Critique of The Witcher: Blood Origin | Audience Score 8% (Netflix Prequel)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- My review of The Witcher: Blood Origin aka the Witcher Prequel show on Netflix about the origin of the Elder Blood and the Witchers.
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00:00 I watched Blood Origin (Spoiler-Free Section)
00:10 Bad Reviews on IMDB / Rotten Tomatoes
00:24 Is Blood Origin as bad as they say?
00:55 The CGI
01:32 The World and the Elves.
02:55 The Writing and Characters.
04:26 Is this a good prequel?
05:08 Is Blood Origin Worth Watching?
05:30 Agricultural Conjunction of Spheres (Spoiler Section)
06:40 What is Netflix trying to do here?
07:30 Eredin and Avallac’h are not Aen Elle.
08:52 The First Witcher and the Elder Blood.
11:28 Lara Dorren looks nothing like her ancestors.
11:49 The show is not all bad
12:11 Who’s the Goddess of chaos?
12:37 What to look forward to.
13:15 Season 3 may be the last Netflix witcher I watch.
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I’ve never seen a company hate a franchise the way Netflix’s hates the Witcher
Amazon would like a few words.
There is no real indication that they hate it, at most they don't have confidence in the story that they are trying tell, which in turn breaks viewer's confidence in the show
Scooby doo where are you?
Can't wait for the showrunners to start blaming the "toxic" fans for the show's poor reception. They are probably only waiting for the holidays to end. XD
I think Rings of power is as bad, i really like Tolkien work and it is sad what these people can do to things we love.
You’re being a lot nicer than this show deserves 😂
That’s what i was thinking ,the show was straight up terrible
Critical Drinker would be taking a fat shit all over this show 😂
Go woke go broke. Horrible writing + diversity casting and LGBT agenda = trash show. What did they expect honestly
Yeah, it deserves to be shat on, and made fun of.
This shit Hollywood world we live in, where a company buys the rights to a beloved book and uses social justice to take a shit all over it
Starting to feel like Gaunter O'Dimm fulfilled someone's wish to bring The Witcher universe to streaming services.
Hahaha would love to watch as series in which the rubbish writers and showrunner have to answer to Gaunter O'Dimm for their crimes against the Witcher books and games!
and you my friend writes the best comment
"The agreement is clear: you give me your soul, and I give you a Witcher prequel series."
"Yeah, but it was only 4 episodes and it was terrible."
" You should have been more specific. Now, give me your soul..."
YOU SHUT UP! They might try to shoehorn him into their grand narrative.
If we just dont mention the cool characters then maybe Netflix will not butcher them.
Oh he'll get punished. Netflix will likely take him and turn him into the main antagonist in a future season. They'll likely shoehorn him into an apocalyptic plot while writing him as a painfully obvious Satan analogue with none of the subtlety and good writing that made Gaunter O'Dimm such an interesting antagonist in Witcher 3.
“Something broke within me during season 2” Couldn’t have said it better myself. I died with Eskel in the second episode. I felt nothing after that but sadness and shame.
Wasn’t Lambert the one that died?
Who remembers
Season 2 was where all the promises of getting better didn't pay at all, before that their biggest problem was a ball sack of armor, after it they just basically killed their adaptation
@@polishrocker93 It was Eskel. He was my favorite witcher who is kind hearted and equal to Geralt in swordfight.
Same I didn't give a shit about the show after that
Who could have possibly predicted it would suck? Everyone.
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did you see it the trailer
Not netflix psycho fans
@@Koza6969
Are there any Netflix Witcher fans, really? I refuse to believe that even people who enjoy this botchling of a franchise are actually invested beyond the exact time they’re watching.
Your commitment to make an unbiased review is incredible.
Haha is this sarcasm? The guy is bitching on Netflix in every video he makes 🤣 I agree with him, but at this point we are all biased. We just hate Netflix for what they did with The Witcher and therefor we do our utter best to find anything to bitch about on Netflix
@@Ken_Jones And what's your point? What else should we do besides "bitch" about it? Praise it and agree with the writers maybe? The pure garbage that is being produced by these people that disrespects and tarnishes the Witcher universe deserves nothing but criticism.
@@Ken_Jones newsflash, everything you poop is shit. that is not 'biased' opinion, just objective reality.
@@Ken_Jones that's not true at all this is pure garbage. I didn't mind some of the witcher season 1 I didn't watch season 2 because I think they have no idea what there doing. If something is good I and I'm sure many others would say so. Even if we didn't like something they made before
@@Ken_Jones It's not sarcasm, they just understand what the word "unbiased" means, the guy is a fan of the Witcher franchise. If Netflix make a bad show, he will talk about the bad show. That's nothing to do with bias. Being bias doesn't mean you don't talk about something for some reason.
"Instead they're just regular, gay elves" omg that had me in stitches haha
I just recently finished the books, and I got through the bittersweet ending. I also recall that Hissrich said that "Season 3 will be the closest to the books yet". Which is complete bollocks, because they can't really do time of contempt with the way the pieces of the story are currently layed out. Ciri would never trust Yennefer again after the events of season 2, and they've completely bypassed their time together in Melitele's temple which is where the two develop a Mother-daughter relationship. Because we saw Cahir capturing Ciri, his plot goes out the window of being just a naïve captain hoping to save his neck. Geralt would probably not trust Yennefer again after that mistake, and Codringher and Fen are already dead. All of the plot points of the book have been resolved, or otherwise bungled such that they are unusable. The only thing that could happen is the Coup on Thanedd, and Geralt's encounter with Vilgefortz. Which only happens if Geralt forgives Yennefer for essentially running off with Ciri and stealing her for her own gain.
Case in point, nothing (or at least very little of it) that the show has done has kept in line to the books. That's not all bad, and I will give credit where credit is due. The only problem I have is that its so far removed from the source material that it isn't even the same story. They should say that out of the gate. Heck, I'm halfway tempted to use the post from Hissrich as an excuse to write an essay about all of the ways Season 3 will either deviate from the books, or they took so much backlash, that they decided to stick strictly to it (Which they can't do)
The Netflix writers have pinned themselves here, and it doesn't seem likely that season 3 will do well, and ergo I don't suspect there will be a season 4. But you never know.
As a post script, I'd like to be wrong about this. I'd like it to be good, and I'm not just being negative for the sake of it. There are some good things about the show, Cavill's portrayal of Geralt being the most consistent one of them. For me, this show feels a lot like the Hobbit movies, where they added so much that the main story really just gets muddled down. Except here the main story is almost non-existant.
Yennefer is not in this show just some woman with her name
"close to books" ciri is lesbian. enough.
Phoenixguild - i agree 100%. They can't go from s2 to being faithfull to books
@@jinchuuriki8593 she´s bi
Very eloquently well analyzed description of the differences between the original book source material, and what Netflix did to ruin it for fans. I agree with everything you have said.
A random forest in Toussaint in Witcher 3 has had more detail, lore and soul put into it than all Netflix "Witcher" shows put together.
And unfortunately I have little confidence in CDPR to make good new games. I am afraid they have become closer to what Netflix is.
@@galisleo8737 why cdpr? Last game they made was cyberpunk. It had A LOT of problems, but it was not disrespecting the original lore or had lack of detail story wise..
@@maxometer123 Based on their latest general public approach, style, etc. Even in Cyberpunk for example, they added one transgender love interest. Nothing wrong with transgender people but I think they did it to "tick boxes" and fake being progressive. To be fair, they didn't advertise it or made it publicly a big deal (as far as I know) which is a point to them, but I am still a bit cautious about them lately. I am curious how they will remake Witcher 1 in some regards to be honest.
@@galisleo8737 What transgender love interest are you talking about ?
@@maxkodu77 The name is of the character is Claire.
These Netflix adaptations are a crime against humanity.
You are are crime against humanity 👍
Couldn't agree more.
and they just keep on pushing the shit out
@@mattjargon That's bc ppl keep watching it...whether you watch bc you hate it, bc you love the IP, or bc you are curious...they don't care, so long as you watch, and if you watch, then they have the viewership and they will buy another IP you love and infect it with their diversity, inclusion, and retcon, bc we all know it is wrong to make a show based on polish folklore (or British folklore) without making historically white beings into other colors for woke ideologies sake.
a crime against every writer that ever lived. A crime against writing.
Thank you xLetalis, your sacrifice will not be in vein, you have saved me from a bad show if I ever wanted to give it a go.
Man that side-by-side shot of Avalach @8:01 pretty much summarizes the difference between the Netflix version of the Witcher lore and the original material, one is full of grace, mystique and sensuality, the other is... I rather not even say... No wonder Cavill ran as fast as he could from this pile of tainted poop.
My voice was seriously dying while recording this, sorry if I sound weird.
Bad Witcher content physically hurts you my friend. I understand.
I can't bring myself to watch it.. thank you for doing it for me 😅
Man i was eagerly waiting for thisssss, was planning to see this show after watching your review, i don't want to see Witcher world being destroyed by Netflix, Thanks Mate❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@jubinjohn1155 yes negflix changed these beautiful fantasy into low-quality comedy
After seeing how bad this show is. I don't blame you.
I thought the selling Ciri scene couldn't be worse, but the scrotum armor does the job!
It´s like we are ciri, watching how andrej is getting paid by netflix
As a fantasy junkie, I'm always looking for more in this genre, and I was super excited about witcher being made into a series. I wish they were true to the books. I wish they had acknowledged and respected how much the fan base appreciates Cavill and his approach. If they wanted a hit and rabid loyal fans, all they needed to do was take note and follow his lead to the promised land. What a tragic fumble. It seems like the producers and writers were just so impressed with their own "creativity" that they didn't have the attention span or capacity to recognize the value and appeal of the source material. No respect, bad effect. I hope that the huge profits that they've lost with their arrogant fumbling will provide the motivation for them to try to rethink everything. So much potential. I hate to see it end like this, just watching it slowly swirl down the toilet.
source material? the books were mid, the games were it
5:58 “just regular, gay elves” hahahaha. Haven’t watched it so thanks for getting through this for us man. Your review not only saved me time but also was probably more entertaining. Keep it up man
There is no such thing as a Witcher show only the games and books exist
Yap - definitely 😎👍
Best comment
Exscuse me, the polish Witcher with Michal Zebrowski was pretty ok. Poor production value but decent plot and great acting.
I was either unaware or completely forgot that Blood Origin is available
The fact that you can’t even remember if you forgot is a bad omen to begin with
@@warlordofbritannia were there any ads? real question xd
@@IBeYaZ_ There were ads but not enough or people didn't even bother watching it as Henry Cavill wasn't even in it. 😂
Youre not missing anything. First episode told me all I needed to know.
@@noobjitsu1743 Fr, all I did was watch the trailer and I was like *NOPE* 😨
I still don't understand when "Blood Origin" in this show.
The first Witcher was elf?
The way we are shown this does not explain where the first Witcher came from and why we had to "understand" something.
Moreover, they reduced it to Jaskier's story, which does not fit into the concept of a prequel at all...
I love how polite and composed you are. You are a far better person than I could ever be :D
Also the part where you said "Something broke in me..." hit me so right in the feels. Mostly I am sad because this could have been a show we would rewatch again and again like Lord of the Rings, but no, we had to get this :(
Had someone told me a few years ago that we would have Witcher series ,Halo series and lord of the rings series I would have tears of joy. Now I am just scared
EDIT: I forgot resident evil too, damn that was a real nightmare.
....and sad and disappointed and furious...
Truly disgraceful how they've dropped every ball
Halo at start was shit but I think for Season 2 it's gonna be more actual Chief... Rings of Power I don't wanna think about but the fact RoP was better than Origin I got high hopes now loool
The Rings of Power is good, dont even compare to to these, Even Henry Praised it
Don't forget about what they did to the wheel of time. Those are amazing books
I feel bad for Michelle yeoh. She's iconic. Crouching tiger hidden dragon. But I had zero faith in this one being any good
She was cast only because she’s Asian.
@@m4shfi She didn't have to accept the role though. Stop defending these Hollywood cunts.
She did her best. Screenplay given was no help at all.
She could read the script and see that it was shit, as long as she got paid well for this it's fine.
No need to mourn minor losses, celebrate her biggest achievements!
Just early this year “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, a film she’s leading, garnered much acclaim. I’m sure her career’s doing fine because of that. The Netflix -Witcher- Shitter/Butcher (still indecisive on which appropriate new name) is just a micro insignificant footnote in her career
Even great actors aren’t immune to be snagged in garbage projects here and there lol
I'm a Polish person, not that it means much, but watching one of our greatest cultural exports get butchered over and over again kinda hurts my soul.
No matter how used I got to watching terrible media, seeing The Witcher get disrespected will always bother me.
We really thought: "Wow, the witcher finally got a hollywood budget and will get a screen adaptation it deserved. No more dragons generated in paint program"
How little we knew...
Thank you for going through all the pain to present us a fair review, more generous than this thing deserves. You’re a gentleman as always!
I really wished for the creators to be able to deliver something worthy but a nice fight does not mean a good show unfortunately.
I am utterly disappointed even if my hopes were not high. All I wanted was a solid story that give us the chance to sympathise with some of characters and a nice portrayal of the ancient elven and dwarven civilisation.
All of this could have been an interesting opportunity for them to be as inclusive as they want and it wouldn’t have been a problem. A good storytelling does wonders.
I seriously doubt that the third season could make any justice and I believe that the things will only go worse from here on.. For me The Witcher series from Netflix ended with S2E1 and this is how I would like to remember the show. 😢
Going back at the true Witcher, still have to finish the Next-Gen. ❤
I’m just gonna watch this video and act like I’ve seen the whole show
If you want to see what the show is most like, go into your bathroom, sit on your toilet, take a massive dump, then take a good long look at it.
The exact same amount of effort the showrunners put into it. Nice!
Close enough
This prequel series and the Main one are great examples of what happens when you have people in charge who don't respect/care for the source material.
Reminds of the drama that happened with Fate The Winx Saga.
add in Rings of Power.
it seems like the people only want to create when it's built off of someone else's work.
@@Clavitz1 “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”
― JRR Tolkien
What happened to Winx?
Regardless, I kinda find it disturbing that the industry’s bent on capitalizing on childhood nostalgia somehow by thinking of making an _edgy_ twist…
It honestly has nothing to do with not caring for source material, they're just bad writers, simple as that.
@@cancatalbas7849
Tolkien also stressed that evil will inevitably defeat itself in time, if only by rousing the forces that would have otherwise remained apathetic.
Like with the Ents. I want to see Treebeard to casually wander into the Witcher show and start feeling “hasty”
Wow... I can feel the pain you're going through to give us the best review possible. This is why we love you good sir.
You've put way more thought into this than the whole Netflix Witcher department combined. I've been going over S2 again, desperately trying to salvage affection for it. I just can't. Doesn't help that I've been replaying TW3 because of the next-gen patch. The quality of writing, world-building, and production is a whole ten Conjunctions away.
They should have just used some of the videogame writers and the show would have been 1000% better
Thanks for watching it so we dont have to. Even though I have netflix I will not give Lauren and the rest of the bad writers a minute of my watchtime in hope that Netflix will kick them out soon. What a crime against the books.
Same here. I could watch it but I choose not to just as I could cut one of my arms but I choose not to.
Just started my yearly replay of Witcher 3 and it is still glorious!
good man
I'm playing it now too. This update with 60fps is amazing. I just got to level 24
@@cowel8734give the RT 30fps a try, looks more immersive with more appropriate lighting
@Mohamed Hashim I personally didn't like it. I felt it looked better without and the stutter from the 30fps took away from getting to enjoy it. Seems a lot of people either love it or hate it
No hollywood-belched movie will ever be able to compete with that.
Especially, one made by the apocalyptic cinema of today.
I have poured over your Witcher 3 walk throughs for years, and have finished "Witcher 3 Game" twice now, with your help, ,and I have to say that your line, " I just don't really care" and "something inside me broke during season 2" was perfect.
Thank you for your unbiased breakdown, and for suffering through this latest "filler" that has been released by a questionable team, consisting of varying degrees of talent and attention span. I am a Huge xLetalis fan, and was honestly more interested in your opinion then the show itself. Cheers, and Happy Holidays sir.
I've watched Blood Origin the day after it was released and I was so disappointed that I was more eager to hear about what xLetalis was going to say about it (literally this video) than anything else.
Thank you for what you do everyday, it just makes my day.
A "Witcher Tales" serie where they could show past events from the lore would be so much better
stuff like Falka's legend, the Nordlings first arrival , the rise of the city of Nilfguard, The witcher's creation. Probably would have been a better direction for the series imo
I'd rather prefer Netflix stopped touching the Witcher franchise altogether.
@@dissect123 very true, enough damage has been done by netflix
Honestly they should just stick to doing Witcher and cyberpunk anime. The only things that has been good.
@@revan5293 Because they had no creative control over them lol. They were created by independent studios and netflix only published them
Assuming they even have the competence to do such a thing.
This isn’t the Witcher anymore it’s the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Nah that was a good film
Its "the lion, the witch and the audacity of this bitch" get it right.
That’s an insult to Narnia 😂
That's because there was no witcher at this time in the time line, WTF frog. There can't be a witcher until a whole hell of a time later after this prequel. Next time you finance a whole production, and we will get a chance to decide if you can give you what you want, and if it's any good.
@@coegj Bad take.
Thanks for the rundown Letalis!
and 1:23 never gets old. 😄
I love how they're not even trying to cast actors that resemble their character counterparts, they're just hiring whoever they want to now
"I watched Blood Origin." - A man of focus, commitment and sheer *ucking will.
*salutes*
I won't give it a chance, sounds unfair but I gave season 2 a chance and was sorely disappointed. I don't want anything muddying up my view on the witcher
It’s not Unfair. The consensus is consistent enough to realize it’s not worth watching and tainting my love for the witcher universe. I’ll never watch it
Nah, it's fair. Some "fans" don't want to give books a chance and claim that show is okay. That is unfair.
@@jamesford2192 yea that's what I'm afraid will happen. 😑
fascist
I didn't even particularly enjoy the first season. Couldn't finish it & I definitely won't watch season 2 or blood origin.
"While watching, I realised that I don't longer cared that much". This sentence sums up the entirety of my thoughts about Netflix' "Witcher". Love your reviews! Keep at it! :D
That clip of Geralt selling Ciri with the ballsack armor on is quite possibly the best thing to come out of the Netflix adaptation
I had no desire to watch it and I trust your review so not gonna waste my time. Back to playing Next gen witcher 3
My biggest problem with blood origin is the lacking of complex moral perspective that to me defines the witcher as a franchise. The plot just went in circles around a poorly constructed victim vs oppressor narrative.
Because it wasn't written by Andrzej I suspect.
The moment I saw the first teaser for this, I knew it wouldn't be worth wasting my time on watching it. It really looked like it would just be an epitome of everything that was wrong with the main show's season 2(and a bit of season 1 too). Turns out my prediction was correct. I think I speak on behalf of the entire community when I say thank you very much for sitting through this dumpster fire so we don't have to do it ourselves! Love your content, as always!
How can you be so cool headed and objective towards the show! It's truly commendable given your involvement in source material. Or you might be breaking down behind the scenes and making the objective video only for your beloved viewers xD
Nice video, and Ouch. This is the most "I'm not angry, I'm just so disappointed I had enough" review I have ever seen.
Everyone is crapping on this. I can’t wait to hear your review
I am playing Witcher 3 for the first time and started on next gen release and have already 55 hours, I am so addicted and doing all questionmarks and stuff its so good. Its such a shock seeing you literally having this franchise as such a big part in your life and playing/making content for so long while I play it for the first time just now.
I really like that you gave an actual nuanced review unlike the rest of the content creators covering this. Sure, it's popular and pretty fair to crap on this show, but it's still nice to have some nuance. Like the show was absolutely garbage but I completely agree that there were great fight scenes and charismatic (even if not well written) characters.
Watching this is enough for me.
Man I have so many opinions about this show but I love hearing what you have to say xLetalis! Thanks for putting it all so well. I also found it super weird that the elven culture was just human…
I do think it had some potential. I liked the misfit heroes we followed. The antagonists though were poorly written and were making strange decisions. If you cut all that stuff and focused more on the 7, I think it would have been way better. The only thing I liked about the empress is that she had some awesome makeup that I loved to look at instead of pay attention to what she would say (because nothing any of the antagonists say adds anything to the story lol). Idk why the Netflix shows love to try to explain everything. Half ass explaining a cosmic event like the conjunction takes away the mystery and what makes the world feel real. When you tell stories, you don’t need to have an explanation for everything - you also don’t need to know what the antagonists are always up to… this is one of the Netflix shows’ biggest flaw imo. Poorly attempted over explaining, and thus adding fluff that takes away from the storytelling. Kudos to those makeup artists & the actors.
Thanks for the heads up buddy! I’ve passed on the Witcher tv series as a whole, so I will continue to do so; thank you for confirming my bias😂😂😂😂
Great content! Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and whatever other holidays there is.
You'd think they would know they are in trouble when the backstory in Wild Hunt to how to get the Netflix armor is better than the entire premise of the show🤣
But I think one positive of the show was Bear McCreary for the OST, it was a vast improvement over what we got for Season 2.
So, I watched it and felt like it was made like Hercules or Xena from the 90's. Especially the in town scenes and the scenes involving big armies.
Those were at least good for the 90's.😂
except those shows are actually good
It felt like the director was "Alright, big battle scene...I need 15 guys to march into the city. Alright, now look intimidating....yep, that will do"
Even LotR: RotK added thousands more horsemen despite already having about hundred of actual horse(wo)men. At 2022 I'd expect at the very least there would be copy paste cgi of those initial 15 men to make them look like an actual army.
Ah yes...high quality TV...when elves, dwarves and faeries were still allowed to look like they always have since their conception.
Yeah, the fact that elven culture at the past being very similar to how humans behave in the present day Witcher story just broke my heart... Even though it's a different story, it's history describes elves as more like in Tolkien work. Plus elven architecture and clothing is significantly different than humans and show doesn't show it that way (maybe they have there reasons IDK).. elven armor is more Mongolian type, they kinda didn't apply that elvish touch to the show. Plus I don't think they had some of these haircuts during that time lol.
Probably budget reasons cheaper to just add pointy ears than having them look similar to Tolkien version. Also graceful feminine women elves would be a bit no no for Netflix it’s the hear me roar women elves they want.
You are doing an amazing job! I have been watching for years! Your commitment to the witcher is unquestionable! Good luck on the path!
I mean you're doing better than me. I didn't even watch season 2 and only know about what happens because of your breakdowns haha
This show makes The Rings of Power look like a masterpiece.
Letails i really love your content,and here Is a thing i notice,if you watch the scene in the first episode when Chief sage Balor speaks to chaos godess,subtitles will call her by "Falka" so this only happens watching the show with english voices but spanish subtitles.
I appreciate this review because I have been watching his Witcher vids for years and he created this with a well-informed yet objective viewpoint.
Wait, so the makers of the show never even bothered to read the novels?
I used to watch your swtor videos back in the day, good to see ur still uploading! ❤
hey, that's nice to hear :)
Mannn I beg you to watch this season 3! Please, dont stop making the review of each episode. I learned I lot from you and I felt that wasn’t only me that was disappointed with the show.
Love you man, take care!
Creators of Witcher 3 were awarded with Badge of White Eagle which is the highest rank badge in Poland
Fully agree about the Critique. Very bad show.
I never thought i would hate the show so much...
Bad writing, characters, lore. That was a disaster.
Yeah some ideas i accept, but that a minor details...
That not solve all problems and that very bad!
Despite how I felt about season 1-2, it caused extremely negative emotions!
You must have been asleep for the past 10 years as the Left has injected their intersectional feminism and CRT into every aspect of every production. Things are not going to get any better. We need to start a crowd funded studio, sell shares for investment and our money buys the IPs we want to see made into FAITHFUL adaptations without race and gender swapping established characters or creatures...nothing pulls my mind out of immersion faster than seeing a black elf, or a black dwarf, bc it is impossible for me to think anything other than 'diversity and inclusion quotas'
I gotta say that switch between Netflix!Foltest and game!Foltest was impeccable! What Netlix did to him was a CRIME I tell ya.
Tfw you realize that Foltest was probably the best royal character in Netflix Witcher with the possible exception of Calanthe. A low bar, indeed taking into account Calanthe's out of nowhere feminism.
This show just reaffirmed my faith that the Show runners at Netflix believe action is more important to the viewed than good story telling.
I liked the fact that they tried to tell the “whole main story” in this season, but it was so rushed that it felt like I was watching the series on 1.5x speed even at regular pace.
Oh and small footnote, the trial of grasses has a 30% survival rate. And this is after having centuries to practice and perfect it.
You’re telling me a rag tooth band of misfits got it right in the first shot and the only side effect was that he couldn’t control it? I mean possible maybe but highly improbable if you ask me.. so this story is likely not the actual origin story of Witchers but rather some sensationalist version of it.
Netflix could’ve really used a comeback for the franchise. Unfortunately this wasn’t it. All the best Liam.
Thank you for the honest unbiased review of Blood Origin! My knowledge of The Witcher comes from the show but mostly the games. I recently got all the books on Audio. But I also thought the show wasn’t horrible but isn’t good either. But seriously thx again for the unbiased opinion. You’ve earned a new sub here!
2/10 and I am being generous.
0/10 is still too generous.
There’s always something ironically juvenile about excessive cursing, especially in a show you’re supposed to take seriously. Dropping constant f-bombs only reminds me of a kid using a new favorite word.
I've always considered that the true heart of The Witcher as a franchise is, and always will be, the simple concept of "The story of this ONE witcher in particular named Geralt of Rivia, the sorceress Yennefer and the child of destiny Ciri, the company they keep around them and the way they manage situations outside their control even against all odds."
I think that the original Witcher lore and world works so well because the worldbuilding was specifically designed to serve that particular concept and characters, not the other way around.
I don't think that The Witcher franchise needs to explain a lot of things in order to work, particularly things about the past could stay as ambiguous as they are and i bet not many people are gonna have a problem with it, i'm even willing to say the people who are confused and want more answers about the backstrory of the world feel this way particulary because recent Witcher media don't know when to stop trying to put patches on the plot and past events.
Maybe it's just me but the moment this show was announced as "Set 1,200 years before the birth of Geralt of Riv-" i immediately lost interest and i had to force myself to watch it just to have a fair opinion, the more they get away from the familiarity of the stablished characters and world the more they're likely to screw everything up. (The Vesimir anime being an understandable exception, since it's familiar enough)
My guess is that the reason Netflix is so obssessed with talking about the "origins" of everything is because they wanna hook the audience with this naive idea of "You like this thing, right? Well lucky you!! I have an explanation on how it started, that's appealing, right? If you like this thing so much surely you wanna know everything about it's origins right? The more characters and plot points from the source material we link to this cool thing we made the better you'll like it, right? We can take this thing you like and make you like it more!"
They're completely missing the point on what made the original story so appealing, but that's just my stinky opinion.
Initially when the Henry Cavil drama popped up i wanted Herny to come back as Geralt, but honestly now i wish he doesn't, not for Henry of course, but because that way Netflix's work on The Witcher will be a step closer to collapse on itself.
I think i've hit my breaking point too and now i don't really mind that much about what netflix does next, for all i care they could make a Witcher multiverse with 20 more prequels and new characters that somehow link everything together, in the end i highly doubt their work will ever be considered more canon than the games will lol (The games aren't canon as far as i'm concerned, but they sure feel like it)
this was such a calm and organised review (VS this mess) XD kudos
also yes - it's pronounced as Yeoh! (The way you said it Letalis).
8:02 The showrunners and writers are probably not good enough to write wise and cunning characters anyway.
They can only darken skin colors and make characters gay. Anything beyond that was not part of their gender studies program.
I salute you for being able to sit through this show
I admire you for keeping up with it. I was not able to finish the second season (literaly fell asleep at the beginning of the last episode and haven't muster the will to watch it ever since) and I am not even planing to give this disaster a shot.
I started playing the Witcher 3 since the update for PS5 come out. I'm about 40 hours in and can't put it down. The World and Characters are the 2 things that blew me away. Detail is unreal in this game. I will eventually watch the show but the game is satisfying enough for me
A detail from the game: on the road around Crow's Perch near Burned ruins marker, there's a dead body on the road. I think the model of that body is quite unique. I don't recall seeing this face on any NPC before. Do you know if this is a reference to anything/anybody?
His the qwent intro guy 😮😢😅
I knew you wouldn't stay out of it! Thank you for this fair review and for not concentrating on things EVERYONE is talking about. I liked this one even better than the 2nd season tbh.
About making witchers. Well, this first one they obviously messed up. The celestial siblings were making it up as they went, mostly experimenting and improvising, it seems. They wrote little down and only the sister made it to the end of the season. In any case, I doubt she would be overly enthusiastic to pass this knowledge along, especially to humans. So the actual dh'oine makers of the real witchers (who can still be Alzur and Malaspina, by the way, they came by these ships apparently), have perhaps only bits of info, but enough time to perfect the procedure.
And Vesemir with Triss could be just plain wrong, they never actually tested their method and never made anything, the knowledge is lost and obscure by their time.
I'm grasping at straws here, trying to tie this whole "universe" together, when the show-runners don't give two fucks about consistency. But it's still explainable without too much of a stretch, unlike other things which are lost to logic forever..
Oh yeah the celestial siblings, I totally forgot about that part :) Glad to read your comment
Thank you for a calm review.
When it comes to Witcher related stuff, there's nobody I trust more than xLetalis. Politics, wokeness aside, you always seem to speak from the heart. As a fellow book-reader, I could never be as objective and nice as you, but I respect everything you do.
Keep making Witcher 3 videos as well. I'm sure there are still details to be found in the year 2100.
Thank you :)
Killing off Eskel in S2 was such an atrocity I stopped watching.
I mean, it would be like killing Ronald Weasley at the end of the first HP movie. It just doesn't work nor make sense.
At this point I am a literal soothsayer as I always know when a company will completely fuck something up. Be it a movie, show, game, sport, school, whatever - it always has the same trends and earmarks, always, NO exceptions, it ALWAYS follows the same course. The Witcher was/is no different. The sooner the people burn those parasites at the stake the better.
From what I gathered, Dandelion ended up making the song and that was the song used in the credits at the end of the series
The sad part is that a few years ago when they made "Netflix adaptation" memes they weren't exaggerating at all.
This just in: a Netflix adaptation has the usual quality of a Netflix adaptation.
You would have thought that the word "adaptation" has some meaning here. But not in this case.
The Witcher, All Quiet on the Western Front, the anime live action movies they keep making…I heard lukewarm things about A Series of Unfortunate Events
Thanks for your review.
I appreciate that you only concentrate on the the show and did not take the "real live" events into consideration.
The show's quality should (and does) speak for itself.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Sir, you are, relentless.
Happy holidays!
same to you :)
Ouch... xLetalis isn't angry, he's just disappointed. Which we all know is even worse.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room, Netflix is trying so hard to emphasize the "woke" qualities of the characters at the cost of creating a completely empty and meaningless TV series.
Netflix decided that the "woke" audiences would be more profitable than people who actually want to see a properly written show, and now we see the results.
As you said, I'm not even mad, I just don't care about it anymore, even if I played TW3 more than any other games and I'm a huge fan of the saga.
Why do they have to buy our beloved IPs to do their preaching then? I don't agree with you, I agree with Gary over at Nerdrotic, that they are intentionally doing this to OUR lores bc it destroys them. They could probably go find a bunch of fantasy or sci-fi novels (that none of us would ever read) that already has all their diversity and inclusion (but no meaningful story or character arcs) but they just keep crapping on our things. I hate the Left...we really shit the bed when we let them take over every aspect of our civilization beginning with indoctrination in schools and universities, in the media, and the internet.
@@allhopeabandon7831 nha, I think they want the cake and eat it too. they want a good novel with a lot of fans so they have a good starting base, then they want to extend the audience to people who were not interested in that product. However, by doing so they lose the original fans who end up with a product that is very different from the original, and at the same time they also lose the "new audience" because they have created a boring story with boring characters.
Been waiting for this one.
I really appreciate that you tried so hard find positive things to say about this absolute dog's dinner
I was totally wrong. I didn't expect that you would kinda go merciful on this abomination, instead of tearing it apart into its malicious atoms, especially with how you felt about Witcher S02 LOL
Lauren & friends has truly become their own worst enemies, the ultimate evil like no other in this whole series. Smh...
Tbh, I hope Henry Cavill is dare enough to do a collab works with CDPR, like in some kind of new secret Witcher project, just to spite even more on this cabal of madness...
Just imagine if Henry become a VA for a new Witcher character or maybe even a character in Cyberpunk world (like maybe Morgan Blackhand??!). If CDPR could afford Keanu Reeves & Idris Elba, they might as well as go with the most obvious hype train choice like Henry Cavill.
It is honestly impressive that they managed to ruin such a good story with an already well adapted depiction in such a short period of time.
Wird feeling. I sit and listen to you with confused face and can't belive what is happening in that series, but on the other hand I'm pumped because of how much potential this story have and hope that someone will do it justice one day. Maybe CDPR in next trilogy, hopely😇
Not seen the show, and not planning too, but in all fairness it is implied that the elves somehow brought the conjunction upon themselves, though it was never explored further.
Netflix and Lauren’s “I want to make a TV show but I need to slap a popular IP title on it or else no one will care” the series.
About the first witcher and the elder blood, for me it seemed like they hadn't really figured the right ingredients out in Blood Origin since Fjall seemed to be going insane/feral or dying towards the end. So maybe the flower contains some elder blood and thus does work to a certain extent but pure elder blood is needed to complete a stable and successful mutation.
The thing about having children with Fjall is that he and Éile had sex before he was "mutated" too. You know, the scene with the intense thunder where Éile wakes up in the woods alone.
The thing is that they only showed them kissing in that earlier scene and she woke up fully dressed, then they proceeded to actually show them having sex, so it would be natural to assume that the conception happened in the 2nd scene.
@@xLetalis Yes I fully understand, but I kind of assumed that Éile put some clothes on afterwards for sleeping because they are out in the woods where it's chilly. Also the thunder and everything made it seem like something important is happening maybe?
@@jindigo5606 I suppose it's possible
Thank you for the sacrifice.
Hope next gen Witcher additions are keeping you contented!
the part with the black magician in the desert looks like a scene from the Mortal Combat Movie.
This show is everything wrong with Netflix.
@sirsoma1365 unfaithful to the source material, boring characters, inconsistent and contradicting story, identity politics shoved in at every opportunity, hatred for fans that point out all these wrongs
Cuties is what's wrong with Netflix, but yeah this is a terrible show.
This show is everything wrong with western 'current year' entertainment for nonexistent 'modern audiences'.
I'm not sure this is a Netflix specific issue. You see this happening to so many IPs, unrelated to Netflix itself. On the other side, Netflix also has Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. This happens in the video game world too, as seen with the latest Saints Row.
I believe the fault lies in the hands of egomaniac and incompetent showrunners\writers that seem to want to write their own fan fictions instead of respecting what they're adapting\continuing. Whenever criticize, they would immediately hide behind the criticism of "toxic fans" (which yes, there are some) while ignoring everything else. Meanwhile, they piggy-back on a renown name like The Witcher to spearhead their initial popularity and public interest.
This is everything wrong with woke Hollywood in 2022. I want to go back to the 90s
I like how even *xLetalis* is kind of like "ok whatever" at this point lol 😆. Thanks for the unbiased review. Netflix has already broken me at this point.