The Witcher: El origen de la sangre

It's like the writers were on acid. The story jumps all the time and this series isn't watchable. Netflix doesn't care about quality it's just quantity. I was looking forward to this series and really like "The Witcher" series. But this was just a mess. Still the actors did a good job and this was just a failure by the director who has to have big problems if this is the end results of a big budget series.

It's not hard to get why Henry Cavill won't be coming back as Geralt. The producers totally destroy the entire series with storytelling like this.

It's time for this series to end and if Henry will be replaced by someone else because of he likes the series to stay to the original storyline. Then it's time to stop this show.

So we have the long awaited 6 part series - oh wait it was so bad Netflix already had to cut 2 episodes worth from it, so let's try that again, - the long awaited 4 part The Witcher "spin off / Prequel". Let's start by saying if they cut bad writing / acting / storytelling away to the tune of 2 episodes, and we are left with these 4 barely watchable episodes that in my opinion should have been cut down to 1 single !short! Movie (i am not sure i found 90 minutes worth of good enough scenes in the whole 4 episodes, so a cut down to somewhere around 65 mins would have been probably somewhat reasonable), So lets take a look at what we have besides bad acting, writing that would be cringe worthy in a high school production, and obviously in todays adaption is only "inspired" by the source material. The Casting choices were questionable in many cases and the miscasting might be what lead me to state that the acting was bad before , but to be honest i think it is a mix of both. If you loved the Witcher lore in the games and / or in the books, you will undoubtedly be disheartened by this sad attempt and if this is a sign of what's to come, it does not bode well for the main show once Cavill is gone.

Honestly, there's very, very little to like her. The plot is paperthin, so are the characters. The dialogue is horrible, things happen randomly without explanation and build up making basically everything it tries fall flat. All these backstories of the characters are laid out but nothing feels distinct or unique because there's a huge overlap in their backgrounds. There's also far too little time to even get to know and care for these characters. Even with 4 episodes it feels drawn out in the parts that don't matter and too rushed in parts that do matter. This all is not even mentioning the fact it's tied to The Witcher brand, in which case they've thrown out the little bit of information they could've used for these events, it's all horribly inconsistent with what's already established for no apparent reason other than to be different.

On a positive note, ignoring how well it fits The Witcher, the cinematography looks decent, the action is snappy and Meldorf is kinda funny.

It just baffles me how this show even came to release knowing it had to pass multiple sets of eyes for approval at several stages in it's development.

I hate giving out bad reviews to TV shows or franchises that I've enjoyed watching in the past. It always perplexes me on how they can take something good and successful and ruin it. I hate to see good franchises flop, in the end we the viewers suffer. I have nothing against a lead female character. Some of my favorite TV shows and movies have lead female characters. Unfortunately, when it comes to certain genres and franchises that changes. This felt forced, I don't like any of the characters so far, male or female. The action sequences are from the 1980s, the acting is not very good. I see very little hope now for The Witcher franchise.

As put by film critic Roger Ebert: "Each film is only as good as its villain.

This film does not deserve a rating above three points, the plot is slurred, the characters are poorly written, the main villain is empty, there are few fighting scenes, there are almost no Monsters. I expected more, hoped that Netflix would expand the Witcher universe, but once again they screwed up.

Wednesday was the best this year and I hope Netflix will continue to collaborate with veteran directors like Tim Burton.

To those people who gave the series a rating above 5 points, I want to ask you, are you all right in the head?