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@wawrzul | Quote: | | Triss in the show is a miscast IMO |
They MADE her ugly. Check the photos from the London premiere. She is gorgeous there and looks like proper Triss (except for her hair color)
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Il_Padrino
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Of the main cast, Triss is indeed the worst casted. Yennefer convinced me after episode 4.
Foltest was disappointing.
The blackwashing, like the part in Brokilon, is pretty annoying though. Plus, no dryad tits?
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Dec 2019 13:16 Post subject: |
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I have zero relation to the books/games. Will I like this?
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wawrzul
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Sin317
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Almost done and I am enjoying it. It is what it is.
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Dec 2019 23:25 Post subject: |
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https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2487334/netflix-the-witcher-showrunner-had-the-best-response-to-bad-reviews
| Quote: | Many people have sweetly written me, upset about the #Witcher reviews. Know this:
Who do I care about? "Professional" critics who watched one episode and skipped ahead? Or REAL fans who watched all eight in one day, and are starting their rewatch?
I am fucking THRILLED.?????? |
| Quote: | | Never. Constructive is great. Dumpster fires are not. |
She's savage af. Good for her and her show!
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Il_Padrino
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Dec 2019 23:56 Post subject: |
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RottenTomatoes averages (if you want to go by that) proof her right: 93% audience score (vs 56% critics)
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 07:47 Post subject: |
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Really enjoying it. Tried to take it slowly, not devour the whole
Season in a single night.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 11:02 Post subject: |
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After watching the whole season is find it mediocre. There's definitely signs of brilliance, but the confusing timeline of the various stories really lets it down. Like we're supposed to see like what a 100 years of Yen? Her changes from ep to ep (sometimes from scene to scene) are supposed to have a ton of time between them, but you don't really feel it, so i was a lot of times left wondering "why is she obsessed with [spoiler] having a baby[/spolier]" oh its because she lived like 2-3 lifetimes already... It was kinda hard to get into that since 2 eps ago i watched her become a mage basically.
I'm also confused about magic in general, like when they are training they kill off flowers to make a rock levitate, but somethings apparently don't need to kill stuff? Maybe i'm missing something from games/books but mages didn't need to kill anything to make fireballs etc.
The final battle was just bad. Obvious budget reasons IMO, but all the powerful mages are really shit. They don't do anything, except towards the end when Yen does her thing. No idea why again.
Some casting choices were bad, Foltest looked like a drunk hobo, Fringilla is fucking horrible. Thank god Henry was great.
I'm hoping now that they have a story to follow it will be a bit more cohesive.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 11:17 Post subject: |
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finished too and the timeline is like dunkirk where youre wtf at first but then by the end it makes sense but yeah, whats with the huge time passing between episodes? are the books the same? even if they wanted to show only the important things is still needed a little more development, like 1-2 ep more.
still it was ok but i expect more from next season given the huge popularity it got so shortly after release. curious if cd project red rides the hype wave and does witcher 4.
btw that toss a coin to your witcher song already has over 4mil combined views on yt lol
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vurt
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 11:23 Post subject: |
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We'll obviously get more games from CDPR in this universe since they recently paid the creator even more money to establish a "better connection" with the greedy bastard.. I think they've said they're done with Geralt, which is fine, le me create my own character.. i'm guessing it'll be something like in many Conan games where you just meet the character, take quests from him etc..
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 12:59 Post subject: |
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| StEFaN7 wrote: | finished too and the timeline is like dunkirk where youre wtf at first but then by the end it makes sense but yeah, whats with the huge time passing between episodes? are the books the same? even if they wanted to show only the important things is still needed a little more development, like 1-2 ep more.
still it was ok but i expect more from next season given the huge popularity it got so shortly after release. curious if cd project red rides the hype wave and does witcher 4.
btw that toss a coin to your witcher song already has over 4mil combined views on yt lol |
There are two books with short stories in which significant time passes from story to story. Then you have the saga which is a continued journey over a short period of time, but even then you have time skipping in certain chapters. Then you have another book which was written by Sapkowski after the games were out and it implemented some popular elements from the games in its story. This last book is another time skip as it takes place before the main saga, but after some of the short stories, although some of these stories happen after the last book.
The Witcher timeline is one of the most disjointed pieces of fiction I've ever read. The world didn't even have a map except vague geographical placements until CDPR stepped in and made one with Sapkowski's help for Witcher 1. It gets so complicated that even CDPR made mistakes in some of its stories that they didn't mean to do.
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| StEFaN7 wrote: | | are the books the same? |
Yup!
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 20:32 Post subject: |
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Overall was worth it, hat down to cavill, geralt was awesome; yenefer did a good act as well but someone more mature would have been better. Major 2 negative points, writing and music, songs nowhere near those from witcher 3. I hope it lasts a couple of years but with more episodes, 8 is way too few.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Dec 2019 22:22 Post subject: |
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Yeah, without Cavill and his top-notch rendition of Geraldo I probably wouldn't have enjoyed this season. Kudos to him for being a true fan and for carrying the show like a champ 
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When superman sounds like batman you know it's a fun show. 2 episodes in. Digging it. Not a show to watch under influence though.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Dec 2019 01:58 Post subject: |
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Haha! 
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Dec 2019 09:20 Post subject: |
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Yeah, this show clearly lives or dies with Henry.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Dec 2019 11:31 Post subject: |
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Only watched 4 episodes so far but i'm loving it, the only thing still bothering me is the Nilfgardian scrotum armor i really hope they get rid of it for season 2.
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Dec 2019 11:16 Post subject: |
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Why would elves need to be a specific color?
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The differing timelines are pretty tiresome to be honest, but I'm waiting for how they're being resolved in the end to pass judgement.
