🚨The Crimes of The Witcher Netflix🚨

The Netflix tv show titled The Witcher, named after the Polish series by Andrzej Sapkowski of the same name, features the stories of Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer of Vengeberg, and Ciri of Cintra as they become more and more entwined by what the show frames as "destiny". Unfortunately, more often then not this tv show misunderstood what the aim of the novels were in the first place. In fact, it twists the source material so much, that in my opinion, it has done more harm to the IP than good. I asked my subscribers and Instagram followers to submit what they thought were the greatest crimes Netflix has committed against the Witcher. In this video I go over each one and determine to what extent it was show-breaking.

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[JimbobVEVO]

Geralt in the books:
Superhuman Socrates with a sword

Geralt in the show:
💪😐 mm

[aserosiris]

Netflix Writer: Look at all this amazing lore and material for me to ignore!

[KALtheHighstorm]

I feel like Netflix's Witcher is the best example of a fantasy adaptation gone wrong. Writers that openly mock and hate the source material, actors who don't understand the roles they play (except Cavill), and managers who have no passion for the project. It also tries to chase the high of GoT. GoT is dark and gritty. Witcher is dark and gritty. But Witcher does not equal GoT. So not only does the Netflix series completely disrespect the source material, it also disrespects what makes the fantasy genre so good by thinking that every fantasy adaptation has to be the next Game of Thrones.

[corriban]

The worst thing about this is that the intellectual property is now "tainted" by the incoherent schlopp that Netflix delivered. It's gonna be years and decades until another production company even touches this with a 10 foot pole, if ever.

[-RedCloud]

I can never forgive them for what they did to Eskel....

[Kyle-btco]

Only smart writers can write smart characters. Netflix Dijkstra never stood a chance.

[wiedzx]

It's so crazy that the entire witcher tv series seems like it is made by people who had a deadline for a story and they just decided to ask the worst ai to summarise the books, which it did by making up random bullshit, and they submitted it.

[CruelDwarf]

The best characterization of Witcher TV adaptation by Netflix is something that I heard from one fiction writer: "They removed the heart with surgical precision from every single Witcher story and plotline and then violently shoved this heart into the story ass".

[fearlessromeo]

The golden dragon! The damn golden dragon supposed to be beautiful. But in the show.... (Internal cry)

[alexconstantin]

I mostly agree with these rankings, but I'll be honest, Vesemir wanting to murder Ciri for her Elder Blood in order to make more witchers should get AT LEAST life in prison, if not the death sentence. I mean come on, he's basically been a grandfather figure to Ciri (so he shouldn't even THINK about wanting to kill her), a father figure to Geralt (so he shouldn't even THINK about wanting to kill his adoptive daughter), and a father figure to the other witchers (who also started caring a lot about Ciri as they trained and even kind of helped raise her, and who, especially Lambert, didn't seem really keen to be witchers nor to make more witchers, so they too would be opposed to the idea), so there's no way this shit would ever happen, not in the books and certainly not in the games!
And also, correct me if I am wrong, I also don't think he ever even mentioned wanting the witchers to be in higher numbers, therefore where does the wish of making more witchers even come from? I've re-read the books at the beginning of this year and I can't for the life of me figure out when Vesemir even mentioned wishing for there to be more witchers.
Honestly, I kind of liked the first season, but after the whole fiasco with Vesemir wanting Ciri's blood and Yennefer losing her powers, I just couldn't watch the show anymore. I think it's ok, or maybe even good for someone who has never read the books or played the games, but as a fan of both the books and the games, the show is utter garbage and I hate Netflix for it. And I'm saying this as a person who kind of rocks the "I don't give a shit" attitude, so watching myself be so pissed of about something like this says something, lol.

[смрш]

One detail that stuck out to me in particular was driads using crossbows in the show. A crossbow is not elegant it takes longer to draw and perhaps most importantly is much harder to produce, requiring a trigger mechanism while a driads primitive bow would be a string on a stick.

Driads, beings who shape trees into being their homes, wear virtually no clothing and live harmoniously with the land would NEVER go through the trouble of making crossbows. Never.

[brodysandifer-williams]

For me the worst crime the show committed was revealing Emhyr Var Emreis as Ciri’s father so early. That was a huge reveal in the final book.

[RetiredWitcherGeralt]

I hate that everytime I mention Witcher to people I meet, I have to specify and emphasize that nope, I don't mean Netflix Witcher, NO. :(

[Bellannie]

Yen trying to kill Ciri made me SO angry. The show was completely irredeemable at that point.

[СергейЗахаркин-бы]

Dijsktra is kinda dumb in Witcher 3 too, especially at the end. His desicion to force Geralt to choose between him and Roshe was really stupid.

[omarsulaiman]

I remember liking the first season of the show when I watched it without knowing anything, but after reading the first two books I was like what happened.

[yairsofer]

Another small but huge change in the show that showed me the writers don't understand the characters, and why I hated this show from the beginning (I know people love season 1 I hated it) is in The Last Wish episode. In the books Yen thinks Dandelion is the one making the wishes which is why after she hypnotises Geralt to punish the people who insulted her, she teleports Dandelion to the courthouse to make a wish that what Geralt did (because she made him do it) would be forgotten by everyone so he is not punished or killed because of her (obviously it doesn't work because Geralt is the one with the wishes but she doesn't know it yet). Yet in the show Yen just does NOT care what happens to Geralt as a result of what she made him do and just threatens Dandelion to make a wish with a knife to his throat, which just makes her an evil selfish person where as in the books she DID care enough to not let him be punished because of what she made him do. It's a tiny detail but important imo exactly because of the implication that the show Yen did not care if Geralt would have been killed because of her.
I loved in one xLetalis video how he compared the Netflix Eyck vs how CDPR made him in Witcher Tales: Thronebreaker which if you haven't played i HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it is unbelievably good and criminally underrated.
Also that is not the "Polish" eagle. I don't know what "Polish" is you made that up, that is in fact the REDANIAN eagle thank you very much

[thedarkpierogie]

They stripped away the Slavic and Americanized it while saying they're being faithful to the source material. Straight to jail.

[YauheniBahdanau]

I would also count as a crime how Netflix writers tried to casually ride their favourite horses, like racism, strong women characters, and stuff, while completely ignoring the fact that Sapkowski's books already had those topics covered well ahead of the time on a completely different level of quality. I mean, it was always there, just go by the book, don't invent stuff you can't do properly.

[BlueBEAZY]

The way that the other Witchers were portrayed in “Kaer Morhen” was just jarring. They pretty much turned the place into a brothel lol