scottmannen1

Lauren Hisrich the show runner for the Witcher, Blood Origin and The Rats makes some of the most incompatible tv and movie content available today. How Netflix ever managed to refund the 4th season of the Witcher, let alone this monstrosity of a disaster is crazy. There are very few men in the show and they are all bad people...evil slave drivers and criminal types. Like the Witcher it is mostly female cast which completely kills the Witchers core audience which is men who read the books and played the games. The Witcher season 4 isn't even about the Witcher,...its about The Rats and Falka (Siri) both of which are not interesting to watch and have no books to back them up. While they may be in the novels, they certainly arent the focus of the novels thats fore sure. What we have here is a twin of Kathleen Kennedy in Lauren Hisrich. Rather than write a tv show about the Witcher she thought it would be much better if she completely did her own thing and left the main story, the main character and the fans off to the side in favor of writing a show about whatever this show is about.

Its just terrible writing either. The story is about a bunch of dirty street thieves...only the dirty street thieves are better manicured, have their hair in fancy perms and $400 dye jobs all while wearing what would be considered upper class noble clothing! It just looks so out of place. I mean a group of people called the rats as street thieves you would expect to have dirty clothes, dirt on their skin and living in alley ways. Nope not this crew...they stay in fancy inn's seem to be living a lifestyle far above the commoners and possibly even above the nobles in the world of The Witcher.

As soon as I saw the cast give their interviews for the upcoming season 4 I immediately knew it was going to be terrible because you could tell that they didnt even want to be there and that they did not like the show either. I mean they could quit season 4 also, but I think everyone needs a paycheque quite badly in the acting world these days, so they are financially obligated///even if they clearly do not want to be there because they themselves know its a massive fail.

I would have thought Netflix knew not to use Lauren Hisrich after what happened with 2023s Witcher Spin Off Blood Origin. Never heard of it? Thats because its a 10 episode example of how not to make a tv show. Imagine the worst version of the Witcher possible and it doesnt even come close to how bad it was. They literally had The Witcher turning into the Incredible Hulk...turning green and everything. It was beyond bad and so is this show also. The Rats should never have been made.

The major critical issue that I have with this show is that none of the hero's are recognizable beyond Blade and Wanda. There is also a major lack of men on the show for whatever reason, other than the bad guys that is. Overall this a hard pass as far as shows go. The story is weak and its focus seems to be on other things than story unfortunately.

The animation is decent enough but I found myself wondering who these main characters are and why the viewer should care about them. I think if you are looking for a good animation story to watch that we would be best served by instead watching an anime from Korea or Japan who seem to be on top of storytelling and no additional baggage.