What’s the general consensus with Netflix The Witcher, and Castlevania? Any other adaptions? Are they doing well? I have t watched either or played either - but from visuals I’ve seen the aesthetic looks rather on point
Castlevania starts off well in the first series as it only has a few episodes it is kind of like an experiment or pilot, lower budget but you can see it is a work of passion.
Season 2 starts to show problems, long drawn out random scenes to fill time and felate the ego of the writers who think they are intellectual heavy weights. Woke ideology/pandering starts to show its ugly face. Still watchable with the main storyline but has problems.
Season 3? Complete waste of time. All the problems of Season 2 are amplified by 10. Wokeness is off the charts. Dumpster fire.
The Witcher has only had one season so far. I quite enjoyed it but it seemed to have a massive focus on the female leads with Geralt not getting much focus despite him being the main/title character. Seems the writers want to have a stealth female main character.
I haven't read the books or played the games but there are supposedly tons of woke casting choices for many characters that have annoyed fans. These characters clearly being white in the original books (to the best of my knowledge).
The first episode is probably the best one of the season, kind of shifts tone a lot after that. Special effects are kind of sub par but I've heard they will change studios for the sequel. Apparently Cavil is a huge Witcher fan so I credit him somewhat with putting pressure where he can to try to keep the quality up and the show on track. He really nails Geralt as a character.
I'm somewhat excited for season 2 but dreading how much more the woke/quality issues will be amplified now that the show has turned out popular and they feel they have more freedom to let loose. Cautiously optimistic but expecting the worst deep down.