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Anger and ‘The Witcher’s’ Yennefer

Use Scan QR Code to copy link and share it Disclaimer: This article discusses only the plots and characters included in the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher, and has no relation to the books or video games in which it is based. Contains spoilers. / TW: Mentions of suicide. Locked away in my house in […]

“[I]f what she wanted was a child or to be a mother, period, she could just adopt a baby and call it a day. But that’s not the point, is it? The point is recovering what she gave up. She paid and as she sees it, never got her payment’s worth. (...) from a character standpoint, what Yennefer wants is her money back, because that was terrible service, sir, mister universe.”

Great analysis of Yennefer in Netflix’s The Witcher.

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hey dudes here a nerdy analysis but also fun piece written about carry on called “Carry On, Parody, and Tropes” by the Fandomentals that’s just really cool. i usually get annoyed by the over saturation of carry on/harry potter comparisons when this book is described, but this touched on the subject of parodies in a cool way, while also talking about how it’s just a plain good book which is like??? my whole damn blog??? love that for me honestly. anyways. read this cool article and nerd w me. regularly scheduled head canons and dumb memes from this point onwards lol. 

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Benioff and Weiss adapt Harry Potter - The Fandomentals

A look at how the Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss would have brought Harry Potter to our screens if using a similar approach.

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...the logistics here are absurd. In a period of crisis in King’s Landing, the High Septon snuck off to Dorne, all sneaky-like, and annulled Rhaegar’s marriage? When 'where’s Rhaegar' and 'where’s Lyanna' were two of the most pressing political questions in the realm? And nobody noticed the High Septon taking a vacation? It might be easier if you have teleporter access—I don’t know. Then there’s the fact that annulments don’t work like this. It’s not a divorce. It makes the marriage as if it had never happened, which is serious, serious business in this case. Rhaegar’s wife Elia was a Princess of Dorne. They had two children together, one of them a boy. Annulling the marriage would have been a grave insult to Elia and her family, and taken Elia’s children out of the line of succession for the throne. There needs to be a good reason for this. Political, legal, religious, something. Mind you, the show has botched annulment before, with Sansa’s marriage to Tyrion (so she could be married off to Ramsay and raped). ... Next is the issue of how much of a dick show!Rhaegar is for this. Book!Rhaegar was thoughtless and reckless bordering on callous already, but show!Rhaegar’s actions are incredibly cruel. He left Elia and their children in the capital with his racist, murderous, dangerously insane father, headed off to Elia’s own birthplace to unilaterally and secretly annul their marriage and remarry his mistress, and when he came back, he pressed Elia’s relatives and countrypeople into fighting and dying for his family. The family he’d just kicked Elia and their children out of (while leaving them as hostages to her brother’s good behaviour). Just…holy crap, this guy is a massive douchebag. And finally, Elia Martell herself. Humiliated, raped, and murdered, along with her children, never receiving justice. On top of all this, we’ve now had the reveal that her husband threw her aside like so much trash. Without even mentioning her name, in spite of a powerful scene where her brother demands that her murderer acknowledge what he did to her, by name. Why is this reveal here? To serve Jon. To make Jon more special. For that specialness to occur, another woman had to be mistreated. It wasn’t necessary.

The Fandomentals, “A Null Plot” 

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An adaptation can get away with a lot of changes to the source material as long it stays faithful to the tone. A Song of Ice and Fire certainly has its serious and dark moments, but Martin counterbalances them with moments of genuine humanity. He also serves them up with a good deal of irony and black humor. In many cases, the reader is left wondering if they should be horrified by what they're reading or burst out laughing. Almost none of this makes it into GoT. Most of the moments of humanity are cut as is most of the humor, though they do occasionally try to add their own humorous moments, most of which are painfully unfunny. It's almost like the writers and showrunners have an inferiority complex. They want to show the world that fantasy can be a serious and adult genre too so they crank the "mature content" up to eleven, consequences to the story be damned.

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The Witcher Hunts Through Peaks and Valleys | The Fandomentals

Following the development of The Witcher since its announcement has been quite the experience. Between casting controversies, Twitter arguments, and a flurry of advance reviews ranging from claims it

Excellent review of The Witcher and its strengths and weaknesses, this time from someone familiar with the books (which I’m not).