F*IT Moment: Hollywoods' Mediocre Adaptations (and WOKE agenda) Are Destroying Our Entertainment

December 17th brought the release of the second season of the long anticipated Witcher series on Netflix and while I haven't watched it, I had watched the first season and was curious how audiences liked the new season. And boy are the audience reviews polarizing (I don't even bother with the critic reviews, those are likely paid fluff pieces by critics who do not wish to lose their access to future Hollywood premieres, perks, etc). Currently sitting at a 65% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.4 on Metacritic, I read through the comments many had left to see why the rating was low and continuing to drop.

The major reason viewers were so critical of the second season was due to the fact that they felt the showrunners had not been faithful to the books written by Andrzej Sapkowski. Many believed it didn't deserve to be identified as The Witcher and rather should be branded as a generic fantasy show under a different title. Character personalities were a complete turnaround from how they were portrayed in the books, the dialogue was poor, and the show lacked the magic that was captured in Sapkowski's work. Overall, a real disappointment compared to it's inaugural season.

This isn't the first time fans have been divided when it comes to Hollywood adaptations of other established works. We're seeing it in our super hero entertainment as well. The Netflix live action adaptation of Cowboy Bepop is the latest disaster, and was cancelled less than a month after it's premiere. My question is to Hollywood: Why do you feel the need to stray so far from beloved, already established material when adapting them for film or television? They were popular for a reason. A minor change here or there is fine, but changing the material to conform to the current Hollywood agenda is not okay. It's butchering what made the original material so special to fans.

It seems like for the past 5 or so years there's been a definite agenda Hollywood seems hell-bent on infusing into our films and television shows. Suddenly it's not okay to be a

masculine straight white male in media. That's considered toxic. Rather, they have to be talked to and torn down by women because for some reason that's what Hollywood believes is the embodiment of a strong female character. Making a woman an obnoxious bitch does not a strong woman make. Take a look at characters like Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Princess Leia, the list goes on. They were all well-loved, STRONG female characters. And tearing down the men that surrounded them wasn't necessary to show this.

The nuclear family seems to be taboo, as many fathers are portrayed as either deadbeats, absent in the lives of their family or poor role models for their children. Male characters are suddenly sidelined that were previously portrayed as the main character. Many viewers who critiqued The Witcher noted this. Geralt is thought to be the main character in the books yet his air time in the Netflix series has been reduced in the second season in favor of Ciri, Yennifer, or various side characters. Interviews with Henry Cavill have proven as much:

They are also subjecting viewers to forced diversity, race or gender changing well-established characters so they can tick the boxes. How about creating a naturally diverse cast of characters? Look at the Star Trek series. The cast was diverse and the showrunners didn't remind the audience to the fact constantly via cringe dialogue though out the series runs. It seems like the general belief is that in order for a fan must see themselves or bond with a said character, that can only be achieved if they match their sex, skin color or sexual orientation. WRONG! Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is one of my favorite Marvel characters, yet I'm not a man. Does that mean I cannot identify with his struggles or general personality? It's ridiculous to think not. Stop butchering established characters in our entertainment in order to tick a box. Try hiring some writers with some creativity and create new characters. It's been done before.

Even better, if Hollywood wants to attempt an adaptation of established material, take a lesson from Peter Jackson and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Though it wasn't an exact copy of the Tolkien books, yet his interpretation was respectful to the books and its fans.

"Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility." - Peter Jackson

And that is why many believe The Lord of the Rings trilogy (at least the first one) is the best fantasy trilogy ever. And honestly I cannot disagree.

As the review scores for The Witcher continue to drop for its second season, Cowboy Bepop being cancelled after only one season on Netflix, and various film, television series and comic books continue to flood our entertainment with woke storytelling and the Hollywood agenda of forcing intersectional feminism and diversity into already established media, there is one small bright light in the darkness of it all. Spider-Man: No Way Home was a love letter to fans, and while not perfect, left out the bullshit politics to tell a great super hero story. It is plain to see that the audience as a whole more than welcome this back in their entertainment from the obscene amount of money it has made in such a short time of being out in the theaters. As of now it has hit $880 million at the box office and will easily climb to over $1 billion. Yay!

So a note to the Hollywood creative teams who think we want to hear their preaching with pieces of woke garbage on the screen and television sets: STOP. Stop massacring our favorite characters and stories with this forced crap. Or stay in your little bubble and continue to fail. It's like you don't want to make that thing called money these days. Who knew?

RUINED: Most of Marvel in the last 5 years, Dr. Who, Cowboy Bebop, The Witcher, DC, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Wheel of Time, MANY MANY MORE...

P.S. I've come across an article addressing the lower ratings on The Witcher second season, and let me make something clear: STOP going with the narrative that fans are "review bombing" to lower the score because it doesn't follow the books. THAT IS A LEGITAMITE REASON! They have the right to dislike the show if they feel it isn't faithful to the material they love.