Saw it trending in Overseerr so i snatched the whole season cause i needed something to watch this weekend.
I went in blind, all I know is that is based on some Chinese Novels.
I watched the first couple of episodes and so far:
- The two main characters are insufferable girl bosses, specially the Eiza Gonzalez character. Like the bestests of the best in their fields.
- Males are either simps and / or buffons.
- Every relationship is interracial. Asian / Curry eater, with white dude simping over 6/10 Asian. Whitexican Coal burner.
- Cop is kid is a faggot, because.. reasons?
I HIGHLY doubt a Chinese author would create these characters, so this makes me believe NF just did a Witcher 2.0.
Anyone that has read the books or is familiar with the story, whats the take?
It wasn't that bad. It has a lot of Asians, but it's a story out of China so big deal.
There's implicit woke, but nothing explicitly woke and humanity would be over without the old white guy, who is a total badass. The security guy does have a gay son, but perhaps not intentionally he's whiny and unsympathetic, the biggest failure in season 1 is caused by the pouty woke woman.
These directors are okay at telling somebody else's story, they just have no creative bones in their body. Others have said it's faithful to the books and I believe it because putting in some woke subplot would be too much effort for them.
The Chinese version is on torrents and was well done, but spoken Chinese just grates on my nerves so I stopped after a few episodes. If it was dubbed I would watch it instead.
I always wonder how GOT would’ve ended up had George finished the dang books