The Witcher: Blood Origin Episode 2 comes back and comes with whole new issues rather than the old ones. Less repeating of the same information time and time again, but now we have so many bandages wrapping over plot holes that were all dubbed over in post the entire story becomes a farce. At one point they even contradict actual footage from the first episode, how does this even get past the editors? Combine that with the usual and modern entertainment tropes of characters and we end up with a Witcher show with 6 minutes of credits where the main plot twist is that that many people still wanted their name put on it. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Dude. I cant get thru 5 DAMN MINUTES without having to watch or skip an ad. I'm done with this video and if it happens again I'm just deleting your channel. If I wanna watch commercials I'll watch crunchyroll or something.
Disparu is telling a better story then Blood Origin and Rings of Power combined about Harfoots. Keep up the great work and thank you for the good laughs!
Tarantino once explained how, in his scripts he will write sections he has no intention of filming, for instance, in Kill Bill, after the Bride wakes from her coma, she drives her stolen “Pussy Wagon” out to the desert, to a specific odd shaped Rock formation, where she has a buried footlocker with cash, weapons, passports, etc. and that’s how she has the means to travel to Japan to kill ORen. This wasn’t filmed and isn’t mentioned in the film. Tarantino said it’s important that he writes all of these parts, even if the audience doesn’t need to know, he, as the writer needs to know how things happened, so he doesn’t contradict himself. He also believes that the audience will let certain things go not knowing and not question them, as long as they have trust, that the storyteller knows. He also includes these parts in the script, so the actors also know what their characters may have done off screen. He also writes detailed backstories for each character in the script, even if it’s not included in the film, because that can inform the actor’s performance. I say all of that, to say, I don’t think the Witcher writers do this?
Oh & another bit of Kill Bill storytelling that isn’t included in the film, but was in the script and QT actually considered filming was GoGo has a twin sister, that tracks the Bride back to America to get revenge for her sister. The Bride kills her, but is seriously wounded in the process and has to drop in on an old friend, Nurse Bonnie(who is the same Nurse Bonnie, from the “Bonnie Situation” in Pulp Fiction, firmly putting Kill Bill in the QT expanded Universe)for medical attention, before proceeding onto Budd & Elle. This is the part where her “Pussy Wagon dies”, I believe, which is referenced later in the film when she is asked why she is driving the Blue Car & not a truck.
The people who wrote this show have no talent whatsoever. Tarantino is like Da Vinci or Van Gogh and the Blood Origin crew are like 1st graders with finger paint
Non existing weirdos. Nobody is THAT stupid. ... maybe with the exception of the writers, that is. Hint: Never let the dumbest person in the room write the script!
Lenny used to be a British national treasure… what went wrong? If we can figure out how James Cameron and Lenny ended up as they are maybe we can spot the danger signs early and intervene.
iWriters: “Fantasy means no rules!” which means an Star Destroyer or a T-rex can warp in to witcher, and witcher can warp to Hogwarts to fight Vody with HelIraiser these writers have zero concept of how writing or story works
@@sunso1991 MauLer did a very nice demonstration of how stupid Outback Steakhouse Writing ("no rules, just write") is, in one of his long videos on The Last Jedi.
29:05 "Take us to your healer." Strange. Disparu heard "take us to your leader." After all that talk about herbs and stuff, I heard "take us to your dealer." - especially when straight after they walk into smoke and start hallucinating!
26:32 "I thought that I was done with killing. Seems the killing isn't done with me." 33:50 "Maldof was done with the world of Elves, but the world of Elves was far from done with her." "The writers were done with stupidity, but stupidity wasn't done with them." "Disparu was done with Witcher Blood Origin, but Witcher Blood Origin wasn't done with him."
The stuff you point out is simply brilliant! "Do you think you can get the hairstylist to write the script? I think they might put a lot more effort!" 🤣
"Writers room is all women!" "So here is how princess will look after our 3 hour discussion! Oh the plot? Mmm, IDK lets just make it up as we go along! Teehee!"
@@M-S_4321 it's not that bad. it isn't boring for example. if you manage to take all the diversity checkboxes as just part of this universe (they're not as disturbing as in other shows) what is left is a good bard's tale/legend with an annoying and useless narrator. because of the shortness it fails to flesh out the setting, you'll never see starving peasants, executed rebels, high-nosed aristocracy or such things. it's the main cast and nothing else but it looked to me like everything had a purpose, despite disparu saying differently. for example the scene where the lark burns the cell despite hating it is probably the reason she left the clan. the refugees meeting the heroes is what the general later references that they've been spotted (i have no idea how disparu couldn't connect these two and complains about the first being useless and the second unjustified). this is all accompanied with strange sets (like a bank in the middle of nowhere) and unnecessary diversity (cousin of main white hero is pitch black, general has a male partner and this guy's status is a problem), strongest party member is female (any dwarf would meet that requirement), best swordmaster is female, etc. they don't disturb the story for anyone playing rpgs (where male and female are nothing but skins for balance reasons) but it is obvious why they're there. the logic is off but it being set up as a bard's tale matches this. tell me any heroic legend that is fully logical. it's not witcher by any means but it doesn't deserve the low rating it got just because of that. spoiler ahead maybe people fell for the queen bait and stopped watching because evil is displayed as good. well, the queen is evil, stays evil and goes to history as evil. she is never redeemed, never romanticised, never put on the good side. she isn't the final boss but she is EXPLICITLY portrayed as an evil coward at the end.
In the first episode, she struggled just lifting the hammer off her shoulder and dropping it on a dude on the floor. She nerfs it even with gravity assist!
@@markmathisen3908 Yeah they coulda given her a shortsword or a dagger and made her the thief character. But they can't, cause the bard is already the one who uses throwing knives and daggers... God should they have swapped the weapons of the dwarf mass murderer and the bard who cripples people?
Proper in world dwarves are buffed as fuck, but if you are going to use a dwarf actress, at least think about it, so you don't make her look ridiculous. Give her a sword and shield or a spear, not Bobby B's hammer
He's got fantastic material to work with 🤣 this crap show is awful and nothing would be better than this 🤣 I'm not watching this show, so this way I find out how bad it gets.
There could be an interesting story where the princess goes something like, "Hey mage guy. You want to do your magic portal thingy. Why don't you let me handle domestic affairs? I know I don't have any real power, but wouldn't it also be beneficial to you if I keep the people happy?" You could have the princess interact with the commoners. You could show her failing, learning, and improving at ruling the kingdom. You could make her seem like a nice person by her interactions with the commoners. Maybe she would even build such a good relationship with the citizens, that their support gives her political power that can rival the mage. You get the opportunity to show her intelligence, growth, kindness, and bravery. You could make a good story. There is potential. But instead, they just make her an entitled brat and tell us to like her anyways.
Meh, that's its own overused trope too. "Give the bad guy a dog so we know he's not *that* bad." Just stop trying to make objectively evil people the protagonists or as examples of good people. But that would mean writers with a functioning moral compass in Hollywood.
Yeah… they never told us to like her. I never did nor felt pressured to. I progressively hated her more and more, but not enough to crucify the show entirely. In the end I prefer that she never got far because she wasn’t honorable. Either way, I don’t like seeing “character development” for characters I hate. And I hated her from the moment she killed an innocent elf and betrayed her brother and played a part in destroying clans that were trying to make peace.
After that introduction where she seduced and condemned a man to death (banishment actually but she thought it would be death) simply so she could have an orgasm and had no regrets whatsoever, nothing could redeem her. What a psycho. Since the characters (the female ones) are self inserts of the writers, it means the woman that wrote that would have done the same. She must be a big metoo enthusiast.
Ah yes, Witcher. A franchise where people and creatures teeter on the line of grey morality, now dumbed down to “we are bad-guys, and we we get off on telling you how bad we are.”
"Dumbing" down means making it more digestible and simple. Making a pile of trash and calling it a project is not dumbing down anything. Making a pile of trash and then putting a Name like "The Witcher" on it is just an insult. So correct it should say: "Every franchise, now Insulted."
@@sam-psonsmith9951 Except that when you break something down to component parts enough times to make it "digestible" you end up with a mass of garbage that is completely disconnected and doesn't make any sense at all. That's what they've done with most things. They dumbed them down until they were digestible by the masses, but that just led to the masses liking an aesthetic and never actually understanding what those things mean. Eventually a member of the masses ends up in charge of continuing the legacy but they don't understand what they were given, what they've received beyond "political intrigue, badass fight scenes, super powered people, magic" when in reality these things are much more about the underlying morality. The Witcher was always marked by the dual nature that even though Geralt's job was to hunt "monsters" often they were kind or polite to him and treated him with some degree of humanity, whereas actual humanity saw him as little more then a tool, without feeling that they mock, denigrate and turn their noses up at until they're needed. Geralt's own Witcher Clan was essentially destroyed by radical fanatics who thought they were evil and unnatural. But when its dumbed down too much you don't get fans who understand that underlying conflict in Geralt in that he is trying to be the way he was designed and better then that, trying to be more human always in conflict with humanity itself and the larger world around him, always pushing him to snap and become one of those monsters he's charged with killing, to turn against the people who hate him until they need him.
@@TheLikenessOfNormal The entire Blood Origin Series is based on one or two sentences. They didn't break anything down. They took a foot note and made a fan fiction based on it. This is 99% home brew.
What I can gather from this show after 2 episodes is that it's basically them doing D&D with their most amazing OP OCs do not steals, in a Witcher universe without the dungeon master not even looking at one thing that's considered witcher
Nah nah nah nah. This show is D&D with a DM whose a simp and only one guy at the table besides the DM. So because bad things have to happen and the DM can't risk his chances with any of the female players the bad things will happen to the guy at the table, over and over and over again. When new badass equipment is found it will go to everyone besides the one guy. And when it comes to stats and weapons and rolls the one guy is the only one who made a proper character and could clearly TPK the rest of the party solo as none of them optimized for anything. But somehow he'll miss more attacks and get hit more often then anyone else. And if that doesn't sound completely like this show I don't know what does. I was in a game with a simp DM and as the person he knew the least he was comfortable trying to force my character into the Yamcha role, despite the fact that I was the combat carry in the group. On top of that he RNG'd on a d10,000 table for loot. And somehow I either never got loot or never got appropriate loot for a fighter. So when I asked if at the least he could make some of the loot fixed because I was the literally the only character in the group who was impoverished because I was excluded from the loot roll that gave them all well over 1k gold (conveniently the girl at the table got the most gold, the best items and wasn't targeted in combat) he kicked me out of the group. Game fell apart after that because at that point I had consulted with every other player and asked if they felt I was being treated unfairly and they all agreed, so half of them left when they realized I was banned for bringing up I was being fucked over.
Notice the princess' hands when she grabs the assassins arm, her fingers are not pressing in any means, totally relaxed.. Surely she is struggling for her life there..
Yeah, isnt it great? Eredin, legendary king of the Wild Hunt, lord of the Aen Elle, who strikes fear into all those who mention his name... is a 5 foot 6 curly haired skinny little turd who's into Indian dudes at bath houses.
Technically speaking, you can't easily cut off a spear shaft, especially if you are in a middle of scuffle... The Roman Legions for example, incorporated this in their tactics and why they always throw pila.... The dumb thing here is why the guard even threw the spear in the first place instead of just poking them with and rely in the advantage of reach.
Casting an actual wee person to play a "dwarf" character probably felt obligatory, but it doesn't seem like a price worth paying when they clearly aren't capable of doing the action stuff and it means any fight scenes involving that character have to take place off-camera, entirely in the medium of foley.
This is why Johnathan Rhys-Davies played Gimli, and he did a fantastic job. They could have cast them in Snow White, a movie with prqctically no action save for a single chase at the end, but His Majesty Shrinky Dinklage I proclaimed NAY.
So... in order: 1)That trap door under the teller's desk is far, FAR more likely to be a safe room, not an escape tunnel. 2) The princess' eyes look like they were CGed to be bigger... 3) When, say, Jasmine left the palace in a cloak, she at least WENT OVER THE PALACE WALLS, not through the front door!
This whole show reminds me of the last episode of Blackadder season 1 where Blackadder tries to get "the six other most evil men in the kingdom" to form the Black Seal and overthrow the king. I sure hope this ends exactly the same way.
I'm glad that you cover these shows so well. I've abstained from watching a lot of them but I almost hate watched this. It's insane how terrible the writing in Hollywood is these days!
It's amazing. They had Superman, and instead they wanted to make this show that's so non-sensical they had to do half the lines again in post-production just so their script would make a modicum of sense.
Talent must be thrown away! There's no way anyone should like it in anyway 🤣 it really is amazing. If I had him on a project I absolutely take his word. Not only is he the talent, he's a fan and knows exactly what should happen.
why was the trap door locked the dwarf had to open it to use it and from the way it was locked their was no way he could have locked it after it closed. The only expianation is that the dwarf was psychic or the writers are brain dead.
I noticed that too. I meant to go back and check if the lock could have an automatic mechanism. At first glance it looked too detached, but the scene was fast.
I think there is a way: That bolt is wide, and covers a narrow slot through the door which is about the length of the travel of the bolt from unlocked to locked. A handle on a gimbal is present on the other side of the bar and sticks through the slot. From under the door when it is flat, the person just reaches up and slides the handle, then twists it up into a catch that keeps it from sliding back.
Songs are important. - "A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that. 'Cause I ain't no Hollaback Girl. I ain't no Hollaback Girl" Moves me every time...
"I saved you", cried that woman, "And you've bit me even, why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die." "Oh shut up, silly woman", said the reptile with a grin, You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in."
I think some of the 'Complete waste of time' scenes (Like the supposed dwarf fight part) are considered character arc scenes, but the writers seem to miss that they all make these characters even more dislikeable...
And besides, character arcs need to be at the very least related to the plot. You could actually cut all of her scenes in this episode and everything stays the same.
12:18 the spear in shield is where they decided a reality thing would move the plot along. Spears are not easy to cut especially imbedded in the spear makes an awkward cut and takes time. It’s literally the first real sword & spear combat that actually had ANY semblance of reality and they still ruined it 😂
I looked at the Episode ratings on imdb (a lot of people only look at the total show score), and every subsequent episode rates lower than the previous episode. It's all downhill, all the time.
18:22 ... *Comfrey's* original name, *knitbone* , derives from the external use of poultices of its leaves and roots to heal burns, sprains, swelling, and bruises. In Western Europe, comfrey has been used topically for treating inflammatory disorders such as arthritis, gout, and thrombophlebitis, and internally for treating diarrhea. *Horsetail* is a herb in the silicon which can be boiled and made into tea in the early stage of fracture healing. *Arnica* (Arnica montana) is also herb which is reported *to help in bone healing* .
Brother Death: "I thought that I was done with killing, seems killing isn't done with me." 26:32 Narrator: "Meldof(?) was done with the world of elevs, but the world of elves wasn't done with her." 33:50 LMAO I remember my 4th grade short stories would often repeat themselves like this.
I actually don't mind not seeing the dwarf fight in the tavern, as the fight scenes we have witnessed have been awful, and I mean truly awful, so at least I can pretend something decent happened on the other side of the wall.
The trapdoor gets worse. It was barred from the top, despite the fact the little dude used it and would be on the other side (below) once the door was closed again. It's real fortunate it was locked from above and not below, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to destroy it and escape.
Yeah I recorded a bit about that and thought well, there could have been a handle underneath that moved it across. But while editing when looked at it more, there was no bar above to move. And worse, in the earlier screenshot over the persons shoulder you can clearly see the 2 fittings bolted into the floor ARE NOT THERE. They only appear in the footage after the dwarf goes down. They CGI'd 2 fittings for the bar to slide into on the floor. Likely why they vanish afterwards, easier to CGI if they just go. I bet the bar was CGI too.
Greatly appreciate the hard work your putting into this. Arguably more so then the show runners or writers of W:BO it's impressive the amount of editing your are doing to avoid copyright strikes by editing out pauses, or speeding up dialog! I feel bad that YT will only allow me to like it one. Looking forward to the next one. PS: Az (HealvsBabyface) gives a much funnier and frustrated review, and I think he's just exaggerating... But your in-depth review is showing how painful it is...
Thank you for watching this. I only managed to make it 3 minutes into episode 2. You have my admiration for getting through it. I really wanted to like it, but the writing. And then there was the writing. But mostly it was let down by the writing. I would not be surprised if someone told me it was AI generated.
Also in 1:42 it's a pretty damn coincidence that there are boxes and stuff stacked just right for her to climb up And after entering the windows the FLOOR, the floor is JUST THERE and she just passes her little legs up without even needing to jump down to the street level again, just because
Wait a minute. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a whole point in the books that the elves actually weren't native to the Continent, and had come from another realm themselves (which helps drive home the pointlessness of the cycle of persecution)? Why is this show making the whole thing originate from Xintrea like its the only place in all of Witcher lore?
You are correct the originally dwarves and gnomes occupied the continent and were driven off into the mountains by elves coming from overseas. I think this series is set after elven dominance and is trying to tell the story of the Conjunction which now includes not only the arrival of monsters but also humans and the origin of the witchers. Which is a bit of a retcon itself, I think.
41:12 > not a single word of what he said was filmed with his mouth showing the camera. It was all dubbed over afterwards. It was a bandage put around the show to try and hold it together because they realized they had a huge gaping plot hole and this is what they use to fix it HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE WRITERS, THE OTHER WRITERS IN THE ROOM, THE SCRIPT EDITORS, THE ACTORS OR THE DIRECTOR FAR ENOUGH TO BE RECORDED?
I actually enjoy the trope of a badass fighter going through a building for a battle mostly unseen, in a comedy. I haven't watched the show but I'm guessing it isn't going for a discount Ten Rings
There's a way to do it well. Start with a fighter who is clearly going to tear through a dozen yahoos. Choose the sound effects carefully to tell a story by themselves. Make sure that even from the outside things are happening so you aren't staring at a blank wall the whole time. But they did none of this. We start with a puny dwarf who probably shouldn't be winning any fights, much less swinging a huge hammer in a tiny room, and then we hear generic crash noises until she walks out with blood in her hair. What what?
Just because something is as hard as something else doesn't mean you have the strength to actually break it. I don't care what you swing at hardened steel. Try to chop through an engine block, or even just a car door.
So tired of writers making everyone dumb to move the plot along. The bad guys are dumb so the good guys can galaxy brain their way to some contrived solution. The heroes have to be dumb so the bad guys contrived plan can come together. It’s so lazy.
Thing to remember that the test screenings were so bad, Netflix left two whole episodes worth (no exaggeration) of footage on the cutting room floor. Hence four episodes rather than six and the plot holes that can be seen from orbit.
My god... when he used his sword on the lock... his sword is endowed with the most powerful magic imaginable: greater plot contrivance! The side effects of this power are a bit inconvenient: it causes all observers to forget that it can perform this magic.
yee the scale of what they claim and what they show is even more off, than in rings of power... where you can invade a continent with 3 ships and gallop directly to a war, wich amounts to the defense of one village. Dispa made a great video as per usual
Is anyone else getting Star Trek vibes from the sets in the castle? it's way too white and clean. Doesn't feel like a mediaeval castle/palace to me. The corridor she is walking down before she gets attacked just doesn't feel like a real castle, but something out of a sci-fi space movie/TV show.
I'm convinced the only experience the writers have with shows in general are old cartoons, as one can infer when seeing THIS scene was thought to be a good idea 2:00 (even the camera movement is similar to that old, by now overdone cartoon scene when someone goes inside a house and the camera follows the chaos from outside without showing any of it)
at 2:00 during the Dwarf Tavern Fight there is a very clear "slash_through_body_with_an_axe_or_a_sword.mp3" sound. Isn't she wielding a hammer with no cutting edges ?
Your hilarious and entertaining reviews on this ghetto “prequel” and learning more and more about how nerdy Henry Cavill is for this stuff (and his destroyed dream to play Geralt) has got me attempting to read the Witcher series for the first time
WAIT.... How did the Dwarf bar the trap door on the outside of it from inside???? Holy hell they put the bar on the outside so that the characters would have a way to get in the hole and not just die from the fire!!
Looks like we have some willow logic in this one as well. Instead of seeing how people get out of things we'll change to these other people over here and when we come back they're out of trouble.
They wanted to make this show inclusive. Witcher written by a Polish author, based on a polish slav mithology, yet not a single Polish actor here. Inclusive my ass
I appreciate that you gave the show more thought than the writers did. I also appreciate that thing you said about people telling you to do stuff when you were going to do it anyway, it's oddly relatable xD
Elves didn't even farm or live in cities in the books. I don't think they even had beards. Hell they didn't even eat meat. Basically elves in this are humans with pointy ears.
"Corpse Oil" a callback to the games and books because they totally gotta use references whenever possible in this show which has *soooo totally been an accurate interpretation of the source material...like totally literally*
There are so many of these plot holes and patches. I’m starting to have a theory. I am wondering if while this was going on and being filmed, the issues with Henry Cavill started to come to a head they knew he was gonna leave and then from the dailies started to think this series was a disaster and said… You have enough for four episodes make something work and then stop them from filming the rest of it. So there are actually scenes missing that never got filmed because they just had a filming schedule and that scene was supposed to take place at some sat where they were going to spend two or three days and so it goes things just never got filmed.
The Witcher: Blood Origin Episode 2 comes back and comes with whole new issues rather than the old ones. Less repeating of the same information time and time again, but now we have so many bandages wrapping over plot holes that were all dubbed over in post the entire story becomes a farce. At one point they even contradict actual footage from the first episode, how does this even get past the editors? Combine that with the usual and modern entertainment tropes of characters and we end up with a Witcher show with 6 minutes of credits where the main plot twist is that that many people still wanted their name put on it. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Sir, will you be here for us god of war fans after Amazon kills the franchise? I will give you at least 2 crisp high fives. Maybe 3
Dude. I cant get thru 5 DAMN MINUTES without having to watch or skip an ad.
I'm done with this video and if it happens again I'm just deleting your channel. If I wanna watch commercials I'll watch crunchyroll or something.
Madge "Dave" looks like a young Mr. Bean.
You guys are heroes for losing braincells watching this dreck so we don't have to.
Disparu is telling a better story then Blood Origin and Rings of Power combined about Harfoots. Keep up the great work and thank you for the good laughs!
Tarantino once explained how, in his scripts he will write sections he has no intention of filming, for instance, in Kill Bill, after the Bride wakes from her coma, she drives her stolen “Pussy Wagon” out to the desert, to a specific odd shaped Rock formation, where she has a buried footlocker with cash, weapons, passports, etc. and that’s how she has the means to travel to Japan to kill ORen.
This wasn’t filmed and isn’t mentioned in the film.
Tarantino said it’s important that he writes all of these parts, even if the audience doesn’t need to know, he, as the writer needs to know how things happened, so he doesn’t contradict himself. He also believes that the audience will let certain things go not knowing and not question them, as long as they have trust, that the storyteller knows.
He also includes these parts in the script, so the actors also know what their characters may have done off screen.
He also writes detailed backstories for each character in the script, even if it’s not included in the film, because that can inform the actor’s performance.
I say all of that, to say, I don’t think the Witcher writers do this?
Oh & another bit of Kill Bill storytelling that isn’t included in the film, but was in the script and QT actually considered filming was GoGo has a twin sister, that tracks the Bride back to America to get revenge for her sister. The Bride kills her, but is seriously wounded in the process and has to drop in on an old friend, Nurse Bonnie(who is the same Nurse Bonnie, from the “Bonnie Situation” in Pulp Fiction, firmly putting Kill Bill in the QT expanded Universe)for medical attention, before proceeding onto Budd & Elle.
This is the part where her “Pussy Wagon dies”, I believe, which is referenced later in the film when she is asked why she is driving the Blue Car & not a truck.
They don't do anything from the looks of it.
@@TheStacanova on a serious note, that connects Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill
The people who wrote this show have no talent whatsoever. Tarantino is like Da Vinci or Van Gogh and the Blood Origin crew are like 1st graders with finger paint
honestly I wouldn't be suprised if they just winged it and none of it was written
"It's like an onion - the more layers you pull back, the more you cry" 😆 this was amazing Disparu. Keep up the great work!!!
he clearly are stupid tho. if you instead of cutting the onion you pull the layers, you will never cry... yea people are dum
I'd like to see the dude's first script. He knows his stuff.
@@johnstrawb3521 what script? all they had to do is to follow the book... step by step
I tried drinking a can of soda for this entire video, but couldn't finish it because this guy is too damn funny
Genius quote!
What they wanted to achieve: Make fantasy inclusive
What they actually achieved: Made fantasy for niche weirdos again
👏
Non existing weirdos. Nobody is THAT stupid. ... maybe with the exception of the writers, that is.
Hint: Never let the dumbest person in the room write the script!
@@aahzmandiaz2767 You must be on youtubes naughty list, I can only see your comment in my history, not on the page
@@adamaccountname Thanks. I sure am. I am not very subtle with my opinions. I try to be honest, though.
@@aahzmandiaz2767 Mommy YT hates honest because it upsets her babies and she can't tolerate that.
Cavill definitely dodged a bullet with this unmitigated disaster.
Well, it's okay, they still have Lenny Henry!
Lenny used to be a British national treasure… what went wrong?
If we can figure out how James Cameron and Lenny ended up as they are maybe we can spot the danger signs early and intervene.
A bullet? He dodged the entire Maginot Line.
@@whiterabbit75 I remember someone who did the same. :P
Well yeah, he's Superman. He can dodge anything but kryptonite.
Writers “Fantasy means no rules!”
Fans “Each book has its own rules!”
This needs to be pinned!
...and the rules do no represent modern day. That would not be fantasy.
iWriters: “Fantasy means no rules!”
which means an Star Destroyer or a T-rex can warp in to witcher,
and witcher can warp to Hogwarts to fight Vody with HelIraiser
these writers have zero concept of how writing or story works
Fantasy writing means no rules, I'm good with that ! But is the masterpiece written...
@@sunso1991 MauLer did a very nice demonstration of how stupid Outback Steakhouse Writing ("no rules, just write") is, in one of his long videos on The Last Jedi.
29:05 "Take us to your healer." Strange. Disparu heard "take us to your leader." After all that talk about herbs and stuff, I heard "take us to your dealer." - especially when straight after they walk into smoke and start hallucinating!
26:32 "I thought that I was done with killing. Seems the killing isn't done with me."
33:50 "Maldof was done with the world of Elves, but the world of Elves was far from done with her."
"The writers were done with stupidity, but stupidity wasn't done with them."
"Disparu was done with Witcher Blood Origin, but Witcher Blood Origin wasn't done with him."
*Mystery Men flashbacks*
The stuff you point out is simply brilliant! "Do you think you can get the hairstylist to write the script? I think they might put a lot more effort!" 🤣
howa about you write sum crap
You're killing it at these recaps. Loved your rings of woke, and she hulk episodes as well. Well done, brotha
After watching the show I felt like more time and money was put into how the empress looked than story/lore.
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And she STILL looked like shit...😒
"Writers room is all women!"
"So here is how princess will look after our 3 hour discussion! Oh the plot? Mmm, IDK lets just make it up as we go along! Teehee!"
You watched the show?!?!!
My sympathies for your suffering. This is another show best experienced through review channels.
@@M-S_4321 it's not that bad. it isn't boring for example. if you manage to take all the diversity checkboxes as just part of this universe (they're not as disturbing as in other shows) what is left is a good bard's tale/legend with an annoying and useless narrator.
because of the shortness it fails to flesh out the setting, you'll never see starving peasants, executed rebels, high-nosed aristocracy or such things. it's the main cast and nothing else but it looked to me like everything had a purpose, despite disparu saying differently. for example the scene where the lark burns the cell despite hating it is probably the reason she left the clan. the refugees meeting the heroes is what the general later references that they've been spotted (i have no idea how disparu couldn't connect these two and complains about the first being useless and the second unjustified).
this is all accompanied with strange sets (like a bank in the middle of nowhere) and unnecessary diversity (cousin of main white hero is pitch black, general has a male partner and this guy's status is a problem), strongest party member is female (any dwarf would meet that requirement), best swordmaster is female, etc. they don't disturb the story for anyone playing rpgs (where male and female are nothing but skins for balance reasons) but it is obvious why they're there.
the logic is off but it being set up as a bard's tale matches this. tell me any heroic legend that is fully logical.
it's not witcher by any means but it doesn't deserve the low rating it got just because of that.
spoiler ahead
maybe people fell for the queen bait and stopped watching because evil is displayed as good. well, the queen is evil, stays evil and goes to history as evil. she is never redeemed, never romanticised, never put on the good side. she isn't the final boss but she is EXPLICITLY portrayed as an evil coward at the end.
You didn’t see the fight because there’s no way she could swing a real hammer that big!
In the first episode, she struggled just lifting the hammer off her shoulder and dropping it on a dude on the floor. She nerfs it even with gravity assist!
Doesn't help how short her arms are. 🙄 There's a reason you don't see a lot of dwarf action stars. 😒
let's give the smallest character the biggest weapon!
@@markmathisen3908 Yeah they coulda given her a shortsword or a dagger and made her the thief character.
But they can't, cause the bard is already the one who uses throwing knives and daggers...
God should they have swapped the weapons of the dwarf mass murderer and the bard who cripples people?
Proper in world dwarves are buffed as fuck, but if you are going to use a dwarf actress, at least think about it, so you don't make her look ridiculous. Give her a sword and shield or a spear, not Bobby B's hammer
"It's like an onion; the more layers you peel away, the more you want to cry."
I am so stealing that.
[yoink]
And at the end you realize that you only did it to yourself, you didn't have to peel that onion 🤣 it wasn't made for you 🤣
Great breakdown! Seriously, your summaries and criticism are getting better and better
It's not a summary if it's as long as the actual episode. It's a whinge for 45mins.
His snark is, astoundingly, improving as well. It's excellent.
@@WiseOwl_1408 Beautiful ranting whinge lol
He's got fantastic material to work with 🤣 this crap show is awful and nothing would be better than this 🤣 I'm not watching this show, so this way I find out how bad it gets.
There could be an interesting story where the princess goes something like, "Hey mage guy. You want to do your magic portal thingy. Why don't you let me handle domestic affairs? I know I don't have any real power, but wouldn't it also be beneficial to you if I keep the people happy?"
You could have the princess interact with the commoners. You could show her failing, learning, and improving at ruling the kingdom. You could make her seem like a nice person by her interactions with the commoners. Maybe she would even build such a good relationship with the citizens, that their support gives her political power that can rival the mage.
You get the opportunity to show her intelligence, growth, kindness, and bravery. You could make a good story. There is potential. But instead, they just make her an entitled brat and tell us to like her anyways.
Sounds exactly right 🤣
Meh, that's its own overused trope too.
"Give the bad guy a dog so we know he's not *that* bad."
Just stop trying to make objectively evil people the protagonists or as examples of good people.
But that would mean writers with a functioning moral compass in Hollywood.
Yeah… they never told us to like her. I never did nor felt pressured to. I progressively hated her more and more, but not enough to crucify the show entirely. In the end I prefer that she never got far because she wasn’t honorable.
Either way, I don’t like seeing “character development” for characters I hate. And I hated her from the moment she killed an innocent elf and betrayed her brother and played a part in destroying clans that were trying to make peace.
@@TheLikenessOfNormal Dog didn't do much good for Hitler's image, did it?
After that introduction where she seduced and condemned a man to death (banishment actually but she thought it would be death) simply so she could have an orgasm and had no regrets whatsoever, nothing could redeem her. What a psycho. Since the characters (the female ones) are self inserts of the writers, it means the woman that wrote that would have done the same. She must be a big metoo enthusiast.
Ah yes, Witcher. A franchise where people and creatures teeter on the line of grey morality, now dumbed down to “we are bad-guys, and we we get off on telling you how bad we are.”
Your text editor: "Did you mean: 'Every franchise, now dumbed down'?".
"Dumbing" down means making it more digestible and simple.
Making a pile of trash and calling it a project is not dumbing down anything.
Making a pile of trash and then putting a Name like "The Witcher" on it is just an insult.
So correct it should say: "Every franchise, now Insulted."
@@sam-psonsmith9951 Except that when you break something down to component parts enough times to make it "digestible" you end up with a mass of garbage that is completely disconnected and doesn't make any sense at all.
That's what they've done with most things. They dumbed them down until they were digestible by the masses, but that just led to the masses liking an aesthetic and never actually understanding what those things mean. Eventually a member of the masses ends up in charge of continuing the legacy but they don't understand what they were given, what they've received beyond "political intrigue, badass fight scenes, super powered people, magic" when in reality these things are much more about the underlying morality.
The Witcher was always marked by the dual nature that even though Geralt's job was to hunt "monsters" often they were kind or polite to him and treated him with some degree of humanity, whereas actual humanity saw him as little more then a tool, without feeling that they mock, denigrate and turn their noses up at until they're needed.
Geralt's own Witcher Clan was essentially destroyed by radical fanatics who thought they were evil and unnatural.
But when its dumbed down too much you don't get fans who understand that underlying conflict in Geralt in that he is trying to be the way he was designed and better then that, trying to be more human always in conflict with humanity itself and the larger world around him, always pushing him to snap and become one of those monsters he's charged with killing, to turn against the people who hate him until they need him.
@@TheLikenessOfNormal The entire Blood Origin Series is based on one or two sentences.
They didn't break anything down.
They took a foot note and made a fan fiction based on it.
This is 99% home brew.
It's so fuckimg stupid that they failed that with Rings of Power and do it for Witcher...
What I can gather from this show after 2 episodes is that it's basically them doing D&D with their most amazing OP OCs do not steals, in a Witcher universe without the dungeon master not even looking at one thing that's considered witcher
Eh! Don't insult ma DnD!!! It's much better than this load of
Nah nah nah nah.
This show is D&D with a DM whose a simp and only one guy at the table besides the DM.
So because bad things have to happen and the DM can't risk his chances with any of the female players the bad things will happen to the guy at the table, over and over and over again.
When new badass equipment is found it will go to everyone besides the one guy. And when it comes to stats and weapons and rolls the one guy is the only one who made a proper character and could clearly TPK the rest of the party solo as none of them optimized for anything.
But somehow he'll miss more attacks and get hit more often then anyone else.
And if that doesn't sound completely like this show I don't know what does.
I was in a game with a simp DM and as the person he knew the least he was comfortable trying to force my character into the Yamcha role, despite the fact that I was the combat carry in the group.
On top of that he RNG'd on a d10,000 table for loot. And somehow I either never got loot or never got appropriate loot for a fighter.
So when I asked if at the least he could make some of the loot fixed because I was the literally the only character in the group who was impoverished because I was excluded from the loot roll that gave them all well over 1k gold (conveniently the girl at the table got the most gold, the best items and wasn't targeted in combat) he kicked me out of the group.
Game fell apart after that because at that point I had consulted with every other player and asked if they felt I was being treated unfairly and they all agreed, so half of them left when they realized I was banned for bringing up I was being fucked over.
Don’t ever change. Always the best content.
" So sneaky, very impressed "- Disparu 😂😂😂😂 the doge meme still lives
I noticed that too! I wish he also said "wow."
Just think, the scene in the bank where she fumbles her sword was the take they chose to keep.
"We did 20 takes and THAT was the best one"
It was the cheapest way 🤣 and it took 20 takes and 2 months 🤣 that diva needed soo many breaks and something called a safe space.
Notice the princess' hands when she grabs the assassins arm, her fingers are not pressing in any means, totally relaxed.. Surely she is struggling for her life there..
Acting is hard 🤣
What they did to Eredin and Avallac'h... hideous.
Right?!?
I didn't see your comment when I made mine but... Holy shit have they done a number on this...
It's shocking tbh.
Avallac'h the Fox is considered one of the smartest individuals in the Witcher universe.
You mean you didn't know Eredin was actually a 1000 year old skinny gay dude? :D
Yeah, isnt it great? Eredin, legendary king of the Wild Hunt, lord of the Aen Elle, who strikes fear into all those who mention his name... is a 5 foot 6 curly haired skinny little turd who's into Indian dudes at bath houses.
@@ultrademigod - NPC's with no intelligence have no capability to write any intelligent characters.
Technically speaking, you can't easily cut off a spear shaft, especially if you are in a middle of scuffle... The Roman Legions for example, incorporated this in their tactics and why they always throw pila.... The dumb thing here is why the guard even threw the spear in the first place instead of just poking them with and rely in the advantage of reach.
True. You can still use your shield with a spear stuck in it as long as its light enough and doesnt protrude far enough to jab you while youre moving.
Casting an actual wee person to play a "dwarf" character probably felt obligatory, but it doesn't seem like a price worth paying when they clearly aren't capable of doing the action stuff and it means any fight scenes involving that character have to take place off-camera, entirely in the medium of foley.
In later episodes you can see her TRYING to swing her prop hammer and not doing a good job of it. Not a figure to inspire terror.
This is why Johnathan Rhys-Davies played Gimli, and he did a fantastic job. They could have cast them in Snow White, a movie with prqctically no action save for a single chase at the end, but His Majesty Shrinky Dinklage I proclaimed NAY.
The message is more important than any form of talent.. that's why Henry had to go 🤣
So... in order:
1)That trap door under the teller's desk is far, FAR more likely to be a safe room, not an escape tunnel.
2) The princess' eyes look like they were CGed to be bigger...
3) When, say, Jasmine left the palace in a cloak, she at least WENT OVER THE PALACE WALLS, not through the front door!
Stop making excuses.
I want to know who locked the trap door from above, after the banker used it.
@@kari2570 ok ... dude ..... i cant even ... i laugh so hard because ... Im out of words because of such stupidity
@Blank Adams Wow... You must be a new hardcore fan of this show to go to this length to defend it at a place where 99% of people are against it.
@@joshephbarabara4163 doesn't seem like they're defending it at all.
This whole show reminds me of the last episode of Blackadder season 1 where Blackadder tries to get "the six other most evil men in the kingdom" to form the Black Seal and overthrow the king.
I sure hope this ends exactly the same way.
Don't drink the wine.
would be respected if that was the plan.
I'm glad that you cover these shows so well. I've abstained from watching a lot of them but I almost hate watched this. It's insane how terrible the writing in Hollywood is these days!
The pay must be terrible, if this is what we get. Are they on mcdonalds wages now???
It's amazing. They had Superman, and instead they wanted to make this show that's so non-sensical they had to do half the lines again in post-production just so their script would make a modicum of sense.
Talent must be thrown away! There's no way anyone should like it in anyway 🤣 it really is amazing. If I had him on a project I absolutely take his word. Not only is he the talent, he's a fan and knows exactly what should happen.
Thanks for handling Hollywood’s radioactive waste without protective gear.
why was the trap door locked the dwarf had to open it to use it and from the way it was locked their was no way he could have locked it after it closed. The only expianation is that the dwarf was psychic or the writers are brain dead.
Lol truuue
I noticed that too. I meant to go back and check if the lock could have an automatic mechanism. At first glance it looked too detached, but the scene was fast.
The door was locked after he went thru it, by him or automatically , obviously.
Pretty lame escape route if it didnt.
I think there is a way:
That bolt is wide, and covers a narrow slot through the door which is about the length of the travel of the bolt from unlocked to locked. A handle on a gimbal is present on the other side of the bar and sticks through the slot. From under the door when it is flat, the person just reaches up and slides the handle, then twists it up into a catch that keeps it from sliding back.
I love these recap episodes
Songs are important. - "A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that. 'Cause I ain't no Hollaback Girl. I ain't no Hollaback Girl"
Moves me every time...
"I saved you", cried that woman,
"And you've bit me even, why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die."
"Oh shut up, silly woman", said the reptile with a grin,
You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in."
I think some of the 'Complete waste of time' scenes (Like the supposed dwarf fight part) are considered character arc scenes, but the writers seem to miss that they all make these characters even more dislikeable...
And besides, character arcs need to be at the very least related to the plot. You could actually cut all of her scenes in this episode and everything stays the same.
12:18 the spear in shield is where they decided a reality thing would move the plot along. Spears are not easy to cut especially imbedded in the spear makes an awkward cut and takes time. It’s literally the first real sword & spear combat that actually had ANY semblance of reality and they still ruined it 😂
Till you know spears are not that easy to break..
@@MrBashem And they often used metal rings and sleeves to make it even harder to cut.
Disparu you are a funny guy, I appreciate it. Another hilarious review, I'm here for it.
I love that the very small village they visit the bank of, is basically just called 'Deadwood' with a weird spelling.
Loved this review. I can't wait for the the last 2. Btw, the reference to the game of houses is a nice nod to WOT - nice!
Why the hell is Michelle Yeoh in this show. Everyone liked her..Jesus why?
She’s doing a Bruce willis
She probably wanted that check, can’t be mad at that, I’m sure she got paid good. I still love her
'It's Dwarven steel!'
'Darn, if only it were normal steel we could just cut it open.'
I looked at the Episode ratings on imdb (a lot of people only look at the total show score), and every subsequent episode rates lower than the previous episode. It's all downhill, all the time.
At least until UA-cam replaces him with a lame diverse chick.. they will make her lame and gay.
18:22 ... *Comfrey's* original name, *knitbone* , derives from the external use of poultices of its leaves and roots to heal burns, sprains, swelling, and bruises.
In Western Europe, comfrey has been used topically for treating inflammatory disorders such as arthritis, gout, and thrombophlebitis, and internally for treating diarrhea.
*Horsetail* is a herb in the silicon which can be boiled and made into tea in the early stage of fracture healing.
*Arnica* (Arnica montana) is also herb which is reported *to help in bone healing* .
Brother Death: "I thought that I was done with killing, seems killing isn't done with me." 26:32
Narrator: "Meldof(?) was done with the world of elevs, but the world of elves wasn't done with her." 33:50
LMAO I remember my 4th grade short stories would often repeat themselves like this.
Oh sh*t I didn't even realize you were subjecting yourself to this torture. What a mad lad.
I actually don't mind not seeing the dwarf fight in the tavern, as the fight scenes we have witnessed have been awful, and I mean truly awful, so at least I can pretend something decent happened on the other side of the wall.
The trapdoor gets worse.
It was barred from the top, despite the fact the little dude used it and would be on the other side (below) once the door was closed again. It's real fortunate it was locked from above and not below, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to destroy it and escape.
Yeah I recorded a bit about that and thought well, there could have been a handle underneath that moved it across. But while editing when looked at it more, there was no bar above to move. And worse, in the earlier screenshot over the persons shoulder you can clearly see the 2 fittings bolted into the floor ARE NOT THERE.
They only appear in the footage after the dwarf goes down. They CGI'd 2 fittings for the bar to slide into on the floor. Likely why they vanish afterwards, easier to CGI if they just go. I bet the bar was CGI too.
27:12 I mean the wound sniffing is a real thing. If it stanks then it likely is infected. They did that in Saving Private Ryan if I remember right.
Greatly appreciate the hard work your putting into this. Arguably more so then the show runners or writers of W:BO
it's impressive the amount of editing your are doing to avoid copyright strikes by editing out pauses, or speeding up dialog!
I feel bad that YT will only allow me to like it one. Looking forward to the next one.
PS: Az (HealvsBabyface) gives a much funnier and frustrated review, and I think he's just exaggerating... But your in-depth review is showing how painful it is...
we hope you are still doing reviews on Willow the trainwreck
your review on that is so good too!
Such an embarrassment! They’ll never learn lol. Excellent video!
It's the real Krista :O
Another thoroughly enjoyable review of ridiculousness! Thank you!
Thank you for watching this. I only managed to make it 3 minutes into episode 2. You have my admiration for getting through it.
I really wanted to like it, but the writing. And then there was the writing. But mostly it was let down by the writing.
I would not be surprised if someone told me it was AI generated.
You forgot to mention the writing.
40:08 aww, he looks just like a poor "didn' do nuffin" unjustly locked up for his very real, horrific crimes
Also in 1:42 it's a pretty damn coincidence that there are boxes and stuff stacked just right for her to climb up
And after entering the windows the FLOOR, the floor is JUST THERE and she just passes her little legs up without even needing to jump down to the street level again, just because
I kept refreshing your channel today to try and find this video going up! Keep it real, I adore these videos :’)
The showing the outside of the building during carnage thing was done in Season 1 of Fargo but they made it work.
Wait a minute.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a whole point in the books that the elves actually weren't native to the Continent, and had come from another realm themselves (which helps drive home the pointlessness of the cycle of persecution)? Why is this show making the whole thing originate from Xintrea like its the only place in all of Witcher lore?
You are correct the originally dwarves and gnomes occupied the continent and were driven off into the mountains by elves coming from overseas. I think this series is set after elven dominance and is trying to tell the story of the Conjunction which now includes not only the arrival of monsters but also humans and the origin of the witchers. Which is a bit of a retcon itself, I think.
I have never seen she hulk, rings of power, willow and this. Only listen to you shit on it all bro and I love it :D Thanks!
It's the only entertainment you can find with those subjects.. actually watching the shows is traumatic and boring.
So this mercenary idea...what is stopping the evil empire from offering the mercs a better deal?
It depends on if it makes a man look stupid.. the message is more important than anything that makes sense.
41:12 > not a single word of what he said was filmed with his mouth showing the camera. It was all dubbed over afterwards. It was a bandage put around the show to try and hold it together because they realized they had a huge gaping plot hole and this is what they use to fix it
HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE WRITERS, THE OTHER WRITERS IN THE ROOM, THE SCRIPT EDITORS, THE ACTORS OR THE DIRECTOR FAR ENOUGH TO BE RECORDED?
Holy shit I almost spit out my drink at the divorce joke.
Narrator voice: “And while the audience was few, now it is none…”
It's funny that the plot connection between the witcher, the harfoots in rings of power and willow kind of works. 🤣
🤣 they are all writing the same tripe 🤣
Loved when Gandalf used ashes boomstick to save Narnia
I actually enjoy the trope of a badass fighter going through a building for a battle mostly unseen, in a comedy. I haven't watched the show but I'm guessing it isn't going for a discount Ten Rings
There's a way to do it well. Start with a fighter who is clearly going to tear through a dozen yahoos. Choose the sound effects carefully to tell a story by themselves. Make sure that even from the outside things are happening so you aren't staring at a blank wall the whole time. But they did none of this. We start with a puny dwarf who probably shouldn't be winning any fights, much less swinging a huge hammer in a tiny room, and then we hear generic crash noises until she walks out with blood in her hair. What what?
Just because something is as hard as something else doesn't mean you have the strength to actually break it. I don't care what you swing at hardened steel. Try to chop through an engine block, or even just a car door.
So tired of writers making everyone dumb to move the plot along. The bad guys are dumb so the good guys can galaxy brain their way to some contrived solution. The heroes have to be dumb so the bad guys contrived plan can come together. It’s so lazy.
Thing to remember that the test screenings were so bad, Netflix left two whole episodes worth (no exaggeration) of footage on the cutting room floor. Hence four episodes rather than six and the plot holes that can be seen from orbit.
Looking forward to seeing you on FNT this week, teaming up with Az to rip this thing to shreds.
Is it wrong that I'm waiting for one of these episodes every time I see another episode of these dumpster fire drop? XD
Yes it’s wrong think of Disparu’s sanity 😂
If it's wrong, I don't wanna be right!
My god... when he used his sword on the lock... his sword is endowed with the most powerful magic imaginable: greater plot contrivance! The side effects of this power are a bit inconvenient: it causes all observers to forget that it can perform this magic.
yee the scale of what they claim and what they show is even more off, than in rings of power... where you can invade a continent with 3 ships and gallop directly to a war, wich amounts to the defense of one village. Dispa made a great video as per usual
Is anyone else getting Star Trek vibes from the sets in the castle? it's way too white and clean. Doesn't feel like a mediaeval castle/palace to me. The corridor she is walking down before she gets attacked just doesn't feel like a real castle, but something out of a sci-fi space movie/TV show.
Disparu, kudos for the reference to the Red Dwarf episode 'Psirens' you snuck in there.
The sword getting stuck in the scabbard part cracked me up.
Subbed!
The bar on the trap door was on the outside where they were at they just could have opened it
I'm convinced the only experience the writers have with shows in general are old cartoons, as one can infer when seeing THIS scene was thought to be a good idea 2:00 (even the camera movement is similar to that old, by now overdone cartoon scene when someone goes inside a house and the camera follows the chaos from outside without showing any of it)
at 2:00 during the Dwarf Tavern Fight there is a very clear "slash_through_body_with_an_axe_or_a_sword.mp3" sound. Isn't she wielding a hammer with no cutting edges ?
Hey! 🤣 You wasn't supposed to notice 🤣 they don't believe the viewer is that smart 🤣
Your hilarious and entertaining reviews on this ghetto “prequel” and learning more and more about how nerdy Henry Cavill is for this stuff (and his destroyed dream to play Geralt) has got me attempting to read the Witcher series for the first time
Pulling a bank job in Deadwood, lucky they didn’t bump into Wyatt Earp!
I bet the writers hugged themselves when they thought of that gag. So clever.
This review is why I luv you!!! Haven’t laughed this hard in far too long!
Here's one of my perplexing questions, how did the imprisoned mage see anything at all?! Was the peace treaty held in view of the prison cell?
To be fair, knitbone is the name of an actual herb. It's an alternative name for comfrey. Sometimes it really is called "helpful healy plant".
Remember Stargate SG1? Remember Babylon 5? Remember Battlestar Galactica? I remember good TV...
WAIT.... How did the Dwarf bar the trap door on the outside of it from inside???? Holy hell they put the bar on the outside so that the characters would have a way to get in the hole and not just die from the fire!!
The fire would have been better.
Looks like we have some willow logic in this one as well. Instead of seeing how people get out of things we'll change to these other people over here and when we come back they're out of trouble.
I was half expecting them to run into Willow and company, make more sense than this crap.
@@Harldin do you think we'll get the thing where everyone runs on opposite directions only to end up at the exact same spot?
They wanted to make this show inclusive.
Witcher written by a Polish author, based on a polish slav mithology, yet not a single Polish actor here.
Inclusive my ass
I appreciate that you gave the show more thought than the writers did. I also appreciate that thing you said about people telling you to do stuff when you were going to do it anyway, it's oddly relatable xD
knit-bone is the old name for comfrey, which is used to... knit bones. very good at promoting bone healing
Elves didn't even farm or live in cities in the books. I don't think they even had beards. Hell they didn't even eat meat. Basically elves in this are humans with pointy ears.
"Corpse Oil" a callback to the games and books because they totally gotta use references whenever possible in this show which has *soooo totally been an accurate interpretation of the source material...like totally literally*
Disparu's origion for harfoot henry sounds more intressting then what ever story this series is trying to tell.
i had genuine surprise at 2:25 when disparu reminded us that "this is the witcher." in my mind it's still "fantasy clone #5"
I do enjoy your rants.
If it was originally six episodes cut down to four, why did they keep all the filler?
If these were the most critical scenes, I can only imagine the ones that were cut. Probably just hardcore gay sex.
🤣 filler was all they had since it's probably not a real witcher story.
This is masterpiece! I want more. I still cannot stop laugh when I'm recalling some scenes.
There are so many of these plot holes and patches. I’m starting to have a theory.
I am wondering if while this was going on and being filmed, the issues with Henry Cavill started to come to a head they knew he was gonna leave and then from the dailies started to think this series was a disaster and said… You have enough for four episodes make something work and then stop them from filming the rest of it. So there are actually scenes missing that never got filmed because they just had a filming schedule and that scene was supposed to take place at some sat where they were going to spend two or three days and so it goes things just never got filmed.
So sorry that you have to endure such horror to bring us many laughs with your humor. We do appreciate it
I am enjoying your commentary so much I am tempted to actually watch the show so I can laugh more.
I would watch the Expendables in the Witcher. The quality would go so up lol
Can't imagine why Henry didn't want a piece of this.
I would say a sense of self respect.