Netflix - The Witcher - Assassin of Polls

Wow. If a pair of contacts for Cavil would blow their budget then clearly Netflix isn't too excited about the franchise after all.

And I resent the comparisons to orc craftsmanship. Orcs are terrific armorers and weapon makers, technically. They just have no aesthetic sense whatsoever. The Nilfguardian armor looks like it was made by someone who had no idea how metal worked, gave up and used plastic instead, realized how stupid and primitive it looked, and made it worse by trying to give it "character".

It's the kind of thing I might have drawn at ten or eleven under the prompt "edgy dark evil armor looking thing" while knowing nothing about texture. Some seriously bad judgement went into that, as well as the decision not to change course when they first heard people's reactions to it.

Geralt and Yennefer apparently meeting during an orgy is rather boring and disappointing too. I always thought their meeting in The Last Wish was perfect, with him barging in on her sleeping off a hangover and then impressing her with how gentlemanly and considerate he is even though he urgently needs her help for Dandelion.

Also still not a fan of Cavil. A big beautiful baby-faced man with puppy-dog eyes and waggling eyebrows in place of a vocabulary was never my idea of Geralt.

It all just looks uninspired and by-the-book to me. Like they collectively decided to make a "sexy gritty fantasy epic with diverse appeal" and then just started going through the motions.