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Friday Fun Thread for December 9, 2022

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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The Witcher show is dead, Henry Cavill left. They may make another season but I doubt it'll be any good replacing the main actor.

Didn't they make 2 or 3 seasons though ?

I found it boring so stopped watching after a couple of episodes.

Not surprised at all that they hated the source material.

Sapkowski is a cynical, wise asshole who's reputed to be something of a lecher.

The entire setting is not very thinly disguised eastern European history, where every single ethnicity behaved like complete bastards at times, and everyone is suspicious of each other.

Something like that breaks the mind of the typical product of American universities; surely there must be some good guys? Persecuted minorities can't be assholes themeselves, no.

Come on.

It’s being compared to Game of Thrones. All your strawman criticisms would apply there too. Yet GoT was both well-produced (at first) and wildly popular, even among those pearl-clutching college grads.

GoT came out when these pearl-clutching college grads were less pearl-clutching. They've been escalating for years.

How does your theory fit with House of the Dragon?

Apart from the Black Valyrians and some griping about how women are forced into motherhood, it was not very woke I think.

Yes, that's my point. You were saying that pearl clutching college grads have taken over and that's part of why The Witcher is bad; but HotD shows that's not strictly true.

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