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Godfather of Harlem on Amazon is pretty great.
Did anyone watch Suits?
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval:
No, no, I got it - I saw you linked a video so it made sense.
Any reviews on Man in the High Castle? That's next on my Prime Video list.
Its a great concept, but it really lost me in season 2 and I stopped watching. I heard that season 4 is great but honestly, I cant be bothered. No, no, I got it - I saw you linked a video so it made sense.
Any reviews on Man in the High Castle? That's next on my Prime Video list.
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval:
Did anyone watch Suits?
I watched the first few seasons, but the whole "will he be caught as a fraud" gets tiring real fast. I think I stopped around season 3.Did anyone watch Suits?
So... yeah, Witcher kind of took over the whole TV show spotlight in the past weeks. Sort of kind of the new Game of Thrones, at least in popularity level, not just the lore.
Also this -> https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-...he-first-time/
Also this -> https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-...he-first-time/
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval:
So... yeah, Witcher kind of took over the whole TV show spotlight in the past weeks. Sort of kind of the new Game of Thrones, at least in popularity level, not just the lore.
Also this -> https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-...he-first-time/
The Witcher is enjoyable, but disappointingly short and a bit disjointed story-wise imo. There's a lot to not like, but it was fun to watch at least. So... yeah, Witcher kind of took over the whole TV show spotlight in the past weeks. Sort of kind of the new Game of Thrones, at least in popularity level, not just the lore.
Also this -> https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-...he-first-time/
The Witcher was pretty good as a TV series but I think it is not as good as the books, most of the changes made seem to be changes for the sake of being different rather than adaptations to the medium of visual entertainment.
The decision to changes Dandelion's nom de plume from English into Polish, rather than providing a more accurate translation of the original doesn't add anything to the character, it just serves to obscure how ridiculously foppish he is. He also don't wear a hat.
Distinct lack of horses aside from Roach was strange and made it feel like a British fantasy series (that avoids the expense of working with animals) rather than an American one.
The presentation of Nilfgaard is - frankly - really bad and is pretty much a 180 degree flip from the books making the Nilfgaardian characters unambiguously bad guys - and religious zealots to boot.
That said, Henry Cavill is completely convincing as Geralt and Anna Chalotra really gets her teath stuck into playing Yen - I think she'll be the breakout star of the series. Anna Shaffer does a reasonably good job as Triss despite not really embodying the character physically - aside from Shaffer being mixed-race and therefore having somewhat darker colouring than Triss has in the books (which isn't really that important) the really discordant thing I found is that she's quite tall whereas Triss, like Yenn, is described as being very petite in the books and also rather girlish. The got the way she dresses down pat, though. Freya Allen as Ciri mostly has to react to what others are doing, it's a bit of a wan part and they focused so much on her experiences after the Nilgaardian attack that they missed the opportunity to develop her character before that. The actors playing Cahir and Fringilla are really just not given good material, but at least they commit to it.
I liked the way they dealt with magic and elves - I was less keen on the portrayal of dwarves, especially the idea that they're kept as actual slaves.
I think they wanted a through-line from the main story rather than more directly adapting the first two books (this would have meant no Ciri at all in series 1) and as a result the whole thing does feel rather rushed and compressed. It's also quite difficult to follow the time jumps unless you already know the story - something that could have been fixed by titled cards at the start of every scene.
The decision to changes Dandelion's nom de plume from English into Polish, rather than providing a more accurate translation of the original doesn't add anything to the character, it just serves to obscure how ridiculously foppish he is. He also don't wear a hat.
Distinct lack of horses aside from Roach was strange and made it feel like a British fantasy series (that avoids the expense of working with animals) rather than an American one.
The presentation of Nilfgaard is - frankly - really bad and is pretty much a 180 degree flip from the books making the Nilfgaardian characters unambiguously bad guys - and religious zealots to boot.
That said, Henry Cavill is completely convincing as Geralt and Anna Chalotra really gets her teath stuck into playing Yen - I think she'll be the breakout star of the series. Anna Shaffer does a reasonably good job as Triss despite not really embodying the character physically - aside from Shaffer being mixed-race and therefore having somewhat darker colouring than Triss has in the books (which isn't really that important) the really discordant thing I found is that she's quite tall whereas Triss, like Yenn, is described as being very petite in the books and also rather girlish. The got the way she dresses down pat, though. Freya Allen as Ciri mostly has to react to what others are doing, it's a bit of a wan part and they focused so much on her experiences after the Nilgaardian attack that they missed the opportunity to develop her character before that. The actors playing Cahir and Fringilla are really just not given good material, but at least they commit to it.
I liked the way they dealt with magic and elves - I was less keen on the portrayal of dwarves, especially the idea that they're kept as actual slaves.
I think they wanted a through-line from the main story rather than more directly adapting the first two books (this would have meant no Ciri at all in series 1) and as a result the whole thing does feel rather rushed and compressed. It's also quite difficult to follow the time jumps unless you already know the story - something that could have been fixed by titled cards at the start of every scene.
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