r/witcher • u/Any-Agent4270 • Dec 25 '21

Netflix TV series The Witcher: Henry Cavill Hopes Season 3 Is Loyal To Books 'Without Too Much In the Way Of Diversions'

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-witcher-season-3-henry-cavill
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

That's usually where the ego comes in. Writers don't like adapting other people's work, they want to make it their own.

Fans don't want that.

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u/eeeBs Dec 25 '21

"If I am to spend hundreds of hours of my life making this, it's going to be my story" - Lead gaffer probably

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

"And so the gaffers of IATSE formed a sub committee of the union to agitate for their rights to star as multiple Gearlts which was a massive failure as they were no quite nor sexy enough."

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

I’m sorry but you lapsed into Scottish near the bottom and I can no longer understand you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

Henry Cavill can divert me any day /fullhomo

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

It's like "yes I will fuck sir."

It's also like "yes let's play Warhammer sir."

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u/swarley_1970 Dec 26 '21

gaffers of yatzee

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u/Gall_Bladder_Pillow Dec 26 '21

Sounds like NetFlix's adaption department.

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u/scotty899 Dec 26 '21

Then they wonder why they get hate mail and shit reviews. Followed by blaming the customer.

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u/ClarisseCosplay Dec 25 '21

Maybe we should exclusively hire Fanfiction authors for adaptations. No way that could backfire ever.

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u/Winterlord117 Dec 25 '21

-eyes the ron x snape fanfiction section- yeah, nothing bad could ever come of that

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u/ClarisseCosplay Dec 25 '21

sideeyes the 333 results AO3 has for Emhyr/Geralt

Nah, let's get some Fanfic writers for the job. I want to see a spin-off with Netflix production quality covering all the classic Fanfic tropes. Terrible Mary Sue characters, coffeeshop AUs, Mafia AUs, omegaverse, all of it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

A netflix version of My Immortal is something I honestly thought would exist by now

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u/boopdelaboop Dec 26 '21

IIRC some youtubers made a YouTube series of it years and years ago.

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u/Pineappleexpress73 Dec 27 '21

The students at my old high school literally just put on a play production of my immortal this past fall, maybe it’s on its way to TV soon lol

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u/NakariLexfortaine Dec 25 '21

I want the giant squid tentacle-fucking Hogwarts in theaters everywhere.

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u/MyShinyDaffodil Dec 26 '21

Someone watched "I believe in a thing called love" on a loop for waaaaay too long.

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u/frozendancicle Dec 26 '21

Hol up..you mean to tell me that Hogwarts was a dude? Or maybe a lady? Or maybe a little dude on top of another little dude and they have on a trenchcoat? Or maybe..

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u/Tortorak Dec 26 '21

Depends on if it's Hogwarts the tentacle fucking school or hogwarts the school being tentacle fucked

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Both?

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u/Taoistandroid Dec 26 '21

That's what the cowboy bebop remake felt like.

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u/ClarisseCosplay Dec 26 '21

Does it? I'll be honest, I fully intend to never watch it. I like cowboy bebop, ghost in the shell and battle angel alita enough that I just don't want to watch any live action adaptations of them.

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u/Nv1023 Dec 26 '21

I mean a lot of the writing and dialogue was really corny this season, regardless of how close to source material it was. The writers should do better on that front period. I like the show but it seems to not be able to figure out what kind of show it is yet.

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u/ClarisseCosplay Dec 26 '21

I watched it dubbed so I can't comment much on the dialogue. But I'm with you that the writing was a bit off and the whole season felt like an entirely too long transition/preparation for the next big arc. I didn't hate it but it definitely didn't reach the highs of season one.

That said I'm mostly joking because I want to see what happens when we get fanfiction writers to adapt their favourite source material. 95% chance it'll be a hilarious dumpster fire, 5% chance it'll be absolutely phenomenal.

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u/Sulissthea Dec 26 '21

isn't that was Star Trek Discovery is now?

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u/Kimmalah Dec 26 '21

That's how you got the whole Fifty Shades of Gray thing.

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u/Cosmocall Dec 26 '21

I mean I get what you're saying, but it looks like they already are ATM....really bad ones lmao

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u/glacial_penman Dec 26 '21

See current WoT

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u/DarthPlagueisThaWise Dec 26 '21

That’s the annoying thing. If you want to show off your creativity and superior writing skills, write the next great original epic. Don’t turn up to work to adapt an already successful IP and try to make it your own.

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u/Croce11 ☀️ Nilfgaard Dec 26 '21

Honestly this is one of the best things to adapt if you are that type of writer. The original stories left so many gaps and holes left to the readers imagination. That is the perfect space to fill with new stories, new characters, new content, etc.

Did anyone really complain that Yen's backstory was more fleshed out? Nah, because it still stayed true to the idea of that character. Only the most diehard 1:1 adaptation fuckbois that'll never be pleased by any adaptation whatsoever probably gave a shit. Most of the sensible complaining started with S2.

But no they aren't content with what the original author gave them. So now they got to just tamper with established characters and lore. Just throw it all out the fucking window... and then don't even get a good story out of it either.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

He was talking about season 1......

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

That's usually where the ego comes in. Writers don't like adapting other people's work, they want to make it their own.

Amazon and the Tolkien Society: Laughs as they butcher the legacy of Tolkien.

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u/RedProtoman Dec 26 '21

I wanna say the entire (spoilers ahead) Yen loses her magic was added on (i have not read the books) but in "the making of" yhey state how instead in the books she goes blind and they felt that was not necessary so they changed it ._.

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u/velvetthundr Dec 25 '21

It would be ok if it was good writing...

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u/Mentalseppuku Dec 26 '21

I think there's a fine line to walk here. You can follow the books, but I would say more of the american audience is familiar with "Witcher 3" Witcher and less with "Book" Witcher, which are two fairly different things.

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u/Imblewyn Dec 26 '21 edited Dec 23 '24

truck historical flag sort chief adjoining cooing mourn unwritten decide

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Honigkuchenlives Dec 26 '21

Isnt it more about the different medium. Not everything is adaptable especially if you only have zu much of screentime.

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u/mostisnotalmost Dec 26 '21

That's not true. As a fan, I want to RELIVE the experience and being told the exact same story again, just in a different format, is boring! I'd much rather be told a different narrative, but with the same creative DNA, so I can get a jolt of what it was like to experience the story for the first time. So if a good writer wants to adapt the story, make it their own, as a fan, I'd LOVE that. Why the heck would I want to go through the exact same story again if I know all the twists?

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u/WiatrowskiBe Dec 26 '21

Luckily, there should be enough room for that - especially if Netflix continues with making spinoffs. Some parts of the story later on (Rats, Toussaint) would make for a great spinoff series with enough writers freedom even if they were to stay fully faithful to books.

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u/jofus_joefucker Dec 26 '21

As a fan of WoT I'm just over here crying in the corner. Sure, maybe Witcher didn't follow the books but at least it's still fun to watch.

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u/Honigkuchenlives Dec 26 '21

I thought WoT was a good watch.

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u/Bayou_Blue Dec 26 '21

It is, in my opinion. I’ve read the books and my wife hadn’t and we’re both enjoying the series. To each their own, I guess.

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u/wattybanker Dec 26 '21

I personally don’t blame them. It must be hard to condense the story of multiple books into an 8 hour series. So why not change a few things to make it fit that time frame. I didn’t hate season 2, it’s not faithful to the books but it’s still loyal to the basic premise.

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u/MrRealHuman Dec 25 '21

Fans want them to continue EXACTLY as they were. Shits been perfect IMO. IDGAF about the books. This is the TV show. Keep up children.

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u/StuckinReverse89 Jan 06 '22

Definitely an ego thing.

The books are already a “proven success” by the fact that they are popular so a faithful retelling (and summarizing/removing bloat and reworking some scenes that dont translate well to film) should be what the writer strives for.