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JacksLibido posted:Henry Cavil is TOO perfect, he ruins the rest of the characters. Everything with him just works and is awesome, while the other characters/actors feel like they’re in a high school play. I like the Yen casting. Thought she looked too young (especially when compared to Cavill) but really pulls it off as the season goes on.Agree about Triss. The rest is fine I guess, nothing special.
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The only thing throwing me off about casting is Triss looking older than Yen. Yen I was a bit concerned about at first, but I am loving her take on the character. Seeing her play off of Cavill's Geralt sealed the deal for me. Casting all around is so drat good.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:08
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Just started, Triss not being a foxy redhead is a sin but i'll let it pass for Cavill's acting, he nails the voice especially.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:12
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The more I think about it, the more I feel like Ciri shouldn't have been introduced at all until maybe the end of the season. Her stuff feels so goddamn boring. Not to mention it ruins Cahir's character >=(
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Dec 21, 2019 01:13
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Most of Ciri's stuff is made up whole cloth for the show, so it doesn't surprise me that it doesn't land as well as Geralt's stories.
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BIGASS BOOK SPOILERS, DON'T READ: I hope they are satisfied with the casting of Duny... considering. I wonder how they'll handle that? Make him grow a beard or give him enough makeup so that people don't notice? Might be hard if they list the cast at the end of the episode.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:18
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Everyone except for Henry Cavill looks like they came from a Tim and Eric sketch.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:27
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Even when the casting headshots came out people said the actress for Yen was too young for the part. I got a Netflix trial to watch this and I kinda wish Henry Cavill had not watched Doug Cockle's performance. Polish Witcher voice actors are the superior experience!
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Dec 21, 2019 01:39
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I'm usually very hard to please tv show-wise. After the early mediocre reviews I thought I wouldn't like this, even considering I loved the games. But holy poo poo was I wrong, I've only watched the first 2 episodes and the show absolutely works. I don't get the complaints from the critics - this is the best they could do with the material. Witcher's story isn't bad but it's no masterpiece, why do some people think the tv show turned some big piece of literature into campy garbage. I've read reviewers calling Cavill "wooden" while ignoring the fact that Geralt is quite literally slavic fantasy's Clint Eastwood. I don't get what everyone expected this to be. And yeah the metacritic review bombing is hilarious. The show is, apparently, "woke" because there's poc's in european fantasy and Yennefer isn't of documented aryan descent. This is the loving world we live in now.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:40
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Just Chamber posted:Just started, Triss not being a foxy redhead is a sin but i'll let it pass for Cavill's acting, he nails the voice especially. ya i actually thought they were doing a voice over for how accurate it jesus he nails it, halfway thru first epside I'm very impressed so far
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Dec 21, 2019 01:40
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Reaction to the first episode: this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the short story collection. Geralt is a less likeable protagonist in the books than in the games and they seem to be running with that. The way it centers atmosphere instead of plot or characterization, how things tend to start nowhere in particular and end abruptly, never get fully explained etc. is a spot-on adaptation of the writing.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:48
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Both sword fights in the first episode wow, why are they so good, I rewatched the group fight a second time. Why is it so hard for this type of action to be good when it's normally clunky and you can see through the chirography so easily?
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Haven't see it yet, but one criticism that I've heard is that important background information, like the Conjunction of the Spheres, the founding of the Witcher order, and their eventual decline is poorly explained, which on one hand means it's a completely accurate adaptation, but on the other has confused a lot of people that haven't read the books or played the game. Maybe they should have had a 3-5 minute "World of the Witcher" opening thing to set things up better? i gotta say, coming close to finishing this season and I'm pretty happy they did not give us flashbacks to How A Witcher Is Made or the conjunction. people may mention these things in passing, but they're not yet relevant, and a new audience already has plenty they have to absorb
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Dec 21, 2019 01:53
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Color contacts are always a mistake and especially in HD. Give the audience the benefit of the doubt. Yeah so Ciri's actress doesn't have green eyes and Henry Cavill isn't a cat. CGI it in or give up, the contacts always look bad. In the promo video for the showrunner who was like, "Is it crazy to start all three of these stories at once?" the answer was yes. The show is a lot weaker for jumping around. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Dec 21, 2019 |
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Dec 21, 2019 01:56
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Arglebargle III posted:Color contacts are always a mistake and especially in HD. Give the audience the benefit of the doubt. I'll take those over younger De Niro's uncanny valley CGI eyes in the Irishman every day of the week. Distracted me the whole time.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:04
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Just finished watching it. i think the show would have been better if they kept Ciri for the last 2 episodes and put Yennefer's origin story as a flashback episode after she is introduced and knows Geralt. The cutting between them in the first few episodes was pretty disorienting even though i know the story from the book, can't imagine how bad it would be if coming in blind. At least the first episode should just stick with Geralt so you get his character. Also the Striga looked like rear end.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:04
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Cavill is super good. Freya too.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:07
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I hope there will eventually be a fan cut that separates the different stories.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpReBawvuIU Man, these special effects are off the charts.
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpReBawvuIU The Witcher: As Presented by the Sunnybrook High Theater Company
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Dec 21, 2019 02:20
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The actress who plays Renfri looks more like grown-up Maisie Williams than grown-up Maisie Williams does.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:29
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Arglebargle III posted:The actress who plays Renfri looks more like grown-up Maisie Williams than grown-up Maisie Williams does. Emma Appleton was really good as Renfri, to the point its kind of too bad she's not a bigger part of the series for obvious reasons
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Dec 21, 2019 02:36
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Okay after completing the first episode I think it would have been stronger if it was a half-hour straight adaptation of The Lesser Evil instead of intercut with Ciri. In the books Cintra was introduced as a setting for a Geralt story before we met Ciri and I think that works a lot better than what they did here.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:38
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I've been noticing that there's a bit of vignette smearing on the edges of the image in some scenes. Is that intentional as a means of differentiating different storylines or is it just an issue with my monitor?
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Dec 21, 2019 02:39
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1stGear posted:The Witcher: As Presented by the Sunnybrook High Theater Company Wtf the princesses in both shows look the exact same. Also, hot take: polish calanthe is better than Netflix calanthe.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:40
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Arcsquad12 posted:I've been noticing that there's a bit of vignette smearing on the edges of the image in some scenes. Is that intentional as a means of differentiating different storylines or is it just an issue with my monitor? I think it's just a stylistic thing so far as I can tell. Also I like the fighting but it's a lot more chopping than artery nicking.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:43
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Mnoba posted:Both sword fights in the first episode wow, why are they so good, I rewatched the group fight a second time. Why is it so hard for this type of action to be good when it's normally clunky and you can see through the chirography so easily? I was genuinely stunned at how well made that scene was. Like, holy poo poo.
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Just started the second episode and Dandelion is fuckin' perfect
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I also think it would be better if you meet Yen as the hardcore rear end-kicking fucks-not-giving witch that Geralt meets and only later get the backstory on why she's got a personality like a brick wall. It's hard to be a femme fatale if the audience already knows your tragic life story. My biggest complaint so far is messing with the story structure. The short story collection is begging to be adapted for an episodic format, why complicate things?
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Arglebargle III posted:I also think it would be better if you meet Yen as the hardcore rear end-kicking fucks-not-giving witch that Geralt meets and only later get the backstory on why she's got a personality like a brick wall. It's hard to be a femme fatale if the audience already knows your tragic life story. I can see why they chose to go this way, admittedly. It's a really good fish out of water "let's explain lots of the world lore everyone else already knows" sorta thing
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LGD posted:Emma Appleton was really good as Renfri, to the point its kind of too bad she's not a bigger part of the series for obvious reasons She would have been such a better triss, even the hair was about right for it
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I can see why they chose to go this way, admittedly. It's a really good fish out of water "let's explain lots of the world lore everyone else already knows" sorta thing The Witcher is one setting where explaining things is over-rated. Sapkowski has always been good at atmosphere, not world-building. It's a mashup of noir pulp and high fantasy, the blurry edges are there on purpose.
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Dec 21, 2019 02:57
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i'm 3 episodes in and this show really seems to hate women
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exmarx posted:i'm 3 episodes in and this show really seems to hate women I'm 8 episodes in and and this show is about a world that hates women, poor people and rich people.
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Dec 21, 2019 03:27
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Rocksicles posted:I'm 8 episodes in and and this show is about a world that hates women, poor people and rich people. don't forget elves, dwarves, and other non-human figures. And also humans.
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Dec 21, 2019 03:29
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The only thing that seems to be well liked in this show is food and beer.
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Dec 21, 2019 03:33
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BigglesSWE posted:I was genuinely stunned at how well made that scene was. Like, holy poo poo. Baginski is one of the show producers and he directed the CGI trailers for the Witcher games, including the Striga fight from Witcher 1 and Letho's assassination attempt in Witcher 2. I'm not surprised the fight scenes have excellent camera work. As far as "this show really does hate women" it's more that the Witcher as a series always deals with how people are multifaceted and how all bets are off when war breaks out. A dispossessed noblewoman can be a sympathetic and caring while also being a racist rear end in a top hat. War and desperation bring out the worst in people and when the social order is upended it's everyone for themselves. The Cintrian women getting killed by her Dwarf slave isn't meant to be a "this bitch got what she deserved gently caress yeah" moment as much as it's an object lesson in how actions have consequences and you have to learn to live with your choices. nobody gets off easy in wartime. Evil is evil, and if you commit evil you have to find a way to rationalize it within yourself or perish. Just as no good deed goes unpunished, no evil goes unnoticed.
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Rocksicles posted:The only thing that seems to be well liked in this show is food and beer. Counterpoint: Every time Geralt is given a beer in a tavern he spits it out because they apparently purposefully give him swill.
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I’m like 10 minutes in and Henry Cavill is absolutely loving fantastic as Geralt. He’s so good!!! He loving nailed it
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It was a nice touch for Renfri to have what's basically Snow White's haircut. Triss not having flaming-red hair threw me for a loop, I'll admit, but I don't really mind. The colorblind casting in general is an interesting choice considering the blatant racism towards elves and dwarves, but I support it. You could say it's a way for the showrunners to say "this is what we're depicting but not what we're advocating."
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