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I really missed the fairy tale aspects of the stories in the Netflix adaptation too, and it's a shame one of the episodes wasn't based on the A Grain of Truth story.
I remember reading the first book and noticing all this cool references and twists to fairy tales and how awesome it was! Seeing these stories told from the perspective of dark fantasy and magical realism was really something else.
The cursed princesses being trapped inside towers and princes dying by falling and breaking their necks trying to get to them (Rapunzel), Renfri and the seven dwarves (Snow White), Nivellen the cursed and Vereena the bruxa (The Beauty and the Beast), the Djinn and the mystery surrounding it (Alladin)... These and other aspects made me completely fall in love with the series!
I really hope the Netflix series will explore more and more aspects of the books in the future!
The stories in the first witcher book are primarily fairy tales
Renfri is Snow White
The last wish is Aladdin
But Netflix decision not to do beauty and the beast proves them to be utter cowards
Yeah they probably won't go back to stories from the first two books, but hopefully further stories will be explored with more detail.
And the Nivellen and Vereena was truly interesting and dark. The reason why Nivellen was cursed, how he bought girls to stay with him in an attempt to break the curse, and how in the end out of all the human girls that kept him company, some who even seemed to like him, the only one who ever really loved him was a vampire.
In the end the monster was more capable of love than everyone else.
I really love The Witcher series.
The stories in the first witcher book are primarily fairy tales
Renfri is Snow White
The last wish is Aladdin
But Netflix decision not to do beauty and the beast proves them to be utter cowards
Cool! House of Glass had a really interesting storyline. Fox Children was also fun, I really liked the portrayal of the Aguara.
I think Netflix knew how big the Witcher is, or at the very least the showrunner Lauren Hissrich did, she seems to really love the story. So while I wished there was more elements from the book in the series, I liked the first season and am really optimistic about the future seasons.
I haven't watched all of the polish series yet, only small pieces, but I'm planning to see all of it. I'm curious on how they adapted the world. Did you liked the polish series?
And yeah, this fandom deserves more content. I was surprised with how little fanfic there is of it when I searched AO3. I thought with the sucess of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt there would be at least ten thousand works, but it's still close to three thousand to this day.
Hopefully this will change now and we'll get a lot of new content, both official and fan made!
The stories in the first witcher book are primarily fairy tales
Renfri is Snow White
The last wish is Aladdin
But Netflix decision not to do beauty and the beast proves them to be utter cowards
I had heard about the flaws of the polish series before, it's too bad the production wasn't good. The concept of female witchers is interesting tough, since unless I'm mistaken in the books women are not recruited (or taken) to become witchers.
I think it had something to do with the creators of the Trial of Grasses not developing it with female biology in mind, so because of that death was garanteed if a woman was forced to undergo the mutations. Vesemir even adviced Geralt to not let Ciri ever go through with the Trial, if I remember correctly.
Was there any explanation for the female witchers in the polish series? It sounds like it could be a cool storyline.
And I really wished there were male LGBT characters in the books, if not a major character then at least someone like Mislav from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (but definetely not like Dethmold was in The Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings).
Maybe with the Netflix series and people shipping Geralt and Jaskier we'll see an increase in fanworks. I honestly never shipped Geralt with anyone other than Yennefer before, and they'll always be my OTP for this series no matter the media, but the Netflix show portrayal of Jaskier and his friendship with Geralt is starting to make me ship them too. But Geralt x Yennefer will always be my endgame.
The stories in the first witcher book are primarily fairy tales
Renfri is Snow White
The last wish is Aladdin
But Netflix decision not to do beauty and the beast proves them to be utter cowards
I just searched about LGBT characters in the Witcher books, and according to the wiki there's at least two men in a mlm relationship in the Season of Storms book. Ortolan, the sorcerer that created the anti-aging elixhr, had an affair with his apprentice, Sorel Degerlund.
Sorel was killed by Geralt, as revenge for trying to murder him before. When Ortolan learned his apprentice was killed by Geralt, he had a heart attack and died. There's more stuff but that's pretty much it.
The lover status between Ortolan and Sorel is according to the Wiki though, I'm not saying it's false but I honestly don't remember that. Guess I'll have to take a look at Season of Storms again sometime.
But even if they were lovers, I don't think that's as great as all the canon female LGBT representations we had in the books. It's something, but it's not that much.
I haven't played Thronebreaker yet, but it looks really cool and I'm looking forward to play it! Did you like? And the Cahir in Thronebreaker is not the same guy from the books?
As for Phillipa, I really wished she had appered in S1 too, or at least have her being mentioned a little. Hopefully she'll be S2 and have a fair amount of screen time!
The stories in the first witcher book are primarily fairy tales
Renfri is Snow White
The last wish is Aladdin
But Netflix decision not to do beauty and the beast proves them to be utter cowards
That sounds really cool, I can't wait to play it! And thanks for tip to look for the game at gog.com, I'll check it out!
The stories in the first witcher book are primarily fairy tales
Renfri is Snow White
The last wish is Aladdin
But Netflix decision not to do beauty and the beast proves them to be utter cowards