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I've just noticed something about The Lesser Evil: between the way Renfri is presented and the way she tells her story, everything is mimicking Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Renfri's look is very close to classic Disney's Snow White; when she tells her story, what we get is that her mother The Queen schemed to have her killed, and when she ran into the forest she was found by "The Hunter" who raped her and let her go (which is what happens in the original version of the Snow White fairytale). Then she tells that "she's been found and saved by Nohorn and the others". Lo and behold, went Geralt gets into town and gets confronted by those guys there's seven of them! So yeah Geralt literally butchers Snow White and the Seven dwarfs in the first episode of the series. That Italian Guy fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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Yeah, in the book she at first hangs with a group of 7 gnomes who end up killing each other and it's gossipped that she sleeps with a different one each night. I already miss the actress, have to agree with others that I wish she'd been cast as Triss. I also regret the actress who played the girl Marillka (who guides Geralt around in episode 1) didn't end up as Ciri, I liked her a lot.
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Dec 24, 2019 19:54
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Pretty much all the Witcher short stories play on fairy tales. The Pavetta story is a cross between Beauty and the Beast and Princess and the Frog, the Dragon story takes from a bunch of different dragon lores (though I'm sad the brave Little shoemaker and the sulfur filled sheep didn't make it in), and while I'm sad A Grain of Truth wasn't adapted, I'd have loved to see Nivellen and the Bruxa.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Pretty much all the Witcher short stories play on fairy tales. The Pavetta story is a cross between Beauty and the Beast and Princess and the Frog, the Dragon story takes from a bunch of different dragon lores (though I'm sad the brave Little shoemaker and the sulfur filled sheep didn't make it in), and while I'm sad A Grain of Truth wasn't adapted, I'd have loved to see Nivellen and the Bruxa. season 2
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Dec 24, 2019 20:38
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Binary Logic posted:The series doesn't have to tell this since it shows what a witcher is and does in the first few episodes Based on what's shown in the first few episodes, witchers are old grizzled loners who aimlessly wander around and sometimes they get vampire eyes. They're vaguely magic-ish, more like elves than humans but not in a well-defined sense
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Dec 24, 2019 21:32
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That Italian Guy posted:So yeah Geralt literally butchers Snow White and the Seven dwarfs in the first episode of the series. He eats Bambi too. I'm not sure if that was intentional but I'm choosing to believe it is. A lot of the short stories at the beginning of the series are deconstructions of popular fantasy stories. Off the top of my head, there's overt deconstructions of Snow White, Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast, and there's sneakier references to others like Cinderella, the Snow Queen, and Aladdin (although for the last one I'm only saying that because there's a djinn). That said, I think a lot of the books were written before the more famous Disney adaptions and are instead based on the grimmer original folkstories.
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Dec 24, 2019 21:58
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show would be better if the entire cast were black
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Dec 24, 2019 22:17
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I bought witcher 3 a long time ago but my computer wasn’t good enough. I got a new one though and the show makes me want to play it, so I shall. How are the books, is there just the one translation
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Kaedric posted:His writing is actually pretty good, and not really cliche at all. He doesn't generally have the badass hero valiantly winning the day etc. It's one of the reasons I really like his work, in that there's actual stakes and almost always things never work out perfectly (no happily ever after, as it were). This dude gets it. I wish they'd gone a little less polar with morality in the show, even the most evil motherfuckers have relateable quirks.
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zoux posted:I bought witcher 3 a long time ago but my computer wasn’t good enough. I got a new one though and the show makes me want to play it, so I shall. Fun fact, in Polish, Jaskier is called Buttercup, and the books/substitute "Dandelion" which is way better, cos the dude is a loving dandy. Also buttercup is what you name the family cow. My Polish friends are still salty about that.
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hobbesmaster posted:But if you’re not familiar with the books you might do something dumb like romancing Triss. Triss sets off my brain chemicals so I don't even care
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Strom Cuzewon posted:The first two games also don't involve Ciri or Yen at all, with the weird consequence that the third game feels weirder if you've played the early games but not read the books. Finally understand why Yen threw the bed out of the window. I'm going to have to read the books, because it did feel weird playing 3 without that backstory, although for me that was more about Ciri than Yen.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Fun fact, in Polish, Jaskier is called Buttercup, and the books/substitute "Dandelion" which is way better, cos the dude is a loving dandy. Also buttercup is what you name the family cow. My Polish friends are still salty about that. In Polish he is called Jaskier.
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JBP posted:Triss sets off my brain chemicals so I don't even care That’s the love potion.
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Is there anyway to know how the show is doing? I’m really loving it with two more episodes to go.
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ghostwritingduck posted:Is there anyway to know how the show is doing? I’m really loving it with two more episodes to go. It was renewed for season 2 in November, before it premiered.
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The show was much better than I expected. I had a feeling it would at least be passably entertaining, and on my first run through it was. On someone's advice I started watching it over for a second time and I was amazed at how differently it plays once you have seen it and know the basic story. There were a lot of things in the writing I missed that have very deep meaning to me now.
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JBP posted:Yeah it got "renewed" before it went to air. I don't understand how Netflix works. When Netflix greenlights a show they usually sign for 2 season and if it's popular extend the show for another season or 2. They don't like doing more then a few seasons on any show though.
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Man the beginning of episode 7 is very confusing with regards to time and place.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:When Netflix greenlights a show they usually sign for 2 season and if it's popular extend the show for another season or 2. They don't like doing more then a few seasons on any show though. Which is kind of unfortunate because they need to know whether to tell Ciri’s story from the books in 1 or 2 seasons.
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You know it's a shame that Calanthe fell off the battlement. If only she'd had density on her side.
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hobbesmaster posted:Which is kind of unfortunate because they need to know whether to tell Ciri’s story from the books in 1 or 2 seasons. I’d hope that the show runners get some info about how well the show is doing.
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Does the Nilfgaardian soldier that Geralt interrogates start the Prophecy of Lara Dorren like it's a religious prayer?
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ghostwritingduck posted:I’d hope that the show runners get some info about how well the show is doing. FWIW it's the #1 top trending show on IMDB which means there's at least a lot of online interest https://www.imdb.com/chart/tvmeter/ Most, if not all of those are popular successful shows so at this point, at least, it's in good company. We'll only hear anything from Netflix about the show if it does insanely good numbers, they never say how good a show is doing unless it's breaking records. There are a number of metric companies that claim to know how these shows are doing but take those with a grain of salt. The other thing is to kill an Netflix executive, cut off some flesh and feed it to a wizard and then gut the wizard and see it's viewership in his entrails. E: so coincidence or intentional nod that the actor who played Yoren in GoT said “feast for crows” and talked about his watch zoux fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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Filavandrel's story is a lot more depressing on the rewatch. He doesn't get a lot of pages in the main saga books, just a conversation with Francesca after she disowns the Squirrels, but Filavandrel would have been a Squirrel guerrilla, wouldn't he? So he did end up bringing his people down out of the mountains and got a lot of them killed fighting humans, just as Geralt said would happen. The Cintrian boy with the elf ears talked about his vengeance for Filavandrel's rebellion the year prior, which implies that the elves failed in their campaign.
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zoux posted:
Freefolk and similar subreddits are full of Witcher memes so there’s certainly noise.
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https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1209649003345797120 Call his agent, cowards!
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Mark Hamill doesn't really have Vesemir energy.
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I'm mostly really liking this series, but the lighting really bothers me. The source material was so dark, but there's barely a shadow in the entire show. Forests are well-lit from multiple sources, corridors and rooms have "shadows" that are just slightly darker greys, browns, and blues, and night might as well be day. I've heard this can be a CGI thing with rendering blacks, but I feel like Game of Thrones never had this issue.
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I don't want to read the thread for the spoilers, but I was wondering what the consensus of the show is?
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punk rebel ecks posted:I don't want to read the thread for the spoilers, but I was wondering what the consensus of the show is? All over the place, but you'll probably come to your own decision by the end of episode 3. Just be aware that the three plotlines are happening years apart until the protagonists meet up.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I don't want to read the thread for the spoilers, but I was wondering what the consensus of the show is? Things I liked: 1. Decent writing 2. Great visuals (for the most part) 3. Two of the narratives have good pacing Things I disliked: 1. Melodrama can occasionally stifle plot progress 2. One narrative spins its wheels for the whole season 3. Occasionally the visual effects take a nosedive
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Arglebargle III posted:Mark Hamill doesn't really have Vesemir energy. You mean Mark Hamill's talent would be wasted on Vesemir. ...this just makes me want it to happen MORE.
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Does he want an opportunity to ham it up like in the wing commander games or something? I’m slightly puzzled, but I’m sure he could do it.
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Things Vesemir has gotta have: -moustache -eastern european accent -strong like ox -big like bear -moustache -grandfatherly countenance -grump -moustache
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James Gandolfini using his own voice is the only Vesimir I'd ever accept.
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It was a Leshy, swear to the gods. Get the gently caress outta here.
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Un-mute https://i.imgur.com/JyZPzNd.mp4 
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How accurate is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sh5d4Ut3uI
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punk rebel ecks posted:How accurate is this? They're pretty spot on about the show. Don't compare it to Game of Thrones because it is not GOT. It's high budget Xena Warrior Princess with a sense of humour and it falls flat when it tries to go for epic while striking high when it does character work.
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