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Let's Talk About... Why Netflix's Witcher Was Frustrating to Watch (Patreon)

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2020-01-18 20:58:02
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Let's Talk About... Why Netflix's Witcher Was Frustrating to Watch

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Been away for a while from patreon due to real life situations but I have to disagree with keith here on some points. If I wanted to watch 30 minute chunks of episodic action I would't turn to books or lore heavy genres. This is why I don't have issues with Lords of the rings or the absolute monster that is wheel of time. Seriusly don't read that one unless you can swallow a full chapter of 2 people walking down a road and the slower pace they would encounter events. Having said that they do enchounter things continously ....just not at a 30 minute episode start-buildup-conclusion rate. This leads into the issue of allways wanting to experience new things and the expertation of it allways being new. Life for most part is slow paced with larger world mechanics that develop over longer periods of time. That is probably why star wars episode 8 got the flak from alot of people. The first movie had buildt up to several points and half of them just vanished into thin air with little to no conclusion. Subverting expertation to some degrees are fine but don't break the very points the build up is trying to deliver. Take Rey's parents for example...the whole first move of the new trilogy hinted at it being something there and the second movie just deleted it from existance Subverting an idea of who or what might be the bad is actually good and drives the story forward. Noping someones entire experience of what is buing built up over a time period just to "point and laugh" while stating that they subverted the expertation for art is just bad writing. Not giving people a chance to learn or experience characters personality and development is another potential mine you can step on. Those characters can come across as shallow or gimicky with only a single possible action. I believe that is one of the main reason lore heavy worlds tend to go the slower route but having said that there is only so many ways a person can start their journey or recall how they started it in some cases. So the witcher author's approach to drop you directly into the action is something I can appreciate as a way to move the story forward as long as it is done well. Star wars episode 4 ( or the first move lol ) is a good example of this with how they introduce Darth Vader. Vader isn't given a detailed build up how big and bad he is, what you do get though is a snippet of a ship allready under fire and preparations for a last ditch defence to repel the attackers.....until they hear vader is the one comming. The silent or not so silent reaction to vader comming is more than enough to tell the viewer exactly how bad it is that just he is comming for you. This approach surrounding Vader continues throughout episode 4 to highlight the rebels struggle and as such becomes a tool to explore the story told. As an edit at the end I want to add that I will not cover the spoiler area in comments since the show is new so I want to give people the chance to experience it on their own. Hence my examples of starwars because that movie is atleast 20 years old by now and is considered cultural general knowledge.