The Tube.

[Ducky]

I watched the first episode of The Witcher this morning and thought it was a bit shite to be honest.

Big fan of both the books and games (Witcher III is one of the best games ever made) and this bored the tits off me.

I get that they're setting up Geralt and Ciri's characters, but the whole thing felt very disjointed. The only scene that redeemed it in any way was where he earned his "Butcher of Blaviken" title.

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

Just starting the 3rd episode... bit lost to be honest. It's all over the place 

[Ducky]

Yeah I watched episode two and a bit of three, dunno if I'll persevere with it, it's really a mess and just poor overall.

For anyone that is experience the fiction for the first time, this show is really doing the source material an injustice. Hell, there's much better writing and acting in The Witcher III (check out the guy who voices Geralt in that - Doug Cockle, great bit of voice acting).

[Necr0rceN]

I watched three episodes last night and still have no clue what the fuck is going on. Its a little all over the place in terms of timeline. Ya wan Yennifer turned out savage!

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Half way through episode 4 and it doesn't get any better... complete mess. It's like the editor of this got handed a bunch of clips and was just asked to lob em in together. 

Also +1 about Yennifer

Have to say that thing she does with the crowd clapping at the end of her shaggin yer man would be great to have on hand   

[Ducky]

Yeah Yenn has an almost sex symbol status, her original look was never gonna be there for long The look they've given Triss is however, all kinds of wrong.

Just finishing episode three and I think I'm done with it. It is an absolute mess. The comment about random clips edited together is bang on. This is an amazing work of fiction and is readily available in my two favourite forms of media (games and books), so why persist with this mediocrity?

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

I've stopped watching it, I just flicked through the next 4 episodes really quickly.  Absolute horse shite

[ldj]

Couple of years late but watching The People vs OJ Simpson.

It's pretty good but the shoehorning of the Kardashians into it is embarrassing and brings the show down.

[Ducky]

I've stopped watching it, I just flicked through the next 4 episodes really quickly.  Absolute horse shite

*Roach shite

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Great article on Watchmen series (which contains no real spoilers, and I still haven't seen it):
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/23/watchmen-is-by-far-the-best-adaptation-of-the-comic-but-should-fans-watch-it

[John Kimble]

Sounds good. It's one series I've really meant to check out, if only for the complete dearth of decent material elsewhere. I had a spare hour or so the other night so I decided to check out the Witcher...absolutely dire and couldn't even finish the first episode. Let's be honest, this series would never have been made if GOT hadn't proved so successful, and it only serves to remind how great the early series of GOT actually were. But yeah, Netflix appears to be getting increasingly synonymous with producing utter garbage.

[Pedrito]

Enjoyed Baby Yoda the series. Good old fashioned, straightforward storytelling, with plenty of ropey acting to make it enjoyable.

Also saw the first 2 Witchers and really not sure what to be making of it. Some cool stuff, plenty winky wanky woo stuff. Not sure whether to keep going tbh.

[Giggles]

I enjoyed The Mandalorian. The acting is indeed ropey, the dialogue is lame and some of the characters are so stereotypically unimaginative.... but the actual show itself looks very very cool. Especially the droids, and more especially the assassin droid from the first episode.
That robot-arm-with-a-gun-thing sticking out of yer man's backpack, that could shoot around corners gave me a giggle.

[Born of Fire]

That robot-arm-with-a-gun-thing sticking out of yer man's backpack, that could shoot around corners gave me a giggle.

Made even better by the fact he's played by Bill Burr who thinks Star Wars and it's ilk are total bollocks   

[Giggles]

Ha, good one


I finished watching the first season of His Dark Materials. As mentioned already, I'm delighted that it's much better than that Golden Compass movie. Having already read the books years ago, there were a few bits that niggled at me, but overall it was a decent watch with some good actors. Some lad a few pages back said he was watching it with his kids, how did they fare when yer wan snapped that guys neck