'The Witcher' Producer Called Out After Saying The Show Is 'Simplified' For American Audiences
Tomek Baginski is not The Witcher‘s fans favorite person right now.
The producer is being called out over some comments he made about the recent third season being “dumbed down” for the American audience.
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Tomek had spoken with Polish website Wyborcza about the series, saying that the new season was simplified from its’ source material for the biggest part of the audience, in which he named checked Americans.
“When a series is made for a huge mass of viewers, with different experiences, from different parts of the world, and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary,” he had said. “It’s painful for us, and for me too, but the higher level of nuance and complexity will have a smaller range, it won’t reach people. Sometimes it may go too far, but we have to make these decisions and accept them.”
Following his comments, fans called out Tomek about them on Reddit.
“This doesn’t make sense,” one fan wrote. “If he says they dumbed down the show to reach a larger audience, then the viewership should increase if he was correct. The fact that the viewership decreased and people complained about how dumb the show was means that they underestimated their audience and shouldn’t have dumbed it down at all.”
Another added, “In other words: ‘we compromised the quality of the product, because we only really care about making profit’. Always money before creativity with these people.”
Tomek‘s comments came after the recent third season was rated the worst yet.