Not sure why everyone got on board with this show and thought it would be 'the next Game of Thrones' or similar. It is no better than most most video game adaptations, such as 'Tomb Raider,' which play out to be B-movie quality action flicks at best. While an acclaimed video game, all the flaws in the video game 'story' and world-building are sticks in the mud and obvious issues here when in TV show form. I never could get into the story in the game (i thought it was a weak point) whether it was the monotonous gobbly dialogue typical of high fantasy RPGs or the card-board cut out characters. Yet if you ask anyone the overall internet opinion on the Witcher is that is perfect in every way, and you will be attacked for criticizing it. Well, even if the game was 'perfect', that's not the case with this show.

While I haven't read the books, all the issues from the game transfer to the show in its world building and story, which dissuade me from reading them. I don't know whether the fault is with the adaptation or original material, but the story simply fails to captivate and provide a meaningful overarching story. Neither are the characters interesting(the idea that the main character doesn't show any human emotion is a good idea for a video game, but not a book OR show.)

Between the cheesy opening scene, which made me think of a low-budget show on the Sci-Fi Channel, to the cheesy, video game-esque dialogue, to the main character who is unrelatable and uninteresting, and most of all, the story and background which is hard to make sense of and therefore is boring, all the issues I saw with the Witcher from the game rear its head in this show. I thought perhaps it would be better because its supposed to be based on the books, but either they didn't do it justice or the original story is is a big high fantasy convulated nerd fest that doesn't transfer to a show form well. The reason LOTR and other fantasy works so well is that there is a captivating main story and main characters who you care about. The Witcher simply comes off as a generic, low budget fantasy show that begs you to care about whats happening but you simply don't.