[ SECRET POST #4749 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4749 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dracula (the upcoming 2020 series)]


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[Letter Bee]


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[The Untamed]


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[Queer Eye, S01 E03 "Dega Don't"]


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[The Witcher]


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[RWBY]


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[The Last Airbender]















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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/Ktp3LQd.png
[The Witcher]

[silverr]

For me the most jarringly anachronistic thing was someone (Yennefer?) using the phrase "off the grid."

[(Anonymous)]

That's terrible. It completely doesn't make any sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes!

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I noticed that once or twice, too. I guess my overall thought is a lot of phrases are anachronistic if you really stop to dissect their history... and presumably we are listening to a modern English translation of what the characters are saying, when they aren't "really" speaking our language to start with. So it doesn't bother me too much in principle. But off the grid was a little out of place.

[(Anonymous)]

Jaskier's hair wasn't nearly as bad as Yennefer's sexy dominatrix outfits. Lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Somehow The Witcher still surprises be with all the bad choices they feel inclined to make...

[nightscale]

It's true, but I still highly enjoy his character and banter with Geralt. :P

[(Anonymous)]

People keep saying it's the new Game of Thrones, but it feels a lot close to the new Hercules.

[(Anonymous)]

That's the strongest argument for watching Witcher I've heard so far.

[(Anonymous)]

It's got a lot of humour similar to Hercules and Xena. Effects and landscapes are better, mind. And it's plotted to tell a story arc over the season, instead of a string of stand-alone episodes.

(I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.)

[(Anonymous)]

DA


Huh, that is a convincing argument. I'm almost tempted to watch it.

[des_pudels_kern]

I did not find the story arc well told, to be honest. It's confusing, disjointed, and a lot of information was just... not there. And while everything came together in the end, many gaps have never been filled. E.g., does no one age or do only certain people not age due to magic and I'm supposed to know when someone is canonically not aging and when an actor just happens to look the same no matter how much time is supposed to have passed? Why did Yennefer, who was shown to be the worst student in her class, get to continue on even though half of her class was [redacted] for not being good enough, and how/when did she become a capable sorceress? What are the rules of this world?

I've read that this season was based on prequel short stories, so I'm hoping that's why it feels so incoherent and next season will be better.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, not entirely inaccurate. The special effects are a lot better, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Well it is a few decades younger.

[(Anonymous)]

I think "New Game of Thrones" means adult-targeted fantasy. Which is a shame, as someone who actively did not like Game of Thrones.

I don't find them similar at all. The Witcher was solidly high fantasy dripping with magic and monsters, and much less gratuitous in terms of violence, torture, gore. and sex (well, a bit of sex, but not GoT level). It's clear who the heroes are, even when they're being assholes. The plot is about fantastical characters and magical conflicts, which far overshadows the feudal backdrop.

Not saying that people who liked GoT a lot won't migrate to The Witcher, but they don't have much in common once you strip them of the generic label of "European-inspired fantasy that isn't for kids."

[(Anonymous)]

A hell of a lot less rapey, as well. Still could do better with representation tho.

[(Anonymous)]

Well. There was that huge group rape where Yennefer mind-controlled so many people I didn't even count them into a giant orgy for her entertainment. Just because she uses magic rather than force doesn't make it not rape. So I'm pretty sure that beats GoT's rapes per season count in one scenes alone.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the main characters are POCs, that's way more representation that most fantasy canons.

[(Anonymous)]

For REAL though.

I saw people saying it has a better first season than GOT and I'm like ... what? No. No it didn't. It's got all the humour of BBCs Merlin and the stylings of Xena if it had a Game of Thrones titty quota.

I mean... different strokes for different folks and all that, but if you think it's better than Game of Thrones you're either lying to yourself or letting the final seasons colour your view if the first few.

[(Anonymous)]

It's got all the humour of BBCs Merlin and the stylings of Xena if it had a Game of Thrones titty quota.

So what you’re saying is that it’s infinitely better than GoT. Got it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I hate Game of Thrones, and I only ever watched the first two seasons. I hated it from episode 1. I thought it was gratuitous to the point of comical absurdity and not half as clever as it thought it was. The Witcher at least, owns its genre. Game of Thrones relied on tits and torture to pose itself as, ahem, "realistic" fantasy.

To each their own, but in my ever-so-humble opinion, The Witcher is leagues better than that rubbish.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who hadn't read the books/played the games, I actually liked Jaskier a lot. Probably my favorite character, and I enjoyed how he bounced off Geralt's grimness. I didn't think he came across as out-of-place - the haircut was generic enough and I didn't think he sang in a pop sort of way at all. If anyone felt a little too modern, it was Yennifer.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that was jarring. His singing intro was early on and it really threw me.

[(Anonymous)]

If they leaned more into the novels' purposefuly post-modern approach to things, it would fit in more (there are many anachronistic elements in them and I think some of them were left in, but too few to not be jarring). I hope they wil be a bit more relaxed about it in S2. S1 was okay, but a bit too heavy on the serious business plotlines in the beginning. The Witcher is supposed to be a bit more fun (before it goes all epic).