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the saudis eat this dish with their hands wtf

The witcher on netflix saga is coming to an end with a final season. 2 terrible movies have also been made. It is universally hated by real Witcher fans. It was also used as a talking point for right wing culture war grifters. There were some casuals that liked the first 1-3 seasons which was the true audience for the project. Overall this project has been completely bonkers and resembles quality- deficient high profile projects that cost half a billion dollars or more by Disney and other large companies. People call it "money laundering" but to me it's just bureaucratic corruption/inefficiency. In normal, competitive circumstances this show would have been canceled after season 1, or season 2. Lauren H. should have been fired for incompetence. But because it was associated with netflix, which has dubious concerns for quality they decided to push forward and generate a lot of witcher content anyway for their subscription service. Lauren H. did not come off well at all. The way this show was written and directed was not by real fans of the Witcher but careerists who wanted to use the franchise for their own creative expression. So they butchered the story like crazy to the point where it barely resembles the narrative/characterization in the books just to portray their own version of the story. This could be forgivable if their vision was as good as Sapkowski's or CDPRs but their work sucked so much in too many places. I feel bad for the Freya Allen who actually did a good job acting as Ciri.

the short stories are being adapted by comic book arts/writers one by one- this one looks great!

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Interesting reveal from the 2012/2013 drafts is that Corrine Tilly was meant to be much more significant character, at the level of Keira Metz in the original storyline. The same goes for other characters that had their content cut by 3 times. She was supposed to be a double agent- a Nilfgaardian spy and also Roche's lover. -also dandelion/priscilla was supposed to have a lot of drama/conflict with each other. Overall it can be seen that the final cut of the story was much more streamlined and simplified, and they tried to give a more positive spin on things compared to the darker storylines of the earlier drafts.

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this is pretty stupid imho lol

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