15 mins into the first ep and I stopped it, might try again later but if you're expecting anything good like The Witcher series forget it.

Update: Finished them all, the first 3 were all over the place typical Netflix woke nonsense that made little sense. The 4th ep wasn't entirely bad but I think it was just because it was over and wrapping it up. If you don't see any of this show you won't be missing anything.

guess what, it's awful. the story makes less sense the more it goes on, and it goes on for four hours. just switch off your brain and let it wash over you until the next proper season drops (whenever that happens!)

The people that did not like this are the same people that were mad there was a black person in the new god of war game..

It was a show, people did stuff and it was okay.

This show is NOT The Witcher. It is some random generic fantasy show with "The Witcher" slapped into the title to get people to actually watch it.

This show literally destroys every piece of lore we have from the books about the timeline of this universe. They also changed Ciri's origins/heritage, and absolutely butchered both Eredin and Avallac’h. They even somehow managed to throw in some stupid remark that makes out Geralt to be racist against elves.

Canonically, this show is an abomination that should be buried deep down where no one can ever find it. If you are even remotely a fan of the books, this show will infuriate you.

Taking away the bastardisation of the source materials, the show still isn't good. Dialogue is awful, unnatural, and clunky. Characters are shallow to the point where one of the main character's sister dies in front of her in the first episode, only for her to not show any emotion or care about what just happened. The plot is about as generic as you can get when it comes to a fantasy show.

> My soul was eroding while watching this

Although a shitstorm of bad acting and direction but it has answers for
[spoiler]
* how elves conquered dwarven cities and ruled the world in clans
* how chaos was brought to the world along with monsters
* how the forgotten first witcher came to be
* conjunction of spheres
* the arrival of the human cargo which brings the destruction of elves in current timeline
[/spoiler]

if you want to skip just the read the above spoilers !!

The amount of negative comments on here is wild. The fact that Michelle Yeoh is part of this cast and they said the acting in this was bad is even wilder.

There were complaints that this lacked a story. It’s literally a movie broken up into pieces and follows basic story telling. You might not agree with the story but one was told. Yes I’m a bit confused to how this fits into the original lore about human witchers. Do I think this change ruins this limited series? No.

I can agree with some that mentioned time. I don’t know if this was days, weeks, or months from the moment we met the Lark to the moment she killed her love. Also their romance was the writers banking on us seeing them in proximity and assuming a romance bloomed. It was lazy and personally I couldn’t see the love. I understand why they would need to have some type of love but they could have done that better.

Loved the bards songs.

Love how trakt came in and not only removed all the negative comments about it being woke and terrible that were at the top / voted up and had a lot of engagement, but they also pegged the review score upward from the low 40%. There were at least a dozen comments about this being terrible woke nonsense, which weren't offense or inappropriate at all.

My comment and rating also was removed. Keep messing around and I'll text Elon to scoop this place up.

Fucking fuckity fucking fuck is this bad.

This felt too short for all the things they wanted to do. If this had been longer they could have dived into the world and all it’s lore better, leaving less questions and confusion. Besides that I could not for the life of me figure out what they we’re trying to convey through the costumes, hair, makeup and architecture. Felt like a missed storytelling opportunity. (Or I just didn’t get it)

I am curious, somewhat unrelated, what other fantasy media people have consumed who seem to be complaining about ‘wokeness’ because this did not feel particularly ‘woke’ to me compared to other general fantasy media from over the last few decades.

Either way, I was fairly entertained throughout the 4 episodes so not all bad.

It's not great, but it is good. Clearly a show for the long time fans of the Withcher Universe. It was great to see characters that will later be part of the Wild Hunt... to see a glimpse of Ithlinne in her youth... the creation of the first witcher and so on. I hope there will be more of these short series depicting the many stories and legends of the Witcher Universe.

Wonder what the poles think of such adaptations of their beloved medieval fantasy folklore.

Woke Score: 11/10.
Overall score 1/10

Imagine taking the witcher and removing everything that makes it the witcher, filling it to the brim with terrible bipoc actors just because, add a CW level script, and let a 14 year old cgi artist handle the renders as a school project.

Trash. Now let's see how long this stays up before trakt removes my comment as usual.

I too hate everything that is not a white straight man oh wait they had plenty of that in the show.

As for the content, it was a nice written story that could have used more content for certain characters but overall it was great. Do not go in thinking exactly of the witcher and quite honestly it has a lot of the same themes from the original series plus overall ideas used. The CGI was straight up bad but that doesn't take away from the great acting, casting, and writing. I'm quite disappointed at the awful ratings cause it could have used some better writing in areas but wasn't that bad.

Like I get people are mad in general at the witcher for what happened to Henry Cavill and the writers fron the original but this was still good and worth seeing.

This mini series is giving me a migraine, of all the decent series Netflix has canceled (Warrior Nun being the most recent) and then they put this up for viewers, really makes me wonder who is running the show there. This is trash TV nothing more. Thank god it's only 4 parts.

I'm hearing quite a lot of negativity around this show and its trailer. Can anyone who has already seen this show confirm if this is more than just an average fantasy show with a Witcher branding sauce and really adds something to the Witcher universe? With all the rumours about the original show and, what looks like the down hill slope it is going, its hard to just start watching this and hoping it respects the main narrative/world from the books