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'The Witcher' renewed for fifth and final season
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The Witcher Renewed for Fifth and Final Season as Production Gets Underway on Season 4 - IGN
Netflix has officially renewed The Witcher for a fifth and final season as filming commences on Season 4 of the hit fantasy drama.
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As Regis? Huh. Not the Witcher character I would've cast him as, but alright. Good to know!
I swear we already heard this. But either way happy they'll at least give Liam a shot at succeeding.
I love how Netflix greenlights 2 seasons in advance despite not knowing the reception for s4, and yet shows that do moderately ok get canned immediately lol
Maybe a smart move for marketing? I had 0 interest in season 4 not only because of Cavil being gone, but because I believed it would never get a proper ending. To hear now they have a good head's up to wrap up the show and stories? Tickle me surprised. Think I'll actually dive into season 4.
Need some receipts there. It makes sense since they are filming them at the same time. Get it all done, save money.
I suppose if they're filming back to back it makes sense. Still..
It's not some random show it's one of their marquee series. They aren't just yanking the plug without an ending.
They better give Three Body Problem enough seasons for all three main books AND the spin off if they are giving -Checks Notes- the WITCHER five seasons.
Doing three books in two seasons is definitely going to be interesting to see. But honestly I really don't think it'll be that hard to handle all things considered. They've already got a lot of the setup done for it
Honestly, not really. The later books are rather slow up until the last 100 pages or so if you ask me.
To be fair a lot of the later books are just Geralt and the others travelling somewhere in Ciri's general direction and getting sidetracked all the time
which I liked because Geralt's party is really fun and Regis is awesome. But in the show it will probably be condensed a lot
I'm surprised how this was handled. Was it too expensive? Was it not profitable enough? The IP (and the quality of the first seasons) merited a long running series. Thought Netflix had secured a mini-GoT of sorts.
Wow but 4 is now in production? Kinda expected it to be be further along for some reason
They would have if the writers understood and respected the source material.
I would guess a combination of the poor reception for S3, losing their original lead (and the ensuing bad press), and probably most importantly the total failure to sell anyone on the awful spinoff. Also, if the rumors about the writer's room are true, they're probably not fighting too hard to keep this thing going over getting a shot at something new from Netflix.
As a book reader all I gotta say if you don't like it now. It really ain't gonna turn your opinion around for the end.
It's not all that faithful to them, but i think a large chunk of the fans are from the games anyway so it's not that big a deal to me as I don't feel the need to have all the same stories told the same way. Like the series can go ahead and skip the amnesia stuff and I'm okay with that.
I remember they cut short filming on The Rats spinoff last year, i guess it was even worse than I assumed
View: https://twitter.com/RedanianIntel/status/1781920118466883686
according to that article The Rats was halted in the middle of filming last year by Netflix after just 1 episode was shot, and speculation is either it'll be folded into season 4 or released as a one off single episode, but definitely no spin off show.
Be fascinating to learn why they greenlit season 5, they clearly know this IP has some major issues and they have showed zero hesitation in cutting other stuff out early, but Witcher keeps going.
View: https://twitter.com/RedanianIntel/status/1781920118466883686
according to that article The Rats was halted in the middle of filming last year by Netflix after just 1 episode was shot, and speculation is either it'll be folded into season 4 or released as a one off single episode, but definitely no spin off show.
Be fascinating to learn why they greenlit season 5, they clearly know this IP has some major issues and they have showed zero hesitation in cutting other stuff out early, but Witcher keeps going.
I'm guessing Blood origins had them shook. If this spin off is anywhere on that level they might as well just scrap it.
I wonder if for once Netflix feels kind of an obligation to finish it? The show has been one of their tent poles and cancelling it midway through would really enforce the idea that Netflix cancels everything.
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It's probably the one show I dropped for the most stupid (but telling imo) reason
I really liked season 1 despite the amateurish everything, but when season 2 tried to deviate criticism of the confusing structure and timelines with a drunk idiot character representing the audience who was using a similar story in universe to joke about "when you understand there's multiple timelines you realize it's actually good!"....I mean not only was it cringe and broke the fourth wall in the worst possible way, but basically told you they were unwilling to second guess themselves.
Also it wasn't that the timelines thing was so hard to piece together, the stupid thing was mostly because they failed filmmaking 101 and made visuals the same for all of them and characters even were wearing the same things, lmao
I really liked season 1 despite the amateurish everything, but when season 2 tried to deviate criticism of the confusing structure and timelines with a drunk idiot character representing the audience who was using a similar story in universe to joke about "when you understand there's multiple timelines you realize it's actually good!"....I mean not only was it cringe and broke the fourth wall in the worst possible way, but basically told you they were unwilling to second guess themselves.
Also it wasn't that the timelines thing was so hard to piece together, the stupid thing was mostly because they failed filmmaking 101 and made visuals the same for all of them and characters even were wearing the same things, lmao
I don't get these posts. If the show wasn't having good engagement numbers, netflix wouldn't hesitate to cancel it like they've done with other shows in the past. Most of the people watching the show have not read the books and are enjoying it for what it is, despite all the negative posts on here and reddit
I think S3 was the best so far. 2 is the worst. But no huge jumps in quality.
It's a lot like Halo series. If you have no idea about source material then it's passable to ok-ish time to watch, but if you know source material you are in for bad time.
S2 has too many training montage and then out of nowhere "well that escalate quickly" finale. It's boring and just frustrating to watch.
As a big fan of the show, I watched only the first episode of season 3 and then stopped. I just didn't like it. They took the focus too much off the main core characters, and then had them split up. I didn't care about all the other stuff they kept cutting to. I didn't feel the show had developed those other things in a way for me to care about them.
