Let's transfer what happens in this Witcher series (Season 2) to a comparable franchise:

The Lord of the Rings is a very successful book that has been lovingly adapted into another medium, a film, close to the book and with great attention to detail, which was also very successful.

Now let's imagine someone would want to build on these successes and create a Lord of the Rings series.

In this series, Frodo and Aragorn are portrayed very well, but that's where it ends.

Gandalf is no longer a magician because he simply lost his ability during the fight against the Balrog. The Rohirrim are now partly Africans who ride elephants (the Haradrim apparently still exist somewhere in the world). Sympathetic male secondary characters are rewritten as unsympathetic, while the young beautiful Arwen is now more of the middle-aged maternal type and the main villain is not Sauron, but the wicked witch from Hansel and Gretel who was simply squeezed into the story.

And now imagine that there are quite a few people who cheer this work ... hopefully because they have never heard of Lord of the Rings before....

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