Volcanologist
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they got married in real life.
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axlsalinger
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‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Recasts Geralt of Rivia With Liam Hemsworth, Henry Cavill to Exit Series
Liam Hemsworth will take over the role of Geralt of Rivia in "The Witcher" Season 4, as Season 3 of the Netflix series will be Henry Cavill's last.
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Artnes
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‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Recasts Geralt of Rivia With Liam Hemsworth, Henry Cavill to Exit Series
Liam Hemsworth will take over the role of Geralt of Rivia in "The Witcher" Season 4, as Season 3 of the Netflix series will be Henry Cavill's last.
Artnes
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That Superman commitment makes sense but some are suggesting he is pissed the writers are not going off source material.
Could have another Benioff and Wiess scenario
MindzEye
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All of the fantasy shows that these studios bought the rights to have been savaged by the showrunners imo. Witcher was at least a well done version of their fan fiction, but the Witcher was fan fiction versions just as much as Wheel and Rings were.
Volcanologist
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the source material is about Geralt, not about the female side characters. you can see why they'd ignore it.
LeafGm
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MindzEye
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That seems to be the common denominator with the apparent need to re write the source material to make them "acceptable" for the screen. Regardless of the existing quality of the female characters in the source material to build off of.
LeafGm
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Galadriel being a great example of this. In the source material, she’s one of maybe, at most, 3-4 living beings in Middle Earth with the innate power & strength to (if they chose to) wield the One Ring themselves, defeat Sauron with it and become the new Lord of Middle Earth.
Yet ROP still thought they needed to fanfic her into a sword-swinging ninja solo commando in order to show her as a strong character?
MindzEye
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Wheel gave the two girls half of Rand's plot points and character dev, including his big power reveal at the end of the season despite the fact that they have OP as fuck storylines themselves, they're just not the prophesized saviour and/or destroyer of all civilization that is the clear main protagonist from about 1/3rd the way through the first book onward.
It's obvious, it's annoying, and makes the stories different and far worse, which is weird because who knew that legendary authors are better equipped to write good stories than some unknown hollywood randos?
MindzEye
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WoT is literally a matriarchal power structure.
LeafGm
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You could obviously make the argument that LOTR is for the most part extremely male-centric.
Still, for the time period in which it was written, not bad that a woman is one of the wisest and most powerful characters (Galadriel) and another woman (Eowynn) puts on a sword & armour & kills one of the main baddies.
MindzEye
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and if Amazon, Netflix et all used that as the justification for why they weren't willing to purchase the rights and put the stories on screen, I would shrug my shoulders and keep it moving. "Tolkien's masterpieces don't align well with our organizational values in 2022 and our focus is to find contemporary stories that deserve to be told" yadda yadda.
But don't buy the rights to the stories, and then change the stories. If you wanted a different story to tell, fine, tell a different story. There's no need to drag Tolkien's work through the mud to do so.