The Witcher on Netflix: more like Dork Three Jackdaws

I haven't watched the whole of the series yet but I know how it ends: Geralt dies falling off a four foot wall

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Anyone watched/watching Blood Origin?

delighted by the appearance of Dylan Moran in Ep3 … also by general presence of Lenny Henry who now has a late stage career as earthy “magic dude” i guess (he was also in Rings of Power)

Watched the first two episodes and it seems ropey as fuck?

The narration is particularly bad and it's not quite sticking the fun/humour of the original so far

yeahh it was a bit lackluster overall… found it hard to care abt anyone much until Meldof showed up

So rumours now there might not be a season 4 after all. Poor Liam.

Meanwhile, latest season getting review bombed in the usual places (by, I assume, the usual people) but it seemed to include quite a lot of plot from the books (which appears to be their main beef). It just wasn't particularly good.

it took a while for me to get back into the first half but i’m looking forward to the new episodes now that all the place-setting is (hopefully) done

and i would much rather have NO witcher than a replacement for Cavill ESPECIALLY a fucking lameass lesser-helmsworth honestly good riddance to that stupid idea

like fucking spin it off with any of the other main cast members & it would still be good imo

Am I the only one who found it hard to give much of a shit with S3? It felt like Cavill desperately wanted out and was phoning in his lines. I continued to have no idea who the bad guys were, so found every battle scene completely confusing. I didnt actually mind the Ciri has her Job moment in the desert ep and was suprised it got such a low IMDB rating.

No you weren’t the only one. The whole 3rd season just slid right off my mind like rain on a windshield

yeahhhh it was definitely a bit bemusing

also between Yennefer’s airy lisping and Cavill’s growling mumbles i felt like i could absolutely not understand anythinb the two of them said to each other lol

Oh yeah all these shows get subbies without a 2nd thought for me (this, Foundation, Trek). Anything with mumbling or ornate language or a lot of info.

We have eight budgies and the ac is running so every show gets subtitles without exception

We have 2 teenagers who love to talk loudly 10 feet from the TV lol.

Lol
At least with the budgies I can turn the light out

Shame this show didn't work better. It does feel like a missed opportunity. I'm such an enormous fan of the game, and to a much lesser extent the books.

But I dropped off about a third of the way through S2, baffled by the constant spacetime switching, disillusioned by much of the acting, jank production values, odd pacing, and an overall feeling of hollowness through the whole thing - like it could almost definitely have been good had they made and avoided certain stylistic choices.

That said, the Nivellen episode was actually so great (it's also one of the better Witcher short stories) and it really raised my hopes for that season. But after a couple more epidosdes it started falling apart and dragging very hard.

If someone can convince me to carry on with it, I will.

But while we're talking video games with a complicated sense of time and space, I would watch the hell out of an Elden Ring TV series done in this way - mad timeline switching, slightly janky production, overwrought acting - it would all very much suit the FromSoft aesthetic and it would be fun to see a dramatised version of events leading up to the game itself

Was nivellen the lonely animal guy in his castle? That’s what I wanted from this show.

yeah that's right, Beauty & the Beast basically