She’s amazing! Why is she getting shit on by the fans? She could be Hollywood royalty. She should be a superstar.
It says in the article that she didn’t match a lot of the fans preconceived ideas of her character. Basically, she wasn’t white enough?
Refreshingly for a big-budget fantasy show, The Witcher will bow out with its story complete, rather than at some dissatisfying midpoint due to an unceremonious cancellation. And though viewers will be seeing a final season of monsters, magic, mages, swords, skulduggery and swearing next year, the final two seasons were filmed back to back, meaning after the evening’s shindig, that’s that.
Glad to know I can finish the show with a proper ending, whatever that entails.
I am not the kind who wants to stick to the source 100% or complains about divinations in the story. But the character’s core changes they made during season 2 were jarring and honestly heartbreaking. Especially in terms of Yen and Ciri.
If they followed the books we would have had a story where the main characters rarely meet up or interact as they all chase each other around the land. Not great for tv, so I knew changes were necessary but this was Luke skywalker in last Jedi level character changes, and Yen did things in the show that would be unthinkable for her to do in the books
The performances were not the problem with the show.
The writers famously hate the source material, and seem to forget the cardinal lesson with adaptations: The source material is what made millions of dollars, not your shitty untested ideas.
But shitting on an existing IP is the only way to get your own material out there nowadays
Nobody picks up originals anymore, so you take your own shit, wrap in in an IP and sell it
Was the Witcher not an original IP when it got picked up? This seems like a lazy answer.
No, there were books, then there were games. The games changed some stuff (probably, didn’t read the books didn’t play the games didn’t watch the show), the show changed more from the games.
The books were an original idea, but there were a few of them before it got notable enough. Point is the showrunners aren’t pitching original ideas that immediately shoot to popularity, original shows need time to build up to know if it’s good but networks and publishers can pull the plug anytime they decide it’s not fast enough. You don’t strike gold on the first 3 episodes.
