Posted 24 February 2023 - 03:01 PM
Whoa boy. What a shitshow this has become.
Season 1 was about as good as I could've hoped. Season 2 has very early started to change course towards complete idiocy, unwatchable no matter if you're a fan of earlier media or not. While I feel bad for Cavill, that was obviously a dream role for him and he was perfect for it, I think ultimately it's a good move for him.
It's always been a mystery to me how is it possible some people believe it's OK to hijack IPs like this. If you had your own story to tell, make up your own goddamn world, don't piggyback on better authors' hard work and success. It's disgusting. The way they treated some of the characters (especially Yennefer, Vesemir, and Eskel) is downright criminal.
As for writers mocking source materials and Hissrich failing to rein them in - there's no doubt in my mind she shares their opinion. Nobody with any love for the source material could've violated it like this.
Can't say I didn't expect thing to go this way, though. S01 was just a happy accident.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Azath Vitr (D, on 15 December 2022 - 11:53 AM, said:
