the pacing of the first ep felt weird, they made some kind of dumb decisions for normally smart characters, and the letters thing felt a bit silly. episode two, I think the cgi felt different and jaskier's plot about ciri didn't fully make sense to me. but also. i was extremely fucking drunk so
jaskier's plot about ciri went back to the end of s2, but tbh if you are drunk i don't know how you could have watched this LMAO. there's a lot to keep up with
it's not unusual for the witcher tbh (s1 skipped like 30 years altogether), i think its the nature of.....not having 500 pages to naval gaze for a tv show, but not wanting to push the characters on a truncated timeline.
yeah like I rly forgot a lot about s2, I realized as I watched the first ep of s3, I thought the montage was silly but also kind of accept that like, probably wouldn't have enjoyed 5 episodes of the main group not interacting so, no way for them to win with me a filthy casual
the series really does not explain or fill in the blanks a lot, you pretty much just have to piece it together yourself and if you don't rmr the previous season's details you're kinda out of luck
yeah its kind of like "how do you deal with inter-generational trauma while the world around you is also trying to kill you." but netflix always markets the witcher like its a dark fantasy and its rly not. the books were originally written as a satire lmao
the books went from short stories to novels, so it was always gonna be in this trajectory. they've injected way more monsters in the series, the books themselves are intensely political
Regardless of the plot, the family moments are really nice at least, and the characters interacting have always really been the backbone lol less so than some other things. I generally like the plot but it's def not why I'm actually watching.
I think the show is too silly to be dark fantasy, it doesn't take itself seriously the way Game of Thrones did, which is part of what I like about it lol. Netflix wants to pretend otherwise, but it's just not canon reality.
yeah, I'm not saying at all it should be game of thrones, if that's not clear - just that you could see execs salivating over the comparisons when the show was first being promoting
No you are 100% correct, the wording is perfect Jay! lol Netflix absolutely did that and STILL DOES IT. They were very excited to have their own GoT and claim to have it
and then it's not GoT and people responded to S1 with like why isn't it GoT lol which is fair because Netflix wanted that attention. man sometimes I feel like it reminded me more of like Xena or Buffy/Angel. which is a random reference I know.
jaskier's sandpiper (saving the elves) operation was funded by dijikstra and phillippa and they were basically blackmailing him into getting ciri into redania in exchange for being able to continue helping the elves
it was a lot...they also timeskipped jaskier "meeting" dijkstra and philippa. the end of s2 closed with dijkstra saying "bring us the bard" and you just...had to fill in the gap from there
i also don't think they're good at introducing characters lol because they really didn't bother with those two. That was one of my main criticisms, if i didn't have you guys with me knowing all their names and stuff, I would've been confused af
It's funny because obviously I am rewatching it for each person's face as I cap and there were tons of things I missed even though I literally watched it earlier today
Not everything needs to be Thrones.
I wish the TV people would realize it.