The Witcher (Page 2 of 2)

I can't speak to the games but they're really far afield of the books after s2. That's a good thing as the books are boring as hell.

Agreed, getting rid of the unexplained time jumps helped a ton. Not to mention keeping the singing mostly confined to pubs so i could hit the skip forward button without missing story.

I think it's still Cavill for s3 and Liam Hemsworth for s4

Its astounding how little of that I remembered lol

Well, for me the only reason to watch this is Cavill. The rest is just a godawful. And I don't even complain about black elves, a hugely diverse magic council or

I don't think, these "creative additions" sit well in the Witcher world, but I could live with it.

I just dislike everything about the show since beging season 2. The whole storyline and storytelling is kind of confusing, most of the characters are highly unlikeable and to be honest... most of the actors just can't pull me in... bad acting all over the place. Worst offender here are Anya Chalotra and Triss Merigold for me. Unfortunaly they play two very iconic and important roles... Yenn and Triss... which is a shame.

Together with some very strange visuals like how the dwarfs are setup. They just filmed a normal human and then in post-processing shrank it down/copied into the scene as "smaller version human". Or the female dwarf weapon smith with the glue-on-beard. I mean... WTF? They have the iconic franchise, the have the money,... how could nobody say "look, those dwarfs look stupid, lets copy from Lord of the Rings...". Or some of the CGI for the mages are just... bad.

Anyway, I guess I am not the target audience for a Game of Thrones-politic game meets Amazon LotR meets Witcher mash-up.

I really liked the episodic season 1.

I've really enjoyed this season so far, although episode 5 was a little boring.
Bring it on!

Oh right,

Well those last three episodes were a massive pile of shit.

Brothers! What we do in life...Echoes in Eternity!

The princess' and the Witcher's physical suffering in the last two episodes was too long-drawn-out for my taste, but other than that I enjoyed season 3.

Oh gawd, what an ending... I hope they can keep it up without Cavill?!

Full Disclosure:  I think The Witcher is a bad story, plagiarized, borrowed, and hackneyed. I have never liked it.

I finally marathoned all three seasons of The Witcher, and it progressively got worse, like season 3 was terrible.  Thing is, I finished the game multiple times, trying for different endings (there are 16 endings to the base game), so I'm very familiar with that world.  I felt as though the main plot should have been told in passing in flashback, as all the writers really needed to do is a basic procedural outline to entertain it's audience:  Geralt gets a contract, tracks a monster, kills the monster, gets new abilities, finds cool loot, repeat for 10 seasons.  Deviating from this basic outline only annoys audience. lolz.  Storyline should only focus on what directly affects Geralt, and be very first person, everything else political should merely serve as window dressing for a Witcher contract or mission.  I would set hard and fast teleplay constraints with the writers of this show. 

If I were to organize the short stories and novels into a TV show, season 1 episode 1 would absolutely start with the conjunction, what it looked like, how it works, and what it means for everyone, and a history lesson of why everyone is where they are, with lots of close ups of maps showing where all the realms are and the power struggle between groups, kinda like Lord of the Rings did, then I'd get into Ciri and the elder blood, and start Witcher contracts, and get into the Witchers.  Everything else, you'd learn from an exposition moment by someone explaining to Geralt what happened in flashback, ie. Ciri in the desert (flashback), Mage Battle (flashback), etc.  When this show did flashbacks, you didn't know they were flashbacks all that well, and it was confusing because they were doing too much with an ensemble cast with multiple storylines, when it should've focused only on Geralts story.  I guess I just disagree with their approach to making a TV series for The Witcher, I think it works better as a procedural than a serial, because the story is so bad. lolz

I have all the other swords he used in the show, Witcher Steel Sword (Season 1), Forgotten Wolven Steel Sword (season 2 & 3), but at the end of season 3 in the woods Geralt is practising with a sword with a twisted metal cross guard, didn't recognize it, so I looked through my entire inventory, no idea.  If you know what it is, let me know.

Annoyance:  Jaskier/Bard is Dandelion.  Using his Polish name in English drove me crazy!  Just call him Dandelion.