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The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
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Yeah, blame your customers.
Simplifying is really different from what they did which is completely alter characters, unnecessarily kill off characters, introduce new plots that didn't exist, etc. The Lord of the Rings movies, and the recent Dune movie both did a lot of that but are considered fantastic adaptations. Even Game of Thrones was an excellent adaptation for the first ~5 seasons and had huge mass market appeal while still being complex.
This is just shitty writers making excuses.
man the dune movie was so interesting sounding and watching it was such a ... idk... it was an experience. There was so much stuff that seemed so loosely strung together to the point of feeling almost baffling. I wouldn't think LoTR or early GoT are comparable?
:shrug: I liked it.
You might need to go back and watch it again. I had a completely different experience, and I found the plot rather cohesive. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen in my opinion.
I felt like Dune needed some prior knowledge of the books to really follow the plot. Not because the plot wasn't cohesive, but because so much plot was condensed into a movie that was already 2 and half hours long. It's not the fault of the movie, the book is just dense. But it does end up disorienting for the average viewer who can't instantly adjust their understanding of the universe to fully follow the plot.
That's fair. I never read the books or even watched the original movie, but I do have fans in my circle that have given me a bit of an indirect knowledge of the Duniverse. Even still, the acting, the cinematography, the music, everything in this movie is just amazing to me.
This is just shitty defensiveness.
It's entirely reasonable to think that someone in the writer's room also wasn't happy with the show direction. How about you listen to them when they explain why the shitty decisions were made instead of just assuming every writer sucked perfectly equally.