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Post by mustrumridcully on Dec 9, 2019 20:00:33 GMT
The Witcher is coming soon! I hope it doesn't suck! 
Character Intros:
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Post by Eldorian on Dec 21, 2019 10:01:24 GMT
Started kinda weak, but the third episode is strong. I think it just takes a while to get a handle for what's going on. A hint: the three main characters are all in different timelines. Yennifer is furthest in the past, then Geralt, then Ciri.
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Post by Ovinomancer on Dec 21, 2019 13:25:42 GMT
Started kinda weak, but the third episode is strong. I think it just takes a while to get a handle for what's going on. A hint: the three main characters are all in different timelines. Yennifer is furthest in the past, then Geralt, then Ciri. Geralt jumps all over the timeline, as does, to a lesser extent, Yen. |
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Post by Eldorian on Dec 21, 2019 20:53:46 GMT
I don't think Geralt jumps around. First episode he becomes the Butcher of Blaviken, then he meets Dandelion (called Jaskier in the show, which means Dandelion in Polish), who knows him as the Butcher, then he fights the striga, and the whore knows flattering stories about him. (edit: I rewatched because when I initially started the show I was sick and falling asleep during it. The whore explicitly sings a lyric and mentions a bard)
Yen also goes from hunchback pig feeder, to sorceress in training, to sorceress. And in episode 3, she meets up with Ciri's .. great grandfather I think it is. (edit: during the reign of Ciri's great grandfather, but she's at a different King's court, the father of King Foltest, who is father of the striga)
So yeah I don't think the show jumps around the 3 individual timelines. I expect we'll get an episode of how Geralt intervened in Ciri's parents' wedding.
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Post by evileeyore on Dec 26, 2019 5:46:53 GMT
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Post by evileeyore on Dec 26, 2019 20:40:08 GMT
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Post by Eldorian on Dec 26, 2019 21:10:31 GMT
I finished the season. It was pretty good. Second season plz.
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Post by evileeyore on Dec 26, 2019 22:49:01 GMT
I finished the season. It was pretty good. Second season plz. Was it aimed at more 'modern'* sensibilities? Or does it have the rampant (and celebratory) misogyny of the books? * By which I mean the '90s and early '00s, not the autotriggered snowflakism of today. |
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Post by Eldorian on Dec 26, 2019 23:12:19 GMT
Didn't notice much in the way of rampant misogyny. Queen Calanthe complains a bit about not have the same authority as a king to just horse trade her daughter's marriage. Basically no gender politics, and the only racial politics are, ya know, the kind you expect from Witcher. Dwarfs and elfs and such. Human characters are of kinda random races (tho, as usual, no east Asian representation) but no one seems to notice.
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Post by evileeyore on Dec 27, 2019 3:42:11 GMT
Didn't notice much in the way of rampant misogyny. Cool. That was what turned me off the books. I'll add it to my long, long, long list of shows to watch. |
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Post by evileeyore on Dec 28, 2019 17:37:58 GMT
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Post by Bagpuss on Jan 21, 2020 10:39:45 GMT
Going in I've not read the books, played some of but never completed the games. Wife knew nothing about it.
We started on the first episode and stopped halfway through, there was a lot of exposition from Queen Calanthe, Henry Cavill as Geralt took a bit of getting use to his low grumbling tone, it was a late as well so we were a bit tired and one of the kids kept popping in so we had to pause it.
Started it again from the beginning the next night watched two episodes had us interested. Next night watched another two, and had us hooked as they make the different timelines clear by then.
Looking forward to another series.
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