And no one cares about it. Seriously if it was enough to piss Cavill off then it was enough to piss off the nerds who cared about it. The show is already dead in my mind.
it has been since the end of season 1, when it was revealed that they were re writing the script because the mediocre writers thought they were better than Sapkowsky.
Tbh the games did that a lot and pretty much all of the changes were for the better. The original books are good but there is some cringe in there that is an artifact of them being fantasy books from the 80s and 90s.
I gave season 2 a chance but it really started going off the rails. Yeah, the author is a little weird and the universe is dark af. That’s why we like it. Instead they decide they are the arbiters of good writing
I’d rather have a new Witcher game in the quality of Witcher 3 ($80m) than 3 episodes of a series.
But then, what do i know?
All that just to flop matchlessly since they could not give a shit for what actual fans of the series wanted, which was by no means a hard task since the source story is so well written and detailed. I could say that the books are basically scripts.
Getting four seasons is not a flop. I agree the first season was terrible, I never end bothered with any more but it clearly got the numbers.
There’s an interesting take. Most people I’ve heard from said the first season was the good one and then everything went to crap as the writers tried to put their spin on things.
That character has its fanatics who ignored all the problems of the first season. Good god it was such a steaming pile of dogshit.
They “only” spent 8 mill an episode and the whole thing looked like a poorly funded REN Fair. The most shockingly terrible part was the various creatures the Witcher fought. To say they looked like something from the 80s Land of the Lost is generous.
The characters made no sense.
And then there was the whole Toss a Coin To the Witcher song… Holy fuck…
Ugh, that song. I don’t remember much of what I saw when I watched it but I remember that song and I can definitely agree that was horrible and out of place, along with just about everything involving that bard character. Normally, shows wait until their rating flag before bringing in the character whose whole purpose is to be annoying. They didn’t wait.
It is mind boggling how much they spend on this show and it looks utterly terrible.
Bad special effects cost more than good special effects because the lack of talent makes them inefficient.
Watch these two old BBC shows; I, Claudius and The Prisoner.
It’s a good chance to see what you can do on a low budget if you are willing to use your imagination.
I, Claudius tells the story of the first four Roman emperors. All the spectacles are off camera, but you don’t care. The Prisoner creates an entire world inside a small seaside resort.
Idk why Netflix continues to fuck up in this exact way over and over again. Did they not learn from Marco Polo, which they produced over a decade ago to be their version of Game of Thrones? At the time, it was one of the most expensive TV shows ever made, but nobody watched it and nobody remembers it because it was all spectacle and no substance. Nobody I know who liked the Netflix Witcher is planning on watching Season 4, and no amount of budget is going to fix that.
At the risk of being pedantic.
“The Making of Star Trek” came out when the show was still in production. It’s interesting to see how they used low budget practical effects and smart writing to produce a classic.
Worth a read.
Why would that be pedantic?
How is this not cancelled yet? No one wants this.
Just another way to launder money I guess, since the 27M an episode budget sounds just way over the top for such a shit show.
Yikes. And the show has been pretty mediocre after season 1 too.
Mediocre is an understatement if I have ever seen one.
Holy shit:
the service’s total spend (before tax credits) on the franchise once it’s over could come in at over $900 million.
Without context that actually isn’t as crazy as it sounds, considering some of the absurd budgets of TV shows nowadays. But for a show with seemingly so little cultural impact and from Netflix it really is suprising.
I mean Amazon spend way more on the terrible LOTR series and Citadel cost like 300m for a single season without having any cultural impact. But that is just typical Amazon throwing money in the fire hoping for their own GoT, whereas Netflix usually seems to be much more about numbers and cancelling shows if no one watches them (so apparently the viewership numbers are still solid?).
And recently Andor came in at over $600m for two seasons, but especially the second season was basically like 4 high quality movies (each 3 episode block being roughly one). Which puts the whole budget into perspective and i feel like the repairs it did to the damaged star wars franchise brand were huge.
All very good points. I didn’t realize Andor cost that much! But I totally agree it was worth it for such high quality cinematic television that re-re-defined what good Star Wars is. And yeah, Amazon does really seem happy to light money on fire…their “LOTR” and Citadel were embarrassingly bad for the fortunes they cost.
