The Witcher Season 3 will be Henry Cavill's last for Netflix, but why? We now have a Witcher actress saying Henry Cavill leaving wont affect The Witcher much because the show is about so much more than The Witcher. It really doesn't seem like Henry Cavill was valued enough on the set, or worse, was seen as getting in the way. While he was trying to improve the show by putting in more of the source material, if you want to change the source material, you're simply causing trouble. So as we get news that we will get a Season 4 AND Season 5 on Netflix, do you think The Witcher can survive without Henry Cavill? How much will it change without him trying to correct their scenes from the books? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Have you been on vacation? Missed you! Btw, ‘an IP without its soul’, is beyond accurate. The showrunners are not human, hence their inability to relate, even to the death of faithful companions like Roach. Strange Days Indeed.
in other words it's going to be trash without him... they will change scenes to make it more palatable for "modern audiences" which is code for "we plan on inserting our personal politics into the very fabric of a cherished story" much like Amazon did with LotR.
It says a lot about Henry Cavill's character that he was able to walk away from this show, it proves he has a lot of integrity, something VERY rare in Hollywood.
It is basicly the ESSENCE of the Witcher itself. The whole idea about "killing monsters." But what defines "monster"? The fact other witchers like Vesimir care and have feelings. But Geralt especially goes out of his way to help despite being largely feared or hated but tolerated for his "use". Yet he still does good for an ungrateful world who ultimately sees him as yet another beast to put down last when he killed all the others. Also the fact he names every horse roach is also extremely deep. Roach is his one constant companion wich is with him during the lonely life of a witcher. He loves, protects and does what he can for each roach. Including mourning. And the reuse of the name is basicly a sweet self lie to always have Roach with him, no matter where he goes.
The fact that they found it annoying that a huge star was over-enthusiastic about the role speaks volumes about their work ethic. Any competent showrunner that enjoys their job would be delighted with that situation.
That and he was invested in staying true to original work and respecting every aspect of the story and characters by the author. Being a fan himself he knew what he would want to see in a live action version and tried to protect it from being bastardized by Hollywood only looking at it from a lense of money, politics and social agendas.
The Roach scene is a glaring example none of the writers or showrunners ever even opened the books (or even the games). Anyone who knows anything about The Witcher story knows Roach is not "just a horse". Roach (named after the fish, by the way, NOT the insect) is Geralt's eternal companion, basically the only one that's always been there for him, through mud and snow and blood and tears, one who never hated him, never mocked him, undermined him, abused him, etc. An animal that has been a better companion to him than other humanoids. Roach is the one constant in Geralt's life, one he can always count on, which cannot be said about his other acquaintances. This is why all of Geralt's horses have been called Roach. It's not a name, it's a title, something that has deep meaning for Geralt. The fact an entire showrunning team can work on someone else's legacy without even having the FAINTEST fucking idea (or care) about the source material is simply mindblowing. How can this even happen?!
But he had several horses, he just called them all roach.. what am I missing here? Like, he cared, or course he cared, but it wasn’t the one horse through the entire series..
@@_edijane_ Read. Roach is not just a name, it's a sort of title bestowed upon Geralt's horses. To him Roach is not just a horse, they're his noble companion, one who he can always count on. Geralt being a witcher, he's been an outcast all his life, being shunned and hated by people everywhere he went. The only one who he could count on for support, without any judgment, hatred or animosity, was Roach. Think of Roach as a long line of noble creatures Geralt served with, each adding their own to the reverence of the name.
Anyone who've ever worked with horses know, that they're not "just a means of transport". Sure, horses can be broken in or raised from foal to be saddle horses, and they will take you from A to B, but even so, horse riding is the ONLY sport where the "sporting equipment" is a living being. Horses have personalities, they learn, adapt, form connections with their riders and they can be really moody. They can be friendly, playful, they do have a sense of humor and a sense of duty (read up on warhorses), but they are big, powerful creatures and you can only ride them if THEY decide they'll let you. If you irk them, they can become unruly and stop doing what you tell em, and they will even buck you if you piss them off enough. But if you treat them well and they also like you, a horse will go through fire and flames for you (literally if necessary)
Henry Cavill seems like a genuinely good dude. He stands up for the fans, is a massive nerd himself and a chad. He is an awesome role model for sticking to your guns and leveling up as a man over time
not everyone, clowns still lapped it up pretending it was the real story, it even got infected into the game. never watched a second of it, never will.
Hollywood naturally attracted narcisists who wanted to be admired by everyone (actors), tell everyone what to do to the most minute detail (directors), lord over people and be able to determine who has an opportunity to be a star and who gets shunted (producers, talent agencies), and to dominate everyone with their money while making as much profit for as lottle effort possible (financial producers, investors). This environment is the natural result of gathering so many psychopaths.
Oh god in a sec ! If they did that we would all come back ! But this time make Henry Cavill a main writer and this would be one of the biggest things ever seen!
Honestly the fight scenes involving Geralt and his witty and charismatic dialogue, combined with the way he talks to his horse is the one thing that makes the show watchable. Also Geralt shows good morals as a character towards the events he has to deal with. Makes it way more interesting and inspiring.
Hollywood must be pissing their pants after they realised Henry cannot be bought with money or exposure. A true man of integrity. Which makes him quite dangerous to their fake bs industry. Full support from me tho 👏🏼
bcuz he is everything hollywood hates. handsome, rich, white man who loves his fanbase like a family, who spends his free time either playing video games, being disguised on conventions or literally just living his life by doing casual shopping/jogging through the city. he is literally a HOLYWOOD kryptonite
i love how you have an actor, that happens to be your main character, that everyone agrees does a great job, including the author of the books, and that loves the source material, the story and the character so much that he is not only willing to do his best possible job portraying it, but even go beyond that and also di the writers job better than then, and that somehow is being "annoying" to them. is as if you were looking for shards of glass in the bin, found a genuine diamond, and you tossed it away because you are looking for glass
The issue is they would be making money and get a bigger audience. It would be what is called 'success' and this is something heinous wich must be avoided at all costs.
As the Devil once says in Faust, 'better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven'. And this is EXACTLY their attitude: they would rather burn the whole series to the ground - and they DID with Blood Origins - than to be successful carrying out someone else's 'vision', particularly if the 'vision' is 'problematic'.
Roach pissed them off. They want to be known for their great writing, they want to be amazing, and after giving them a scene to do (and screw up because they're a stupid white man actor, not a writer) some stupid actor basically pulls a scene out of their backside that eclipses everything else in the series. You know that makes them seethe.
Never has there been a time where your channel is more needed than now. It's so sad to see so many beloved IPs be destroyed by people that mock the source and want to change it, yet whose creative experience is defined more by Twitter than the past 100 years of movies.
Everything she says genuinely makes me believe that she’s just a bad writer and now I think I’m just going to do whatever I want in life because clearly talent and/or passion are not required.
It's no accident that this attitude prevailed though. Clearly a certain kind of culture has prevailed in Hollywood in the wake of metoo. A culture of preferential treatment for women in the business regardless of experience or talent, and that they will never be called to task when their output falls short of the audiences expectations. I don't say this because I think women cannot write good scripts - because I do think that they are plenty capable there, but I don't believe that having tits and a vagina automatically makes them capable for writing anymore than I believe that having a penis does for men to do the same. Unless Hollywood returns to favoring merit of creative talent/output over identity politics they are just going to destroy one franchise after another and leave them unadaptable for years due to the well being poisoned, just as it has been for Wheel of Time already. Also trying desperately to hammer female protagonists into typically male audience driven genres and franchises is going to go down as well as profits for many female group sports vs mens. In the end it will drive away the built in audience while gaining a minimal following of the new target audience, thus leaving those IPs unprofitable and also poisoning the well for future adaptations. My guess is that they have taken the dominant viewership statistics of single mother homes and stay at home mothers to be their greatest potential audience and just tried to endlessly change everything to target them, regardless of how well such a genre is likely to attract such an audience.
@@mnomadvfxunfortunately I watched blood origins. Do yourself a favour and don’t waste your time. The story is weak and the characters have no real development. I regret wasting my time with it. Don’t make the same mistake!
Theres a scene in a movie called How to lose friends and Alienate people. You think you've arrived don't you. The character then smacks the upstart down to ground level and tells him how to actually arrive. She hasn't had this by the sound. She thinks the dues are paid and everyone should bend.
Alik Sakharov was a exclusive producer on the show for season 1, he directed the Pilot BUT he left because of creative differences with Lauren's version....this is what he had to say: “You see, in my perception, Eastern-European literature has a completely different pace. It is no coincidence that Andrzej Sapkowski has so many storylines and characters. The producers set the task of setting the adaptation at an action pace and filling it with colorful special effects. That was their vision. My vision was very different and I tried to convey it to them, giving my arguments. Unfortunately, I was not considered convincing enough, so I decided to leave the project.” And something about Henry Cavill: “Glad to hear it. By the way, Henry Cavill is the best thing in The Witcher, in my opinion. He absolutely nailed the role. Moreover, he is a very flexible actor who is able to listen and learn. I sincerely hope that he has many interesting and good projects ahead.” And hes NOT the only person who left. Tim Aslam the Costume designer for season 1 left, Sonya who made the beautiful soundtrack for s1 left, some actors left, a writer left, now Henry left. s1 was made without the appropriate preparation and without time to get things right. Tim Alan, the costume designer, didn't know who he was designing for nor the concept in which the clothes were worn. Henry's wig for Geralt wasnt ready....his own stylist had to work on it day and night to make it look more natural! For the Blaviken fight reshoot they had one day, henry brought in Wolfgang Stegemann and they worked on a fight choreography together, henry learned the whole fight in 2 hours!!! He saved Lauren's a** here and many more times. The writers didn't want geralt to have magic abilities btw....until henry insisted it was necessary to include.
A witcher specifically made to be magical, and fight magically vs magical monsters not having any magic? Damn she shoul've written her own book at this point
@@mekkuzu5944 yep. the more information comes out, the more it seems like they just wanted to make their own original (and apparently very generic) fantasy show and used the witcher name and brand to garner attention.
@@yimpyoi9808 basically every narcissistic writer. They think they can do better or their sht is good but know no one would look at their sht without a well known name slapped on it.
Dude was just casually there pulling 5 different jobs in double shifts, and he still let them go at the character with butcher's tools as long as they kept the bones
@@sakkra93 They're listed as the most powerful and privileged on The Wheel of Power and Privilege, so they have to be taken down peg...even if they are not bad people as individuals. No individuality allowed in Marxist-wood. 😑
Imagine the writers saying to John Wick after his dog dies: "We get you another one, it doesn't matter, you will have another dog and you can give it the same name!"
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 He doesn't 'replace' the dog. He adopts a new companion as an attempt to move forward with his life. It shows the next part of his grief. He doesn't go "ah, well, I mourned for a bit, guess imma pick a new doggo now".
@@lyravain6304 That is exactly what he does. He lost his dog, got upset and adopts a new dog to fill the void left over from the original dog. What else do you call that other than him replacing the dog.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 When I got a kitten shortly before my cat of 19 years (Zoe) passed, it wasn't as a replacement; it was because I knew that I could give this kitten a good home and because having another cat to love helps to take the sting off losing my previous companion. But she doesn't replace Zoe. I still grieve. There's still a small hole in my heart that doesn't get filled by having a new cat. Bonnie (the kitten) can't replace Zoe. She brings her own personality to my household and has her own place in my heart.
Having read the books (I'm not into gaming), I agree that the source material IS the foundation for the story and there should be basic faithfulness to that source with creative interpretation that makes sense. I'll miss Cavill because to me he absolutely nailed Geralt.
Though we can all understand why he’s walking away, he’s made the character utterly iconic, but I don’t think I’ll be watching future seasons if he isn’t in them…
It's a lack of empathy (which is a sign of psychopathy, by the way). This makes so much sense, how can you possibly be a writer and explore the human condition, if you cannot empathise with others. I would not be surprised to discover that her lack of empathy is the rule in Hollywood, rather that the exception.
My favorite part of this writers Witcher is when Yennifer is specifically told that choosing beauty and power, to get what she wants, will cost her ability to HAVE A CHILD. And then spends the rest of the show saying that choice was TAKEN CROM HER by Aretuza and nobody told her!
This fucking annoyed me to the ends of the earth. Like, YOU MADE THE CHOICE. You weren't misled or lied to! That whole storyline made me want to stick screwdrivers in my eye holes and I am a woman who's struggled with infertility. It was a slap in the face to women who ACTUALLY didn't get the choice, you idiots.
@@James_Bee No, I get what cedar means. It was explicitly laid out for Yennefer that the procedure would make her sterile. But at that time, having kids meant nothing to her because power and beauty was all she wanted. She understood on paper what she was giving up, but a well-written show would bring up how she gradually realizes exactly what it was she lost, and will never get back, and that desperate fighting against her own choice. That would require, you know, effort and skill.
Originally I was skeptical of Henry playing Geralt but when I saw the passion and dedication he showed towards Garalt’s character it made me absolutely love and idolize him as not only an actor but also as a person dedicated to bringing this originally little known authors vision to life
I couldn’t imagine the frustration and heartbreak Cavill must’ve felt. Here he is as the *only* true fan of the series, the only person who knows the characters and their drives, yet he’s the one treated like a loon in trying to actually make the series successful… And just like that, they’ve gotten rid of the only thing tying this series to it’s actual heart.
I think its more. They dont have the skills to come up with something on their own, but are desperate to have their own stamp. Pure narcissism but no skills -> Lets take the work of someone else and "rewrite" it. Sure its pride, but at this point its way more than "just" pride... From a company point of view sure, lets use the material with an already established fan-base -> less risk. Decision-making for hiring activists, who hate the source? WTF? Is it blackrock or what not to greenlight the investment? I have no clue...
The best part of Emhyr in the book was that he thought he was so ruthless that he can just impregnate his own daughter for the sake of fulfilling the prophecy to have his heir rule the world, then he sees her daughter with people who were more of parents than them, and he couldnt go through with it. He admit it as much, and let them leave. That was level of depth Sapkowski put into writing the characters. Not fan fiction writing done by talentless narcissist.
Call this shit Trollfiction, as only fans can write fanfiction. Hell I’ve seen fanfics worked marvelously. And some of the writers haven’t even graduated high school yet.
the "we're already pressing the boundaries of reality" is amusing when you consider they had the massive oversight of making Jaskier like 50-60 by the time the timelines converged, and they thought that was less important than the fact Roach could live a few years longer
Reminds me, when the horse died in The Never Ending Story, it felt like watching the main character's close friend dying. Someone who traveled so far with the main character, and died sinking in the mud so he would'nt drown and continue on his path. He grieved as he watched the horse sink into the mud. A friend who sacrificed himself for another could be the greatest sacrifice one could make.
A great and terrible scene to behold. However, the horse didn't sacrifice itself, it became depressed and gave up. In the books Artax could talk to and understand Artyu, so it was even sadder.
that woman's lack of awareness is astonishing.... does she think people want to hear why she thinks Henry Cavill left?..... he left because of you 🤣🤦♂️
@@blindlobster After spending 5 years at a major animation studio that’s seen a lot of flops lately, I can tell you first-hand “It’s someone else’s fault” is the go-to reason for anything that goes wrong- from the top people down. It’s shocking how good workers would get canned, and the most lazy and opportunistic people would fail-up. Now every department is run by a Michael Scott.
It's funny.. when I heard first heard Henry Cavill being cast as the Witcher I thought he would be the worst thing about the show. After season one.. which is the only season I could muster the fortitude to sit thru.. I realized he was the only thing holding this train-wreck together. You really do have to be living in a bubble to think this show is going anywhere without him.
This is so telling. They dont understand the horse death scene because they lack empathy. Theyre NPC robots. Why would someone be sad when their animal companion dies? I dunno, keep "subverting expectations".
They're treating the death of Roach as fine his car simply broke down. Roach is a CHARACTER and a companion to Geralt; the fact that they don't understand that is telling.
They also don't understand that Roach is literally Geralt entire character explained. He names them all Roach. As if to tell the world he is cynical and doesn't care. However he can never change his true character and he cares. He cares to much.
I've never watched the show or played the games, so I don't know anything about Geralt's relationship with Roach, but I get the feeling that writer is the kind of person who thinks of pets as toys rather than members of the family that people bond with. The scary thing is, she most likely is or will be a lonely cat lady.
“Won’t effect the show that much”. Yeah massive amount of people have already decided to not partake in season 4 is massive and we know what Netflix does to failing shows. When this fails (and it will) and the many people working on this have to go find work elsewhere only the writers and show runner will be to blame.
i will be supporting Henry in anything he does because of how much he cared for the Witcher and doing it justice. he is one of the few actors that actually stands up for fans and telling stories properly from their source material. i enjoyed him as Superman never understood why many people didnt.
We learn very young on the playground that there are two kinds of people; the thinkers that can create, and the bullies that cannot so go around destroying other peoples' works.
Cavill was probably the only one on the show who understood or even only read and/or played the original. Man looks better and better with every new information uncovered.
These writters have zero empathy. Zero real world experience. A horse is not just a bicycle to the hero. It is his silent companion which they go through adventure and life with. When I played Shadow od the Colossus, when the horse Argo sacrificed himself to save the main character I literally cried. It is losing some one close who you had relied on.
Bro, the fact that those nobodies thought they were in any position to mock the lore is hilarious. Ironically, writing fan-fiction for this material is the only bit of relevance they will ever reach in their lives.
Honestly, I'd wager Henry could easily obtain the rights to make his own Witcher based project if he really wanted. I'm betting they sold the concept of being "faithful to the source" to Sapkawski when he granted them the rights to make this show so he could legally nullify that contract and offer it to Henry instead.
This is why FAN-driven series should have a quiz for all writers and show-runners and directors. If you can't pass the quiz, you aren't enough of a fan to work on it. Plus pop quizzes before each season and immediately fire those who can't pass.
Lets be honest, he didnt leave, he was BULLIED/pushed out. "Be a Fan" should be the FIRST rule of hiring for this stuff! But instead they hire people who are actively out to ruin the show and universe. Its pathetic. Cavill and his love/passion was the best thing about this entire show. Oh fuck! You mean the guy who is obsessed with and knows everything about the world had notes!? No way! Thats the ONE GUY you listen to! She is just mad he keeps interfering with her fanfiction. It should say "inspired by, The Witcher"
@@BtorvilleI guess he means the games? Or possibly the witcher animated on TV which is a younger Vesimer and its good if you hadnt seen it. Other than that no idea.
10:25 In complete fairness, Geralt does become something of a father figure to Ciri, in the books and the games. He's essentially her mentor and guardian. If that's not a father, I don't know what is. In that aspect, the show having the two characters grow closer - coupled with just how much attention Ciri gets as the books go on - is actually good adherence to the source material. Or, at least, it would be if handled correctly. And considering how badly they fumbled Yennefer's relationship to Ciri? Well, I'm not holding my breath for a good handling of the Ciri-Geralt relationship dynamics now that Henry's stepped down. (For the record, I stopped watching after season 1, so I don't even know how well or how poorly they handled it in season 2 or any of 3 that already has/will air.)
When I found out they wanted to make a joke of Roach’s death, I gave up on this show. Which was painful after the visceral reaction I had the first time I heard Henry’s Witcher voice. It was bad enough they gave her a brutal, painful death. They preceded her death with showing our beloved Roach as the only real being he could open up to. And don’t we all know that we can watch movies with thousands of people dying but as soon as we see a horse die, it hits us in the guts. So freakin out of touch with reality and the source material.
Legit. Atreyu's horse, Artax, dying in the Swamp of Sadness traumatized an entire generation of Millenials. Black Beauty? All of the ugly sobbing. Horse deaths stick with you.
His departure had a huge effect: it made a lot of us lose all interest. I have no reason to think season 3 will be good, and even less to think 4 will. She blew it, hard.
@@Vashtstamped I feel much the same, but keep in mind they have another season with him…and it will probably suck anyway. I will wait ‘til it ends, and if multiple trusted sources tell me it’s great, I will consider watching it. (Not holding my breath).
The first season pissed me off. The second season just made me shake my head at how ridiculous it was. THEY ruined it, like THEY always do. Also, one issue I had with Henry's portrayal of Geralt was that he didn't talk enough. It's nice to hear that Henry felt the same and it wasn't his fault.
This is pretty consistent with what i’ve been seeing and watching elsewhere. Not having read the books and only dabbled in the games I still couldn't figure out what was happening with the plot. It was so all over the place I asked my wife if she thinks the writers were the same ones as those that did the Willow seasons earlier this year. Blech. But we love Cavill and the idea and lore behind the books from our internet deep dives behind the story… I hope we don't have to forgo the shows to actually get the story of the Witcher. I hope your prophecies aren't right… but I work with people, and your character assessment seems pretty spot on from how you presented it and what we’ve seen. Tis a shame. We’ll enjoy Cavill while we can and maybe the book author could fire the showrunner or something?… probably a pipe dream, though.
the show is so confusing - as the books move on Ciri moves into becoming the main character naturally anyway...dont know why they thought the need to force Ciri and yen to be the main characters and Gearlt as the side - totally destroys Ciri's 'coming of age' arc
The thing was, Henry knew the plot so well and treasured it so much that even the new scenes/lines introduced felt so organic and well fitted. They new stuff just made Henry's acting of Witcher unique, going it nuance. Unless Liam grows a back bone against those so called writers, the Witcher series is doomed
You said it best; Henry Cavill is the soul of the franchise. If they had respected the material and listened to Henry, they could've had one of the most faithful adaptations and they would be made way more money. Its a damn shame what they did to him and the author.
Yeah, but really, he shouldn't have taken this role in the first place, knowing he'll be taking over for Cavill and be compared to him when the fans are already angry about it.
@@joneriksen9257Your question proves the point better than most things could lol. Chris Hemsworths little brother, who has also become and actor but struggling in the shadow of his brother.
I love Yennefer’s character portrayal in the show, she’s hot with those deep mysterious eyes, but without Henry Cavill not even she pulls me back into another season. You guys can probably tell me the Witcher is great as is in the books and games, and I’m fine with that, but Henry in white hair and murderous black eyes is THE deal maker to make me feel interested in the franchise, and I’m surprised the studio thinks it’s all gonna be alright
Funny thing, the first season did actually pretty good job in setting all the pieces together for further progress. Sure not telling story in chronological order was confusing, but they managed to set pieces for the future well, and making Geralt (as author said "side character in his own story") one of three main protagonists made alot of sense. Unless you only played games, and know nothing about books. The books were about this weird family of Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer trying to live their life in weird circumstances. You have to build these characters for watchers to care. Sure, narration in books mostly follows Geralt (in later books moving to have significant parts focused on Ciri), but the split in first season makes alot of sense imo. Show had their issues, show runner is huge problem, and I agree with general video, that show runner sux. But claim "Geralt is the sole main protagonist because title" sounds like claim from someone who played games, but couldn't be bothered by reading the books. Similar problem as author points towards show runner.
@MichaelPixelsaurBenson yea, they fucked up, and losing Cavil is huge. I'm just pointing that it looks like the author here did lots of criticism not knowing source material well.
I loved the time where we have writers showrunners like David chase, Vince Gilligan,david Simon, Terrence winter who despite of being stern really supported their lead
That was before the Writer's Strike, and now Writer's are guaranteed a paycheck even when their writing is hot garbage. Now that there is money in writing, Feminists have dug in.
@@WorthlessDeadEnd No. Writer's Strikes; - 1988 (Rejected Offer, Shut HW Down) - 2008 (Rejected Offer, Shut HW Down) - 2017 (Rejected Offer, Shut HW Down) - 2023 (Guess what's gonna happen?) This is an ongoing thing where Writer's now effectively control Hollywood, and the core reason why the Writing in Hollywood has rapidly tanked, especially since 2017 saw them gain near 100% control over projects. What else is there to demand?
So the showrunners have truly outed themselves as the main reason Cavill left, and their biggest criticism of him seems to be that he was so into the stories, the games and the general mythos of The Witcher, that he would hold up filming to make sure that what got to the screen was as close to the source material as possible... And they thought this was a terrible thing... And they are trying to hype up the new season with a new lead, who presumably *won't* create these 'problems'. This show is heading for Blood Origin levels of garbage at lightspeed, which is what they wanted to do with this franchise all along. The only reason people didn't get Blood Origin from the very first episode was Henry Cavill.
Honestly, the article calling Mecia Simson a 'Star' of The Witcher show, is a bigger joke than her opinion on Henry Cavill leaving the show. She's, at best, a background character and her prior film credits on imdb are non-existent. Why does literally anyone care about what she has to say about the actual star of the show, as well as someone who is an actual well respected actor?
Wow, Witcher compared to Aragorn, or rather their actors. That sounds like very high praise to me! Cavill's passion gives me a tiny bit more hope for his Warhammer 40k project.
all i know is i am terrified on the nightmare that is going to be the remakes of lord of the rings. PJ kept a lot of the source material and genuinely love JR Tolkien the next people you know are going to destroy every bit of it.
@@Stop_Gooning Same... But hearing how Cavill managed to get at least some lore right, and with 40k being a WAY more open setting to play with, I have a tiny bit of hope. Stay away from named characters, places and conflicts in 40k and you can have so much fun there, any setting you want.
I think Breaking Bad did this “there are no villains” thing to us. The difference is that Walter (and everyone else) has a clear character arc, and these writers simply do not possess the intelligence & life experience to write complex characters who possess conflicting goals (ex, Walt wants to provide for his family, he knows meth is illegal, but he has limited time to make a lot of money, however his goals evolve and he eventually becomes a monster). The writers simply do not have the life experience of being torn between conflicting values needed in order to write complex and compelling characters, so we get “Woman good, white man bad”.
It's because they can't distinguish between a reason and a rationalization. As an audience we can understand and sympathize with the reason that Walter does what he does, maybe even admit we might go down a similiar path if it were us, but we understand that his reasons do not serve as a moral justification for his actions and that he's still a bad person. In their minds though, having a good reason for why you do something makes it instantly ok to do it. It's a very selfish and dangerous line of thinking.
A lot of stories have experimented with anti-heroes and anti-villains. Maybe a witcher has to do horrible things to fight monsters... but he IS still fighting monsters and wouldn't be doing those things if there were no monsters. Maybe the monsters are compelled to do horrible things because of their nature... but they ARE still doing horrible things that wouldn't happen if they weren't around. We can SAY there are no heroes and villains in a story like this, but it's not true. There are.
Breaking Bad ruined tv shows in more ways than one. But the worst part are these talentless havks who believe they are misunderstood geniuses whose brilliance is way above what "the masses" can comprehend.
This is so crazy to me that I'm getting almost every show my friends and I wished for 15 years ago when we were in high school but at this point I wish they'd just stop. The Witcher, Halo, LoTR, Cowboy Bebop, Wheel of Time and so many more have been destroyed and at this point I just can't fathom that these horrible writers have yet to learn a single lesson.
Henry and Peter Jaxon could prolly do this justice, peter did change a few things in Lotr but to my understanding it had something to do with the cinematography and how to translate book to movie is often a problem but u can stay really faithfull, change a few things and still be faithfull to the original IP
In the games, anyone that did the Roach quest in blood and wine when he talks to you know..Roach is a main character of the series. The fact the producers and writers didn't know this means they were never fans of the books and the games in the first place. How is it a huge entity like Netflix didn't understand this?!
Grr Martin hates fan fiction. But cannot grasp how fans also hate adaptations that come across as the worst sort of fan fiction that blatantly misunderstands the source material.
That is because the secret is that all of the final plot mcguffins that the public hate are actually his true "twist". Remember, D & B only got permission to be showrunners because they actually predicted the final planned ending when talking to Martin. D & B clearly misunderstood what the audience liked about the series, but they actually wrote the final 2 seasons with the level of story telling that Martin has planned for the end. The Night King coming South and getting into a single battle before dying to Mary "Arya" Sue is actually planned. The dragons barely being used in battles that don't matter before effectively being one-shot is planned. Bran becoming the King on the Iron Throne even though he has zero claim, which is supposed to be the super big twist(that no one really wanted) is planned. George R R Martin is good at writing rambling in-depth stories, but has no writing skill when it comes to actually bringing story elements to satisfying conclusions. There's a reason why all of the wars are basically completely off-screened.
Agree, his planned ASOIAF ending is woeful. And I expect that's the real reason he's not bothered to finish writing his magnum opus - he knows the ending is terrible and will be loathed by all his readers. I've read a lot of GRRM's short stories (they're genuinely excellent), but he does love a 'twist' type ending. That's cute - and intellectually pleasing to the reader - in a 5000 word short story or a novella. Less so in a fantasy epic that people have invested decades of their lives to finish reading. His saga epic has outgrown his original ending, and he's too arrogant to seek external help or allow someone else to finish it for him. Hence all his twatting round with HotD, the wokewashed GoT prequel spin-off that no one asked for or wanted. But hey, I guess it was still miles better than anything Netflix has shat out, especially that ghastly Witcher knock-off...
It’s heartbreaking that this show was destroyed. I adored it. That actress knows the show is doomed but she’s speaking out of her a$$ to salvage her job because if the audience leaves, she’s out.
I will forever fight for the point that if you want to do your own spin on things don't do an adaptation and make your own goddamn story. Agree so much when you said that they should faithfully follow the existing story until they run out of source material, and then based on the existing understanding generated from following the material you can then move on and devise your own storylines.
@@Darazzz Im gonna wait until at least 2 seasons are out before i give it a chance. Im not giving anything made by big companies the benefit of the doubt anymore. Im not gonna get excited just to be disappointed again.
Dude is making a Warhammer show. I'll go out of my way to watch it too. I'll follow anything Henry does from now on because he stood up for the fans, instead of being a bootlicker like the rest of those vapid clowns in hollyweird...
y'know, back in the day when things were simpler in the 90s, there was a remake of a classic Disney movie that I loved despite it being entirely too cheesy. Homeward Bound, the incredible journey. That ending wrecks me every single time, and I used to be scared shitless of dogs of all kinds, but that ending with Shadow and Peter breaks me because it's genuine love between a dog and his master and it's done in a way to make you yearn for that feeling. For people to not understand that sort of connection and love really speaks to how absolutely empty and hollow those people are inside and why they are so utterly broken. I'll bet there's a lot of Artax references in this comment section because it's the same thing, it's a loving symbol of a person and a beloved animal. Though that one ends worse off really.
@@hanswurst9437 nah neither of them are good for the roles of Ciri/Yennefer. Ciri is too weak and is too much of a princess, the actress has no tomboyish qualities at all. I can't see her ever becoming the character Ciri we saw in the games for example. That's just never gonna happen, she's never gonna be a strong independent female character. Which you would assume is something they want her to be. Since that's apparently progressive and all. But they went the weak princess route with her instead. I am not sure how she was portrayed in the books though, maybe badass ciri was just in the game. But even if that wasn't the books at all, that's how she should be in the future. There was no one who played Witcher 3 and said eww a female character that can fight. Everyone like Ciri being a badass as far as I know. The actress for Yennefer just isn't attractive enough in any sense of the word. She also doesn't embody the aura the character from the game did at all. Many people seem to forget the thing they did in the first season when they were becoming sorceresses they were also making themselves into the most attractive females in the world. They gave up their reproductive organs for literally that and magic. It was a whole thing. But for most of them it was seemingly for nothing. They are not as bad of a casting job as lets say Triss or Fingilla At least we got Joey Batey as Jaskier he was a brilliant casting.
It seems to me that the writer want to bring ciri more to the front of the show in a mary sue type manner not realizing that the journey geralt takes in witcher 3 to find ciri shows the lengths hed go to just for her. Ciri is important, no doubt about that, but the Witcher is more about Geralts' journey and struggle, not anyone elses.
Agree. And the thing is Ciri is already strong in her own way in the books and games. Brining her front and center is not needed. She's already strong just like Galadriel was already strong in Tolkien's universe, then modern day writers had to just feck up her character by making her an unlikeable, cringe Mary Sue in RoP.
The fact that we could have had a series to rival even LOTR movies, with the perfect actor to play the main protagonist that has played the games, read all the books, AND respects the author source material to a T, so much so that he would have done it for free if done right, and a daft psychopathic lunatic with superiority complex because she was born with ovaries, nukes the entire series to this point, is something that should make people riot towards these peoples estates.
Doug Cockle, did a good job. Listen to it, he only did the first book so far though. But he is the voice most people probably think of for the character
I absolutely agree with your statement, that a lot of (modern) Hollywood writers cannot even fathom the abstract notion of someone having other priorities, thoughts, feelings, interests or ideas than themselves. In a lot of modern shows, which were written mostly by random female or diverse/trans writers, that got the job not because they've proven themselves to be competent by writing hits, but simply by checking a woke box, you can clearly see this pattern. In a nutshell, it's all about themselves, not about the source material, show or anyone else.
It's generally a trait of strong ideologues. They typically aren't capable of considering that any sane person would not agree with their perspective. You see this often in the religious right as well. It's also a big aspect of the trend of having more and more female writers in media. Women generally tend towards solipsism, they have a hard time conceiving of things beyond them and tend to see things internally. This is why it's so common for women to talk about things like "my truth" or "womens lived experiences".
Write what you know, right? When everything you tell yourself and everyone else is a lie, then you can't even do a self-insert with anything approaching facility. Much like liberals who always cry about love, acceptance, and empathy are so profoundly incapable of exhibiting it. Nihilism married Narcissism, and their offspring is Legion, stalking the Earth and killing everything it touches. 🤦♂️
I'm still pissed off with what they did to my boy Eskel 😢 But Henry made The Witcher for me. I shall not be watching the episodes without him. You can tell how passionate he was about the shows content that the writers are complaining he annoyed them wanting to improve things.
This is the 1st time I've come cross one ofyour videos and this is so amazing that you get a subscribe right off the bat. Amazing insight and I agree 100% with you!
Remember when we first saw the test footage and most thought the riskiest thing was Henry as Geralt? They surely couldn't mess the story up! Face palm...
I LOVE The Witcher series so much. I had such high hopes for this show, yet lo and behold we got what we got, and I haven't watched anything more than a tiny bit of season 2 before I gave up. I hate this trend of butchering classic material... One can only be burned so many times.
@@jacksonsilva4409 The fact that parts of season one were real adaptation helped me ignoring things they changed. I could say to myself - "They ruined whole brocilon arc.. Well I guess they are going somewhere with it.. Magic system ruined.. well.. I guess..".. But at first ten minutes of season two, I could no longer ignore all the changes, it was clear they were not going anywhere interesting with it and I just couldn't watch anymore.. And watching reviews, I'm glad I did not.
I have nothing against Liam Hemsworth. I don't know his work that well but he's from a talented and enviably good looking family and I'm sure he's an excellent actor. But having said that, I really think Cavill just embodied Geralt in a way I have trouble believing anyone else will soon be able to duplicate. That man IS the witcher, not just in looks but in his bearing and attitude he fills in the role just the way I've always pictured the character in my head.
The way that these show runners are so out of touch with audiences is just mind blowing. Why are people that have no clue about an entire genre of entertainment in charge of making screen adaptations for it?
As a Henry Cavill fan, I applaud his efforts to remain true to the source material. Netflix risks losing the original fan-base (because of badly re-writing popular stories) and very much doubt that the gains will compensate. Start writing your own stories Netflex, instead of ruining existing ones, if you want to avoid becoming irrelevant as a streaming service.
Find it funny how we live in a day and age where actors who aren’t paid to do script writing do it anyways cause they care about the source material more than the writers yet they go and hate the actor for making the show better
I salute Henry for how he handled that horse scene. Fans understand this. Many of our video game or movie protagonists reflect the human emotional connection to their stuff like Noctis to Regalia or Arthur Morgan to his horse or Marty to the DeLorean or Wilson, a Volleyball friend of Chuck Noland.
The Witcher Season 3 will be Henry Cavill's last for Netflix, but why? We now have a Witcher actress saying Henry Cavill leaving wont affect The Witcher much because the show is about so much more than The Witcher. It really doesn't seem like Henry Cavill was valued enough on the set, or worse, was seen as getting in the way. While he was trying to improve the show by putting in more of the source material, if you want to change the source material, you're simply causing trouble. So as we get news that we will get a Season 4 AND Season 5 on Netflix, do you think The Witcher can survive without Henry Cavill? How much will it change without him trying to correct their scenes from the books? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Have you been on vacation? Missed you!
Btw, ‘an IP without its soul’, is beyond accurate. The showrunners are not human, hence their inability to relate, even to the death of faithful companions like Roach. Strange Days Indeed.
"he was trying to improve the show by putting in more of the source material." In other words he kept telling the activist writers they were wrong.
in other words it's going to be trash without him... they will change scenes to make it more palatable for "modern audiences" which is code for "we plan on inserting our personal politics into the very fabric of a cherished story" much like Amazon did with LotR.
The amount of sarcasm in this video made my brain shortcircuit for a bit. Well done.
The Witcher will slog through season 4 and get canned after poor ratings.
It says a lot about Henry Cavill's character that he was able to walk away from this show, it proves he has a lot of integrity, something VERY rare in Hollywood.
Yep. He’s very easy for me to support
Exactly. Geralt ist quite fond of his horses. Just as he is quite sympathetic to the mistreated elves and the more sentient monsters.
It is basicly the ESSENCE of the Witcher itself.
The whole idea about "killing monsters." But what defines "monster"? The fact other witchers like Vesimir care and have feelings. But Geralt especially goes out of his way to help despite being largely feared or hated but tolerated for his "use".
Yet he still does good for an ungrateful world who ultimately sees him as yet another beast to put down last when he killed all the others.
Also the fact he names every horse roach is also extremely deep. Roach is his one constant companion wich is with him during the lonely life of a witcher. He loves, protects and does what he can for each roach. Including mourning. And the reuse of the name is basicly a sweet self lie to always have Roach with him, no matter where he goes.
And that's why his career is done, I STRONGLY suspect, to my sorrow. They can't have that. The rest of the hand puppets might get IDEAS!
I really admire Henry's integrity.
The fact that they found it annoying that a huge star was over-enthusiastic about the role speaks volumes about their work ethic. Any competent showrunner that enjoys their job would be delighted with that situation.
Corporate: "Quit having fun and enjoying your job!"
Cavil: " :( "
Corporate: "Yeah, dance to our tune monkey! Wait are you leaving?"
Cavil: " :) "
Peter Jackson would've loved him.
@@lukecalumlyonwrath7723 oh my, those two together! would be epic 🤩 Now I know what I want next Xmas, lol.
They hate him because he defended us.
The customer. The audience. The people.
So evil
Bingo, that's the crux of it all. He didn't want the Witcher turning into something it's not supposed to be, therefore he is a problem for them
@@Madchris8828 mhmmm
Petty, jealous and talentless. Like a fat girlfriend.
That and he was invested in staying true to original work and respecting every aspect of the story and characters by the author. Being a fan himself he knew what he would want to see in a live action version and tried to protect it from being bastardized by Hollywood only looking at it from a lense of money, politics and social agendas.
@@DekkarJr 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Roach scene is a glaring example none of the writers or showrunners ever even opened the books (or even the games). Anyone who knows anything about The Witcher story knows Roach is not "just a horse". Roach (named after the fish, by the way, NOT the insect) is Geralt's eternal companion, basically the only one that's always been there for him, through mud and snow and blood and tears, one who never hated him, never mocked him, undermined him, abused him, etc. An animal that has been a better companion to him than other humanoids. Roach is the one constant in Geralt's life, one he can always count on, which cannot be said about his other acquaintances. This is why all of Geralt's horses have been called Roach. It's not a name, it's a title, something that has deep meaning for Geralt.
The fact an entire showrunning team can work on someone else's legacy without even having the FAINTEST fucking idea (or care) about the source material is simply mindblowing. How can this even happen?!
But he had several horses, he just called them all roach.. what am I missing here? Like, he cared, or course he cared, but it wasn’t the one horse through the entire series..
@@_edijane_ Read. Roach is not just a name, it's a sort of title bestowed upon Geralt's horses. To him Roach is not just a horse, they're his noble companion, one who he can always count on. Geralt being a witcher, he's been an outcast all his life, being shunned and hated by people everywhere he went. The only one who he could count on for support, without any judgment, hatred or animosity, was Roach. Think of Roach as a long line of noble creatures Geralt served with, each adding their own to the reverence of the name.
@@Playbahnosh thanks. I like that.
Anyone who've ever worked with horses know, that they're not "just a means of transport". Sure, horses can be broken in or raised from foal to be saddle horses, and they will take you from A to B, but even so, horse riding is the ONLY sport where the "sporting equipment" is a living being. Horses have personalities, they learn, adapt, form connections with their riders and they can be really moody. They can be friendly, playful, they do have a sense of humor and a sense of duty (read up on warhorses), but they are big, powerful creatures and you can only ride them if THEY decide they'll let you. If you irk them, they can become unruly and stop doing what you tell em, and they will even buck you if you piss them off enough. But if you treat them well and they also like you, a horse will go through fire and flames for you (literally if necessary)
Nepotism and low ethics. That’s how it happens.
Henry Cavill seems like a genuinely good dude. He stands up for the fans, is a massive nerd himself and a chad. He is an awesome role model for sticking to your guns and leveling up as a man over time
He just rolled high on literally everything when making his dnd class
Exactly man, and it's something I've been realizing a lot recently. Henry is a good dude for young boys and men to look up to imo.
He is that, that everyone of us want to be, a nerd, an actor and for the most part the GIGACHAD
Everyone: "Damn, this isn't showing much loyalty to the books..."
Netflix Writers/Actors: "Wait, someone wrote books about this stuff?"
They are probably bad and in some moon language so better make something up ourselves. We will improve them!
not everyone, clowns still lapped it up pretending it was the real story, it even got infected into the game. never watched a second of it, never will.
We live in a world where writers dislike their lead actors because they are really commited to their role. How the hell did we reach this point?
Capitalism
@@O1OO1O1 capitalism? Wtf
@@O1OO1O1nepotism, its people getting the job because their parents had it.
Hollywood naturally attracted narcisists who wanted to be admired by everyone (actors), tell everyone what to do to the most minute detail (directors), lord over people and be able to determine who has an opportunity to be a star and who gets shunted (producers, talent agencies), and to dominate everyone with their money while making as much profit for as lottle effort possible (financial producers, investors).
This environment is the natural result of gathering so many psychopaths.
He is a white, correctosexual, masculine man. Thats why they hate him. Everything else is just an excuse.
I like the idea of firing the writers and bringing Henry back.
Cavill has Warhammer 40k now... he's never coming back.
1000%!!!
Cavil could do the Witcher all by himself!!!
Oh god in a sec ! If they did that we would all come back ! But this time make Henry Cavill a main writer and this would be one of the biggest things ever seen!
I'd watch that show
Honestly the fight scenes involving Geralt and his witty and charismatic dialogue, combined with the way he talks to his horse is the one thing that makes the show watchable.
Also Geralt shows good morals as a character towards the events he has to deal with. Makes it way more interesting and inspiring.
Hollywood must be pissing their pants after they realised Henry cannot be bought with money or exposure. A true man of integrity. Which makes him quite dangerous to their fake bs industry. Full support from me tho 👏🏼
Nope they just do what they did to Dave Chapelle lie and destroy is career for speaking against them.
@@JackieDaytona01 That and call any fan who disagrees with them and -ist or -isms
How can you not love Henry? He is so classy and so nerdy at the same time. Handsome, smart, well spoken, invested. Wonderful guy.
I wanted to watch the Witcher show just for how excited HE WAS for the show
Hollywood is full of degenerates.
They despise those that are not like them
👏👏👏👏
Why do people hate this man? Hollywood just trashing this man and his work.
Because he's white, straight and a proud gaming nerd
Because he's a genuinely good person? ):
bcuz he is everything hollywood hates. handsome, rich, white man who loves his fanbase like a family, who spends his free time either playing video games, being disguised on conventions or literally just living his life by doing casual shopping/jogging through the city. he is literally a HOLYWOOD kryptonite
I’m not watching season 3. It finished for me already. I don’t want to see Henry leave
They hate him for the same reason fans love him, he's a fan himself and only cares about the source material.
i love how you have an actor, that happens to be your main character, that everyone agrees does a great job, including the author of the books, and that loves the source material, the story and the character so much that he is not only willing to do his best possible job portraying it, but even go beyond that and also di the writers job better than then, and that somehow is being "annoying" to them.
is as if you were looking for shards of glass in the bin, found a genuine diamond, and you tossed it away because you are looking for glass
The issue is they would be making money and get a bigger audience. It would be what is called 'success' and this is something heinous wich must be avoided at all costs.
Walking over dollars, trying to find another dime.
Adding to that analogy: They want to see what glass shards taste like, found a diamond, and though, "But that's not glass though! I want glass!"
As the Devil once says in Faust, 'better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven'. And this is EXACTLY their attitude: they would rather burn the whole series to the ground - and they DID with Blood Origins - than to be successful carrying out someone else's 'vision', particularly if the 'vision' is 'problematic'.
Roach pissed them off. They want to be known for their great writing, they want to be amazing, and after giving them a scene to do (and screw up because they're a stupid white man actor, not a writer) some stupid actor basically pulls a scene out of their backside that eclipses everything else in the series.
You know that makes them seethe.
Never has there been a time where your channel is more needed than now. It's so sad to see so many beloved IPs be destroyed by people that mock the source and want to change it, yet whose creative experience is defined more by Twitter than the past 100 years of movies.
Everything she says genuinely makes me believe that she’s just a bad writer and now I think I’m just going to do whatever I want in life because clearly talent and/or passion are not required.
It's no accident that this attitude prevailed though.
Clearly a certain kind of culture has prevailed in Hollywood in the wake of metoo.
A culture of preferential treatment for women in the business regardless of experience or talent, and that they will never be called to task when their output falls short of the audiences expectations.
I don't say this because I think women cannot write good scripts - because I do think that they are plenty capable there, but I don't believe that having tits and a vagina automatically makes them capable for writing anymore than I believe that having a penis does for men to do the same.
Unless Hollywood returns to favoring merit of creative talent/output over identity politics they are just going to destroy one franchise after another and leave them unadaptable for years due to the well being poisoned, just as it has been for Wheel of Time already.
Also trying desperately to hammer female protagonists into typically male audience driven genres and franchises is going to go down as well as profits for many female group sports vs mens.
In the end it will drive away the built in audience while gaining a minimal following of the new target audience, thus leaving those IPs unprofitable and also poisoning the well for future adaptations.
My guess is that they have taken the dominant viewership statistics of single mother homes and stay at home mothers to be their greatest potential audience and just tried to endlessly change everything to target them, regardless of how well such a genre is likely to attract such an audience.
@username172 By the sound of it Blood Origins is her own show - and by the sound of it the show truly suchs big time and then some.
@@mnomadvfxunfortunately I watched blood origins. Do yourself a favour and don’t waste your time. The story is weak and the characters have no real development. I regret wasting my time with it. Don’t make the same mistake!
She has passion..... for herself.
Theres a scene in a movie called How to lose friends and Alienate people.
You think you've arrived don't you. The character then smacks the upstart down to ground level and tells him how to actually arrive. She hasn't had this by the sound. She thinks the dues are paid and everyone should bend.
Alik Sakharov was a exclusive producer on the show for season 1, he directed the Pilot
BUT he left because of creative differences with Lauren's version....this is what he had to say:
“You see, in my perception, Eastern-European literature has a completely different pace. It is no coincidence that Andrzej Sapkowski has so many storylines and characters. The producers set the task of setting the adaptation at an action pace and filling it with colorful special effects. That was their vision. My vision was very different and I tried to convey it to them, giving my arguments. Unfortunately, I was not considered convincing enough, so I decided to leave the project.”
And something about Henry Cavill:
“Glad to hear it. By the way, Henry Cavill is the best thing in The Witcher, in my opinion. He absolutely nailed the role. Moreover, he is a very flexible actor who is able to listen and learn. I sincerely hope that he has many interesting and good projects ahead.”
And hes NOT the only person who left. Tim Aslam the Costume designer for season 1 left, Sonya who made the beautiful soundtrack for s1 left, some actors left, a writer left, now Henry left.
s1 was made without the appropriate preparation and without time to get things right. Tim Alan, the costume designer, didn't know who he was designing for nor the concept in which the clothes were worn. Henry's wig for Geralt wasnt ready....his own stylist had to work on it day and night to make it look more natural! For the Blaviken fight reshoot they had one day, henry brought in Wolfgang Stegemann and they worked on a fight choreography together, henry learned the whole fight in 2 hours!!! He saved Lauren's a** here and many more times. The writers didn't want geralt to have magic abilities btw....until henry insisted it was necessary to include.
A witcher specifically made to be magical, and fight magically vs magical monsters not having any magic? Damn she shoul've written her own book at this point
@@mekkuzu5944 yep. the more information comes out, the more it seems like they just wanted to make their own original (and apparently very generic) fantasy show and used the witcher name and brand to garner attention.
@@yimpyoi9808 basically every narcissistic writer. They think they can do better or their sht is good but know no one would look at their sht without a well known name slapped on it.
Dude was just casually there pulling 5 different jobs in double shifts, and he still let them go at the character with butcher's tools as long as they kept the bones
A Witcher without his sign magic? Jeez the writers really wanted to butcher the show
The fact he is a straight white man gamer nerd who is stunning in everyway is the ultimate piss off to Hollywood apparently.
He is the complete package but since he is "white straight and male" is what triggers these woke NPCs
Yep
A true fan who suffered those fools for our dreams.
He triggers them like how Chris Pratt does by simply being a Christian.
@@sakkra93 They're listed as the most powerful and privileged on The Wheel of Power and Privilege, so they have to be taken down peg...even if they are not bad people as individuals. No individuality allowed in Marxist-wood. 😑
Imagine the writers saying to John Wick after his dog dies: "We get you another one, it doesn't matter, you will have another dog and you can give it the same name!"
John Wick: But it was dog given by my wife.
Netflix: Give him another dog.
John Wick: But my wife is dead.
Netflix: Give him another wife too.
well he sort of replaces the dog at the end of the first one lol, not the best example 🤣but i get your point lol
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 He doesn't 'replace' the dog. He adopts a new companion as an attempt to move forward with his life. It shows the next part of his grief. He doesn't go "ah, well, I mourned for a bit, guess imma pick a new doggo now".
@@lyravain6304 That is exactly what he does. He lost his dog, got upset and adopts a new dog to fill the void left over from the original dog. What else do you call that other than him replacing the dog.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 When I got a kitten shortly before my cat of 19 years (Zoe) passed, it wasn't as a replacement; it was because I knew that I could give this kitten a good home and because having another cat to love helps to take the sting off losing my previous companion. But she doesn't replace Zoe. I still grieve. There's still a small hole in my heart that doesn't get filled by having a new cat. Bonnie (the kitten) can't replace Zoe. She brings her own personality to my household and has her own place in my heart.
Having read the books (I'm not into gaming), I agree that the source material IS the foundation for the story and there should be basic faithfulness to that source with creative interpretation that makes sense. I'll miss Cavill because to me he absolutely nailed Geralt.
Though we can all understand why he’s walking away, he’s made the character utterly iconic, but I don’t think I’ll be watching future seasons if he isn’t in them…
Poor Henry. He had to completely recreate his work-out schedule to replace the strength training he's been getting from carrying the entire show.
It's a lack of empathy (which is a sign of psychopathy, by the way). This makes so much sense, how can you possibly be a writer and explore the human condition, if you cannot empathise with others. I would not be surprised to discover that her lack of empathy is the rule in Hollywood, rather that the exception.
Undoubtedly
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." --- Obi-wan Kenobi describing Hollywood
The desire to be famous has a huge crossover with narcissism.
The greatest writers all had extraordinary lives as well. Part of the experience they draw from. Now? A writer who grew up being coddled from day one
Yes. This also explains the "I want to possess it and simultaneously hate and destroy it".
My favorite part of this writers Witcher is when Yennifer is specifically told that choosing beauty and power, to get what she wants, will cost her ability to HAVE A CHILD.
And then spends the rest of the show saying that choice was TAKEN CROM HER by Aretuza and nobody told her!
Right? Like can we at least SEE her change her mind?
This fucking annoyed me to the ends of the earth. Like, YOU MADE THE CHOICE. You weren't misled or lied to! That whole storyline made me want to stick screwdrivers in my eye holes and I am a woman who's struggled with infertility. It was a slap in the face to women who ACTUALLY didn't get the choice, you idiots.
@@LaurenE135 Yes, except for the fact that it was nearly spelled out in plain English to her by the dude that did the... procedure.
@@James_Bee No, I get what cedar means. It was explicitly laid out for Yennefer that the procedure would make her sterile. But at that time, having kids meant nothing to her because power and beauty was all she wanted. She understood on paper what she was giving up, but a well-written show would bring up how she gradually realizes exactly what it was she lost, and will never get back, and that desperate fighting against her own choice. That would require, you know, effort and skill.
Originally I was skeptical of Henry playing Geralt but when I saw the passion and dedication he showed towards Garalt’s character it made me absolutely love and idolize him as not only an actor but also as a person dedicated to bringing this originally little known authors vision to life
Henry Cavill is a rare professional who gets the source material and wishes to respect and honour it. Genuine class human being
I couldn’t imagine the frustration and heartbreak Cavill must’ve felt. Here he is as the *only* true fan of the series, the only person who knows the characters and their drives, yet he’s the one treated like a loon in trying to actually make the series successful…
And just like that, they’ve gotten rid of the only thing tying this series to it’s actual heart.
All boils down to pride. The writers can’t; for one second, stop and realize that their vision for “The Witcher” is not what the fans want.
I think its more. They dont have the skills to come up with something on their own, but are desperate to have their own stamp.
Pure narcissism but no skills -> Lets take the work of someone else and "rewrite" it.
Sure its pride, but at this point its way more than "just" pride...
From a company point of view sure, lets use the material with an already established fan-base -> less risk.
Decision-making for hiring activists, who hate the source? WTF? Is it blackrock or what not to greenlight the investment? I have no clue...
@@marasmorgean5813 “All boils down to pride”. But yes, I agree there are more factors that stem from it.
The best part of Emhyr in the book was that he thought he was so ruthless that he can just impregnate his own daughter for the sake of fulfilling the prophecy to have his heir rule the world, then he sees her daughter with people who were more of parents than them, and he couldnt go through with it. He admit it as much, and let them leave. That was level of depth Sapkowski put into writing the characters. Not fan fiction writing done by talentless narcissist.
Call this shit Trollfiction, as only fans can write fanfiction. Hell I’ve seen fanfics worked marvelously. And some of the writers haven’t even graduated high school yet.
@@LoneSilverW0lf Trollfiction is good, I called it hatefiction so far as they hate the source material.
@@LoneSilverW0lf Or Anti-fiction.
@@spacejunk2186 lol that’s nonfiction
the "we're already pressing the boundaries of reality" is amusing when you consider they had the massive oversight of making Jaskier like 50-60 by the time the timelines converged, and they thought that was less important than the fact Roach could live a few years longer
Reminds me, when the horse died in The Never Ending Story, it felt like watching the main character's close friend dying. Someone who traveled so far with the main character, and died sinking in the mud so he would'nt drown and continue on his path. He grieved as he watched the horse sink into the mud. A friend who sacrificed himself for another could be the greatest sacrifice one could make.
Just thinking about the scene, decades later, bring tears to my eyes
Ugh that scene gutted me "Artax, you're sinking!"
A great and terrible scene to behold. However, the horse didn't sacrifice itself, it became depressed and gave up. In the books Artax could talk to and understand Artyu, so it was even sadder.
that woman's lack of awareness is astonishing.... does she think people want to hear why she thinks Henry Cavill left?..... he left because of you 🤣🤦♂️
She probably just wants to say "it wasn't the fault of me or my writers" regardless of whether that is a lie or not...
@@blindlobster After spending 5 years at a major animation studio that’s seen a lot of flops lately, I can tell you first-hand “It’s someone else’s fault” is the go-to reason for anything that goes wrong- from the top people down. It’s shocking how good workers would get canned, and the most lazy and opportunistic people would fail-up. Now every department is run by a Michael Scott.
I am not even watching Season 3 lol
I think she's trying to save face and show a sign of strength.
@@bathtub_marmot Sounds about par for the course for a union.
It's funny.. when I heard first heard Henry Cavill being cast as the Witcher I thought he would be the worst thing about the show. After season one.. which is the only season I could muster the fortitude to sit thru.. I realized he was the only thing holding this train-wreck together. You really do have to be living in a bubble to think this show is going anywhere without him.
This is so telling. They dont understand the horse death scene because they lack empathy. Theyre NPC robots. Why would someone be sad when their animal companion dies? I dunno, keep "subverting expectations".
They're treating the death of Roach as fine his car simply broke down. Roach is a CHARACTER and a companion to Geralt; the fact that they don't understand that is telling.
They also don't understand that Roach is literally Geralt entire character explained. He names them all Roach. As if to tell the world he is cynical and doesn't care. However he can never change his true character and he cares. He cares to much.
An animal can't go on Twitter and be an "ally" by liking their virtue signaling posts.
Ppl who make it into the "big club" pretty much always are malignant narcissists. Funny that, huh?
i lost my cat three years ago and i am still not over it..
not sure who these showrunners and writers are, but they sure dont give a fukk about life.
I've never watched the show or played the games, so I don't know anything about Geralt's relationship with Roach, but I get the feeling that writer is the kind of person who thinks of pets as toys rather than members of the family that people bond with. The scary thing is, she most likely is or will be a lonely cat lady.
To be a cat lady, she would have to care about something beyond herself.
You need to read the books. The show is VAGUELY based off the books, they changed so much that completely did not need to be changed. Made zero sense.
“Won’t effect the show that much”. Yeah massive amount of people have already decided to not partake in season 4 is massive and we know what Netflix does to failing shows. When this fails (and it will) and the many people working on this have to go find work elsewhere only the writers and show runner will be to blame.
i will be supporting Henry in anything he does because of how much he cared for the Witcher and doing it justice. he is one of the few actors that actually stands up for fans and telling stories properly from their source material. i enjoyed him as Superman never understood why many people didnt.
Except Ebola Holmes.
Allegedly we may be getting a war hammer 40k with Henry Cavil!
We NEED Henry to play Arthas in a Warcraft series.
That would be a wet dream come true.
@@NPzed he's an executive producer on a yet unmanned 40k production over at amazon.
Henry stood up for a storys and characters he loved and would not allow them to be sullied with his name attached. A real man and a real fan.
Thanks!
We learn very young on the playground that there are two kinds of people; the thinkers that can create, and the bullies that cannot so go around destroying other peoples' works.
I don't think I've ever seen a show fail so hard while the actor who played in it became even more loved by the viewers.
Cavill was probably the only one on the show who understood or even only read and/or played the original.
Man looks better and better with every new information uncovered.
These writters have zero empathy. Zero real world experience. A horse is not just a bicycle to the hero. It is his silent companion which they go through adventure and life with. When I played Shadow od the Colossus, when the horse Argo sacrificed himself to save the main character I literally cried. It is losing some one close who you had relied on.
Bro, the fact that those nobodies thought they were in any position to mock the lore is hilarious. Ironically, writing fan-fiction for this material is the only bit of relevance they will ever reach in their lives.
Another great example is Artax in The Neverending Story. The movies aren't as good as the book but at least do some things right.
This happened with the Terry Pratchett series of the Watch where even the family of Pratchett said it shares no dna with the source material.
Honestly, I'd wager Henry could easily obtain the rights to make his own Witcher based project if he really wanted. I'm betting they sold the concept of being "faithful to the source" to Sapkawski when he granted them the rights to make this show so he could legally nullify that contract and offer it to Henry instead.
This is why FAN-driven series should have a quiz for all writers and show-runners and directors. If you can't pass the quiz, you aren't enough of a fan to work on it.
Plus pop quizzes before each season and immediately fire those who can't pass.
Agreed, Halo should have had game consoles on SET!
everyone in the warhammer 40k series must have a 2k point fully built army
Yes please! Having a fan like him as the main character would be such a gift to someone who actually loved the material. Such a freakin tragedy
@@88thdeathkoregrenadier68 At least Henry is spearheading the Warhammer 40k series so I actually can have faith in it.
Lets be honest, he didnt leave, he was BULLIED/pushed out.
"Be a Fan" should be the FIRST rule of hiring for this stuff! But instead they hire people who are actively out to ruin the show and universe. Its pathetic. Cavill and his love/passion was the best thing about this entire show. Oh fuck! You mean the guy who is obsessed with and knows everything about the world had notes!? No way! Thats the ONE GUY you listen to! She is just mad he keeps interfering with her fanfiction. It should say "inspired by, The Witcher"
Agreed.
Agree
Henry's performance as Geralt is the GOLD STANDARD of animation to live action. Huge loss - if the show wasn't going to shit anyway.
Animation to live action??? So we're calling books animation now?? What the hell are you smoking?
@@BtorvilleI guess he means the games? Or possibly the witcher animated on TV which is a younger Vesimer and its good if you hadnt seen it. Other than that no idea.
10:25 In complete fairness, Geralt does become something of a father figure to Ciri, in the books and the games. He's essentially her mentor and guardian. If that's not a father, I don't know what is. In that aspect, the show having the two characters grow closer - coupled with just how much attention Ciri gets as the books go on - is actually good adherence to the source material.
Or, at least, it would be if handled correctly. And considering how badly they fumbled Yennefer's relationship to Ciri? Well, I'm not holding my breath for a good handling of the Ciri-Geralt relationship dynamics now that Henry's stepped down. (For the record, I stopped watching after season 1, so I don't even know how well or how poorly they handled it in season 2 or any of 3 that already has/will air.)
When I found out they wanted to make a joke of Roach’s death, I gave up on this show. Which was painful after the visceral reaction I had the first time I heard Henry’s Witcher voice. It was bad enough they gave her a brutal, painful death. They preceded her death with showing our beloved Roach as the only real being he could open up to. And don’t we all know that we can watch movies with thousands of people dying but as soon as we see a horse die, it hits us in the guts. So freakin out of touch with reality and the source material.
Legit. Atreyu's horse, Artax, dying in the Swamp of Sadness traumatized an entire generation of Millenials. Black Beauty? All of the ugly sobbing. Horse deaths stick with you.
His departure had a huge effect: it made a lot of us lose all interest. I have no reason to think season 3 will be good, and even less to think 4 will. She blew it, hard.
When i found out they fired him, then the Witcher was dead, Henry Henry Cavill is The Witcher
@@Vashtstamped I feel much the same, but keep in mind they have another season with him…and it will probably suck anyway. I will wait ‘til it ends, and if multiple trusted sources tell me it’s great, I will consider watching it. (Not holding my breath).
It's so bad that the Witcher could have been Game of Thrones but we just got season 8 of it.
The first season pissed me off. The second season just made me shake my head at how ridiculous it was. THEY ruined it, like THEY always do.
Also, one issue I had with Henry's portrayal of Geralt was that he didn't talk enough. It's nice to hear that Henry felt the same and it wasn't his fault.
This is pretty consistent with what i’ve been seeing and watching elsewhere.
Not having read the books and only dabbled in the games I still couldn't figure out what was happening with the plot. It was so all over the place I asked my wife if she thinks the writers were the same ones as those that did the Willow seasons earlier this year. Blech. But we love Cavill and the idea and lore behind the books from our internet deep dives behind the story… I hope we don't have to forgo the shows to actually get the story of the Witcher.
I hope your prophecies aren't right… but I work with people, and your character assessment seems pretty spot on from how you presented it and what we’ve seen. Tis a shame.
We’ll enjoy Cavill while we can and maybe the book author could fire the showrunner or something?… probably a pipe dream, though.
the show is so confusing - as the books move on Ciri moves into becoming the main character naturally anyway...dont know why they thought the need to force Ciri and yen to be the main characters and Gearlt as the side - totally destroys Ciri's 'coming of age' arc
The thing was, Henry knew the plot so well and treasured it so much that even the new scenes/lines introduced felt so organic and well fitted. They new stuff just made Henry's acting of Witcher unique, going it nuance. Unless Liam grows a back bone against those so called writers, the Witcher series is doomed
You said it best; Henry Cavill is the soul of the franchise. If they had respected the material and listened to Henry, they could've had one of the most faithful adaptations and they would be made way more money. Its a damn shame what they did to him and the author.
I feel so sorry for Liam. He needs a vehicle to help him step out of his brother’s shadow only to take a role that puts him in Cavill’s.
Yeah, but really, he shouldn't have taken this role in the first place, knowing he'll be taking over for Cavill and be compared to him when the fans are already angry about it.
@@katyty1496 $$$ money talks... Some people don't care about integrity and their own reputation.
who is Liam?
@@joneriksen9257Your question proves the point better than most things could lol. Chris Hemsworths little brother, who has also become and actor but struggling in the shadow of his brother.
Screw him. He's an opportunistic hack.
I love Yennefer’s character portrayal in the show, she’s hot with those deep mysterious eyes, but without Henry Cavill not even she pulls me back into another season. You guys can probably tell me the Witcher is great as is in the books and games, and I’m fine with that, but Henry in white hair and murderous black eyes is THE deal maker to make me feel interested in the franchise, and I’m surprised the studio thinks it’s all gonna be alright
She sucks in the show
Funny thing, the first season did actually pretty good job in setting all the pieces together for further progress. Sure not telling story in chronological order was confusing, but they managed to set pieces for the future well, and making Geralt (as author said "side character in his own story") one of three main protagonists made alot of sense. Unless you only played games, and know nothing about books. The books were about this weird family of Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer trying to live their life in weird circumstances. You have to build these characters for watchers to care. Sure, narration in books mostly follows Geralt (in later books moving to have significant parts focused on Ciri), but the split in first season makes alot of sense imo.
Show had their issues, show runner is huge problem, and I agree with general video, that show runner sux. But claim "Geralt is the sole main protagonist because title" sounds like claim from someone who played games, but couldn't be bothered by reading the books. Similar problem as author points towards show runner.
@MichaelPixelsaurBenson yea, they fucked up, and losing Cavil is huge.
I'm just pointing that it looks like the author here did lots of criticism not knowing source material well.
Yeah that shii was so confusing
I loved the time where we have writers showrunners like David chase, Vince Gilligan,david Simon, Terrence winter who despite of being stern really supported their lead
That was before the Writer's Strike, and now Writer's are guaranteed a paycheck even when their writing is hot garbage. Now that there is money in writing, Feminists have dug in.
@@wolfrainexxx Oh, is that what that whole "pay your writers" thing was about?
@@WorthlessDeadEnd No.
Writer's Strikes;
- 1988 (Rejected Offer, Shut HW Down)
- 2008 (Rejected Offer, Shut HW Down)
- 2017 (Rejected Offer, Shut HW Down)
- 2023 (Guess what's gonna happen?)
This is an ongoing thing where Writer's now effectively control Hollywood, and the core reason why the Writing in Hollywood has rapidly tanked, especially since 2017 saw them gain near 100% control over projects.
What else is there to demand?
@@WorthlessDeadEnd yeah, apparently when the shows flop they don't get paid enough.
"Won't affect the show that much" that's comedy gold. If only it was meant to be funny when said
Said by an actress whose character I can’t even recall from two seasons. Francesca?
So the showrunners have truly outed themselves as the main reason Cavill left, and their biggest criticism of him seems to be that he was so into the stories, the games and the general mythos of The Witcher, that he would hold up filming to make sure that what got to the screen was as close to the source material as possible... And they thought this was a terrible thing...
And they are trying to hype up the new season with a new lead, who presumably *won't* create these 'problems'. This show is heading for Blood Origin levels of garbage at lightspeed, which is what they wanted to do with this franchise all along. The only reason people didn't get Blood Origin from the very first episode was Henry Cavill.
Honestly, the article calling Mecia Simson a 'Star' of The Witcher show, is a bigger joke than her opinion on Henry Cavill leaving the show. She's, at best, a background character and her prior film credits on imdb are non-existent. Why does literally anyone care about what she has to say about the actual star of the show, as well as someone who is an actual well respected actor?
Henry was the only man for this role he lived and breathed as Geralt of Rivia
Wow, Witcher compared to Aragorn, or rather their actors. That sounds like very high praise to me!
Cavill's passion gives me a tiny bit more hope for his Warhammer 40k project.
The writing staff of the Witcher kills my hope for his 40K project.
all i know is i am terrified on the nightmare that is going to be the remakes of lord of the rings. PJ kept a lot of the source material and genuinely love JR Tolkien the next people you know are going to destroy every bit of it.
@@Stop_Gooning Same... But hearing how Cavill managed to get at least some lore right, and with 40k being a WAY more open setting to play with, I have a tiny bit of hope. Stay away from named characters, places and conflicts in 40k and you can have so much fun there, any setting you want.
I think Breaking Bad did this “there are no villains” thing to us. The difference is that Walter (and everyone else) has a clear character arc, and these writers simply do not possess the intelligence & life experience to write complex characters who possess conflicting goals (ex, Walt wants to provide for his family, he knows meth is illegal, but he has limited time to make a lot of money, however his goals evolve and he eventually becomes a monster). The writers simply do not have the life experience of being torn between conflicting values needed in order to write complex and compelling characters, so we get “Woman good, white man bad”.
It's because they can't distinguish between a reason and a rationalization. As an audience we can understand and sympathize with the reason that Walter does what he does, maybe even admit we might go down a similiar path if it were us, but we understand that his reasons do not serve as a moral justification for his actions and that he's still a bad person. In their minds though, having a good reason for why you do something makes it instantly ok to do it. It's a very selfish and dangerous line of thinking.
A lot of stories have experimented with anti-heroes and anti-villains. Maybe a witcher has to do horrible things to fight monsters... but he IS still fighting monsters and wouldn't be doing those things if there were no monsters. Maybe the monsters are compelled to do horrible things because of their nature... but they ARE still doing horrible things that wouldn't happen if they weren't around. We can SAY there are no heroes and villains in a story like this, but it's not true. There are.
They mistake 'popular' for 'good'. Just like they did at school, no doubt.
Breaking Bad ruined tv shows in more ways than one.
But the worst part are these talentless havks who believe they are misunderstood geniuses whose brilliance is way above what "the masses" can comprehend.
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle Which would also explain their obsession with graduation ball.
This is so crazy to me that I'm getting almost every show my friends and I wished for 15 years ago when we were in high school but at this point I wish they'd just stop. The Witcher, Halo, LoTR, Cowboy Bebop, Wheel of Time and so many more have been destroyed and at this point I just can't fathom that these horrible writers have yet to learn a single lesson.
You miss the point - destroying the things you love *is* their goal. It’s a Cultural Revolution
Wheel of time was so bad lol. I can't decide which one was butchered worse. WOT, which was a complete miss. Or ROP which was a Ronaldo statue. 😅
I thought cowboy bebop was really good
@@Malaphisis lol
Henry and Peter Jaxon could prolly do this justice, peter did change a few things in Lotr but to my understanding it had something to do with the cinematography and how to translate book to movie is often a problem but u can stay really faithfull, change a few things and still be faithfull to the original IP
In the games, anyone that did the Roach quest in blood and wine when he talks to you know..Roach is a main character of the series. The fact the producers and writers didn't know this means they were never fans of the books and the games in the first place. How is it a huge entity like Netflix didn't understand this?!
true, but also i think people are forgetting that geralt does indeed name all his horses roach.
Grr Martin hates fan fiction. But cannot grasp how fans also hate adaptations that come across as the worst sort of fan fiction that blatantly misunderstands the source material.
Pretty rich coming from someone whose biggest series is War of the Roses fanfic.
That is because the secret is that all of the final plot mcguffins that the public hate are actually his true "twist". Remember, D & B only got permission to be showrunners because they actually predicted the final planned ending when talking to Martin. D & B clearly misunderstood what the audience liked about the series, but they actually wrote the final 2 seasons with the level of story telling that Martin has planned for the end. The Night King coming South and getting into a single battle before dying to Mary "Arya" Sue is actually planned. The dragons barely being used in battles that don't matter before effectively being one-shot is planned. Bran becoming the King on the Iron Throne even though he has zero claim, which is supposed to be the super big twist(that no one really wanted) is planned. George R R Martin is good at writing rambling in-depth stories, but has no writing skill when it comes to actually bringing story elements to satisfying conclusions. There's a reason why all of the wars are basically completely off-screened.
Agree, his planned ASOIAF ending is woeful. And I expect that's the real reason he's not bothered to finish writing his magnum opus - he knows the ending is terrible and will be loathed by all his readers. I've read a lot of GRRM's short stories (they're genuinely excellent), but he does love a 'twist' type ending. That's cute - and intellectually pleasing to the reader - in a 5000 word short story or a novella. Less so in a fantasy epic that people have invested decades of their lives to finish reading. His saga epic has outgrown his original ending, and he's too arrogant to seek external help or allow someone else to finish it for him. Hence all his twatting round with HotD, the wokewashed GoT prequel spin-off that no one asked for or wanted. But hey, I guess it was still miles better than anything Netflix has shat out, especially that ghastly Witcher knock-off...
"Why dont men like stories where men get constantly cucked, humiliated, lectured about feminism and portrayed as useless and/or evil??" - GRR Martin
I think you give Hissrich too much credit saying she only saw Roach as a character, I think Hissrich only saw her as a prop!
Seems that Mr Cavill was the only one within the cast and crew that actually cared about the story rather than their own activism.
Activists ruin everything they touch, no shocker to me
It’s heartbreaking that this show was destroyed. I adored it.
That actress knows the show is doomed but she’s speaking out of her a$$ to salvage her job because if the audience leaves, she’s out.
I will forever fight for the point that if you want to do your own spin on things don't do an adaptation and make your own goddamn story. Agree so much when you said that they should faithfully follow the existing story until they run out of source material, and then based on the existing understanding generated from following the material you can then move on and devise your own storylines.
Henry is by far the maddest of lads I've seen in a very long time
I hope he gets another show that he can make shine
Fr, Hes the unluckiest dude in Hollywood. But he has landed a main role in a warhammer series.
@@sephy980 shit is gonna be fire
He is doing warhammer 40 k series. That i will pay for to see.
@@Darazzz Im gonna wait until at least 2 seasons are out before i give it a chance. Im not giving anything made by big companies the benefit of the doubt anymore. Im not gonna get excited just to be disappointed again.
Dude is making a Warhammer show. I'll go out of my way to watch it too. I'll follow anything Henry does from now on because he stood up for the fans, instead of being a bootlicker like the rest of those vapid clowns in hollyweird...
The witcher is done, you can't lose the actor the brought the title character to life and possibly think it will continue successfully.
Henry Cavill is beloved. We love you Henry bro, keep standing up for us you absolute legend.
Poor Henry. Hes just a geek that wants to work on things he loves
Right? How dare he want to be happy at work.
y'know, back in the day when things were simpler in the 90s, there was a remake of a classic Disney movie that I loved despite it being entirely too cheesy.
Homeward Bound, the incredible journey.
That ending wrecks me every single time, and I used to be scared shitless of dogs of all kinds, but that ending with Shadow and Peter breaks me because it's genuine love between a dog and his master and it's done in a way to make you yearn for that feeling.
For people to not understand that sort of connection and love really speaks to how absolutely empty and hollow those people are inside and why they are so utterly broken.
I'll bet there's a lot of Artax references in this comment section because it's the same thing, it's a loving symbol of a person and a beloved animal. Though that one ends worse off really.
ah homeward bound, somehow showing more emotion than a cgi lion king you could literally do anything with
Artax? Wasn't that Atreyu's horse? 😢
I cannot watch The Neverending Story without ugly crying at the Artax scene every time.
Henry cavill was the only one who showed he has enough self respect to not bow down to the stupid showrunners who are hell bent on ruining the show.
imagine an employee who really wanted to do the absolute best job he can day in, day out for 7 seasons.... get rid of him
@@grimsworld an employee who is also _literally an A-list actor_
@@mbg4681 an actor, who looks almost born to play this exact part-who played it so well…fuck
Yennefer and ciri did a fantastic Job in season 1 too, but theyre total nonames
@@hanswurst9437 nah neither of them are good for the roles of Ciri/Yennefer. Ciri is too weak and is too much of a princess, the actress has no tomboyish qualities at all.
I can't see her ever becoming the character Ciri we saw in the games for example. That's just never gonna happen, she's never gonna be a strong independent female character. Which you would assume is something they want her to be. Since that's apparently progressive and all. But they went the weak princess route with her instead.
I am not sure how she was portrayed in the books though, maybe badass ciri was just in the game. But even if that wasn't the books at all, that's how she should be in the future.
There was no one who played Witcher 3 and said eww a female character that can fight. Everyone like Ciri being a badass as far as I know.
The actress for Yennefer just isn't attractive enough in any sense of the word. She also doesn't embody the aura the character from the game did at all.
Many people seem to forget the thing they did in the first season when they were becoming sorceresses they were also making themselves into the most attractive females in the world. They gave up their reproductive organs for literally that and magic. It was a whole thing. But for most of them it was seemingly for nothing.
They are not as bad of a casting job as lets say Triss or Fingilla
At least we got Joey Batey as Jaskier he was a brilliant casting.
It seems to me that the writer want to bring ciri more to the front of the show in a mary sue type manner not realizing that the journey geralt takes in witcher 3 to find ciri shows the lengths hed go to just for her. Ciri is important, no doubt about that, but the Witcher is more about Geralts' journey and struggle, not anyone elses.
Agree. And the thing is Ciri is already strong in her own way in the books and games. Brining her front and center is not needed. She's already strong just like Galadriel was already strong in Tolkien's universe, then modern day writers had to just feck up her character by making her an unlikeable, cringe Mary Sue in RoP.
How do these show runners and writers get these jobs when there are so many talented and passionate people out there. Baffles me
maybe they're cheaper
The fact that we could have had a series to rival even LOTR movies, with the perfect actor to play the main protagonist that has played the games, read all the books, AND respects the author source material to a T, so much so that he would have done it for free if done right, and a daft psychopathic lunatic with superiority complex because she was born with ovaries, nukes the entire series to this point, is something that should make people riot towards these peoples estates.
Can we get Henry to Voiceover the wicher audiobooks?
Yoooo that needs to happen
Doug Cockle, did a good job. Listen to it, he only did the first book so far though.
But he is the voice most people probably think of for the character
I absolutely agree with your statement, that a lot of (modern) Hollywood writers cannot even fathom the abstract notion of someone having other priorities, thoughts, feelings, interests or ideas than themselves.
In a lot of modern shows, which were written mostly by random female or diverse/trans writers, that got the job not because they've proven themselves to be competent by writing hits, but simply by checking a woke box, you can clearly see this pattern. In a nutshell, it's all about themselves, not about the source material, show or anyone else.
It's generally a trait of strong ideologues. They typically aren't capable of considering that any sane person would not agree with their perspective. You see this often in the religious right as well.
It's also a big aspect of the trend of having more and more female writers in media. Women generally tend towards solipsism, they have a hard time conceiving of things beyond them and tend to see things internally. This is why it's so common for women to talk about things like "my truth" or "womens lived experiences".
Write what you know, right?
When everything you tell yourself and everyone else is a lie, then you can't even do a self-insert with anything approaching facility. Much like liberals who always cry about love, acceptance, and empathy are so profoundly incapable of exhibiting it.
Nihilism married Narcissism, and their offspring is Legion, stalking the Earth and killing everything it touches. 🤦♂️
I'm still pissed off with what they did to my boy Eskel 😢
But Henry made The Witcher for me. I shall not be watching the episodes without him.
You can tell how passionate he was about the shows content that the writers are complaining he annoyed them wanting to improve things.
This is the 1st time I've come cross one ofyour videos and this is so amazing that you get a subscribe right off the bat. Amazing insight and I agree 100% with you!
Remember when we first saw the test footage and most thought the riskiest thing was Henry as Geralt? They surely couldn't mess the story up! Face palm...
I LOVE The Witcher series so much. I had such high hopes for this show, yet lo and behold we got what we got, and I haven't watched anything more than a tiny bit of season 2 before I gave up. I hate this trend of butchering classic material... One can only be burned so many times.
Play the games and you'll be much happier. Witcher 2 is a masterpiece.
@@clausion Played em all, and yes i agree :)
I enjoyed season 1, couldn't finish season 2
@@jacksonsilva4409 The fact that parts of season one were real adaptation helped me ignoring things they changed. I could say to myself - "They ruined whole brocilon arc.. Well I guess they are going somewhere with it.. Magic system ruined.. well.. I guess..".. But at first ten minutes of season two, I could no longer ignore all the changes, it was clear they were not going anywhere interesting with it and I just couldn't watch anymore.. And watching reviews, I'm glad I did not.
Cavill's mistake was to not buy himself into the show as stakeholder. let that be a lesson to actors who want to have a say.
He took that lesson and decided to do warhammer 🤣
@@justrayLoveArtI can't wait for that either, I have high hopes for games workshop and Henry !
@@weaponizedrationale6691 hopefully its actually gonna be good, because games workshop may own a great ip, but as a company, they are still shit
CD Projekt Red is the only one who makes good Witcher content nowadays. They made comics about Geralt of Rivia and manga Witcher Ronin.
I have nothing against Liam Hemsworth. I don't know his work that well but he's from a talented and enviably good looking family and I'm sure he's an excellent actor. But having said that, I really think Cavill just embodied Geralt in a way I have trouble believing anyone else will soon be able to duplicate. That man IS the witcher, not just in looks but in his bearing and attitude he fills in the role just the way I've always pictured the character in my head.
The way that these show runners are so out of touch with audiences is just mind blowing. Why are people that have no clue about an entire genre of entertainment in charge of making screen adaptations for it?
As a Henry Cavill fan, I applaud his efforts to remain true to the source material. Netflix risks losing the original fan-base (because of badly re-writing popular stories) and very much doubt that the gains will compensate.
Start writing your own stories Netflex, instead of ruining existing ones, if you want to avoid becoming irrelevant as a streaming service.
Find it funny how we live in a day and age where actors who aren’t paid to do script writing do it anyways cause they care about the source material more than the writers yet they go and hate the actor for making the show better
And then the writers strike because the terrible job they *are* doing is “too hard”. Lulz
Funny How the death scene of Roach that Henry rewrote ended up being the best scene of the whole season.
It's like my pasty azz is comparing myself to Magic Mike. Don't kid yourself witcher staff, you blew it (and not in a good way).
"she said she was very shocked when she found out [Henry was leaving]"
^---there's your problem right there
I salute Henry for how he handled that horse scene. Fans understand this. Many of our video game or movie protagonists reflect the human emotional connection to their stuff like Noctis to Regalia or Arthur Morgan to his horse or Marty to the DeLorean or Wilson, a Volleyball friend of Chuck Noland.