Oh God The Witcher. The production team was handed an incredibly strong female lead character who was smarter, more politically astute, and more feared/respected than almost any other character in the series. And they immediately tore her down and made her a petty whining brat while claiming it was about female empowerment. A pox on Netflix and the entire production team.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Didn't the show runner say that the dumb public was to blame for the failure of the show?

Edit: he blamed dumb Americans.

Baginski said, “When a series is made for a huge mass of viewers, with different experiences, from different parts of the world, and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary.”

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He has a point about simplifications when it comes to media and art being approachable by the masses (and I say this with no insult intended, simplification of anything will always have broader appeal). See popular music vs avante-guard jazz (i.e. Miles Davis, probably the most-approachable of the type!)

But holy cow what a condescending, arrogant, insulting pick.

Fuck him and anything he ever touches.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And we Americans complain about our own dumbing down of media to ship overseas.

I'm glad I didn't watch the show.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thing is: They are working from the basis of media that has been successful already. So the amount of "dumbing down" neccessary to achieve a somewhat broad appeal has already been done by the author of the original, so to speak. Their argument doesn't hold any water whatsoever on no level imaginable.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Projection is a powerful drug.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is some stuff I don't dislike about Netflix's Witcher, but god damn, I feel like they actively set out to do the worst rewriting ever with how they treated/portrayed basically the entire Lodge of Sorceresses

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My hopes were so high for the stupid thing. They couldn't tell the story in front of them that was already loaded with allegorical social justice issues. They had to reinterpret the entire thing and just plain fucked it up. Just sad.