I was at my local used book store the other day and picked up some Indiana Jones books from the 80s/90s along with some other stuff. It had me thinking about the upcoming Indiana Jones movie which I have no doubt will be a bait and switch or Indy dying and a woman taking over (I wouldn't even put it past Disney to have Indy give a speech about how she is much better than he is before dying).
I also know that Netflix is doing a Conan the Barbarian show, and I am pretty sure it will be Conan surrounded by much more capable women or his female sidekick will be the real star.
What would you consider to be the most egregious example of a bait and switch? Also, bait and switch tactics pretty much show that they know full well what the mass audience wants to see, but they are so arrogant and insist on cramming in their message. One of the best examples of this was late 2016 there was a miniseries about the history of the lgbt movement that bombed in the ratings. How was it explained? Maybe that the majority of people aren't interested in content that focuses heavily on lgbt? Nope, it was blamed on Trump, homophobia, and the usual suspects.
Yea I intend to read the Witcher books. Cavill himself kind of warned people. And once I saw who the showrunner was I figured it would turn out that way. Plus it’s Netflix
The problem with the Witcher books is that the writing style is different then you would expect. I only read the first one, the characters and story are great but the style put me off. If you read them let me know what you think and maybe I'll give them another try. I did like the story from the games.
The reason I think it was bait and switch is that the woman behind it said she will not let her politics influence the movie, she being a feminist SJW type. Obviously that was not true.
Will do. I read the wheel of time books in 2020 to early 2021 so I’m thinking of buying all the Witcher books around my bday in September. Will let you know.
WoT was never, ever going to work. 14 books cannot be condensed into 3 years of real time as would be the case with a live-action medium. Even the adult actors in GoT visibly changed over the 7/8 years that took to say nothing of the child actors like the one for Bran who while in a wheelchair from s2 onwards sprang up like a fucking beanstalk just like Cirroc Lofton [Jake Sisko] did in DS9.
I haven’t read any of them but isn’t the first like a collection of short stories or did you read the first like novel-novel?
It follows Geralt in different times, it jumps from one story to another. The stories kind of stand on their own but are connected and towards the end it gives a better picture of the entire story.
Which was a major problem with the first season because it wasn't clear in the slightest this was happening. They were jumping decades, sometimes from one scene to the next where it went from a character as a child to adult, but the showrunners were so bad at making this clear that most of the audience had no fucking clue it was a thing. Even book readers couldn't tell it was happening and they knew it was a series of short stories across years.
If I recall, the first book is just short stories, though I believe a couple tie into the plot of the books after that point. Good series, but I never got around to reading the book that came out recently as a sort of prequal.