Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "How The Witcher Destroyed Itself" video.

  1. As one of the many people who read the books because of the Witcher games, I would say that while Yennifer mostly exists to compare and contrast with Geralt though the Witcher Cycle itself becomes less about Geralt and more about Ciri as the story progresses. If they had stayed true to the source material, they would have had a story that ultimately focused on a young woman going from being a McGuffin to the protagonist as the story progresses. Ciri is prophesized to have incredibly powerful offspring, and that is the only thing about her that most characters in the story care about. Geralt and Yennifer both resent the fact that they have been made sterile, and both eventually become surrogate parents to Ciri and ultimately teach her that relationships don't have to be cynically transactional, while also giving her the strength to become the active master of her own destiny instead of a passive victim of it. The books already had a strong message about female empowerment, but since they did not emasculate the men, the show writers had to completely abandon them. Also, can I say, I really hate what the show did to Ciri's grandmother, Calanthe. In trying to make the freakin' "Lion of Cintra" more of a "girl boss" they somehow managed to make the most feared and respected ruler in the entire book series look like a weak and incompetent sop to feminists.
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