I love, love the way fantasy and sci-fi recently have a very strong theme of the power of stories and song to fight back against the oppressor, to inspire resistance and rebellion. Damn right! The rich and powerful have always assumed music and art and literature belonged to them, but there’s a very strong tradition of the poor and low born and oppressed using music and stories to defy their oppressors and rise up against them.
I’m loving the surprise Meldof and Brother Death friendship tbh. They’re so good! Tender and in pain in such overlapping but dissimilar ways. Love to see it, honestly I could’ve watched a whole episode about them. And!! Completely nonromantic!! Love it
And I ended up so disappointed. I effing love The Witcher. I was primed to love this. But I didn’t. So many things wrong. Awful dialogue. Not enough time with the characters. Trying to provide origins for too many plot points. Shoehorning in Joey Batey to have some connection to the original. This completely missed the mark and made me mad and glad that it was only four episodes.
Trivia: not worth adding apparently as there are only two entries on IMDb.
All out of 10:
👏: 2
🧀: 10 (not in a good way)
🎯: 0
I might come back to this and write a longer meta about my anger about this.
My reaction the latest Witcher Blood Origin trailer is…
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Cool, this all looks cool, love Michelle Yeoh and Lenny Henry and Minnie Driver and - wait a minute - a lute? Surely not…it is…Jaskier? Jaskier! JASKIER!!!!!!
No, but like, imagine you're jaskier. A bard painfully in love with your weirdly mutated wolf witcher. A magical thing tells you the story of the first ever dog Witcher, and you're like "ok, cool" and then she tells you how this fucking dog is in love with a BARD who gets called basically the same things you get called.
And they are in mutual love and it's like the best most romantic love to be ever existed.