The Witcher: Blood Origins Episode 1 demonstrates why Henry Cavill was both needed and right to leave The Witcher. We know he loves Witcher lore and was a restraining influence on the show to the extent that he could be. Well The Witcher Blood Origins is the show they WOULD have made without him, and oh boy was it bad. Now in single digit review scores on Rotten Tomatoes and websites trying to claim Henry is even to blame for THAT, this series is a window into what The Witcher series 4 will be. Episode 1 was bad enough, and I can't imagine it going uphill from here, so the question is how low can we go? But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
I tip my hat to Henry Cavill! He left The Witcher in the classiest way possible and hamstrung their next product on the way out! That man's a treasure!
Yeah I watched blood origin so you don't have to and can confirm it sucks big time. That being said it's still watchable but sub par. But Henry Cavill deserves better and should not star in such trash.
Too many people will watch it either hoping they naysayers are wrong and they will like it, to see if it is that bad, or the addicts will watch it out of desperation. The latter just continues to fuel the negative feedback loop of wanting something good, but continuing to get too desperate and watching, and thus promoting, the bad. Then you have every reviewer under the sun that'll watch it, instead of just basing the review off of available information, they synopsis and the trailer, because just those last two items clearly tell you that it's just more regurgitated garbage.
Yeah I watched it and it's not terrible but definitely sub par. Henry Cavill should not star in such trash. But what's disappointing is the fight scenes are poorly choreographed. Clearly whoever directed this isn't the same director as the main series. The Witcher fighting the dragon was the most disappointing. They build it up over 4 episodes as an origin story of the first Witcher and all he does is run under the dragon then throws an axe and kills the dragon 🐉 and that's it. All that buildup to just throw an axe. This is beneath Henry Cavill.
The way almost every man is portrayed, the misandry is so blatant it's disgusting. The Ciri knock-off. The Lark not looking like she knows how to hold an instrument bow. Her being so clean with heavy natural makeup. The DnD fanfiction. The Elf becoming a Witcher. The random magic and creatures. It's all so God damned dumb.
Yeah it sucks big time and is disjointed like someone wrote the plot on a napkin in a coffee shop. It's all over the place with a shallow plot and lame action choreography. Witcher fights with monster is what defines a Witcher so this has to be good but it's poorly shot.
But wasn't the forced relationship between the witcher and the Raven girl great... just so she could wind up pregnant with the witcher baby? Like... she hated him at first, how'd the whole dynamic between them change after they met the Malaysian lady? And don't tell me it's because he liked the song she was singing or that they got drunk the night before and Fjal took the burden of being the witcher. That's just stupid.
Hours of Witcher Blood Origin watched: 0. Hours of Witcher Blood Origin reviews making fun of the series watched: 3 and counting. Netflix is getting eyes on screens, just not in the way it wanted.
It's worth a watch. It's not terrible but pretty average and most disappointing is fight scenes are sub par. The long buildup to the first Witcher ends with seeing Witcher run under the dragon 🐉 and then throwing an axe and that's it. That just doesn't cut it.
@@jonfreeman9682 you are wrong. we should not support them any more. Hate watching is good for them. Watch it illegally if you have to watch it. They will never stop this crap if we don't stop giving them money.
I love how these tavern scenes always seem to lack bouncers. "B-b-but bouncers didn't exist back then!" They've existed since at least 194 BC. ...leaving your drunk patrons to just kill each other is *not* how you get 'repeat business.'
I mean it's existed since basic 'I have the food, so I rule' communities. You pay those big strong brutes more food than the rest and in exchange they make sure YOU stay in power.
My first thought at that scene was "...Why is everyone just sitting there watching this go down?" We're given no reason that anybody would be this blatantly violent toward a minor in public. No worldbuilding or listing of this guy as a feared gang leader.🤷♀️
This is the Witcher story they wanted to tell, but Henry prevented it. At least we get to see Disparu destroy it, the only question is should he use a steel sword or a silver one to do it.
These recent television writers are actually kind of scary. The people they are framing as heroes and the actions they take are very worrying. I'm actually uneasy with the fact they really think the characters they are creating are "good people" and are doing the "right thing" and they have the power to present their ideas to millions of people that watch their shows.
What was it Ben Bova wrote? Villains consider themselves heroes in their own stories?These modern writers never got to read the whole exposition, what with their three second attention span.
Am reminded of a comedian's monologue, _"When we broke up, she got together with her friends, they discussed it and all agreed, that everything was my fault."_ Thats mentality you're dealing with.
i've watched it all and - spoiler alert - the queen is not considered good. it's a bait. she's not pure evil as she has glimpses of good, but that's just to create a contrast to the pure evil and create more than 2 competing forces. the story is not good vs evil, rather heroes who did horrific things in the past and improved vs opportunistic villain vs full villain. it tried to keep the witcher tone where nobody is purely good, not even geralt. i think it had a good concept but got destroyed by checkboxes and cutting down the length. we can never tell unless they release the original version.
Clearly it is intentional. Destroying or removing positive role models results in a lower moral understanding in the population. Life is already imitating art with very few real good people any more, just bad people pretending to be good.
I really appreciate how you include screenshots and sometimes short clips. Other reviewers seem to assume that the people watching the video have seen these shows but for me at least the review is a substitute, not an addition.
I always have to wait\watch Disparu's review to know what the other reviewers are talking about. I have no temptation to watch these shows, so his reviews are so essential to give context to those reviewers that don't understand this fact.
So let me get this straight, the Elves in the Witcher series view Humans as "invaders/colonizers" when the entire rationale of the Elven leadership for building those monoliths and portals (which the humans used to enter their world in the first place) was their attempt to invade and colonize other worlds..... Seriously, does nobody in this show proofread their scripts?
And again, the Witcher narrative simply does NOT fit the woke agenda, so their attempts to force woke agenda severely butchers the narrative (well, woke agenda seems to ruin everything regardless of context so thats not saying much) In the world of The Witcher, peace between humans and elves is 100% COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE. The bad blood between the two makes the mere notion of peace sickening.
What's crazy is I (a normy btw) would much rather just watch the actually 1000 year war play out. I don't need every show to have clear cut villains and heroes, stories start with conflict.
The greatest irony is that in this telling the humans didn't even TRY to get into their world. They were forcibly transported their by the Elves fucking with shit.
You are a great storyteller, people who wrote this script have created an pure insult to all culture of Slavs in Europe... They have ZERO knowledge about this art and skills.
Btw did Dandelion say "BADASS ELF" like its how we speak today ! is badass medieval Slur or today's slang.. i don't know why not let him DUDE or BRUH.. or Choom from cyberpunk world why stop at BADASS.. XD
I fear it's even worse than that - what it actually sounded like was "badarse elf", because obviously Brits say 'arse' instead of 'ass' and this was some hilariously misguided attempt to render the American term 'badass" into something more natural in the Dandelion actor's English accent. The cringe levels are off the scale!!
I am from Poland. I think that so far Polish version of Witcher was the best. I know it did not have special budget, big American names but at least it was faithful to the original, had good story and characters and Polish actors such as Michał Żebrowski (Geralt), Zbigniew Zamachowski (Jaskier), Grażyna ("Grace" for Englich speakers) Wolszczak as Yennefer, Agata Buzek (she played nun in Coliber along side with Jason Statam) as Pavetta and Anna Dymna as Nenneke gave the heart and love for acting.
I have to agree, even though Jaskier doesn't look dashing and flamboyant as he should. Zbigniew is a solid actor and he was good in his role. It's sad they didn't manage to go for a sequel. This version appears to be really popular among Russian fans of Witcher and it's literally the first Witcher-related content I was introduced to and it managed to get me hooked, so I read all the booked after that. Never will Hollywood understand the Slavic vibe as Slavs do
You're looking through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia. That show was a mess (and I'm not talking about the special effects). Editing, script. It was just a mess. Plus witchers with one sword. The only thing that was good was Zamachowski as Jaskier and Żebrowski as Geralt. They did well with what was available.
Totally agree! I hate that Netflix is trying so hard to make something akin of GOT or LOTR that they are losing all the uniqueness of this story. The old polish series is not as grand in scale but it fits the feeling of the books a lot better.
"Ah also be many races, mon. And function as many bases, within myself when I am many spaces. Alas, I am frequently out of breath as many chases though I find comfort in my teeth-straightening business when I work as many braces. I find myself tied up in knots when I am many laces, but can still locate everything for I am many tracers."
Same here. I've watched Rings of Abomination, Willow and now Witcher with Disparu. I am grateful that he i suffering for us. His comments make these series watchable.
“You’re not the one taking any of the risks or are going to receive any of the punishment” Don’t you know it’s empowering when women emotionally manipulate men into taking massive risks with completely disproportionate stakes?
It's because of shit like this that I am grateful that I A: Don't live in America and B: Have the ability to recognize people with a rotten personality on my first interaction with them.
@@carljohan9265 I am happy with living in America, it’s about where you live. I don’t live in NYC, California,Seattle, Portland, Chicago or Washington DC. Those are the states/cities that make it miserable to live as a human. My family is in CA and we don’t go visit anymore. From the homeless issue to the every thing else it’s not fun to go there anymore. Anyway I digress, as a woman I absolutely do NOT treat men or other women that way. Manipulate shouldn’t be something you do to another human ya know? My sister is a big manipulator. Growing up with her was tough.
@@nekograce7914 I'm mainly referring to the states in the US that have draconic divorse laws, because the existence of said laws create extremely bad behavior which is negative for everyone in the long run, men and women.
@@nekograce7914 Thanks to Fallout I learn my American states geography and I must agree. Not every states/places are same. Especially something like great plains states compared to original 13 states (NYC, NE included).
I love how the elves in this show have no traditional elven qualities whatsoever. They feel, behave, look and act just like humans and literally nothing separates them from your every day average human being and I couldn't tell the difference between them if it wasn't for the pointy ears. The white bearded grandpa in the king's war room is literally radiating the "How do you do, fellow elves!" energy.
I don't mind them being different from Tolkien's elves; not every elf needs to be the pinnacle of perfection. However, I agree you need something to distinguish them from the humans, otherwise you might as well make them human.
You think the writers took even 30 seconds to consider that Elves might be a little different to humans? Just stick some pointy ears on and get on with spreading "The Message!"
You know it. This show is wonderful and Lark has incredible plot armor. All the men are inept it's great. Of course I'm being sarcastic this show is bad at every level and is so exhaustingly terrible. I can't believe I watched all 4 episodes. So far the dragonage evolution animated series is way better than this.
Nothing about this show is even remotely similar to the world of The Witcher. Henry Cavill was definitely right to leave because look at the stupidity he was up against on a daily basis.
@@jonfreeman9682 what are you on about? We know the main show is terrible. The only people enjoying the witcher show are people who choose to ignore its flaws and to oggle Henry Cavill.😂
As usual , the woman Lark has physique suggesting that playing that three string instrument and maybe sipping a cup of coffee in a cafeteria was the most strenuous physical activity she ever did in her life. Aside for having a magical ability to beat up experienced ,elite protectors of royals. Of course.
her part in the fights was actually believable, however, as always all soldiers were dogshit and would lose to any trained armed person. that side is the unbelievable one.
Disparu: "What do you mean you want peace? That will definitely destroy us. We can survive a thousand year war, but peace! Whagh! That'll be the end of the kingdom!" Me: *Laughs in American
The whole "so the first Witcher was a badass elf?" part for some reason makes it feel like the writers of this series specifically wanted to hijack and take over the entirety of the Witcher lore for their own, despite not being the ones to come up with it to begin with.
Well that's how you expand the universe with spin-offs. But the production quality and action was poor. I don't mind the woke inclusion but the story and fights were poorly done.
@@jonfreeman9682 Pretty sure proper spin-offs wouldn't entirely ignore and even conflict with the lore though, so I'm prone to disagreeing with that take. Proper lore or not though, yea, this show was just flawed in general.
That's been more or less the game with most IP adaptions of late. Showrunners nowadays are basically just glorified fanfic writers of the worst kind. Simlar to those who write fics based more on "fanon" if anything.
Which is exactly what this generations writers do. Over and over and over again. Because its about destroying and corrupting all the good things, not about trying to entertain.
@@jonfreeman9682 you expand it by destroying the lore? The books were pretty clear that the first Witchers were men, too. The elves stayed away from men, or warred with them. The Witcher orders were created after the Conjuction of the Spheres, by men, to kill the magical monsters that plagued men after The Conjuction. So that's a pretty awful take... though you say you don't mind woke inclusion so you obviously have poor taste.
The score has gone down to 8 at the moment of writing. Thank you so, so, so much for another entertaining review. Looking forward to the next one. Laughing is good for one's health, so, you Sir, are good for my health.
Two words that now seem to be forgotten to time - SCRIPT EDITOR. We read the draft, point out where things need improving, be that in pacing, logic or anachronistic use of language. We then ask you to re-write the crap bits, cut scenes, move scenes etc etc. This is a bad first draft, a really bad first draft so where in the blue hell is the editor flinging this back to the writer with a sticky note on the front saying "You are F**king kidding me - START AGAIN"
She-Hulk's behind the scenes admitted that they were literally passing out scripts to actors the night before shooting, or the morning of. One assumes that the writers were not finishing scripts in time to hand them to script editors, so the script editor job was just dropped. And I bet that every single one of these cr*pfests are being written by people with similar levels of writer skill. You can't even blame it on inexperience, because you'd think even a newbie would find some kind of story somewhere.
LOL Disparu, just when you thought the ROP gravy train had run out of tracks, they release this pile of crap for you and others to tear apart. Every time you think nothing can be worse than the last one you reviewed, someone releases something else that manages to be even worse. I look forward to your videos on this one!!
The first Witcher was an elf? What Have the writers not read the books? The first Witchers were humans who without magical potential who The Order tried to imbue magic onto, to help survive the monsters when first colonising the continent, the failure of that was the creation of the Witchers
I could accept a sort of proto-concept that is never referred to as a Witcher, but was the baseline for ancient research found later that was then put to use to then end up creating the witchers.
That arrow out of nowhere, i had no problem with that i mean there are arrows out of nowhere sometimes. The only thing i didn't understand, was why waste it on a person. Such a overkill, you could use it to bring down any fortress or at least a large tower.
So true about the ripping off the necklace trope. Some director needs to step up and break the cycle. Have a scene where someone takes another person's necklace by making them take it off over their head.
Have them fiddle with that little lever in the back, slip a couple times because it's too small and kinks to one side or another. The awkward smile on the wearer and taker's faces as the latter can't decide whether to keep trying, until he finally goes "Fuck it, you do it"
Just like with She Hulk & Willow, I will let Disparu take the perilous quests of venturing into the fever dreams of woke writers to recount the tales of what really happened. Thanks again D!
One of the writers on The Witcher apparently posted that she wanted to write her “Queer trauma…” into everything she wrote…and then took the post down. But if that’s their starting point as writers then it all makes sense!😱
While the move when they rip a necklace off is needlessly stupid, it's a distant second to when they need to give some of their blood to swear an oath or for some magic spell, and they always do it by dragging the edge of a knife across the palm of their hand, and always the dominant one. Besides the ball sack and the soles of the feet, I can't think of a worse place to purposely cut yourself. Not only is it painful, but it renders the hand useless until it's healed. The fact that this happens 90% of the time in a sword and sandal or fantasy movies, and it's the sword hand is f'cking dumb. 🤨
if anything, over the top of the hand would be better cuz a lot less sensitive... Although I do recall some sort of setting (dun ask me which) where the pricking of the finger or cutting at the hand was needed BECAUSE it infused the pain into the blood that was used for the magic, and was far more effective than, well, blood for just about anywhere else.
@@kinagrillSo if I make myself bleed for the ritual by taking a razor scooter to the shin instead, would that make the magic more powerful? I genuinely want to see a ritual that works like that and have it showcase different people having different sensitive areas, like some who can't stand anything cutting into their stomach, or someone with a thing about no touching the neck. You know?
Those things on the wall of imprisoned mage are some Dimeritium bars. Dimeritium in the Witcher universe is an ore that blocks mage using their power. So, it's like a prison cell for mages so they can't escape. It's actually said later in the show, but again it creates more problems because that imprisoned mage escapes and its never explained how he escaped lol
Yes, and they forgot that the margier's body had to be in contact with the metal for it to be effective, or the whole room had to be made of it, so the witch hunters made handcuffs out of it, so it's useless in the cell, except the margier is extremely stupid.
Thank you for watching these shows so that many, many of us don't have to. In this way, we are giving our absence to watching, not consuming their product as a customer, and sending the clear message that they better make products in the way we want or else we simply will move on.
Can we talk about the elven architecture that basically just exists out of concrete blocks, while in the books there’s specific details about elven architecture
"For me, it was Tuesday" Ahh, the legendary burn by Raul Julia's M. Bison in the awful Street Fighter film. Honestly I don't think there was ever a more epic burn in the whole of cinema.
The reason they f-up the timelines in these modern shows is, because the writers grew up in a environment where everyone has a cellphone and is always availlable for a call. They seemingly can't imagine a world where information needs time to get somewhere and that's why it's completely natural for these writers to assume that everyone knows everything instantly. I hate the 21st century.
This reminded me of a conversation i had with an American who insisted that proof of King Geogre III's madness was in his diary on july4th was 'nothing of import(ance) happened today' forgeting he would have even heard of the decleration of indepence for weeks even if there was an envoy specialy commissioned to transport it to the King.
"Weapons in the Instrument" is from "Forbidden Kingdom," where the female revenge driven character named "Sparrow" would pull darts from her oriental stringed instrument and take out imperial soldiers in full armor with the flick of her wrist. It's an older than time trope.
I love how there's barely any black people in the books / video games but in the Netflix show one of the first characters introduced is a black women who incredibly proficient at just about everything she does...
One thing I hate about the Netflix Witcher shows is how they try to make the Elves seem good and are just an oppressed race. Where in the games iirc, they were morally questionable as everyone else. The writers have a bias.
You're asking for nuances from ppl who have the emotional and intellectual maturity of children lol they could never fathom that being from an oppressed class and being a pos isn't mutually exclusive traits or that acknowledging the more questionable aspects of an oppressed ppl culture isn't equal to justifying their oppression/supporting their opressors.
What I can't help but notice is that progressive fantasy writers can only write ONE story: "Diverse cast of STRONG WHAMEN and comic relief men work together to take down a Big Bad Guy" (and bonus points if the bad guy is a woman scorned by WHITE MEN) And of course any male character has to be humiliated and any female character has to be uplifted. See: - This - Willow (sequel series) - Rings of power - Any fantasy series with woke writers
They aren't writing stories. Critical Drinker was right about that. They have an ax to grind. The plot you described is a vehicle for complaining about men and trying to create a positive narrative about women and minorities.
God Fantasy is one of my favourite genres and seeing it be butchered by every single western studio is just sad to see (I'm just grateful Manga and Anime fantasy exist to allow me to escape to a real fantasy world). It's not hard to do a fantasy series. Hell it's not hard to make it diverse considering how many races are in Fantasy. It's not even that difficult to create a plot that makes sense or have fun interesting characters. I say this to myself but dear god these writers make it seem like I'm some sort of super genius or that it's some sort of impossibility. Hell if these were the stories I grew up with than maybe I would think it's impossible to write a decent story. I can't begin to imagine how sad and pathetic these writers imagination is when they force themselves to bend to others will and restrict themselves to honestly a ridiculous moral code. No writer should restrict themselves in any way. Go bonkers! Go Mad! Let your imagination take you to wild places. This is the series you get when you restrict yourself. These writers don't fight back. They don't scream to keep their vision intact. FFS for lack of a better term MAN UP! You can keep to an idea of having a diverse cast and all that as all it takes is some basic worldbuilding to get it working in a way that makes sense. You have to understand Hollywood writers your idea of deconstructing a world is just non-sense and so incredibly boring. You can fool yourselves into believing you're some sort of genius storyteller if you like but honestly I've seen pigeons with brighter ideas. Your ideas aren't good. Sorry did that hurt your self esteem or your ego? Shame that. Just imagine how the writers of the source material feel watching what you're doing to their lifelong work.
holy crap 5:01 she's reading cue cards there, they can't even get people who can remember their own lines and need BIG HONKING SIGNS with them on. No one can tell me I'm wrong there, that's a 'I don't remember my lines and need to read them on a placard' look.
@@clamum9648 it's not the shot-reverse shot part that I have issue with, it's the way her head is positioned then moves, as if she's looking at a cue card and then tilting a bit as they move to the next card over. It's like she's reading and moves her head along with the line she's on.
The Princess/Empress's plan reeks of utilitarian logic: "We know the correct path to achieve the eternal utopia we want, it doen't matter what we do to get there."
These shows have to be a product of Nepotism right? There's no way that no one in the room or involved in the show isn't saying, "Hang on a minute, we just explained this", or "Does this really make sense?" Great video Disparu LYW
The unique thing about the witcher (books) is that it was a world of magic but also realist. You didnt kill a dragon because you were a hero, you wanted the crown, and if killing a dragon would make people think that you can be a king, you would hire an army, and after the dragon is down, claim it for yourself. And the ragon would be an endangered specie. In that world, for killing bandits in front of the public you would become the butcher of blaviken. And in that world, aparently now you can stab people in their legs without consecuences.
"...someone was creating portals to another realm which had monsters in it, and they're all like "yeah, that'll be fine". Sounds like Gain Of Function Research
When Willow popped out of the hole and said “Help! I’m in a Lucasfilm production under KK.”… Then looked around and said… “You know what… I’m… I’m good actually, I’m just going to go.” Such an amazing fourth wall break! Better than any She-Hulk ever managed.
Having only come across your work a few weeks back I've come to greatly appreciate your humor, opinion and ability to turn one man's trash into treasure. I wish you success in the new year and hope much more Disparu content is on the way.
Henry Cavill seems pretty alright despite being the ultimate Chad. He stays out of drama, he's seems polite and professional, he's dated fairly average looking women, and he cares about the source material and respecting the original writers. He doesn't deserve to be punished right now, but I guess this will just make him even more of a chad. Superman still had to face adversity despite his powers, so it's Henry's turn to show what he can do in the face of eviI.
I'm not into that kind of man but after getting what kind of personality he has, I think he's very cute 🤣 ❤️ He's such a treasure, I wish he could play any Noldor from the Silmarillion in a good adaptation.
I’m so blown away that they think if you get assaulted and robbed, but then see the thief getting assaulted, you would HELP the thief?!?? What is this kindergarten level writing???
It will all make sense at the end when they reveal this story is Jaskier's insane stupid hallucination while he bleeds out from having his head split open on the battlefield.
This thing with their clan members coming in to take them back, seems to me like some bad RPG where you can choose your character at the beginning, but its really linear and except some fluff there are not any actual differences in gameplay or story for those characters.
This script was definitely written by a modern feminist. The part where the guardian is exiled, and she doesn't even care an ounce, is exactly how a toxic feminist would act. It's all about her. Other people don't matter. Sociopathic narcissists.
It doesn't have to be a feminist writer. This same exact plot line occurs in House of the Dragon. Princess Rheanyra just about forces herself on Criston Cole knowing he's a Kingsguard. That's an automatic death sentence for him. It's a death sentence for a kingsguard to sleep with anyone, and when Cole talks to her about it she straight up doesn't care. I dont think that makes GRRM a feminist writer. It just shows how immature and young Rheanyra is and it helps shape her character.
@@lukaszzylik4437 There is a deference between immature character and the writer being so much of Sociopathic narcissist that he/she doesn't realize that he/she needs to demonstrate guilt and immaturity after the fact for the character. In fact the show ends like she did nothing wrong. Modern day feminists are disgusting.
"Ah yes, how can I make this terrible show a woman's fault" 🙄 or, how about think up some legitimate criticism beyond 'a nasty lady spurned her lover' There's plenty to pick apart with the show without accidentally telling everyone you have some pain you're getting off your chest (she won't read this bro, sorry)
I thought it was just me wondering why they kept repeating themselves or just randomly sharing backstory. I only made it half way through the first episode before i turned it off. I did fully enjoy your recap though, and am looking forward to your reviews on the next episodes! 😂
32:38 The more you look at it the worse the throw is, originally I thought he was gonna point out when the axe leaves the Elf's hands because gods that looks awful. But even after leaving his hands it careens down at a 45 degree angle that it never should have been able to reach.
Thank you! Can't imagine the pain and suffering you go through, but am deeply grateful, you are one of the highlights to come from the drivel supplied by the "entertainment' industry. Perhaps, we can all get together and send the writers a new pack of crayons.
There is so much cope going out right now it's insane. The Guardian article can be summed up by "Uuuuuugh these toxic fans are just taking it too seriously"
Willow, Wheel of Time, Rings of Power, Witcher. How many of my favorite fantasy series can modern writers screw in a single year? All of them apparently.
41:28 Explanation of what just happened made no sense... "You essentially said that war hungry generals made peace with each other in order to stop a peace treaty because they didn't want peace and end up with peace anyway" i mean... you were spot on right there :D
I have seen all episodes, I am a fan of the Witcher franchise, having read (most) of the books even before realising CDPR made the games (started 1, finished 2-3 100%). And like my medieval/fantasy. The Henry Cavill led Season 1 of the Netflix adaptation was kinda great (weird diversity casting but typical Netflix), jarring with time skips, Ect. So, Blood Origin. It's essentially the prequel story of the Elven kingdoms, the Hero's that ended the empire, and the Conjunction of the Spheres. But don't get your hopes up. The writing isn't great, the vague story is barely akin to the lore, and yes there are character names involved that tie in with The Witcher, it's still confusing to watch. I've honestly given this a 2/5. The locations, most of the set pieces, costumes and weapons, the CGI creatures, not bad. It's the Story, the widely "Diverse" casting choices that separate the "Tribes" sure, but creates no other sense of location or lineage of the rest of the cast. It's not great. Also the Proto-Witcher at the end. It's obvious that the writers have no idea what the "trial of the grasses" was suppose to be. There is a small tie-in at the end credits to pull this back in line with the next Netflix adaptation for season 3. But with how the writers have brutally altered the story in season 2, I will not be returning personally.
By now I have watched quite a few reviews of that show. Most of these reviews are amusing. There is sarcastic snark from The Drinker; there is mostly uncontained, burning rage from Az and then there's you. You slip on your long gloves, flip down your visor and get right into the thick of it with a scalpel and tweezers. How you manage to remain calm for the length of this video is beyond me. I watched about 10 minutes of this show and then I went to chop some firewood because I just had to break something. Remarkable! Thank you for this one, it was very entertaining. I left a sub and will be back for the rest, partially because I want to see whether or not your sanity prevails against continued exposure to this bundle of fecal matter.
When the Lark’s relative showed up to call her back, I naturally assumed it would be the cousin whose eye was cut out by Fjall. You know, to create tension and drama. But no, just a sister. No connection to our other main character. No set up. Did not care when she died.
Looks JUST like how it early medieval northern Europe would have; many of the region were known for their long line of sub-Saharan Celtic bards, and that the Druids were compromised of the people that would s sometime later be more commonly be known as: "Brazilians" and "Cambodians" (by way Van Nuys). Netflix surelymust have had to hire an anthropologist as a consultant to be able to cast the show with such ethnic realism. 🙄
It's funny, I don't even see the shows or movies covered here half the time, but I still watch the reviews. You, TCD, Little Platoon, and Nerd all have great takes! Space Ice and Mr. Sunday movies are nice too
The Witcher: Blood Origins Episode 1 demonstrates why Henry Cavill was both needed and right to leave The Witcher. We know he loves Witcher lore and was a restraining influence on the show to the extent that he could be. Well The Witcher Blood Origins is the show they WOULD have made without him, and oh boy was it bad. Now in single digit review scores on Rotten Tomatoes and websites trying to claim Henry is even to blame for THAT, this series is a window into what The Witcher series 4 will be. Episode 1 was bad enough, and I can't imagine it going uphill from here, so the question is how low can we go? But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Bless you
I like Henry's work a lot but not even he could save The Witcher
Is it an English trait to torture yourself with bad TV? Between you, Az, or the Drinker....God I worry about you all
@@jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394 definitely couldn’t
New Title for this Show:
The Bitcher Fraud Origins
I tip my hat to Henry Cavill! He left The Witcher in the classiest way possible and hamstrung their next product on the way out! That man's a treasure!
Yep! This production is total amateur hour, almost as bad as ROP? Cavill is so beyond these idiots.
Yeah I watched blood origin so you don't have to and can confirm it sucks big time. That being said it's still watchable but sub par. But Henry Cavill deserves better and should not star in such trash.
I guess when he read the final script his first thought was, "holy shut, this writers are terrible, how the hell will I get away of this project now?"
I'm am beholden to respect Mr Cavill as a man who acts honorably in leaving to show respect for a female captains authority to go down with her ship.
The god emperor is pleased.
Everybody uniting together to kick this show into the dirt soothes the soul.
Yeah, and I support them. Views for all. Ha, ha.
It’s actually a Godsend that Henry isn’t a part of this amateur hour of a show. He’s far beyond these cringeworthy muppets.
Deservedly so
Too many people will watch it either hoping they naysayers are wrong and they will like it, to see if it is that bad, or the addicts will watch it out of desperation. The latter just continues to fuel the negative feedback loop of wanting something good, but continuing to get too desperate and watching, and thus promoting, the bad. Then you have every reviewer under the sun that'll watch it, instead of just basing the review off of available information, they synopsis and the trailer, because just those last two items clearly tell you that it's just more regurgitated garbage.
Yeah I watched it and it's not terrible but definitely sub par. Henry Cavill should not star in such trash. But what's disappointing is the fight scenes are poorly choreographed. Clearly whoever directed this isn't the same director as the main series. The Witcher fighting the dragon was the most disappointing. They build it up over 4 episodes as an origin story of the first Witcher and all he does is run under the dragon then throws an axe and kills the dragon 🐉 and that's it. All that buildup to just throw an axe. This is beneath Henry Cavill.
The way almost every man is portrayed, the misandry is so blatant it's disgusting. The Ciri knock-off. The Lark not looking like she knows how to hold an instrument bow. Her being so clean with heavy natural makeup. The DnD fanfiction. The Elf becoming a Witcher. The random magic and creatures. It's all so God damned dumb.
Yeah it sucks big time and is disjointed like someone wrote the plot on a napkin in a coffee shop. It's all over the place with a shallow plot and lame action choreography. Witcher fights with monster is what defines a Witcher so this has to be good but it's poorly shot.
Maybe if they rehire an all female writing team.
When I saw her holding that fucking bow of her instrument.. Holy Shit.. They couldnt give less fucks..
And
59:18
SOUL REAVER?
Do i need to say more?
But wasn't the forced relationship between the witcher and the Raven girl great... just so she could wind up pregnant with the witcher baby?
Like... she hated him at first, how'd the whole dynamic between them change after they met the Malaysian lady?
And don't tell me it's because he liked the song she was singing or that they got drunk the night before and Fjal took the burden of being the witcher. That's just stupid.
Hours of Witcher Blood Origin watched: 0.
Hours of Witcher Blood Origin reviews making fun of the series watched: 3 and counting.
Netflix is getting eyes on screens, just not in the way it wanted.
It's worth a watch. It's not terrible but pretty average and most disappointing is fight scenes are sub par. The long buildup to the first Witcher ends with seeing Witcher run under the dragon 🐉 and then throwing an axe and that's it. That just doesn't cut it.
@@jonfreeman9682 - Nah~ You don’t even think it’s worth a watch from your own comment…you just want others to share your pain. Am I right?🤔😈
@@jonfreeman9682 Worth a watch? It looks like total dogsh!t written by morons who are completely out of reality.
@@jonfreeman9682
Bullshit
@@jonfreeman9682 you are wrong. we should not support them any more. Hate watching is good for them.
Watch it illegally if you have to watch it.
They will never stop this crap if we don't stop giving them money.
I love how these tavern scenes always seem to lack bouncers. "B-b-but bouncers didn't exist back then!" They've existed since at least 194 BC. ...leaving your drunk patrons to just kill each other is *not* how you get 'repeat business.'
I mean it's existed since basic 'I have the food, so I rule' communities. You pay those big strong brutes more food than the rest and in exchange they make sure YOU stay in power.
My first thought at that scene was "...Why is everyone just sitting there watching this go down?" We're given no reason that anybody would be this blatantly violent toward a minor in public. No worldbuilding or listing of this guy as a feared gang leader.🤷♀️
This is the Witcher story they wanted to tell, but Henry prevented it. At least we get to see Disparu destroy it, the only question is should he use a steel sword or a silver one to do it.
Henry Cavill will not disappoint fans starring in this trash. It lowers his brand.
Silver for sure this is monstrous
Silver or Steel? How about we go the nuclear option?
@@dredgewalker agreed
@@dredgewalker - “Nuke the entire site from orbit-It’s the only way to be sure.” - Corporal Hicks. 🫡
These recent television writers are actually kind of scary. The people they are framing as heroes and the actions they take are very worrying. I'm actually uneasy with the fact they really think the characters they are creating are "good people" and are doing the "right thing" and they have the power to present their ideas to millions of people that watch their shows.
What was it Ben Bova wrote? Villains consider themselves heroes in their own stories?These modern writers never got to read the whole exposition, what with their three second attention span.
Am reminded of a comedian's monologue, _"When we broke up, she got together with her friends, they discussed it and all agreed, that everything was my fault."_
Thats mentality you're dealing with.
So on point, all of these comments
i've watched it all and - spoiler alert - the queen is not considered good. it's a bait. she's not pure evil as she has glimpses of good, but that's just to create a contrast to the pure evil and create more than 2 competing forces.
the story is not good vs evil, rather heroes who did horrific things in the past and improved vs opportunistic villain vs full villain. it tried to keep the witcher tone where nobody is purely good, not even geralt.
i think it had a good concept but got destroyed by checkboxes and cutting down the length. we can never tell unless they release the original version.
Clearly it is intentional. Destroying or removing positive role models results in a lower moral understanding in the population. Life is already imitating art with very few real good people any more, just bad people pretending to be good.
I really appreciate how you include screenshots and sometimes short clips. Other reviewers seem to assume that the people watching the video have seen these shows but for me at least the review is a substitute, not an addition.
Same. It's a really great substitute when adding just a few screenshots or clips. Love it
It is amazing, indeed.
I always have to wait\watch Disparu's review to know what the other reviewers are talking about. I have no temptation to watch these shows, so his reviews are so essential to give context to those reviewers that don't understand this fact.
Same. It's the same with Thorias Unlimited and Jlongbone for me.
Way better than Disparu's early work. Lol he's improving exponentially
“I have many names.” It would’ve been brilliant for the Rings of Power writers to do the Sauron reveal on a completely different show on Netflix.
🤣🤣🤣
They've even got the Harfoot crossover to work with, and the portals. Could still happen.
Lol
That would’ve been hilarious
Since all those shows don't care about lore they can do all the crossovers.
The princess who got the guy exiled is a spiritual Harfoot.
So let me get this straight, the Elves in the Witcher series view Humans as "invaders/colonizers" when the entire rationale of the Elven leadership for building those monoliths and portals (which the humans used to enter their world in the first place) was their attempt to invade and colonize other worlds..... Seriously, does nobody in this show proofread their scripts?
And again, the Witcher narrative simply does NOT fit the woke agenda, so their attempts to force woke agenda severely butchers the narrative (well, woke agenda seems to ruin everything regardless of context so thats not saying much)
In the world of The Witcher, peace between humans and elves is 100% COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE. The bad blood between the two makes the mere notion of peace sickening.
Fk scripts. White man bad,
What's crazy is I (a normy btw) would much rather just watch the actually 1000 year war play out. I don't need every show to have clear cut villains and heroes, stories start with conflict.
The greatest irony is that in this telling the humans didn't even TRY to get into their world. They were forcibly transported their by the Elves fucking with shit.
No, they do not.
That was truly wicked they way you said, "Once they've wiped out all those pesky men folk." You're a hoot, Disparu. Insightful and funny review.
You are a great storyteller, people who wrote this script have created an pure insult to all culture of Slavs in Europe... They have ZERO knowledge about this art and skills.
They're ruining slavic myths and culture... and yet americans whine "cultural appropriation" all the time. Ironic.
They have ZERO ability on how to create any good fantasy story
Btw did Dandelion say "BADASS ELF" like its how we speak today ! is badass medieval Slur or today's slang.. i don't know why not let him DUDE or BRUH.. or Choom from cyberpunk world why stop at BADASS.. XD
I fear it's even worse than that - what it actually sounded like was "badarse elf", because obviously Brits say 'arse' instead of 'ass' and this was some hilariously misguided attempt to render the American term 'badass" into something more natural in the Dandelion actor's English accent.
The cringe levels are off the scale!!
dude they ruined the last season of game of thrones... so it ended instead of going on and on untill they finish the whole books.
I am from Poland. I think that so far Polish version of Witcher was the best. I know it did not have special budget, big American names but at least it was faithful to the original, had good story and characters and Polish actors such as Michał Żebrowski (Geralt), Zbigniew Zamachowski (Jaskier), Grażyna ("Grace" for Englich speakers) Wolszczak as Yennefer, Agata Buzek (she played nun in Coliber along side with Jason Statam) as Pavetta and Anna Dymna as Nenneke gave the heart and love for acting.
I have to agree, even though Jaskier doesn't look dashing and flamboyant as he should. Zbigniew is a solid actor and he was good in his role. It's sad they didn't manage to go for a sequel.
This version appears to be really popular among Russian fans of Witcher and it's literally the first Witcher-related content I was introduced to and it managed to get me hooked, so I read all the booked after that. Never will Hollywood understand the Slavic vibe as Slavs do
You're looking through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.
That show was a mess (and I'm not talking about the special effects). Editing, script. It was just a mess.
Plus witchers with one sword.
The only thing that was good was Zamachowski as Jaskier and Żebrowski as Geralt. They did well with what was available.
Totally agree! I hate that Netflix is trying so hard to make something akin of GOT or LOTR that they are losing all the uniqueness of this story. The old polish series is not as grand in scale but it fits the feeling of the books a lot better.
Where can we watch this ?
I think the best version of The Witcher was Elric of Melnibone.
2:13 When he said, "I have many names", I snorted.
"many faces", I groaned.
"many places", I totally cracked up.
Shape shifter, changes sexes as well as species. Many places indeed!
"..and Many Races.."
‘Why is gamora’
Worn out faces, worn out places ~
"Ah also be many races, mon. And function as many bases, within myself when I am many spaces. Alas, I am frequently out of breath as many chases though I find comfort in my teeth-straightening business when I work as many braces. I find myself tied up in knots when I am many laces, but can still locate everything for I am many tracers."
I've just realized that I've been watching TV regularly for a couple of months now.... entirely through Disparu reviews.
I'm not complaining.
Same here. I've watched Rings of Abomination, Willow and now Witcher with Disparu. I am grateful that he i suffering for us. His comments make these series watchable.
as someone once said, this is a goldmine for disparu, and a blessing for us
Me to , I then hop across and watch Shad and the knights watch kick them even more 😂
I'm really glad this show came out because it means I get to watch all of your reviews of the upcoming episodes.
My thoughts could not be better expressed.
I was hoping disparu would review this. I’m excited.
same :)
It’s 100% more entertaining than the show itself.👍
“You’re not the one taking any of the risks or are going to receive any of the punishment”
Don’t you know it’s empowering when women emotionally manipulate men into taking massive risks with completely disproportionate stakes?
It's because of shit like this that I am grateful that I A: Don't live in America and B: Have the ability to recognize people with a rotten personality on my first interaction with them.
@@carljohan9265 I am happy with living in America, it’s about where you live. I don’t live in NYC, California,Seattle, Portland, Chicago or Washington DC. Those are the states/cities that make it miserable to live as a human. My family is in CA and we don’t go visit anymore. From the homeless issue to the every thing else it’s not fun to go there anymore. Anyway I digress, as a woman I absolutely do NOT treat men or other women that way. Manipulate shouldn’t be something you do to another human ya know? My sister is a big manipulator. Growing up with her was tough.
@@nekograce7914 I'm mainly referring to the states in the US that have draconic divorse laws, because the existence of said laws create extremely bad behavior which is negative for everyone in the long run, men and women.
@@nekograce7914 Thanks to Fallout I learn my American states geography and I must agree. Not every states/places are same. Especially something like great plains states compared to original 13 states (NYC, NE included).
@@nekograce7914 Manipulation is a natural woman trait, so good on you for resisting the urge to use it to your advantage!
I love how the elves in this show have no traditional elven qualities whatsoever. They feel, behave, look and act just like humans and literally nothing separates them from your every day average human being and I couldn't tell the difference between them if it wasn't for the pointy ears. The white bearded grandpa in the king's war room is literally radiating the "How do you do, fellow elves!" energy.
I don't mind them being different from Tolkien's elves; not every elf needs to be the pinnacle of perfection. However, I agree you need something to distinguish them from the humans, otherwise you might as well make them human.
If a race lives as long as elves, they won't act anything like humans, or their behaviors will be more extreme.
Or less by far, but they will not be the same.
You think the writers took even 30 seconds to consider that Elves might be a little different to humans? Just stick some pointy ears on and get on with spreading "The Message!"
And dwarves are just toxic short Critical Drinkers who live underground.
So wait the princess went from shaking & distraught for killing someone in self defense to gleefully slaughtering people in cold blood?
You know it. This show is wonderful and Lark has incredible plot armor. All the men are inept it's great. Of course I'm being sarcastic this show is bad at every level and is so exhaustingly terrible. I can't believe I watched all 4 episodes. So far the dragonage evolution animated series is way better than this.
she was aroused as heck by the blood spilling, what "shaking and distraught"
Thats character developement!
Murder is like Pringles? Once you pop, you can’t stop!
Nothing about this show is even remotely similar to the world of The Witcher. Henry Cavill was definitely right to leave because look at the stupidity he was up against on a daily basis.
Same as what they did with Rings of Power, they removed any semblance of Tolkien
Let's hope the main show is alot better than this spin-off. It seems this only had half the budget.
@@jonfreeman9682 what are you on about? We know the main show is terrible. The only people enjoying the witcher show are people who choose to ignore its flaws and to oggle Henry Cavill.😂
@@jonfreeman9682 the budget is the least of the issues here. My dog could have written better stuff
I’ve seen people say that this show was actually good along with The Witcher..💀
The Funniest Quote I've seen about this show was "I'm A Pole, and I can say this show hit us harder than the Germans in 1939" :D
Truly distasteful. You are.
Ouch.
As usual , the woman Lark has physique suggesting that playing that three string instrument and maybe sipping a cup of coffee in a cafeteria was the most strenuous physical activity she ever did in her life. Aside for having a magical ability to beat up experienced ,elite protectors of royals. Of course.
Uhm it's improved to 10% 🍅 so it's double digits now. ☝️
@@jonfreeman9682 many votes were deleted to "improve it", F in the chat for them
just say feminist instead of woke
her part in the fights was actually believable, however, as always all soldiers were dogshit and would lose to any trained armed person. that side is the unbelievable one.
@@BayWa4eva the woman lark would lose to a group of untrained men, easy.
Disparu: "What do you mean you want peace? That will definitely destroy us. We can survive a thousand year war, but peace! Whagh! That'll be the end of the kingdom!"
Me: *Laughs in American
The whole "so the first Witcher was a badass elf?" part for some reason makes it feel like the writers of this series specifically wanted to hijack and take over the entirety of the Witcher lore for their own, despite not being the ones to come up with it to begin with.
Well that's how you expand the universe with spin-offs. But the production quality and action was poor. I don't mind the woke inclusion but the story and fights were poorly done.
@@jonfreeman9682 Pretty sure proper spin-offs wouldn't entirely ignore and even conflict with the lore though, so I'm prone to disagreeing with that take.
Proper lore or not though, yea, this show was just flawed in general.
That's been more or less the game with most IP adaptions of late. Showrunners nowadays are basically just glorified fanfic writers of the worst kind. Simlar to those who write fics based more on "fanon" if anything.
Which is exactly what this generations writers do. Over and over and over again. Because its about destroying and corrupting all the good things, not about trying to entertain.
@@jonfreeman9682 you expand it by destroying the lore? The books were pretty clear that the first Witchers were men, too. The elves stayed away from men, or warred with them. The Witcher orders were created after the Conjuction of the Spheres, by men, to kill the magical monsters that plagued men after The Conjuction. So that's a pretty awful take... though you say you don't mind woke inclusion so you obviously have poor taste.
I pray that you continue Willow but I'm so excited to watch this. After seeing Az's and your twitters. This is gonna be a treat.
Same here!
I want to know more about willow trainwreck too!
The score has gone down to 8 at the moment of writing. Thank you so, so, so much for another entertaining review. Looking forward to the next one. Laughing is good for one's health, so, you Sir, are good for my health.
Two words that now seem to be forgotten to time - SCRIPT EDITOR. We read the draft, point out where things need improving, be that in pacing, logic or anachronistic use of language. We then ask you to re-write the crap bits, cut scenes, move scenes etc etc. This is a bad first draft, a really bad first draft so where in the blue hell is the editor flinging this back to the writer with a sticky note on the front saying "You are F**king kidding me - START AGAIN"
Probably wherever the comic industries editors with balls went.
She-Hulk's behind the scenes admitted that they were literally passing out scripts to actors the night before shooting, or the morning of.
One assumes that the writers were not finishing scripts in time to hand them to script editors, so the script editor job was just dropped. And I bet that every single one of these cr*pfests are being written by people with similar levels of writer skill. You can't even blame it on inexperience, because you'd think even a newbie would find some kind of story somewhere.
It's what happens when the script editor is just as woke as the writer
They replaced that useless role with the much more important and progressive "sensitivity reader"
LOL Disparu, just when you thought the ROP gravy train had run out of tracks, they release this pile of crap for you and others to tear apart. Every time you think nothing can be worse than the last one you reviewed, someone releases something else that manages to be even worse. I look forward to your videos on this one!!
I haven't seen the show but I've been waiting for you to make a video on it, This is now how I consume modern tv shows
Im going to miss Henry as the Witcher 😔
If Henry Cavill star in this kinda trash fans would be really disappointed.
Toss a coin to your witcher
I don’t care who played Geralt that show needed to die.
The first Witcher was an elf? What
Have the writers not read the books?
The first Witchers were humans who without magical potential who The Order tried to imbue magic onto, to help survive the monsters when first colonising the continent, the failure of that was the creation of the Witchers
No they did not read the books and are just using the name for their own "masterpiece" fantasy fanfiction bs
evil cannot create, it can only corrupts
They read the book qnd decided they can do "better"
I could accept a sort of proto-concept that is never referred to as a Witcher, but was the baseline for ancient research found later that was then put to use to then end up creating the witchers.
That arrow out of nowhere, i had no problem with that i mean there are arrows out of nowhere sometimes. The only thing i didn't understand, was why waste it on a person. Such a overkill, you could use it to bring down any fortress or at least a large tower.
Well played
I see what you did there.
You know you have a wreck on your hands when Minnie Drivers face is tighter than your own script.
😂😂😂😂😂.bro you savage
Watching this Empress work, I cant help but think "That king? The one she was to marry but was killed by a demon instead? He really dodged a bullet!"
So true about the ripping off the necklace trope. Some director needs to step up and break the cycle. Have a scene where someone takes another person's necklace by making them take it off over their head.
Yeah they're trying to dramatize it.
@@jonfreeman9682 no they are lazy and unimaginative
Have them fiddle with that little lever in the back, slip a couple times because it's too small and kinks to one side or another. The awkward smile on the wearer and taker's faces as the latter can't decide whether to keep trying, until he finally goes "Fuck it, you do it"
Yeah just ask the person that wears it to take it off the same with cutting the finger off to take a ring why not get the person take it off
Just like with She Hulk & Willow, I will let Disparu take the perilous quests of venturing into the fever dreams of woke writers to recount the tales of what really happened. Thanks again D!
She Hulk got good reviews.
One of the writers on The Witcher apparently posted that she wanted to write her “Queer trauma…” into everything she wrote…and then took the post down.
But if that’s their starting point as writers then it all makes sense!😱
@@jonfreeman9682 from shills
While the move when they rip a necklace off is needlessly stupid, it's a distant second to when they need to give some of their blood to swear an oath or for some magic spell, and they always do it by dragging the edge of a knife across the palm of their hand, and always the dominant one. Besides the ball sack and the soles of the feet, I can't think of a worse place to purposely cut yourself. Not only is it painful, but it renders the hand useless until it's healed. The fact that this happens 90% of the time in a sword and sandal or fantasy movies, and it's the sword hand is f'cking dumb. 🤨
if anything, over the top of the hand would be better cuz a lot less sensitive... Although I do recall some sort of setting (dun ask me which) where the pricking of the finger or cutting at the hand was needed BECAUSE it infused the pain into the blood that was used for the magic, and was far more effective than, well, blood for just about anywhere else.
@@kinagrillSo if I make myself bleed for the ritual by taking a razor scooter to the shin instead, would that make the magic more powerful? I genuinely want to see a ritual that works like that and have it showcase different people having different sensitive areas, like some who can't stand anything cutting into their stomach, or someone with a thing about no touching the neck. You know?
@@epicdeadalus4345 Pretty much yes
Those things on the wall of imprisoned mage are some Dimeritium bars. Dimeritium in the Witcher universe is an ore that blocks mage using their power. So, it's like a prison cell for mages so they can't escape. It's actually said later in the show, but again it creates more problems because that imprisoned mage escapes and its never explained how he escaped lol
Yes, and they forgot that the margier's body had to be in contact with the metal for it to be effective, or the whole room had to be made of it, so the witch hunters made handcuffs out of it, so it's useless in the cell, except the margier is extremely stupid.
@@commanderxd2869 That explains it then. Balor was so stupid he didn't know how dimeritium works and that's why that other mage escaped haha
And in future they just have manacles for it iirc. Sort of a waste to put THAT much of it in place.
Thank you for watching these shows so that many, many of us don't have to. In this way, we are giving our absence to watching, not consuming their product as a customer, and sending the clear message that they better make products in the way we want or else we simply will move on.
Can we talk about the elven architecture that basically just exists out of concrete blocks, while in the books there’s specific details about elven architecture
They haven't mastered the use of hammer yet...
Wasn’t expecting my hometown of Luton to get namedropped in a Witcher series review, but for this series it seems somehow appropriate
Straight up died when you said the harfoots came through the portal. Bravo.
"For me, it was Tuesday"
Ahh, the legendary burn by Raul Julia's M. Bison in the awful Street Fighter film.
Honestly I don't think there was ever a more epic burn in the whole of cinema.
"OF COURSE!"
The reason they f-up the timelines in these modern shows is, because the writers grew up in a environment where everyone has a cellphone and is always availlable for a call.
They seemingly can't imagine a world where information needs time to get somewhere and that's why it's completely natural for these writers to assume that everyone knows everything instantly.
I hate the 21st century.
This reminded me of a conversation i had with an American who insisted that proof of King Geogre III's madness was in his diary on july4th was 'nothing of import(ance) happened today' forgeting he would have even heard of the decleration of indepence for weeks even if there was an envoy specialy commissioned to transport it to the King.
"Weapons in the Instrument" is from "Forbidden Kingdom," where the female revenge driven character named "Sparrow" would pull darts from her oriental stringed instrument and take out imperial soldiers in full armor with the flick of her wrist. It's an older than time trope.
I was hoping you would review this. And here you are. Its like a late Christmas present
I love how there's barely any black people in the books / video games but in the Netflix show one of the first characters introduced is a black women who incredibly proficient at just about everything she does...
One thing I hate about the Netflix Witcher shows is how they try to make the Elves seem good and are just an oppressed race. Where in the games iirc, they were morally questionable as everyone else. The writers have a bias.
You're asking for nuances from ppl who have the emotional and intellectual maturity of children lol they could never fathom that being from an oppressed class and being a pos isn't mutually exclusive traits or that acknowledging the more questionable aspects of an oppressed ppl culture isn't equal to justifying their oppression/supporting their opressors.
"I've only watched episode one" Me: *looks at the runtime* I think this video is longer than the show.
I feel so bad for getting the reference "..stuck in a washing machine" HAHAA.. Great content as usual Disparu!
You matched the length of review with length of that episode. Most impressive 😁
And while i only made it through half the first episode before shutting it off, i was thoroughly entertained through this whole recap video. 😂
What I can't help but notice is that progressive fantasy writers can only write ONE story:
"Diverse cast of STRONG WHAMEN and comic relief men work together to take down a Big Bad Guy" (and bonus points if the bad guy is a woman scorned by WHITE MEN)
And of course any male character has to be humiliated and any female character has to be uplifted. See:
- This
- Willow (sequel series)
- Rings of power
- Any fantasy series with woke writers
Hey spoiler alert 😂
They aren't writing stories. Critical Drinker was right about that. They have an ax to grind. The plot you described is a vehicle for complaining about men and trying to create a positive narrative about women and minorities.
Has anyone noticed how we've never seen Disparu and Mauler in the same room?
God Fantasy is one of my favourite genres and seeing it be butchered by every single western studio is just sad to see (I'm just grateful Manga and Anime fantasy exist to allow me to escape to a real fantasy world). It's not hard to do a fantasy series. Hell it's not hard to make it diverse considering how many races are in Fantasy. It's not even that difficult to create a plot that makes sense or have fun interesting characters. I say this to myself but dear god these writers make it seem like I'm some sort of super genius or that it's some sort of impossibility. Hell if these were the stories I grew up with than maybe I would think it's impossible to write a decent story.
I can't begin to imagine how sad and pathetic these writers imagination is when they force themselves to bend to others will and restrict themselves to honestly a ridiculous moral code. No writer should restrict themselves in any way. Go bonkers! Go Mad! Let your imagination take you to wild places. This is the series you get when you restrict yourself. These writers don't fight back. They don't scream to keep their vision intact. FFS for lack of a better term MAN UP! You can keep to an idea of having a diverse cast and all that as all it takes is some basic worldbuilding to get it working in a way that makes sense. You have to understand Hollywood writers your idea of deconstructing a world is just non-sense and so incredibly boring.
You can fool yourselves into believing you're some sort of genius storyteller if you like but honestly I've seen pigeons with brighter ideas. Your ideas aren't good. Sorry did that hurt your self esteem or your ego? Shame that. Just imagine how the writers of the source material feel watching what you're doing to their lifelong work.
Videogames exist... Literally the best entertainment medium, as it has the best of every other
@Walamonga1313 except storytelling and pacing. Movies and books are better at pacing, tone and story, but that's the nature of the medium.
"Bad arse elf"...... Riiiiiiiight.
Top marks for medieval period immersion.
"Hey look, I'm British, I'm all up for setting a colony as the next bloke" is one of the lines
That's the Anglos for you. Gotta get them tea and spices somehow.
They should have kept the empire.
holy crap 5:01 she's reading cue cards there, they can't even get people who can remember their own lines and need BIG HONKING SIGNS with them on. No one can tell me I'm wrong there, that's a 'I don't remember my lines and need to read them on a placard' look.
haha it does look it like
I dunno, I guess it might be, but not necessarily. The guy is directly across from her. It makes just as much sense that she's looking at him.
@@clamum9648 it's not the shot-reverse shot part that I have issue with, it's the way her head is positioned then moves, as if she's looking at a cue card and then tilting a bit as they move to the next card over. It's like she's reading and moves her head along with the line she's on.
Oh yes I've been waiting for this review!!!! Get 'em Disparu!!! 🤣🤣
The Princess/Empress's plan reeks of utilitarian logic: "We know the correct path to achieve the eternal utopia we want, it doen't matter what we do to get there."
These shows have to be a product of Nepotism right? There's no way that no one in the room or involved in the show isn't saying, "Hang on a minute, we just explained this", or "Does this really make sense?"
Great video Disparu LYW
more like the writers being of some protected checkbox group that can do no wrong so calling out their mistake is Wacist
I've been waiting for this video since the show premiered. Thank God for your commentary I refuse to give them views.
Thanks Disparu for having to stomach this abomination so we don’t have to!
The unique thing about the witcher (books) is that it was a world of magic but also realist. You didnt kill a dragon because you were a hero, you wanted the crown, and if killing a dragon would make people think that you can be a king, you would hire an army, and after the dragon is down, claim it for yourself. And the ragon would be an endangered specie.
In that world, for killing bandits in front of the public you would become the butcher of blaviken. And in that world, aparently now you can stab people in their legs without consecuences.
"...someone was creating portals to another realm which had monsters in it, and they're all like "yeah, that'll be fine".
Sounds like Gain Of Function Research
When Willow popped out of the hole and said “Help! I’m in a Lucasfilm production under KK.”…
Then looked around and said… “You know what… I’m… I’m good actually, I’m just going to go.”
Such an amazing fourth wall break! Better than any She-Hulk ever managed.
And when Elora flew in on that 747 and yelled "It's Danan Time!" as she started eating yogurt, I morbed myself.
Having only come across your work a few weeks back I've come to greatly appreciate your humor, opinion and ability to turn one man's trash into treasure. I wish you success in the new year and hope much more Disparu content is on the way.
I strongly suggest the Rings of Power reviews, the She-Hulk reviews, and the Halo reviews. It is all golden!
My favourite part was when they introduced Crabs the Warthog, Piles the Beaver and Manure the Bear
Don’t forget about Dung the Dog
Henry Cavill seems pretty alright despite being the ultimate Chad. He stays out of drama, he's seems polite and professional, he's dated fairly average looking women, and he cares about the source material and respecting the original writers. He doesn't deserve to be punished right now, but I guess this will just make him even more of a chad. Superman still had to face adversity despite his powers, so it's Henry's turn to show what he can do in the face of eviI.
I'm not into that kind of man but after getting what kind of personality he has, I think he's very cute 🤣 ❤️ He's such a treasure, I wish he could play any Noldor from the Silmarillion in a good adaptation.
Only GIGACHAD is the ultimate Chad!
Him and Vin Diesel are two people who come to mind who seem to be semi-normal in Hollywood. Diesel seems like a pretty big geek, despite appearances.
The girl he's dating right now is not in the least average but the rest of you said I completely agree with
@@clamum9648 I agree about Vin Diesel. They both seem pretty cool and both get hate from some in the media.
I’m so blown away that they think if you get assaulted and robbed, but then see the thief getting assaulted, you would HELP the thief?!?? What is this kindergarten level writing???
This is far more interesting than the actual episode
It will all make sense at the end when they reveal this story is Jaskier's insane stupid hallucination while he bleeds out from having his head split open on the battlefield.
I was worried you might run out of material but Hollywood doesn't cease to disapoint me. I'm looking forward to Disparus 'blood onions' 😄
I haven’t watched this nonsense because I was waiting for you disparu! Ready to laugh my ass off! 😂😂
This is like playing a D&D campaign with a first time DM who is making it all up on the fly and isn't keeping any notes of his own.
Wow. This makes Xena look like a master piece
How dare you! Xena was my Baywatch
This thing with their clan members coming in to take them back, seems to me like some bad RPG where you can choose your character at the beginning, but its really linear and except some fluff there are not any actual differences in gameplay or story for those characters.
Yes!!! I've been waiting for your review of the Witcher!
Did that character just say the words "badass elf" in a serious medieval fantasy setting?
omfg lolollol
This script was definitely written by a modern feminist. The part where the guardian is exiled, and she doesn't even care an ounce, is exactly how a toxic feminist would act. It's all about her. Other people don't matter. Sociopathic narcissists.
It doesn't have to be a feminist writer. This same exact plot line occurs in House of the Dragon. Princess Rheanyra just about forces herself on Criston Cole knowing he's a Kingsguard. That's an automatic death sentence for him. It's a death sentence for a kingsguard to sleep with anyone, and when Cole talks to her about it she straight up doesn't care.
I dont think that makes GRRM a feminist writer. It just shows how immature and young Rheanyra is and it helps shape her character.
These are literally just Wattpad fantasies being turned into movies.
@@lukaszzylik4437 There is a deference between immature character and the writer being so much of Sociopathic narcissist that he/she doesn't realize that he/she needs to demonstrate guilt and immaturity after the fact for the character.
In fact the show ends like she did nothing wrong. Modern day feminists are disgusting.
"Ah yes, how can I make this terrible show a woman's fault"
🙄 or, how about think up some legitimate criticism beyond 'a nasty lady spurned her lover'
There's plenty to pick apart with the show without accidentally telling everyone you have some pain you're getting off your chest (she won't read this bro, sorry)
@@KayD They boasted an all female writing staff. Go cry elsewhere.
I thought it was just me wondering why they kept repeating themselves or just randomly sharing backstory. I only made it half way through the first episode before i turned it off. I did fully enjoy your recap though, and am looking forward to your reviews on the next episodes! 😂
32:38 The more you look at it the worse the throw is, originally I thought he was gonna point out when the axe leaves the Elf's hands because gods that looks awful. But even after leaving his hands it careens down at a 45 degree angle that it never should have been able to reach.
The review we all have been waiting for.
"... and Dave" had me rollin'. Thanks for watching this "thing" for us, Disparu. Someday a bard will sing a ballad about your courage.
Thank you! Can't imagine the pain and suffering you go through, but am deeply grateful, you are one of the highlights to come from the drivel supplied by the "entertainment' industry. Perhaps, we can all get together and send the writers a new pack of crayons.
Crayons ain't gonna work. You gotta replace the whole creative team starting with the showrunner.
Thanks for taking one for the team, again. Hope you had a bucket next to you.
There is so much cope going out right now it's insane. The Guardian article can be summed up by "Uuuuuugh these toxic fans are just taking it too seriously"
🤣🤣🤣 I love your reviews! I'm sorry you had to sit through this though.
"So then the two became three...'
Why do I feel like the next episode will feel like that Blackadder episode "The Black Seal"?
Everyone dies after drinking poison? We can only hope.
Willow, Wheel of Time, Rings of Power, Witcher. How many of my favorite fantasy series can modern writers screw in a single year? All of them apparently.
41:28 Explanation of what just happened made no sense... "You essentially said that war hungry generals made peace with each other in order to stop a peace treaty because they didn't want peace and end up with peace anyway" i mean... you were spot on right there :D
Thank you, Well done. I completely agree. Thanks for all the detailed analysis.
I have seen all episodes, I am a fan of the Witcher franchise, having read (most) of the books even before realising CDPR made the games (started 1, finished 2-3 100%). And like my medieval/fantasy. The Henry Cavill led Season 1 of the Netflix adaptation was kinda great (weird diversity casting but typical Netflix), jarring with time skips, Ect.
So, Blood Origin. It's essentially the prequel story of the Elven kingdoms, the Hero's that ended the empire, and the Conjunction of the Spheres.
But don't get your hopes up. The writing isn't great, the vague story is barely akin to the lore, and yes there are character names involved that tie in with The Witcher, it's still confusing to watch.
I've honestly given this a 2/5. The locations, most of the set pieces, costumes and weapons, the CGI creatures, not bad. It's the Story, the widely "Diverse" casting choices that separate the "Tribes" sure, but creates no other sense of location or lineage of the rest of the cast. It's not great.
Also the Proto-Witcher at the end. It's obvious that the writers have no idea what the "trial of the grasses" was suppose to be.
There is a small tie-in at the end credits to pull this back in line with the next Netflix adaptation for season 3. But with how the writers have brutally altered the story in season 2, I will not be returning personally.
By now I have watched quite a few reviews of that show. Most of these reviews are amusing. There is sarcastic snark from The Drinker; there is mostly uncontained, burning rage from Az and then there's you. You slip on your long gloves, flip down your visor and get right into the thick of it with a scalpel and tweezers. How you manage to remain calm for the length of this video is beyond me. I watched about 10 minutes of this show and then I went to chop some firewood because I just had to break something. Remarkable!
Thank you for this one, it was very entertaining. I left a sub and will be back for the rest, partially because I want to see whether or not your sanity prevails against continued exposure to this bundle of fecal matter.
When the Lark’s relative showed up to call her back, I naturally assumed it would be the cousin whose eye was cut out by Fjall. You know, to create tension and drama. But no, just a sister. No connection to our other main character. No set up. Did not care when she died.
Looks JUST like how it early medieval northern Europe would have; many of the region were known for their long line of sub-Saharan Celtic bards, and that the Druids were compromised of the people that would s sometime later be more commonly be known as: "Brazilians" and "Cambodians" (by way Van Nuys). Netflix surelymust have had to hire an anthropologist as a consultant to be able to cast the show with such ethnic realism. 🙄
Is this going to be like Rings of Power, where just before the finale they remember their show's name and rush to introduce a Withcher into the show
It's funny, I don't even see the shows or movies covered here half the time, but I still watch the reviews. You, TCD, Little Platoon, and Nerd all have great takes! Space Ice and Mr. Sunday movies are nice too
I'm with you. I don't watch any of this crap but I love these videos. Reaper is a good channel as well.