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[ SECRET POST #4749 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4749 ⌋

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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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(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
People keep saying it's the new Game of Thrones, but it feels a lot close to the new Hercules.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
That's the strongest argument for watching Witcher I've heard so far.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2020-01-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
DA


Huh, that is a convincing argument. I'm almost tempted to watch it.
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[personal profile] des_pudels_kern 2020-01-07 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
LOL, not entirely inaccurate. The special effects are a lot better, though.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well it is a few decades younger.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2020-01-07 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
A hell of a lot less rapey, as well. Still could do better with representation tho.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2020-01-07 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
DA

That's really not how it works.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Really? How else would you explain that scene?

Because magic mind control forced sex is definitely still rape. She even pointed out that everyone involved was mortified when the spell broke.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes but in terms that it had more rape than GoT isn't true, one scene verses dozens still means hat GoT had more rape scenes.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Because it's not the 'pretty young woman held down and brutalized' kind of rape, so it's not as painful to watch? To me, that si almost worst - there is no acknowledgement that what Yennefer did was a horrible violation. And The Witcher does get in its fair share of pretty naked woman screaming in pain. The woman in question just conveniently agrees to both scenarios. But two of Yennefer's biggest scenes, her transformation and her djinn scene, are blatant torture porn.

So, yeah, I don't see how, from this season alone, you can say that the Witcher is doing better than GoT in this regard.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I meant that it doesn't have more rape than GoT because GoT had it continuously as a staple throughout all of their seasons. If The Witcher only had one giant orgy than that counts to having less rape than GoT. Besides, Misfits was much worse with mind controlled orgy/rape scenes that went completely without consequence.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-08 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
Misfits?!? I did not expect this whataboutism! XD

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Most of the main characters are POCs, that's way more representation that most fantasy canons.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
That doesn't make it a good series, though.

Good for representation, but still mediocre at best for general ... everything else.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You're entitled to your opinion. I personally liked it a lot.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-07 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2020-01-07 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2020-01-07 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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