Okay it doesn’t mean making it illegal to address their complicity in the holocaust though.  Nor does it make it less laughable when a pole is like “lol dumb americans can’t understand nuance” when they have their heads in the sand about their role in a genocide that occured within living memory.

Tbh, Ciri is not an interesting character in the game as well. In the books...that’s up for debate.

The reason for Poland’s attitude towards Nazi atrocities in WW2 is because many Poles were also killed in the concentration camps, or otherwise as slave laborers in Germany, and that shared suffering was used by governments since as a means of identity. Saying many Poles were not victims but collaborators and helped…

It’s hardly surprising that a producer who decides to play to the lowest common denominator will, when pressed on it, spout easy answers.

The characters don’t even have to make all good and sensible choices, just *believable* ones. If someone makes a dumb mistake, there should be some logic beyond it beyond “the plot demanded it”.

I’m no flag waving ‘patriot' by any stretch of the imagination, but this notion that the lowest common denominator is exclusively a US byproduct will never not be exhausting. Future "Ow, my Balls" fans are a worldwide phenomenon. For proof, see your average interview with any given Brexit supporter.

One issue is that writers are never really given a blank slate to work with for these types of adaptations. They are told a general framework of the characters, the story, depth, tone, etc. and the ‘writing’ is filling in the rest. It’s not the same work for them as a typical novel from scratch.

Yeah, the success of a lot of other TV shows really shows how out of touch this guy is.

The first season was fun because each episode, for the most part, was self-contained. They didn’t have to figure out how to write political elements or serialized stories because that’s just what the show (and the early short stories the first season was based off of) was at the time. And it’s a lot easier for bad…

The exact same crap with Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Secret Invasion. Someone writes something clever, the producer says Americans are too stupid to get it, they rewrite it into something insultingly simple that ends up being politically detestable, audiences hate it, the producers complain that Americans were…

To me, the show started going downhill when they began focusing every episode around Ciri. I just don’t find her character or storyline to be very interesting. I enjoyed the first season because it focused on world building and character development. The lore is more interesting than the plot, basically.

You understand not only is he correct, he’s speaking a fundamental truth.

*gestures at all the shittiness of modern society and capitalism*...I mean, apparently you can do exactly those things.

The writing was never great. The show was almost great in spite of the bad writing, and in spite of the very confusing (for those unfamiliar with the lore) first season time-jumps. That a show could be promising despite major flaws in plot direction and writing demonstrates that there was definitely some magic there,…

Assuming everything was translated correctly, the man being quoted isn’t a writer, but a producer who’s trying to defend his decisions on the show. Sure, the writers, by definition, write the script, but they’re usually working within the constraints set by their superiors - the showrunners and producers who decide…

Oh, no, it’s WAY worse than that. Just listen to him:

Jesus Christ just reading through that was so insane that for a moment I was worried that I was having a stroke.

I really hope this producer gets less work after this. You can’t be successful and blame everyone else for your failures.

So once again, blaming your audience rather than blaming what actually is the problem: Poor writing

FFXVI is not a bad game. It’s a very good video game really. But its a very bad Final Fantasy game.