Leaving aside the overall quality of the show, you can’t just recast the beloved main character and expect people to still be excited about it. Especially when the original actor is also a gamer who raved about how much he loved the source material, left the show for the right reasons, and connected with the fans so well.
They’ve mishandled this property spectacularly.
It’s all part of why I canceled Netflix.
Their stuff seemed generic, and I’d often turn something off after a half hour because it was meandering bullshit.
When something nice and unique did come along it would get canceled, so I stopped watching new series until they developed them a bit.
Then they get their hands on a beloved property and didn’t even TRY to adapt it.
I canceled upon the mere rumor of dropping multiple screens.
Netflix should have stayed OUT of production.
I’m pretty sure he left, or at the very least they “agreed” to stop cooperation. But I might be wrong, I didn’t pay that close attention to the drama back then.
It was one of those resign or we fire you kinda deals according to what I remember reading back when it happened.
I’m honestly surprised we got two decent seasons. I knew Netflix was going to screw it up, they have a horrible track record. Why do people still pay for it? How many times do they have to burn its users?
Ok, first seasom had its issues but I’d agree it was decent, showed potential. But which other one was decent? Second one was abomination, third I didn’t make it past Thanedd
I had fun with 2. Definitely a drop from 1 but still fun for me. We don’t talk about 3
Wait… it had FOUR seasons?
It was better than a certain polish show of the same name. That’s about the best thing I can say about it. And Henry well he is quite fun to watch… I mean was. Probably the only reason to watch… which disappeared
why
I hated this show so much, it made me legitimately angry trying to slog through it. I guess you have to have played all the games, read all the books, and sucked all the fairy dicks for it to have made any sense at all.
Since I had done none of these things, I just saw a random mishmash of characters in different places in different times with zero understanding. Nice hunchback boobs though.
Really? I don’t like fantasy much, didn’t know anything about the former stuff going in, and ended up liking it despite the disjointed nature of the first episode.
Doing two timelines in parallel was… A narrative choice… But once I got my bearings it was plenty good.