🚨The Crimes of The Witcher Netflix🚨

Geralt in the books: Superhuman Socrates with a sword Geralt in the show: 💪😐 mm

I feel like Netflix's Witcher is the best example of a fantasy adaptation gone wrong. Writers that openly mock and hate the source material, actors who don't understand the roles they play (except Cavill), and managers who have no passion for the project. It also tries to chase the high of GoT. GoT is dark and gritty. Witcher is dark and gritty. But Witcher does not equal GoT. So not only does the Netflix series completely disrespect the source material, it also disrespects what makes the fantasy genre so good by thinking that every fantasy adaptation has to be the next Game of Thrones.

It's so crazy that the entire witcher tv series seems like it is made by people who had a deadline for a story and they just decided to ask the worst ai to summarise the books, which it did by making up random bullshit, and they submitted it.

The golden dragon! The damn golden dragon supposed to be beautiful. But in the show.... (Internal cry)

I can never forgive them for what they did to Eskel....

Dijsktra is kinda dumb in Witcher 3 too, especially at the end. His desicion to force Geralt to choose between him and Roshe was really stupid.

The way that the other Witchers were portrayed in “Kaer Morhen” was just jarring. They pretty much turned the place into a brothel lol

I mostly agree with these rankings, but I'll be honest, Vesemir wanting to murder Ciri for her Elder Blood in order to make more witchers should get AT LEAST life in prison, if not the death sentence. I mean come on, he's basically been a grandfather figure to Ciri (so he shouldn't even THINK about wanting to kill her), a father figure to Geralt (so he shouldn't even THINK about wanting to kill his adoptive daughter), and a father figure to the other witchers (who also started caring a lot about Ciri as they trained and even kind of helped raise her, and who, especially Lambert, didn't seem really keen to be witchers nor to make more witchers, so they too would be opposed to the idea), so there's no way this shit would ever happen, not in the books and certainly not in the games! And also, correct me if I am wrong, I also don't think he ever even mentioned wanting the witchers to be in higher numbers, therefore where does the wish of making more witchers even come from? I've re-read the books at the beginning of this year and I can't for the life of me figure out when Vesemir even mentioned wishing for there to be more witchers. Honestly, I kind of liked the first season, but after the whole fiasco with Vesemir wanting Ciri's blood and Yennefer losing her powers, I just couldn't watch the show anymore. I think it's ok, or maybe even good for someone who has never read the books or played the games, but as a fan of both the books and the games, the show is utter garbage and I hate Netflix for it. And I'm saying this as a person who kind of rocks the "I don't give a shit" attitude, so watching myself be so pissed of about something like this says something, lol.

Netflix Writer: Look at all this amazing lore and material for me to ignore!

After I saw the Eskel Tree episode I was left in such disbelief that I sat in silence for like 10 minutes pondering life 😂. I finished season 2 because I hate not finishing things, but I never even took a look at season 3. Screw that. How you could screw up a Witcher TV show when you have so much to work with is crazy.

The best characterization of Witcher TV adaptation by Netflix is something that I heard from one fiction writer: "They removed the heart with surgical precision from every single Witcher story and plotline and then violently shoved this heart into the story ass".

Another small but huge change in the show that showed me the writers don't understand the characters, and why I hated this show from the beginning (I know people love season 1 I hated it) is in The Last Wish episode. In the books Yen thinks Dandelion is the one making the wishes which is why after she hypnotises Geralt to punish the people who insulted her, she teleports Dandelion to the courthouse to make a wish that what Geralt did (because she made him do it) would be forgotten by everyone so he is not punished or killed because of her (obviously it doesn't work because Geralt is the one with the wishes but she doesn't know it yet). Yet in the show Yen just does NOT care what happens to Geralt as a result of what she made him do and just threatens Dandelion to make a wish with a knife to his throat, which just makes her an evil selfish person where as in the books she DID care enough to not let him be punished because of what she made him do. It's a tiny detail but important imo exactly because of the implication that the show Yen did not care if Geralt would have been killed because of her. I loved in one xLetalis video how he compared the Netflix Eyck vs how CDPR made him in Witcher Tales: Thronebreaker which if you haven't played i HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it is unbelievably good and criminally underrated. Also that is not the "Polish" eagle. I don't know what "Polish" is you made that up, that is in fact the REDANIAN eagle thank you very much

For me the worst crime the show committed was revealing Emhyr Var Emreis as Ciri’s father so early. That was a huge reveal in the final book.

On the point of Wyverns vs. Dragons: I normally don't have an issue with the terms each universe uses as long as they're consistent. In The Elder Scrolls, dragons have 2 legs and 2 wings, and it's okay because there are no wyverns in that universe, nor dragons with 4 legs and 2 wings. Same with A Song of Ice and Fire. But in The Witcher, wyverns and dragons both exist and are entirely different things, to the point where Geralt refuses to kill dragons because they are intelligent.

Yeah I was hoping you'd mention the ballsack armor. After playing 3, it hurt to see. It was so wrinkly. So wrinkly.

The worst thing about this is that the intellectual property is now "tainted" by the incoherent schlopp that Netflix delivered. It's gonna be years and decades until another production company even touches this with a 10 foot pole, if ever.

Dijkstra's casting bothers me more than anyone because his appearance is such an important part of his character. He's supposed to be a massive brute with an unflattering pig-like appearance. He looks like the least intelligent person you've ever seen and yet he's a political manipulative genius. The guy they cast for the show looks like the stereotypical walmart version of the guy you would choose for that role. It completely removes that unique aspect from his character.

Cathartic to listen to this 😌 i think it could have been so cool to use The Voice of Reason as an opening 2-3 minutes of each episode in season 1. Like you said, to ground each episode and the timeline, and a super easy way to familiarize viewers with exposition dump in a lore accurate way. But, seeing as it wasn’t nearly as offensive as season 2 I guess it doesn’t matter. Rip. I still love you Henry.

I remember liking the first season of the show when I watched it without knowing anything, but after reading the first two books I was like what happened.

It's like all the writers knew of Dijkstra was the end of the Reasons of State quest...