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When it comes to the current crop of shows doing everything it can to tick off their fans, The Witcher seems to be near the top of the list. I’m not even a fan of the franchise and I can see everything going wrong. First they chased off Henry Cavill for wanting to be accurate to the books, then tried to say he was hard to work with (which failed) and now the producer insists it had to be dumbed down for those stupid Americans.
You know, nobody’s putting a gun to your head and making you work on this show. It’s clearly not where you want to be. The sad thing is one of the people part of this weak attempt to defend the show is writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, the creator of the awesome Middleman franchise. The comics and TV show were great and at least close to each other, so you’d think he would know better when it comes to treating source material properly and not ticking off the fans. Then again, the article linked to there says he worked on Netflix’s demake of Cowboy Bebop. Welcome to modern Hollywood, folks.
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