piraterepublic wrote:

as someone who read the books, it is not going to get better.
i like the witcher overall,  but it all goes to hell in the end of the series.

Doesnt sound promising for S5

Depending on what they do with it, there could be a lot of character- and world-building in Season 5.
Some of the story is very intense on a character-level and I don't think the writers can properly adapt that to the screen (I mean even more so).

as someone who read the books, it is not going to get better.
i like the witcher overall,  but it all goes to hell in the end of the series.

Doesnt sound promising for S5

Overall I think it was still better than Season 3, but that only puts it at around a 6/10.

The final episode was OK. The important scenes felt not very strong emotionally (the content yes, but not the delivery).

The acting was fine in general. The story was mostly by the book(s). The costume department either don't know what they are doing or weren't given a proper budget. The directing was horrible.

Unfortunately Season 4 + 5 were filmed back-to-back so I guess we won't see any improvement with these things in the next / final season.
The only upside will be that Season 5 will probably arrive next year.

jim1961 wrote:

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I didnt write that.

Like I said before, the story isn't interesting enough to be a serial but works perfect as a procedural, all they have to do to entertain the audience is this simple outline:

1. Geralt gets a contract.
2. Geralt tracks a monster.
3. Geralt plans how to kill a monster. (The bulk of the story)
4. Geralt kills a monster.
5. Geralt gets paid and acquires new equipment, and develops new abilites to use on another monster in the next episode.
6. Geralt hooks up with sorceresses.
7. Repeat for 10 seasons.
8. Make back your $221 million.

The outline above will make money.  What they have done, will not.

IF they had a progressive overall story line ( like babylon 5) then if they did the witcher this way it would work great.
HOWEVER It would NOT BE THE WITCHER.
it would be Conan the Barbarian with magic. ( which i would watch the hell out of if written well ( the original stories))
BUT most people want the original story exactly how it was written in the books.
( which rarely works, as books have a small well read audience and VIDEO has a large drunk/stoned audience)
guess which one spends the most money and has the attention span of a squirrel ?

from my recall the series is keeping quite faithful to the books overall
( other then the parts that are just a mess )

people have to remember
#1 the witcher is a mutated person, think magical version of robocop. supposed to be a magical unfeeling monster killing machine.
NOT anyone's love interest, or romantic partner.
#2 Yennefer is deeply flawed and damaged
#3 the world building is fantastic in so many ways, but also flawed and not filled out in so many more ways.
#4 the entire story is not what you think it is.
#5 there is a lot of things ( ive been told) that do not translate well from the original, or from the french translations.
so we have to  live with a story told in one culture translated to another and translated yet again ( and influenced by a lot of fan translations). which leaves issues everywhere.

i am not going to say anything about the spin off movie "the rats"
they are not characters i had any interest in, any way.
i always thought of them as a overall unpleasant learning experience for ciri

Now waiting for the final season to arrive...

It's called The Witcher and not The Sorceress which the writers seem to have (willfully) forgotten.

The magic and sorcery is more entertaining than the swordsmanship and killing monsters for me.  Yennefer's more prominent role in S4 was really the only thing that got me through the season.   So, the writers amnesia worked in my favor

Episode 06 was probably the most action packed episode so far in the Season which is very much appreciated.

Episode 07 was another low point of the season...added almost nothing to the story or the characters.

It's been a while since I read them but none of this is part of the books to my knowledge.

You pretty much summed up the issues most people have with the show
It's called The Witcher and not The Sorceress which the writers seem to have (willfully) forgotten.

Well one more episode to go for me, let's hope for a good ending.

But there is hope moving forward.  Ciri has to eventually embrace who she is.

Seen individually it's a great episode - as part of the season, well...

...in a 22 episode season, Episode 4 would be somethine like a mid-season final and Episode 5 the start of the second half... Great way to do some character- and world-building.

This however is an 8 episode season...there isn't (shouldn't be) any room for a filler episode (as much as I appreciate it).

Just finished it and I think it was Better Than Season One!

Yea, I like S2 better than S1 also.  All those flashbacks, flash-forwards were really confusing and messed with the continuity of the story.  S2 had fewer Bard scenes, yeah!

I am just now getting around to watching this series in its entirety.  Nearing the end of S2 as I write this.

Almost afraid to watch seasons 3&4 based on the ratings plummeting for those seasons.