#anti netflix the witcher

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

And Netflix has cancelled another show that was unfortunately not The Witcher

[agirlking]

[wanderingwolfwitcher]

[darklinaforever]

Today we really get called homophobic /queerphobic for nothing these days.

Because I don't 100% appreciate (without completely hating it, I remind you, I still can't wait to see what Franchaela will give us) the gender change from Michael to Michaela in Bridgerton.

Because I hope we don't change Benedict's romance with Sophie with a man instead, by also changing Sophie's gender for example (although fortunately that shouldn't happen at all).

Because I don't like Rhaenicent (even though this queerbaiting ship doesn't even have a place in the dance of the dragons storyline).

Because I don't like Rhaesaria and I'm firmly against it (it comes out of nowhere and won't go anywhere and what's more it goes against both the character of Rhaenyra who would never cheat on Daemon and that of Mysaria who would never be sincere with Rhaenyra).

Because I don't like the identity and gender problems that the writers attributed to Rhaenyra who in HOTD wants to be a man (seriously, wtf ?), not to mention suddenly inventing her a bisexuality that she actually doesn't have in the original Fire and Blood canon.

The fact of making Jaskier in The Witcher also like men for a plot that serves no purpose ? It doesn't seem to me from what I remember that he also likes men in the books, however I remember that Ciri was on the other hand bisexual ?

So once again, why make a character who isn't queer in the books a character who is queer in the adaptation when you just have to adapt the ones who are queer ?!

Regardless, it kills me to be called homophobic / queerphobic because I disagree with some seriously questionable writing decisions.

Or worse, telling me that I'm homophobic /queerphobic for loving fictional problematic queer relationships... That's still a strong shitty argument.

[anti-rop]

GRRM has had some misses with some of his takes, but this is not one of them. All of this can easily be remedied by adopting the "Don't like, don't adapt" philosophy.

source and GRRM's blog post

[german-garbage]

If your way of making Dandelion canonically bisexual is to age up a child (that grows up to be a xenophobic megalomaniac) to make him his love interest I'd rather you kept him straight.

[supercupcakecollector-love]

https://youtu.be/o3uXZcy5EjE?si=P7dLDL469w1z23Oy

Her response to a very disrespectful question about HC at 1:04 is sooo telling, like compare this to how she talks about Liam and Joey and the rest of her cast members

She so wants to tell everyone to get over him already and the reasons why

[ramen-flavored]

Damn, I wish they didn’t leave the season 3 finale on a cliff hanger like that. What a shame there won’t be a fourth season.

[tiredmoonslut]

The way HC's exit has overshadowed what was the most accurately adapted, and in my opinion most compelling and dramatic season of the show is gonna piss me off for the next several years, I feel it.

Okay I was gonna keep these in the tags but actually nevermind, salt post inbound

Henry Cavill is a good actor and a good Geralt, I'll never deny this, but the revisionist history that's going on because of his leaving the series is a bunch of nonsense being puppeted by his dudebro gamer fanbase that wants to keep holding him up as the Witcher god.

The whole "he left because of inaccurate adaptation" argument really falls apart when so much of season 3 was pace-for-pace with Time of Contempt...and Henry didn't leave the show until after production on it had wrapped, as confirmed by both Anya and Freya. It loses even more weight when Henry has gone on record more than once that he hadn't even read the books or known they existed before pursuing the role of Geralt in S1.

Also, it literally cannot be denied that this same group of people who ride-or-die for him go completely silent about Freya, Anya, and Joey---or worse, become misogynistic and racist, when what makes the story of The Witcher great is Geralt's relationships to these people and the way he acts as a catalyst in their journeys.

It's just so annoying. Be upset that he's leaving all you want, but don't make shit up and don't be a fucking dick to everyone else who works on that show as if one of them is the imposter who's responsible for his exit---when the much more likely truth is that Warner Bros. was gonna pay big bucks to have him back as Superman.

[zeunicorn]

The problem with the Witcher

I understand the problem of not sticking to the script (books) and making up your own plotlines. Not sticking to canon, ruins established universes and characters. I haven’t read the book and was interested of hearing what the plot differences are.

But every video I have watched about the ruining of the Witcher, or why the prequel Blood origin is bad, has about 1 minute of “the plot is bad” and then just goes into the most racist and sexist tirade I have ever heard. Everyone and their mothers are using this situation to complain about the racial diversity and how women get to much screen time.

I GENUENLY can’t tell you a single way the plot in the tv show differs from the book, but what I have learned is that a racially diverse pub is unrealistic in a fantasy world (????) and the racial diversity show that the writers have never been to a middleclass pub. Also, many men see fantasy stories as escapism and if they see someone who is not white, it pulls them put of the story, because they are reminded, that the actor only got hired for racial diversity (???). If a woman does something for themselves, it is only seen as the writers trying to push a feminist agenda. Also, the very Indian actress Anya Chalotra, who plays Yennefer, is black (???)

EDIT:

They are becoming self-aware

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

DING DONG THE WITCHER'S DEAD WHICH OLD WITCHER? THE WICKED WITCHER DING DONG THE WICKED WITCHER'S DEAD

[clairedelune-13]

Rereading The Witcher for the bajillionth time and reminded why I want to torch Netflix Studios and eat popcorn while it burns.

Those fuckers butchered my beloved book series. Rot in hell, corporate cunts.

[rogue205]

Way late to the party but I am still PISSED about how badly Eskel was both done dirty and absolutely wasted as a character in Netflix’s Witcher. They also seemed to realize that they forgot(for non-book readers) to show just HOW MUCH Eskel meant to Geralt so they also threw in that little “flashback” which also did nothing.

Will I ever stop being salty as fuck about that?

Nope. Not a chance.

That killed the show for me. That and how crappy Jaskier is also handled. I didn’t bother with season three.

[astaldis]

One thing the guys who criticise Netflix for its racial diversity in The Witcher always seem to forget

Had this discussion with this guy on Reddit again, always the same arguments, of course, the lore allegedly is all Slavic/white European. And then they pretend to care for the identity of other cultures and that they should be preserved and distinguishable and that there's Zerrikania on the continent for black people. Yes, Zerrikania, featuring so prominently in the books, right ...

What they totally seem to overlook, humans came to the continent through the Conjunction of the Spheres about 1,500 years before the events of the novels. They did not evolve on the continent through survival of the fittest. The distribution of skin colour on the continent ought to be mostly random. Yes, people who came from hot places in their original world and have a very dark skin colour as adaptation to the climate in their lost sphere of origin might prefer to settle regions like Zerrikania with a similar climate. But why wouldn't they settle in Toussaint, for example? Fringilla being dark skinned does not have to mean she has ancestors from Zerrikania and does not need to be explained in any way. Same with culture, people from all kinds of different cultures have very likely landed on the continent together and mixed their cultures while they were helping each other to survive in a totally new world. Why should there be distinct cultures related to skin colour and climate after only 1,500 years of populating the continent? A mix makes a lot more sense under these unique circumstances.

There was also a very funny thing one guy asked me when I wrote something like: Oh yes, the Korath desert is very Eastern European.

Did you know there's a desert in Poland? Yes, there actually is. We also have several "deserts" in Germany, but they are all so small, even a toddler would have difficulty getting lost in one of them 😂. Of course Sapkowski was exclusively thinking of this miniature Polish desert when he created the Korath 😂.

[darklinaforever]

Quick note on the costumes in HOTD. They are not good. They absolutely do not correspond to what we are supposed to have based on the era from which GRRM is inspired. Just see with the official character arts validated by GRRM. When I see people spitting on the costumes of The Ring of Power by saying that the costumes of HOTD blow out those of TOO... Sorry but no. And I want to say that at least those in TROP are sometimes pretty to look at. And the excuse that it's inspired by the Middle Ages and therefore that it's serious by the show's defenders makes me laugh too. The costumes do not match at all what the books present. The costumes are just bad and a little too often recycled throughout the episodes. I don't understand those who defend costumes. Worse, the color of the Velaryon house is not respected in HOTD. For what ? Especially since most of these HOTD and GOT fans are sold on how recognizable the different houses are, particularly thanks to their colors. These people are also the same people who will attack The Witcher and The Ring of Power on the infidelity of the costumes. What is this hypocrisy ?! Again, I don't understand how so many people can believe that HOTD is a good show let alone on the costumes. One of my favorite things about watching a historical or inspirational show is the costumes and HOTD is so poor on that... And that saddens me as much as the disastrous writing.

[just-a-witcher]