How the Writers Killed The Witcher

This feels like a sequel to the Critical Drinker's video How To Kill A Show In 5 Easy Steps, which came out after the live-action Cowboy Bebop crashed and burned. While a few of steps are the same, the underlying cause of failure is writers who hate the source material they were given to work with, but agree to work with it because they see it a chance to use the success of what they hate to foist something they like on fans.

The problem is that by crapping all over the source material you alienate the fans, the very people who made the source material valuable in the first place. Disney has perfected this "crap on the fans" process. It is how they destroyed the Star Wars, Marvel, and Indiana Jones franchises. But now Netflix is getting into the swing, since rendering intellectual property completely worthless is working out so well for Disney.

Henry Cavil had signed on to play the lead roll in the Witcher, because he loved the source material. In the end, the writers disdain for that material, and Henry, proved too much, and he left.

But in the end it all became too much, and in October of last year, Henry announced that he was leaving the show after the third season. Literally the only big star on the roster, the only man fighting to maintain some semblance of accuracy to the source material, and the only reason that most fans had to keep watching had been pushed out the door by a group of narcissistic, self-absorbed morons high on the smell of their own farts.

It may linger on, twitching from time to time, but like a zombie, it is really dead. If you have any doubts about that, I included the Metacritic score for the 2nd half of season 3. They broke the season in half in part to string out the time before they lost Henry C.

This is the Critical Drinker video that details How The Witcher Destroyed Itself