http://kotaku.com/the-witcher-is-getting-a-netflix-series-1795289049

And I'm not too happy with the news. I'll be honest- I don't much like what I've seen so far of the Netflix stuff, other than the first season of Daredevil. I've havve not finished season two, I got bored pretty early on, Jessica Jones managed to put me to sleep in one episode, and Stranger Things was likewise boring and also just painfuly redundant and fake-y and uninspired rip-off of the great aventure sci-fi movies of the 80s. So my hopes for this are not high. I'll be really surprised if they manage to capture the unique mood and tone of the original and not just make it "the Netflix Game of Thrones".

Then again I'm the crazy guy who actually kinda-sorta likes the crappy polish tv series version :D

Someone get my hand held and those cardboard swords we made at the Renaissance Fair last year.

I'M GOING TO MAKE A WITCHER SERIES!!! :D

A generic fantasy series, yay.

I'm actually rather disappointed that it's being filmed in English. It's one of those cultural properties that for me is inherently Polish, and filming it in English just to appease the anti-dub/anti-sub crowd seems like a sell-out.

We'll see how it goes, but I like that netflix is doing it. Not that they always hit the mark, but at least they try different things.

On what they've done so far, Jessica Jones is by far the best of the marvel stuff they've done, IMHO. The first daredevil was entertaining and the second one a little bit of a mess. Luke Cage is pretty bad.

Stranger Things is an inspired recapture of the Stephen King vibe. It's not revolutionary, but pretty good overall.
They've done other stuff I've liked, like the first season of Hemlock Grove, Love or Master of None.

On the other hand, Game Of Thrones... well, I liked the first season very much, but it went downhill afterwards, reaching an embarassing fifth season.

Couldn't be worse than what they did with the Polish version.

Let's hope it's better than what I hear of Shannara.

well dunno we'll see about that ^^ - not particulary hyped for now but i think they might be able to pull it off

Is it wrong for me to really, really wish this ended up being a cartoon series in the spirit of Voltron/Avatar (that is, awesome anime inspired artwork and great writing)?

That series was (is? I'm not sure if I'll bother with the second season) something of a guilty pleasure of mine, partly for the throwback to the 90s fantasy shows like Hercules and Xena, partly for the "it kinda feels like someones tabletop RPG game" quality but yeah, it absolutely is in fact pretty damn bad. Definately not what I'd want from The Witcher :D Yes, because Avatar was absolutely goddamn terrible :D

Now, if you'd give it to Genndy Tartakovsky, that I might get behind.

Well, I'm excited about the [I]idea[/I] of a Witcher series on Netflix. But I'll just keep my fingers crossed for the execution of it.

I think I'd be more optimistic if they went with movies rather than a series. Unlike their shows, I like the Siege of Jadotville netflix movie so I know they can do something right, and it would possibly help avoid my biggest problem with their series, that they are terribly slow and often feel like what should be a two hour movie dragged out to be a 8-13 episode season.

why am I not surprised?

I'm going to have to disagree on the "fake-y" part. I was actually 12 years old in 1983, living in a place about halfway between Indiana (the setting) and Georgia (where the series filmed), and what makes the series hit me so powerfully is that the entire backdrop of the town and the characters is so true to what I actually remember.

Even down to playing AD&D at lunch in the school cafeteria (instead of a friend's basement) and being thought weird. :)

I know people who closely resembled the adults and older teens in the story in characteristics during that time period. I can get why the series doesn't speak as strongly to you, since you don't have the same associations, but don't mistake the American small-town cultural backdrop as incorrect for the time period. It's the very rightness of that portrayal that amplifies the eerie stuff.

I did not mean that as "inaccurate". I meant that it's almost a carbon copy of 80s movies. That it has nothing of it's own, and just comes off as a copy- a "fake".