#witcher negativity

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

i’m fucking screaming sophie holland showed her entire ass with this huh. 

[definitely-not-an-alb]

Actually, this is one of the things I like the least about Netflix witcher (apart from it in general being one of those ‘this kinda sucks in so many ways I love it’ fandoms for me, no shade), but Jaskier would’ve been SUCH a good character to have some actual acoustic filk, but instead they gave us just more bard-core-ish pop music. And the songs are fun, but idk. I just feel like it’s kind of lazy to not put in even a little effort to write fun folk songs and it’s kind of insulting to think no audience would go for that. Like, yes, ‘but this is how people would feel about those songs’, but consider: I (the audience) am not fucking stupid and in fact very capable of parsing that kind of thing.

Like say what you want about GRRM and GoT but at least their filks are structured appropriately and sound legit and are grounded in the socio-politics of the world! Sound and instrumentals wise, I’m rather unhappy with anything after S4, but that’s GoT for you (Jenny of Old Stones is uh. A thing that happened. and I’m not too happy with Hands of Gold but alas). Specifically, there’s a conflict arising out of GRRM writing legit filk texts and the studio hiring pop-artists to sing them and trying to make them more marketable, but the intent is still there. Netflix Witcher didn’t even TRY.

Yeah, there. I said it. Fishmonger’s Daughter is the best song in Witcher’s Netflix

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

https://twitter.com/VoicesByZane/status/1687471237474222083?s=20

^^^ Take a look at this bogus interview by the producer of TWN. This is so rude 😐

💀💀💀 Americans, bitchflix producer just called y'all dumb as hell.

Fr though the sheer disrespect here, Imagine if Peter Jackson or Denis Villeneuve had this kind of brain rot. It really goes to show just how many people involved in this wretched show - from Lauren to their costume designer to this guy - are outright rancid human beings. I read an article about this interview trying to pity the "poor" creators being "forced" to dumb down this show and tbh I don't think any "creator" of this show gets any kind of pass when time and time again they admit they hated the source material or didn't even touch it. And Cavill's reward for giving a fuck about canon was getting smeared as a toxic gamer bro lmao.

The only thing that kind of surprises me about this is Tomasz Baginski being the one to say all of this because he made the cinematics for the witcher games like was he also thinking about dumbing those down bc the games were gonna be sold internationally 🤡

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

imagine getting cast in a thing and then later the casting director said they pushed for you as your physical appearance challenges beauty standards. 

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

i really take a lot of comfort (lie) in knowing that twn did such a great (lie) job of portraying Geralt’s and Yennefer’s reunion scene post wild hunt attack. I mean who would even want to hear the book version when the show makes it so its jokes and uncle j*skier going “oheueheh do that thing with your tongue, oo is there unicorn, ooo yes take me” who wants to hear that about their parents.

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

maybe you should’ve spent 20 weeks learning how to write and respect the fucking source material instead of vodka-slurping but that would honestly explain a lot smh 

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

I hate the bitcher hellflix

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

anyway i apologise to henry cavill bc netflix has shown me that casting can always be worse lmao