Ha, that's what I assumed that Smoove was referencing.
Interviewer: PlayStation or XBox?
Cavill: LOLWUTNO
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Ha, that's what I assumed that Smoove was referencing.
The Witcher is such a great show. It's outrageous that Entertainment Weekly reviewed it and gave it 0/100 without watching. They should be ashamed.
That’s good to hear. I just finished episode 1 and felt a little disappointed. But sometimes a show takes time to take off, or find its footing. I’ll keep with it though.
Where I think it's confusing is that they use context clues (ages, dress, armor, age, etc...) along with some lines of dialogue to telegraphy where we are in the story. I think it's more recently the trend where they hammer you over the head and explicitly tell you flashback/flash sideways whereas in this show they're being much more subtle.
That would make sense, although... (episode 3 and 4 spoilers).
I just finished episode 4. The one thing that I'm noticing is that while Ciri's story (the present) is going day to day, both of the 'past' timelines are advancing toward the present with jumps of years or even decades. As of season 4, we know that
Yes, you always say that to me whenever I dislike something you enjoy. But considering how often I sing the praises of other tv shows (Legion, Preacher, Doom Patrol, etc.), I think it’s safe to assume that’s just your defensive mechanism. Fun fact: You can enjoy something I don’t like without taking offense.
Nah, you just always seem extremely critical of shows (including shows I also don't like.) You seem to have fairly high standards. I don't, and I'm well aware of that. We're opposites, I think. If films were beer, I'd be the guy who thinks Bud Light is the finest example of the brewer's art. I am perfectly happy to ignore plot holes that bother most people, and often don't even realize a film is considered horrible by most until after I've seen it, loved it, seen it again, and happened to read the prevailing opinion years later. I like mindless garbage if it has pretty lights, and I'm often oblivious to high-falutin' concepts like 'character development.'hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:35 pmYes, you always say that to me whenever I dislike something you enjoy. But considering how often I sing the praises of other tv shows (Legion, Preacher, Doom Patrol, etc.), I think it’s safe to assume that’s just your defensive mechanism. Fun fact: You can enjoy something I don’t like without taking offense.
Wait...there are fantasy/superhero shows on TV you DON’T like?
But it seems that right now at least, Geralt of Rivia is having the last laugh. According to Business Insider (reporting on data from Parrott Analytics), The Witcher has overtaken The Mandalorian as the biggest show in the world. The data company bases its rankings on “demand expressions,” their global, standardized measurement that reflects the popularity of a show.
By this metric, the Netflix series overtook Disney Plus’ crown jewel as the most in-demand TV series in the world (across all platforms) in the week of December 22nd to 28th. The Witcher was the top US program, with 127 million demand expressions, leaving The Mandalorian‘s 115 million demand expressions in the Tatooine dust.
The key to the success of both the video game and the television series is that Geralt of Rivia appears to take everything in his world extremely seriously, but no one else does. As Geralt, the Superman actor Henry Cavill communicates largely through monosyllabic grunts (and his penis—the man is sterile, but still virile). But everyone else plays it for bathos. An irritating bard—called Dandelion in the game, but Jaskier in the books and television series—writes terrible rhyming songs about Geralt’s exploits, and can’t be taken anywhere without wandering into the pointy end of a sword or pointy-end-first into someone important’s wife. Geralt’s great love, Yennefer of Vengerberg, openly mocks him for his lack of small talk. The overall effect is of Christian Bale’s Batman being dropped into the world of George Clooney’s Batman. Eventually, you begin to suspect that Geralt is quietly amused by the absurdity around him. He is the straight man of this whole weird society.
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In its own way, then, The Witcher is groundbreaking. Critics have wondered for decades now why games make such bad source material for drama. (Remember Alicia Vikander in the recent Tomb Raider? Michael Fassbender in Assassin’s Creed? Rihanna in Battleship? No? Don’t worry, no one else does either.) The Witcher bucks that trend, not just because it ultimately derives from books, but because it embraces, rather than rejects, what people love about video games. It is messy, and absurd, but also—it is fun.