, isn't it?
How about poison? Women are good at it.

@Novichok, you can't use poison if someone is coming at you with a sword lol


"The Witcher" is a type of fantasy story with the world based on stuff from Middle Ages, Renaissance, etc. AR-15 wouldn't fit in such a world. Swords do.

Simple. A chick smiles and offers sex. The guy drops the sword and his pants. Then, when his mouth is wide open from heavy breathing, a pinch of arsenic...Case closed.

There...My script is better ...

You're both disgusting and an idiot. Ciri wasn't an ordinary girl. Everyone and their mother was after her. She had to know how to defend herself.

It's like you, let us say, sending you granddaughter to krav maga classes.

Anyway, Ciri was one of very few females that I recall fighting with a sword in "The Witcher" books, I think. Another was, for example, Renfri, but she wasn't an ordinary woman either:

youtu.be/KfaUIIUm0J0


No, it isn't.

My version would be more popular.

@Novichok, more popular among people like Strzelec35 maybe. Ciri in the books was 16 years old, you sick f*ck.

16-year-old girls can barely help moms in the kitchen or carry a school backpack without complaining.
That sword would be too heavy to swing for the average 25-year-old guy. Unless it's made out of styrofoam.
Styrofoam or not, that fight should last 3 seconds.

Ciri's sword was a gwyhyr made by gnomes. It's blade was very light :):

wiedzmin.fandom.com/wiki/Gwyhyr

Well, Ciri was trained by witchers in Kaer Morhen, you know. That could give her some advantage in comparison to an average teenage girl, I suppose :)

Stories like this one are anti-women.

Women are smart enough to know that they are simply not capable to fight men with swords. "Women can do everything men can" only leads to frustration and feeling of inadequacy.

Their strength is being able to manipulate men because men are stupid, trusting, and heroic. A terrible combination...See volunteers in Ukraine...

@Novichok, how are stories like this anti-women? lol This is a fantasy story where there are all kinds of creatures that don't exist in the real world and where people do magic. Are those stories anti-men, because men can't do magic in the real world? Men are smart enough to know that they are simply not capable of making magic lol


Noone fights with swords these days anymore lol These days we have guns. Guns are quite an equaliser - even kids can use them. And women can use guns as well as men. So get over yourself and stop worrying so much about fantasy stories that are supposed to be entertaining. If you were to write novels they would be terribly boring and... very short, I imagine lol

It's worse. Women use kitchen knives on their sleeping husbands. Easy kill...This at least makes sense...


Any story that is designed to make you feel more potent than realistically possible is bad. On the men's side, it's these idiotic movies showing the hero jumping from roof to roof or going against the traffic at 100 kph, in Paris, at noon, and nobody dies...

But women fighting with swords against men isn't something that never happened in the history of mankind :):

rp.pl/archeologia/art10205051-kobiety-tez-walczyly-w-szeregach-wikingow

And already ancient Greeks were creating stories and myths about warrior women - the Amazons:

national-geographic.pl/artykul/amazonki-legendarne-wojowniczki-mitologii-greckiej-czy-istnialy-naprawde

Those stories were based in reality (a quote from the article):

"Around 450 BC Herodotus and other writers described Scythian women fighting on horses next to men"