The Witcher: Blood Origin - An Empty, Disappointing Failure
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- The Witcher: Blood Origin - An Empty, Embarrassing Failure
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0:00 Questionable Life Choices
0:18 What exactly is Blood Origin?
1:30 A Messy Restructure
2:14 Setup
2:55 The Princess and the Dog (Clan Guy)
4:00 This character was tough to watch
5:19 an incredibly forgettable villain
6:18 Eredin and Avallac'h, apparently
6:53 Éile and Dog Clan Guy
8:45 many, many, many forgettable characters
10:33 the worst episode
11:24 who thought this was a good idea?
12:00 the first "Witcher"
13:58 Michelle Yeoh's magic sword
14:12 the finale
16:55 wrap-up scenes
17:04 conclusion
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This is The Witcher universe that Cavil was actively fighting against. We always believed him, but now we REALLY understand.
This is happening to all European based mythological/fantasy based stories and games. It is clear this anti-white development is perpetrated by the same left-woke mentally ill mob that is pushing for the same ideals in government, institutions, education and social media. When is the vast majority going to push-back to these insane narcissist lunatics? Until they come for the children?
Right.
Cavil tried to do the best.
Cavil is the chad that woke Hollywood wants to punish to try and attack anybody that is similar to him in appearance and paradigm.
@@jeffw3905 but its not tho?
Until Cavill himself says so I still refuse to believe this is the reason he left the show. I personally think the numerous injuries and taxing training + dehydration regimens not to mention the 1,5 year / season commitment was more of a factor.
This is the witcher the writers wanted to make without Henry getting in their way.
So true. And the media is still spreading fake stories about Cavill being a woman hater, even though the story they quote has long been debunked.
So true and everyone can see how terrible it is. And season 3 will be more of the same. Netflix is out of their minds for not just cancelling this disaster.
I found it so confusing when witcher was first announced for netflix and we heard the story of how cavil had to basically convince the showrunner to cast him. I mean he was a big movie star and huge fan of the IP willing to take less pay to try and lift the series up. Then it became obvious with the casting and the plot of the first season. The showrunner was basically trying to make some CW teen drama level garbage that had virtually nothing to do with the source material.
@@doc-holliday- sadly the writer will fail up and pervert more IPs in the future.
A shame.
@@doc-holliday- netflix should sue her for intentional diversion of the series and additional reimbursement for the Cavil...i am literally mad...
@@By4o Netflix is as much to blame though honestly. They are the ones who gave her the green light. They could have given a thousand other people the funding to make a Witcher series. She didn't get the license for the IP, they did. So they chose her to be the showrunner essentially.
The real problem is these companies keep letting talentless hacks ruin popular IPs.
This whole show felt like an ad for the designer Iris von Herpen. She does really futuristic dresses and everything the princess wears is hers
Lol yes I was heavily invested in every piece she wore. Loved each one. But I hated her hair.
I laughed my ass off at the castings for Eredin and Avallac'h
I had to google the cast for them and jfc, what a kick in the teeth. I think the writers forgot that Aen Elle elves are supposed to be tall and beautiful 😥😥
Eredin is whatever, better than the Driads of Brooklyn. Avallac'h tho...
Just googled them,wtf even is that 😂😂
I actually didn't really have a problem with them as the young people that will grow into the important characters we know, but they should be recast for the actual WItcher show, especially Avallac'h is way too young.
@@emmapiorkowski8511 It's made Hollywood (or by Hollywood grade writers). They always grade down beautiful characters because they feel the need to somehow compensate for their own shortcomings. They are literally the Melkors of entertainment.
Remember folks, don’t watch the show if you want this to stop. Netflix is carefully watching the engagement metrics, not the reviews.
I've seen everything I need to see from this review, but I wouldn't have watched it anyway.
don't need to. never did liked netflix in the first place
you guys are so embarrassing... you are literally all complaining about a show you didn't watch. If you want things to change pirate it and watch to make sure you aren't unduly criticizing Blood Origin. I watched it and it was fine. Better than season 2 of witcher was. Most of the criticism is on the representation the show is putting in. Claiming it isn't accurate to the lore. This series is all about the Elves and leading up to the conjunction of spheres(none of the books deal with this).
It doesn't fail that any show that has more than 1 black character or includes any gay people there is a tsunami of "this is the worst show ever" goin around.
@@kyletotten1685 Watching bad shows is giving Netflix views and metrics.
The show is just fan fiction that has little to do with the Sapkowski's books. Shitty fan fiction.
I don't have a problem with diversity, but they never explain how a medieval fantasy setting is as diverse as 21st century NYC. And the original books are actually pretty woke for their times. And so are the games, but you never hear anyone complain about them because the writing is so good.
@@kyletotten1685 lol, go watch your Russell Howard playlist, you weenie.
Netflix should sell their rights to the franchise to someone who appreciates the source material and would do it justice. It’s just a cash grab for them at this point.
So…. Henry Cavill?
its just a cash grab if people would keep subscribed for those things which obviously nobody does so its dead capital from a business point of view
I mean no matter what service did it it would depart from the source material in some way or the other but I do believe HBO would handle it better because they specialize in long form tv and obviously have lots of experience with the fantasy genre. I mean they have quality writers over there that probably would love to work with the Witcher IP but I think Netflix will wait until it’s no longer profitable to make the Witcher and then somebody would have to approach them with a significant offer for them to sell
Imo HBO should’ve made the Witcher show. Ik all these streaming and cinema companies are basically the same nowadays being obsessed with pleasing twitter users, but HBO shows and movies still have some quality
@@cyberalpha6269 henry doesnt want this anymore.
I love the scene where the character who was very much in high security prison just shows up in a forest and is like "o ya I escaped"
I was really wondering how he escaped and thought I missed something.
@@itscloudyinside I had the same feeling when they kill that monster off screen between episodes. By that point I was watching while playing a video game, I had to pause the game and restart the episode to see that no, they just completely skipped the fight. If these are the same writers for the main show, I can see why Henry Cavill left.
@@maxkanefield3775 yeah that dimensional chop was so convenient. didn’t expect the show to be this bad either. Hopefully Liam’s witcher wont be painful to watch
😂😂same brother, I literally had to repeat a whole episode to see how these guy escaped because the last time I saw him, he was locked tightly by Balor's men.
Like this bs they did in ROP in the same way!!! Really I can't believe shows today are that bad. Xena s worse episode is a fkin masterpiece compared to this shit.
Thank you Netflix. Now when I revisit those old Polish TV/movie adaptations of the Witcher I actually think they're good.
The first witcher series made in Poland is so much better haha
@@pawelmoskwa6842 because its still the witcher
Wiedzin did I spell it right
@@colinvoorneveld "Wiedźmin", so close enough.
We (in Poland) used to diss this old tv series so much, back in the old days. But sadly, it is still leagues ahead of this Blood Origin... How on earth did this even happen.
Whooooaaaa there's an OG TV series from Poland? Anyone know where I can watch it?
Another issue with Netflix is every relationship between anyone needs to be romantic… the minute you do that and it not being a long journey getting there just ruins the whole thing. It’s as if Netflix doesn’t think friendship is anything but leading to something more…
I imagine Netflix writing rooms are just giant orgies everyday. Would explain the poor quality...
They dont know how to write and base all characters and stories on what people say they wanna see online. I have read so many comments online that start like "wouldn't it be awesome if" "I would just love it if" They just need to" Thats exactly what they did on Game of thrones and sadly they arent the only ones doing it. All the talented writers got scrapped for unqualified diversity hires. Even video game companies are doing nothing but fan service and just turn up the woke knob. Its all horrible crap.
@@makojuicedaniel9307 Your racism is so thinly veiled it's laughable. The writing staff was overwhelmingly white. Keep coping with your imaginary "diversity hires."
They have spiritual bondage to shipping culture 🙄
I agree, platonic relationships are so much more interesting to watch.
The fact that they don't even know who ciri's ancestor is, speaks about the writers
Calling them writers is honestly an insult to actual writers.
They haven't done a lick of writing, they just did some stuff they thought was close enough to the story, and put it on a screen.
No amount of actual writing was involved in the making of this show, because writing requires research.
@@Volvith they let an AI write it
Dear god i hope not.
@@Volvith Dude.. they don't even need to write anything.
The source material is already there.
They just needed to adapt it into a new medium. Just how stupid is that?
@@ChrisCarty97 no way. AI works is better.
I just watched a 20 minute review of a show I'll never watch. No regrets.
Same, Neon Knight comes in clutch so we don’t need to suffer direct exposure to the hot trash.
the good guy group getting together sounds exactly like the first few hours of a DnD campaign session 1.
FR, when I got to the end of episode 2 I thought it seemed like someone had tried to squeeze their dnd one shot into the witcher universe and it went as badly as that could go
Yeah except no where near as entertaining.
Gm: okay since this is your first DnD game everyone must be: Neutral good.
I'm cringing at the mere description of the show. I can't imagine the amount of pain you must have gone through for our sake. You are a hero, sir.
Some shows just smell bad and look bad and they turn out to actually be bad. Resident evil was like that too. It just looked bad and when I tried it I turned it off rather quickly. I have a life to enjoy, children running around. Shows really have to grip me. And these days, most don't
But....but....diversity man, we don't have enough diversity.
I actually enjoyed the first two episodes then it took a nose dive. Dividing my days between witcher 3 and reading the books at the moment.
at least it`s not SHE-HULK
@@zZiL341yRj736 Would that even still count as diversity if you see those themes in almost every show and movie now.
It's just funny how the elves don't act like elves. They act like regular humans
well yeah they don't have to act like elves because there are no humans around so they can just kind of do whatever, or something.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 what does the humans have to do eith elves acting like elves?
@@notverynotoriousg5674 bro do u even read the books? play the game? notice just how the elves are very much different from humans, just from their way of speaking alone?
@@notverynotoriousg5674 no bollock..elf felt like, royal... human felt like barbaric.. it's doesn't have to do with human is around or not.. Japanese will remain being Japanese even all other human is extinct, they don't suddenly become Indian, got it???
but hey they have pointy ears so that makes them elves right?.... right?.... guys?...
- the trash writers of this show (and the trash writers of rings of power)
I loved when geralt said "im the witcher" and witchered all over the place
I liked when the camera zoomed in to raven elf’s face and she smirked and gave a little wink before saying "it's morbin time" oh and let's not forget that classic ending when child girl elf touches women elf’s stomach and has a vision of geralt asking yennifar if she wanted to play gwent
XDDD
Truly a Witcher moment of all time
man i cried during this scene
I mean, Sapkowski is clear on the fact that witcher guild is about 400 years old. The series portray a time of human domination is almost entirely complete and the onslaught is resisted in a handful of places in the North.
How come this show happens 1200 years ago is beyond me
Same issue as Rings of Power - have to merge every significant historic event together because can't think of anything original that would be interesting to add.
Some issues have such an easy fix. Instead of "I thought sharing my songs would make up for my crime, but now I realize it doesn't", say "I tried to forget my crimes, lose myself in my songs, but they haunt me still."
to be fair Mark Wahlberg got away with hate crimes because he sang a couple songs and pranced around in tighty whities.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 Hate crime is awful and shouldn't be forgiven this easily, but it's not quite the same as burning an entire family, including two children, alive.
@@merdufer the threw rocks at children on at least two separate occasions and knocked a guy unconscious with a stick, that is kind of bad.
10/10. Agreed.
Or that scene when the three of them team up. The actors are really good but the script is so bad.
That feeling when you watched Rings of Power and thought you hit the rock bottom and you can't go any lower, then suddenly you hear Lauren Fisstech knocking from down-under you to prove you wrong.
You could probably take shots or whole scenes from one and transplant it into the other, and the audience wouldn't be able to tell they were switched from one wokefest to another.
thx god i will not watch any of them
LAUREN FISSTECH LMAO ICANT XD
@@ChrisStavros even without all the woke stuff, it’s still a terribly written show with bad characters
Lauran Fisstech, thanks a lot xD LOL
The elves look, sound, act and dress like humans. I always got the idea from the books that the humans were nothing like the elves and that's why they clashed so violently after the conjunction of the spheres. The elves had to teach human's how to use magic which makes me think the humans were more primitive but this show has the elves living in tiny mud hut villages! I understand they didn't have much money but they could have given the actors nicer clothes.
A pity for the actors, they tried their best, but no one could make such a script work.
Whut. The acting was just as shit. Heck the dead eyes on characters in games convey better emotion.
That whole script remind me when i was teenager and writing fantasy novels as a hobby. I was using same cliches, and struggle with characters build up. Those novels were so unreadable. Only difference is that eventually I accepted my lack of talent and move on.
And you weren't paid gazillion amount of cash for your lack of talent either
you clearly missed the opportunity to fail upward until you got your own netflix show
I bet they were still better than the horsecrap Netflix delivered..
I hope Netflix will fire this b Lauren for killing the great universe.
@@cyberdominpl1929 they don't do that afaik. They just cancel the show mid way production. So... Season 4 is highly unlikely. I wouldn't even be surprised if they don't release S3.
A random forest in Toussaint has had more care, lore and soul put into it than all of the Netflix "Witcher" stuff put together.
A lady that lost her frying pan quest had more lore than this.
@@davidciprys7811 The fact that you can talk to Thaler about it later also speaks volumes, the series is a mess, I'm just waiting for Cavill in Warhammer now.
Honestly if this doesn’t sum up the disparity between the CDPR adaptation versus the Netflix adaptation then I don’t know what does.
@@davidciprys7811 LoL true 🤪😂😂
this series is so diverse
it got all type of human or elf
but not single one of them capable to act like human or elf
The fog thingy that forces you to face your worst memories is blatantly inspired by Ravenloft and more specifically Barovia of D&D.
Or the bogart in Harry Poppa.
her difference in reaction to her sisters death compared to that dude she just met when she thinks he's dead in the cave was hilarious.
Yes 😂😂
so pathetic jesus christ 🤣🤣
Yeah men
The way they hate each other and then fall madly in love... after one episode 😐
@@kevinkewl1931 i think they were sworn enemies lol.
The lead writer need to meet the wrath of the eternal fire..
“Eternal Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!”
the one time where radovid is the hero of the story
This
I hope they make 10 seasons of this utter garbage and the same with every other woke show. Then we might get back to normal when these studios go broke
@@archdukehamburgervononionr1948 Bro you do realize the games were heavily progressive right? Literally full of blatant social commentary. But I'm willing to bet you didn't even notice it.
Eredin went from being "the king of the wild hunt" to a guy so sloppy he couldn't prevent a demented princess from discovering him being too horny to be careful during an extremely delicate time for the newly born empire.
It was such a character assassination that, together with the rest of the series, I'm convinced the writers actively dislike the source material.
Thats it. There were reports of the writers dissing on the source during the meetings....
Fjall’s prosthetic ears looked so bad that it was distracting and hard to take seriously. They didn’t even bother to make them match his skin tone, also elf ears and buzzcuts just don’t go to together well😂
There is no excuse for shows to be this bad nowadays. This and Willow are so far below just the basic standard that it’s mind blowing.
This is what happens when a generation of molly-coddled, participation-trophy narcissists who had never been told "no" or allowed to fail are hired as writers. Their utter lack of realworld experiences and knowledge are obvious in the writing. And you know the rot goes deep when the showrunners approve such awful scripts.
It seems modern entertainment is desparately striving for mediocrity, and still missing the mark.
Just don’t watch it
@@lilzeddy I didn’t. That doesn’t automatically mean you shouldn’t demand a certain standard. How stupid. If you don’t, they’ll just get the impression that this is serviceable.
@@theeffete3396 Um alright
The RIngs of Power just awful trash as well.
Can see why Henry is jumping ship. One thing I noticed watching this (I didn't watch the actual show) was that the costumes and props look so new; no distressing to the costumes (eg like in LoTR or PotC), which makes them seem lived in and well used. You often see that on budget, b-movie sets because I guess they don't have the money to have multiple versions of a costume at different levels of distress. It's surprising considering how much money was spent on the show.
I haven't seen this show yet but watched a bit of this video, and what you pointed out is exactly what felt off to me in the few clips I saw here: everything looks brand new, colorful, "perfect" like it's just been made right before the shooting and again, that already felt off to me without even seeing the actual thing...I'll watch it soon just because it's rather short but it'll probably be the last time I trust Netflix on anything Witcher related
This is a great comment and a problem I had with the Wheel of TIme show. The reason why Netflix and Amazon productions have this problem where HBO and big hollywood studios don't is that they have a library of props from other films and tv shows. For example Westworld used the same set as Deadwood. The money saved went into making the props and the new sets (the futuristic stuff) way higher quality. When you can re-use or save budget the result is a better show.
THe problem I had with the Witcher over WoT is that despite the new looking clothing in WoT the actual design of the costumes looks good and fits my imaging from the books. Whereas the Witcher show especially the Nilfgaard armour looks like shit. The only positives are Dandelion's ouifit and Geralt. Everything else looks generic.
Never heard anyone say Potc before
@@lucre113 POTC = Pirates of the Caribbean. 😊
@@Incoherent-excitement had to look it up after haha
I shall forever be grateful with Netflix for once again ruin a franchise horribly enough for me to go back to the source material and appreciate it even more.
I’m 13 minutes into your video and I’ve already got more enjoyment out of it than the entire 4 episode Dumpster fire show.
Wow, the random guy you meet in the forest is not only a fighter but also has a healer to heal your wounded and also is hater of your enemy. wahat a coincidence.
As that episode unfolded I could honestly feel the writers room brainstorm, just multiple people tacking on "and what if..." whilst someone scribbled it all down on a board, and then no-one filtered or refined it. Michelle Yeoh deserved better.
Half of the story in the Witcher books are based off of coincidence like how ciri and Geralt even met stop complaining
@@lumatic6624 not true
@@danielcannon2957
Geralt wandering into brokilion and saves ciri from a monster who coincidentally is also his law of surprise
Yennifer and triss meeting dandelion after fighting a djinn with Geralt just happening to be in the area and meeting yennifer for the first time
After Geralt is defeated by Vilgafortz and is nearly dead is found coincidentally by tessia de vres who teleports him to brokilion which coincidently is the place to the continent’s best healer aglais
Francesca capturing yennifer on thanned which just so happens to save her life
Geralt walking around and breaks the fall of kiera metz who would have died if he wasn’t standing right there
The goddess dana meadbh saving Geralt and dandilion from filavandrel
Ciri wandering in the middle of the desert dying is coincidentally found and saved by a dying unicorn
The entire 2d nordling war is won by the north because a elf named yavinn gets mad and kills a human messanger who coincidentally was sent to alert joachim de wett about a attack
Do I need to go on
Wasnt he watching them in the Inn when Fjall and Lark discovered that they were wanted?
Great review. Thank you for watching this so that we don't have to. Your sacrifice is appreciated.
Ah yeah u watched it in 6 minutes ni
Netflix make this blood origin, based on just 3 sentences inside the book. The author, Andrzej Sapkowski, witcher book have always been a focus on Geralt of Rivia and his adventures. The conjunction of sphere lore was only mentioned because the author want to leave it to the reader to imagine what is the world building like.
He also probably worried that if he explained more on the conjunction of sphere, the lore will probably clash with some of main storyline of Geralt of Rivia.
There is an ENTIRE arc in the book, about Geralt and jaskier going to different and exotic places in the world, doing monster slaying quest, encountering different type of very interesting monster/wraith. HELL, they even solve an intriguing murder case!! WHY not stretch that arc into 12 episode????? WHY NETFLIX WHY!!!!
I feel like you've missed some books because there is a lot more talk about the conjunction and the way the universe works... particularly in the final books
@@samwestaway7212 The lady of the lake only mentioned about it, the understanding of conjunction of spheres have always been vague. Even when Avallac'h and Eredin Bréacc Glas talk about it, it was not in detailed.
@@massam9343 the conjunctions are mentioned throughout both in the text sources and by characters, though not explained in detail yeah. A hell of a lot more than three sentences in one book though.
@@samwestaway7212 i mentioned the 3 sentences because in an interview with the show creator, they talk about how it was mentioned less, in 3 sentences. Nevertheless its the same thing, have u actually read what it was said in the Lady of the Lake? Not by narration per se but by actually word of Avallac'h?
@@samwestaway7212 Either way the book have always been about Geralt of Rivia, not about conjunction of sphere. Even this 4 episode run time is useless as it does not build any character plot. They might as well just mentioned or talk about conjunction of Sphere via Geralt or some random Scholar. Ppl have to be damn stupid or desperate AF to "appreciate" Blood Origin, mime-ing something like a work of art.
I’m fairly new to the channel, Neon, and still catching up with old videos and this is pure magic. Laughed so hard a couple of times..! You are a great content creator, keep up the good work!
Funniest thing is that low budget Polish series from 2002 is closer to original books than any of Netflix creations. I like that Gerald is more philosophical in this adaptation.
I never touched that show because I knew this was going to happen, but damn...when you showed Avallac'h, damn near broke my heart. They slaughtered one of the most intriguing charchters ever. He now just looks like some nerd try hard
I just wonder what actor they'll have play him AFTER they break the curse and he's no longer Uma.
@@Rune_Scholar Uma is, as far as I know, a game only charachter
@@FTSOA Well, clearly not because he's right there in the show...
@@Rune_Scholar OHHHHHH IM SO SORRY MY BRAIN BUFFERED SO HARD ON THAT ONE, Hahahahahahaha damn thats good one thoo
To be fair, that is literally just who Avallac'h is. My friends and I joke about how Avallac'h is the incelf who brought Geralt to his gamer cave to talk about how the wominz are the fault of everything and about how he denies the existence of the clitoris. He's always been an elven mirror to someone like Stregobor; Someone who pretends to be wise, but is actually just an idiot with centuries of time to rationalize their undeserved reputation.
Avallac'h is not intriguing. Never has been. He was always a person estranged from women of his own species, much less that of the human species. His plan to convince underage Ciri to have a baby is to trap her in his world and then just pester her into compliance, which obviously doesn't work, because he's an idiot (pejorative).
I love the books, by the way. I just think it's hilarious that anyone ever thought Avallac'h was anything other than a try hard incelf nerd LMAO.
when you described the chemistry as "i´m not complimenting it, but compared what´s to come..." i knew it can´t be good if something that doesn´t deserve praise is said as the best part
I watched the first episode of this about a month ago, then promptly forgot that I was "watching" it until I saw your video here. Thank you for saving a few hours of my life!
Also, it seems like they really didn't care about the sets. That city doesn't even look remotely elven. They didn't have to copy the games, but the fact that they didn't even bother to make the sets or characters look elven says a lot
the whole thing felt really low budget, especially the writing, its not even standard tv drek, its just banal and cliche. I would not want my name in the credits.
Dude, forget about the sets looking elven, they don't even look real! Everything looks so fake and low budget it's actually unbelievable. What a horribly produced show.
Yeah, aesthetically it's a disaster and when they have the book mention the beauty of elven architecture and it's specifics (like the fact that elves, because they never warred with each other, only occassionally clashing wiht ohter races like dwarves etc., build no defensive walls nor fortified castles but only delicate palaces etc.):
"Ciri saw the palaces from behind the weeping willows which hung down towards the water like green curtains. She had never seen anything like them in her entire life. The palaces, although built of marble and alabaster, were like fragile bowers. They seemed so delicate, light and airy, as though they weren’t buildings but apparitions of buildings. Ciri expected at any moment that the wind would blow and the little palaces would vanish along with the mist rising from the river. But when the wind blew, when the mist vanished, when the willow branches moved and ripples appeared on the river, the little palaces didn’t vanish and had no intention of vanishing. They only gained in beauty.
Ciri looked in admiration at the little terraces, at the little towers resembling water lilies sticking up from water, at the little bridges suspended above the river like festoons of ivy, at the staircases, steps, balustrades, at the arcades and cloisters, at the peristyles, at the tall and short columns, at the large and small domes, at the slender pinnacles and towers resembling asparagus spears.
‘Tir ná Lia,’ Avallac’h said softly. The closer they went, the more the beauty of the place seized her powerfully by the heart, more powerfully squeezed her throat, making tears well up in the corners of her eyes. Ciri looked at the fountains, at the mosaics and terracotta, and at the sculptures and monuments. At lacy constructions of whose purpose she couldn’t conceive. And at constructions she was certain served no purpose."
There is also the account of Hen Gedymdeith, *Elves and Humans*, from Blood of Elves, Prelude to Ch. 4:
"Upriver we saw their towns, as delicate as if they were woven from the morning mist out of which they loomed. It seemed as if they would disappear a moment later, blown away on the wind which rippled the surface of the water. There were little palaces, white as nenuphar flowers; there were little towers looking as though they were plaited out of ivy; there were bridges as airy as weeping willows. And there were other things for which we could find no word or name. Yet we already had names for everything which our eyes beheld in this new, reborn world. Suddenly, in the far recesses of our memories, we found the words for dragons and griffins, mermaids and nymphs, sylphs and dryads once more. For the white unicorns which drank from the river at dusk, inclining their slender necks towards the water. We named everything. And everything seemed to be close to our hearts, familiar to us, ours.
Apart from them. They, although so resembling us, were alien. So very alien that, for a long time, we could find no word for their strangeness."
More elven architecture:
The ruins of Shaerrawedd, Blood of Elves Ch. 4:
“This was… a castle?”
“A palace. The elves didn’t build castles. Dismount, the horses won’t manage in the rubble.”
“Who destroyed it all? Humans?”
“No, they did. Before they left.”
“Why?”
“They knew they wouldn’t be coming back. It happened following their second clash with the humans, more than two hundred years ago. Before that, they used to leave towns untouched when they retreated. Humans used to build on the foundations left by the elves. That’s how Novigrad, Oxenfurt, Wyzima, Tretogor, Maribor and Cidaris were built. And Cintra.”
(...) They jumped down the marble stairs, climbing down holding on to the springy hazel, clusters of which had burst through every gap, every crevice in the moss-covered, cracked plates.
“This was the centre of the palace, its heart. A fountain.”
(...) The stream feeding the fountain must have changed its course many times, patiently and constantly washing the marble blocks and alabaster plates which had sunk or fallen to form dams, once again changing the course of the current. As a result the whole area was divided up by shallow gullies. Here and there the water cascaded over the remains of the building, washing it clean of leaves, sand and litter. In these places, the marble, terracotta and mosaics were still as vibrant with colour, as fresh as if they had been lying there for three days, not two centuries.
Geralt leapt across the stream and went in amongst what remained of the columns. Ciri followed. They jumped off the ruined stairs and, lowering their heads, walked beneath the untouched arch of the arcade, half buried beneath a mound of earth. The witcher stopped and indicated with his hand. Ciri sighed loudly.
From rubble colourful with smashed terracotta grew an enormous rose bush covered with beautiful white-lilied flowers. Drops of dew as bright as silver glistened on the petals. The bush wove its shoots around a large slab of white stone and from it a sad, pretty face looked out at them; the downpours and snows had not yet managed to blur or wash away its delicate and noble features. It was a face which the chisels of plunderers digging out golden ornaments, mosaics and precious stones from the relief sculpture had not managed to disfigure."
There is Tir na Bea Arainne, underneath Mount Gorgon, in Tower of the Swallow Ch. 7:
"The witcher sighed involuntary.
This was not the first time that he had seen Elvish sculptures and relief, but every time, the feeling was the same. The figures of elves frozen in full motion in a blink of an eye, as if it was not the product of chisel and sculptor but a powerful wizard’s spell that could transform living tissue into white marble from the Amell Mountains.
The closest sculpture featured a young elf sitting crossed-legged on a basaltic plate. The elf was straining her neck and had her head turned as if she their footsteps. She was completely naked. The milk-gloss of the polished marble gave the feeling that her beautiful body was warm and radiated heat.
Avallac’h stopped and leaned on one of the columns that defined the path between the sculptures.
‘For the second time,’ he said quietly, ‘you have found me out, Geralt. You were right, the buffalo is painted on the wall as camouflage, which is there to prevent people digging through the rock and protecting all that is hidden behind it. It was supposed to prevent the devastation and theft. All races, the elves too, are entitled to their roots. What you see here are our roots. Tread carefully please. This is actually a cemetery.’
The light dancing from the mountain crystals revealed more and more details - statues, reliefs, monuments, columns and arcades. Everything in white marble."
And Palace Beauclair, an elven palace modified by human architecture, in Lady of the Lake Ch. 3:
"‘An elegant little castle,’ Cahir said in admiration. ‘Well I’ll be, an elegant and pleasing little castle, indeed.’
‘The duchess lives well,’ said the vampire. ‘You have to admit it.’
‘Fucking nice gaff,’ added Angoulême.
‘Beauclair Palace,’ repeated Reynart de Bois-Fresnes proudly. ‘An elven edifice, only slightly modified. Allegedly by Faramond himself.’
‘Not allegedly,’ objected Regis. ‘Beyond any doubt. Faramond’s style is apparent at first glance. It suffices to look at those small towers.’ The slender white obelisks of the red-roofed towers referred to by the vampire soared into the sky, rising up from the castle’s delicate construction which grew wider towards the ground. The sight evoked the image of candles with festoons of wax flowing over the intricately carved base of a candlestick.
‘The town spreads out at the foot of Beauclair,’ explained Sir Reynart. ‘The walls, naturally, were added later. After all, as you know, elves don’t wall their towns. Spur on your horses, noble comrades. We have a long road ahead of us. Beauclair only seems close, but the mountains distort perspective.’"
@@MarkHogan994 this is what i think people trying to push the "woke" thing miss, there isn't any love for the content, and that is fine if you are doing some Emily in Paris stuff, but when you are doing stuff that people are passionate about like this, don't even think about it. RoP and Cowboy Bebop had highs and lows, this is just a sunken valley. I can't say "oh the cinematography was good at least" because it wasn't.
They looked vaguely middle eastern, maybe Egyptian. Which sure, why not. But then the clothes looked generic European fantasy. There was no consistent idea about any of the art direction.
Lets not forget how Queen Merwyn sent an army of 6-7 soldiers through a portal to concur another world in the last episode.
It's like in games. Well... In Mass effect Shepard does most of things in teams of 3 BUT whole squad is 7-17 people PLUS Normandy crew and they are still part of army First Reaper was defeated because whole Alliance started blasting
Conquer, not 'concur' lad
Pretty sure it was just a scouting party
The show is already bad there's no need to come up with new stuff
Its crazy though for the fashion buffs there were so many Iris Van Herpen peices. I was thinking wow thats hundred of thousands of $ in that costume budget.
Funny thing, a coworker just told me about this, he hadn't seen it yet either and had no idea what it was about.
I said, 'from what little you've told me, I'm going to goes it's going to be about the conjunction and the first Witcher', and now i know i was right, and it sticks it turned out this horribly
Michelle Yeoh is too good for this show
Hope she'll get big money from that shitshow 😂
What, an absolutely massive waste of talent.
Fr she's literally the only one that grabbed my attention from that show lol
@@samwise5486 exactly. I thought it they got her it might actually be good, but it just looks like shit.
She probably signed up for the sake of diversity (from her side; her colourful résumé and occasional TV roles, and from their side; their colourful message).
Are we just gonna ignore the fact Fjall got hit with a machete and was completely fine but then got stabbed with a knife and died?
Tbf a slash is a lot less deadly than a stab
The dog clan!!!
@@-Monad- plus, Dwarven steel
Alec Baldwin was filling in for the knife scene.
It’s the law of reverse damage, if he’d been running with scissors he’d have exploded.
It‘s actually interesting to hear all that bc for sb who didn‘t get to read the books and play the games the main show was like insane to me and I loved every single moment till i found out that it‘s not the real story at all but this show was so boring i hated every second watching it bc as you said everything was too rushed i didn‘t even get close to be emotionally attaches to sb from this series and so on so i‘m happy that this comunity is so strong and is not just gonna wait in silent so the writers can earn all the money they don‘t deserve at all
I so agree on the elves. I was watching the show through a couple review channels, and I was confused on who was or wasn't an elf until a reviewer said they were all elves. Except for the ears (which in some shots are obviously plastic) there's nothing non-human about them. I also agree on the princess/empress being tough to watch, and as I'm a girl and don't have to be a gentleman, I'll go ahead and let the actress share the blame, lol. I really didn't like her line delivery and emoting.
Right? Like it's so hard to respect the things we know about elven cultures like no building fortresses and no farming ?
Something I really hate in film/TV is when a character dies as soon as they are introduced, and the scene is supposed to be very emotional and you are supposed to care. If you want the viewer to care about the death of a character, you need to build them up first so the viewer feels connected to them.
Likely because of the show budget constraints and runtime. They obviously want to do everything way too quickly. Shows like these needs a bigger budget with more time placed between episodes because the origin stories in the Witcher universe is way too massive to condensed it into a couple of episodes.
Honest to God I didn't even register it was her sister lol she looked and acted like a side character and was gone in a flash. The character didn't seem to care that much so I didn't think I should 😅
@@DarkZerol The last thing these talentless hacks need is more money.
One point about the elves not feeling like elves.
I play a lot of D&D. I've been DMing my own homebrew world for years and I've taken a lot of pride in writing the lore mostly for my own amusement, but also to let the players know that the world they are playing in have answers to many questions and there's a lot of stuff to discover underneath the surface.
I hold no illusions that my world is better or worse than thie Netflix series. But there is one thing that I would like to pontificate that I learned just a few years ago where it comes to fantasy races and my own philosophy on having different races in a fantasy world.
Humans are humans. That is pretty basic. I believe that humans can come in all flavors in a fantasy world. And you should account for that any player should be able to see themselves in your world with good enough reason (I kinda draw the line at overly contemporary things, like playing an "Otherkin" but I digress). It is however my belief that anything that isn't human should feel, sound, and look alien. Elves are not humans. They don't look human. They don't sound human. They don't think like humans. I believe that there should be conflict between elves and humans (A thing I actually stole from the Witcher universe) BECAUSE they are different. An Elf has a wholly different set of morals and priorities than a human, their outlook on life itself should be different. Is there overlap? Of course. But at the base line an Elf will look at an event with one set of eyes. And a human will look at the same event with a different set. And they will draw many wildly different conclusions because they are different. I make a point in my world to say that if you're just going to play a Dwarf but it's just a human with a funny hat then you might as well play a human.
I would LOVE to see a prequel of the Witcher where we see the first Elves and they act "Weird" to us throughout most of the show because the way they view the world is different from us. These Elves are just humans with pointy ears. The show would not change at all if the Elves in this show just were human.
Remember when we go to see Ge'els in Witcher 3. And when we speak to him he just has this creepy vibe to him? Same with Avvalach and Eredin and all of the Aen Elle, they have this alien quality to them that makes them just feel "Off" when you speak to them. That is all it takes. You don't need them to walk backwards or breathe through their ears. But a human interacting with an elf should be on his toes because he just can't read them properly. And Elves to each other shouldn't act just like humans. We had so many characters in this prequel that just act like regional british stereotypes. Oh look there's a drunk yorkshireman with pointy ears. There's a cockney bastard, with pointy ears. Obviously the problem comes down to writing. And the writers on this show really dropped the ball.
Hell, just think about how different human cultures can be. Now imagine the sheer ravine of difference between two sapient species
Elves should look at the long view of things because they tend to live a long long time. That alone colors so many different decisions and conflicts. They might choose to avoid conflict instead of engage in it unless it actually implicates them. Lotr did a great job with elves.
One of D&D's many flaws is that the large amount of races are basically all humans with either pointier ears, teeth, or some animal feature tacked onto them. That, and the boring stat differences. Good that some people understand that's not how a fantasy world should work.
In the words of Avallac'h in The Witcher 3 when talking to Geralt: "The only thing we have in common is that we both firmly believe that each of us firmly superior to the other". The elves in The Wticher seems humans like animals. The elves are sophisticated, cultured, elegant and in many ways superior to the humans. But they are also incredibly cruel, manipulative and all around unpleasant. Portraying them as humans with pointy ears is such a disservice to the many interesting way to could take advantage of these traits.
🤌🏾🏆👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Well said!
Omg I feel heard. I can’t say I was disappointed because I had no expectation. I finished watching it last night and laughed at how bad it was.. omg. You said it all so thank you.
I'm halfway through this video, and I must say this is hilarious. I couldn't bear more than season 1 of the main show and already expected everything else from netflix to be garbage but really, thank you for the good laughs. 😂
Wow. I knew it was going to be bad. I did not even consider it would be this bad. Thank you for shielding me from this abomination. I was going to watch it at some point. You have literally saved a sliver of my life.
same, lmao
I second 💯👍I am so glad I didn't watch this garbage
This show's Avallac'h looks almost exactly like I imagined Jarre when I was reading the books.
Honestly yeah, you're spot on with that
Omg, that's perfect. That IS Jarre.
Yeah, I honestly don't understand how can they fuck up so badly. Avallach was already an adult when Ciri's first known predecessor was alive, what timeline did they pick to have him be a snot-nosed teenager?
Genuine sadness, The witcher was such a small little series until the Witcher 3. It was great seeing people get into the series I've been so fond of for years. Unfortunately this and the Witcher series on netflix spit at the beauty that is the Witcher. Cavil will always be Geralt and I'm so grateful for what he fought for, seeing him in the show was probably the best thing to come out of all of this.
I believe that a TV show on a streaming service should have enough content, a cohesive story, and well-developed characters with depth, so that even if I fall asleep while watching a few episodes, I will still know what is going on and be interested in replaying the previous episodes. I'm not interested in replaying any episodes.
The Elves in Lord of the Rings trilogy were perfectly cast and acted, meanwhile the elves in both Witcher shows look like they pulled some homeless people off the street and stuck some prosthetic ears on them and called it a day 🤣
We go from elves looking like thranduil and Legolas to now looking like your average everyday New York construction workers, wtf man
@@readyjoe6427 hah most of them don't even look well as humans ;) for an elf they would have to be super attractive, one could understand mishaps and accidents of scars from violence like here:
"When the tall Scoia'tael bent over him, tied to a post as he was, Struycken closed his eyes in horror. It was said that there are no ugly elves, they are all born beautiful. Perhaps the legendary leader of the Scoia'tael was born beautiful too. But now his face was cut diagonally with an ugly scar that disfigured his forehead, eyebrow, nose and cheek, of his elven beauty, nothing was left.The elf sat down on a cracked tree trunk lying on its side." Witcher, Baptism of Fire
Atleast that was better than the Rings of Power elven BS
In the Witcher it makes sense, they are just refugees and they are really fucked up. But here, in the higher point of their empire, it's a big WTF
In Rings of Power all the male elves look like sex slave boy from Morrowind 🤣🤣
I mean, writing Firebird, Stairway to Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody in a weekend should at least give her atonement for a family of two.
Thank you for showing us that it is possible to offer a very critical, very entertaining, and very well-supported review without bringing politics into it. Much appreciated! (and I agree 100% with everything you said!)
thanks for this man, saved me 4 hours of my life
The thing that got me really pissed was that the entire spinoff contradicts Voleth Meir. They broke with lore and went through so much to create that stupid villain, just to forget about her!
It's been the same since season 1. They contradict their own lore constantly - like how psycho-doppler says that he knows everything Mousesack knows, yet gets caught on a lie by two kids. Or how Vesemir in anime says that there are multiple ways to kill a leshen, yet in the show says that only fire through the heart can kill it - only for one of them to die by the claws of another monster, who wasn't fiery at all.
This whole thing probably has some vague outline, but the details are invented and forgotten on a whim.
But really BO timeline was before this. It was the first real HUMAN witcher that ensnared VM and all that happened after the Conjunction of the Spheres, not before. Now of course, I could be confusing the books' timeline with Netflix's timeline which are indeed different (of course).
@@celticbabs3105 The contradiction I meant wasn't about who bound VM, but that VM is supposed to be a part of the Wild Hunt (according to S2). She is supposed to have been stuck on the continent during the conjunction, only able to return to her home world and the Wild Hunt at the end of S2. But how can that be her home world if the Wild Hunt was only send there moments before the conjunction? And Eredins banished group did not include a female elf either.
Wait a minute! The princess and the forbidden love with the dog clan is eerily similar to the love plot in Jupiter ascending Where the genetically reincarnated princess of earth fell in love her bodyguard a werewolf thing. "I Love Dogs"
Damn. I just commented a similar thing. Lmao
@@sortasurvival5482 I found it :)
There's some group of dog fuckers in Hollywood 😂
I don't love dogs. I liek dags.
Princess&dog is very common plot in folk tales across the globe, slavik too. In some variants dog is ploy to avoid arranged marriegg.
I really just wish the Witcher had landed in the hands of people who actually care about it for the show adaptation. Adaptations only work when the writers are extremely passionate for the original work.
Lord of the Rings for example was the literal passion project for Peter Jackson. Even Game of Thrones early on had a lot of love and effort put into it from David Benioff and DB Weiss, a lot of that shows downfall can be accredited to them losing their fire for the series.
Even the final season of GoT isn’t in as deep of hell as the Netflix Witcher is tho. This is what happens when you drop a fantasy series in the hands of writers who openly hate the source material.
You're right, GoT season 8 at least had a few nice scenes and the episode where they were preparing to fight the Night King was pretty good. At least I watched the entire series. My boyfriend tired and couldn't make me watch S3 of Netflix Witcher.
Thank you for the balanced review! Definitely saved me a lot of time!
It's really tragic how brutally Netflix is screwing this up. Could have been such a great adaptation
I've just watched the xLetalis review of the show and I can hear the despair in both of your voices loud and clear. Thanks for the review, you have just saved me losing several hours of my life.
It's entertaining to watch, ignore the hate.. 1st episode is a bit rough
Yea, I hate more these types of reviews and comments of people, then the actual show, its not bad, its 4 episodes, not sure how long, but its decently paced and didnt feel like "hours" let alone "lost" :D just watch it, then make up your mind. Characters are quite simple, whole elf race is just "humans with ears" which is sad, but what do you expect from 4 episodes trying to introduce like 10 characters, whole new race and old witcher world. It's not great, its not bad, this backlash from "fans" is rediculous, that's for sure :)
@@luckygayextraaaa Or you know when Critics, Witcher and non Witcher fans all say its shit, maybe it's shit?
@@kevinvanharen1740 lop, not really, which was my point, nvm though, do and watch what you want and make 'your' opinions as you wish
Sorry my friend, perhaps my comment was a bit blunt, however I did start watching a gave up fairly quickly. Surely the point of reading a review and then acting on that review makes sense?
And can we talk about that monster? What monster in the Witcher world fires lasers from it's tale? They could have at least used a golden dragon...
It makes so much sense to me that it was cut down. Sometimes in the first two episodes I really thought some of the characters had potential but their arcs (if you can call them that) are so short they may be nonexistent.
I might be completely mistaken about this but... wasn't the Conjunction of the Spheres also the beginning of magic? Isn't it what allowed Chaos to seep into the world?
There shouldn't be any magic in this show...
Humanity's introduction to magic
@@mooncalf_4534 I thought it was literally everyone?
To my knowledge you are right, it is said that when all the realms/planes overlapped they spilled eachothers energies to the witcher world and that is how "magic" was created.
So let us say that magic was a thing long ago, in that case that would mean that magic before the conjunction would be way below the most minor spell sign present after the conjunction.
@@kadapho I’m pretty sure elves have always used magic, and the conjunction is what introduced magic to humans, and monsters to the world. But it’s been a while since I read the books
Dunno but season2 clesrly establishes that dwarves were NOT there before the conjuction.
So they just crapped over own canon. Sad.
Geralt sold Ciri after hearing she watched this show
Lmao
😂😂
Thank you so much for watching it for me. I tried three times to get through episode one because I wanted to see how the first Witcher was created... And I couldn't get half way through it. Thank you for suffering for us.
The only good Witcher show on Netflix is Witcher: A Wolf's Nightmare. But it's a cartoon
@@karolinakuc4783 Thank you! I'll have to check it out.
I fell asleep somewhere towards the beginning of episode three, woke up part way through episode four and felt I missed nothing.
I can't believe you actually reviewed it with a straight face. Hats off to you, sir.
0:21 we appreciate your sacrifice, you shouldn’t torture yourself like that though
One thing that modern fantasy directors don't seem to understand/deliberately ignore about the settings of the IPs they take over is the concept of homogenous ethnic groups. By getting rid of them they eliminate major identifying characteristics that would otherwise cause them to stand out distinctly and set them apart from other cities/cultures/peoples. Communities that are severely isolated in backwater lands for generations are not supposed to be ethnically diverse like major trade cities. That would be like finding a lost tribe in a jungle that's made up of white, black, asian, indian, and native american people (it just wouldn't make sense). They basically just turn these places into fantasy downtown LA.
Americans these days can't do fantasy. the american concept of "representation" sucks the fantasy out of the setting.
I refuse to believe this show's elves are anything like Andrej Sadpowski or CDPR's intepretation.
the dwarf and her hammer Gwen was my favorite part of this mini series, Netflix should do a spin off series of just her and Gwen :)
hearing your review, it's fascinating how the final conclusion is give or take the same as the one I gave RoP. It seems that fantasy TV has a tendency to forget that they are an adaptation... their first duty is to the source
These writers serve only one material, the sludge that comes falling out of their head.
I’m not sure how they somehow made Rings of Power look respectful but truly the tools of the Enemy are numerous and subtle.
rings of power is more often boring than it is bad, this one is just 101% BAD
Aa bad as rings of power is it still had a MASSIVE budget and it at least looks movie quality. This show on the other hand is both terribly written and has the quality of a syfy channel movie from 20 years ago.
I know fanfiction writers who put more research of the "original universe" in their works than Netflix show writers -
Well fanfic writers usually like the world and the characters
it felt like Michelle Yeoh was carrying the entire series lol
even her character was dreadful. ang lee needs to direct the Witcher.
the books and games made the conjunction feel like it just happened like three universes just slammed into each other like rare asteroids collisions in space which is actually more interesting.
Witchers always seemed like a response to having too many monsters around years after the spheres.
And I think the one of the previous sources actually hint that magic and mystical energies were only after the spheres.
That is exactly why witchers existed. Monsters were hunting the humans that came over in the conjunction to near extinction and they were reproducing at a high rate so they made witchers to be pest control. It was a strictly human thing. Also if I remember correctly, don't know if it's true but Elves also knew how to use magic because they're the ones that taught humans magic so it must have existed pre conjunction
@@streetside2833 I think it was something like elves had their own magic but a conjunction gave humans access to it though I'm overdue for a reread of the books I could be wrong. Also weren't elven sorcerers involved in the creation of witchers or am I mixing that up with the elder blood?
One of my main problems with this show was just how small scale it was. The soldiers had groups of 5-10 people, and there was no scale of an ‘empire’. The Elven Architecture looked something out of an sci do set, I mean they should have made that really distinct. And with so much lore distortion what we’re they trying to do? Half the time the evil mage was trying to go into some realm the special effects were just not working. This show had problems plaguing it from the beginning and it sucks because even I don’t know much about the lore, but it feels like they skimmed through the text then wrote their own interpretation. This is just like what they did to Barbarians season 2.
Some of the outfits were ridiculous. Narnia meets Starfleet.
@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming They didn't feel...special. Like when you play the Witcher YOU KNOW there's a DISTINCTION between the color of uniforms. I mean Medieval Battles had some of the badass cool looking uniforms and all we get is some bland grey stuff? Whhhhyyyy
the whole thing screams low budget, its like they wanted their own RoP and out popped this. When people were complaining about RoP I was always like it could be a lot worse, and here is the lot worse.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 100%
Same with rings of power. This sort of TV can do digital big but real things small, truly a terrible mix. This will be remembered as a whole era of television like 10 years from now, the same way we look back on the Shrek animation aesthetic as aged. Studios don't get how to do practical effects + writing v well
I heard so many bad things pre release that I'm not even going to bother. Yesterday on new years eve we were talking about Henry Cavill, the Witcher series and the books when my sister asked why I wasn't going to watch blood origins. I laughed and pointed out how it barely related to the witcher.
in the books I felt bad about elfs being persecuted by humans, but honestly, now it feels like they had it coming
I don't know why they wrote elves that way in the show. Probably to make peoples relativise the "oh, the poor elves got conquered, their city razed and population massacred by thoses bad, bad humans".
@@efaristi9737 Probably because moral complexity and shades of grey require effort to write.
This and Rings of Power reminds me of that old stick figure comic where a guy is excited to hear his favorite video game "Blue" is about to get a movie and when he's in the theater about to watch it, the title of the movie is in bright red color.
3:38 "...then Dog Clan guy gets exiled by his Papa and is very sad." And you can tell he's sad because his ears are drooping - much like my dog's ears do when HE is sad, and thus we come full circle with how the Dog Clan earned its name.
I figured out what this show is: a poorly written low exp low reward side quest .... in another universe
SO GLAD the writers strike is happening! I hope it never ends!
Been waiting for your review. Because that ending… whew buddy.
🤣🤣🤣🤣ur not wrong!!! 😬🥺
What’s weird to me is that they use like Persian/Middle Eastern costume design even though it’s supposed to be set in Cintra, which is decidedly not Persian. What’s with the costumes also looking like they were made for a high school theatre production?
its very sad that we can remember one of the main character as a "dog clan guy" not even his name
ccan see how the story writing suck
African elves, gay eredin, deaf elf chick... Yep, they ticked all the boxes.
Too bad they forgot to write a good story.
You may as well just come out and say you want every actor to be white… it’ll be much easier than hiding behind your keyboard presenting not to be a bigot, doesn’t matter if they’re black, gay or whatever, if the story and writing is good and they wrote it in a way that made sense, then it would’ve been fine, it’s not the diverse cast that ruins the show, as much as you want to blame it on “wokeness” it’s fucking sad.
House of the dragon had black Valyrian’s in it, did it make the show worse? Of course it didn’t, because they made sense and the acting was brilliant.
@@Snotzalotz I'm just pointing at the fact that their focus was in the wrong place.
They got the diverse cast, which in my opinion hurts the show since it's supposed to be about elves and elves in the witcher are white.
They got the disabled representation.
They made sure to let us know that Eredin is gay.
But they did not bother to write a good plot or good character development.
Had the focus been on things that actually matter, the show might have succeeded.
@@Snotzalotz except it does matter
@@LordProGameMaster I've found anyone calling someone "bigot" on the internet is usually too simple to understand things like immersion, realism or nuance. Wouldn't bother engaging with him mate :)
@@Snotzalotz Um, yeah. That's a BIG yikers from me Scotty boy
I swear no shows or movies portray elves properly anymore. This show and rings of power portray them as generic people with just pointy ears. The lord of the rings movies had the best portrayal of elves imo. The elves in those movies actually looked and acted like superior mystical higher beings.
Not sure if you seen shadow hunters but they also do a pretty good job of making the elves seem different than any other race in that world from the way they act to their home.
In some fandoms elves aren't like that, and they don't have to be. But yeah, they should be portrayed like described in respective source material, and 2 new shows failed at that
I never read the books but according to the Geralt from Netflix while looking for answers for Ciri, he says the monoliths where left over from the conjunction of the spheres but they where there before it happened. Then the Empress killed all the royal families and neither of the two clan people (can’t remember there names) are royal in any way so Ciri can’t be related to them. None of it made any sense but Henry cavil is the reason I watch the show which is about to end. Good bye Witcher, I’d rather buy and read the books when I have the money
Maybe there are some audiobooks on YT
"Now i've been subjected to blood origin" love how you made it sound like an infectious disease haha
The Critical Drinker mentioned something worth addressing: why was The Empress so adamant at going to the other worlds? Her empire was hanging by a thread to begin with, nothing first/second/third hand to her implied that there was anything of value (to the empire) on the other side. It's only Sintra's one erroneous portal that gives a hint of a landscape that isn't dusty, dry and barren. For it to make sense -and maybe the dropped episodes did this - they would've needed some 'scouting' scene that has them stumbling upon the human world, some place they could raid for supplies in the short-term.
I think it was Balor who told them it would the lands of milk and honey while he was gathering information and the beast for his own plans. It can be seen as Eredin and his group stumbled through the portal, not knowing what's going on, first searching for water and fertile land. And in one line it's said to Brother Death, that the dwarves buried the black penises for fertility and the elves digging them out make their own death sentence, also there is a 1000 year long war of attrition going on between 3 kingdoms depleting the countries. So looking for more opportunities when miracly showing up is understandable.
Elves have always been a gracious, lean and reserved race. "Creators" nowadays just throw in some pointy ears and thats that, no deep typical identity whatsoever, as long as there is DIVERSITY.
Well, elves don't necessarily have to be copies of Tolkien's. But they should be faithful to source material in this case the Witcher
it does look more modern than the witcher series but the eleves were a lot more advanced as we could see in witcher 3 with the eleven ruins
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was over 20 years ago. His Elves looked great, why do the ones in this have ears that look like they came from a cheap joke shop.
And the Dwarf in this? In the real world, she'd be on disability benefits. But here she's a deadly warrior?
Also You cannot tell difference between kingdoms and cities because everywhere they go is a mixture of all ethnics and accents possible on earth.