Vorige week was het halve internet in paniek omdat Netflix (die nep HD leveren met een te lage bitrate en upscaled beeld) een live action serie van Link gaat maken. De zwijgzame held uit de Zelda franchise. Nu heeft de website Topless Robot de tijd genomen om een zeer kritisch artikel te schrijven met zes manieren hoe dit volledig verkeerd kan gaan. Ook wij van Eigenwereld.nl voegen zich in dit kamp.

3. Link Could End up an Extremely Bland Character

Now, moments after the news broke out, jokes emerged either concerning a show where Link and/or the rest of the cast is mute. That's cute and all, but it's a safe bet they're going to have Link speak and give him a more fleshed-out personality, and we need to be prepared for what happens. Yes, we can all laugh at the horrible '80s animated depiction of Link as seen earlier, but again, the bigger crime here isn't just being a bad Link, it's being a boring Link.

Again, much like Hyrule itself, the number of different versions of Link to work with is near-infinite. But I can't help but shake the feeling that we're just going to get another Jack Shephard here: The whitest, most boring guy possible who never does anything exciting and yet we're told is the main character we're supposed to root for anyway. And since Link is a younger character, there's a danger of casting whatever random white-bread pretty-boy that Hollywood keeps insisting is the next big movie hero or whatnot to play Link as well. You know, your Kellan Lutzes, Joel Kinnamans, Jai Courtneys and whatnot. Oh god, and I just realized there's a good chance they'll botch any romantic scenes between Link and Zelda, which you know they'll play up...

Mind you, theoretically they don't even need to have Link in the beginning, and could just make this a show more about Hyrule and the stories going on in it that lead up the types of big events that happen to the games, when we'd be ready for Link (and even then, they could still make the show more about an ensemble). But I have my doubts.