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Praise Geraldo?
I love expansive fantasy universes so count me in.
Praise Geraldo is le meme way to refer to the Witcher (Geraldo = Geralt)
Praise Geraldo Riviera!
...I don't get it.
...Oh. D'oh! It's like the "Gohan Blanco" meme for the Dragon Ball series. Got it.
...Is the show any good or...?
It's alright. If you like the games, it's better. Not sure about the books, I'm like 20 pages into The Last Wish (and have been for over a year now 😅🫥) so results may vary! Also heard it's got pretty explicit anticommunist underpinnings - the entire canon, that is - and I am inclined to agree.
mild spoilers
The bad guy empire are all brainwashing pillagers worshipping a vague religion that teaches that everyone is equal (and thusly maybe equally as fun to slaughter in a genuine Nilfgardiatic horde of genocidal maniacs). Everyone is so equal that their citizens are indeed equally poor and overworked and thusly eat rock soup and drink shitwater for every meal or something. I can even remember pretty distinctly an argument in the show wherein the vague ideas of 'freedom' and 'equality' were considered opposites, and we as the audience were being guided to sympathize more with "freedom".All that said I dig the lore. I like the elves, guerilla and otherwise. The politics can also be intriguing, if one allows them to be.
It is also very much worth noting that in-universe Nilfgard supports the right of self-determination of the elven people and even VIOLENTLY defends them and creates an ethno-endostate within Nilfgardian borders so they'll always be defended by a strong army against the literally genocidal regime that Geraldo finds himself living within and more often than not finding ways to side with it.
I've learned that when presented with fantasy anti-communist propaganda, I tend to just side with the fictional quasi-communist side semi-ironically. I find it quite enjoyable at times.
Long live Nilfgaard!
edit: @[email protected] I've seen you talk abt the Witcher, comrade, and I am curious of ur understanding of Nilfgaard and if I gave a pretty accurate rundown or not lol.
Interesting. The setting is descreibed, by other people I've known, as being "morally grey" and all that... but, of course, a setting being "morally grey" can also be a mask for the author's own views on the matter. I think I sometimes see this with A Song of Ice and Fire but I would still recommend that series wholeheartedly to you and everyonen else. But even so, I know that an author is rarely, if ever, impartial.
Nilfgaard might be low key jab at communism, but not necessary, it's not evil enough for polish fantasy to be representation of USSR. Also the dehumanisation of enemy is shown in the books as bad thing, and Nilfgaard is, quite boldly for the genre, the representation of it.
I thought Nilfgaard were supposed to be french?
More like Dutch-Celtic. France (slavicized though) is Temeria.