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cheesetriangles posted:EP 2: Dandelion owns. His introductory scene is unbelievably funny
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Escobarbarian posted:His introductory scene is unbelievably funny That's a theme.
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Dec 20, 2019 10:27
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cheesetriangles posted:That's a theme. I’ve only played Witcher 3 so I knew he was funny but that was a whole nother level. Speaking of things that surprised me having only played that game (ep 2): that sad hunchback girl is Yen?????
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Dec 20, 2019 10:29
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Escobarbarian posted:I’ve only played Witcher 3 so I knew he was funny but that was a whole nother level. yes
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Dec 20, 2019 10:30
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E2 Dandelion lmao. Very good. This show is really easy on the eye imo.
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Dec 20, 2019 10:31
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Escobarbarian posted:I’ve only played Witcher 3 so I knew he was funny but that was a whole nother level. yeah lol one of the things you might have missed in the games is that the fact that all sorceresses you encounter are incredibly good looking is very much not a coincidence or genre convention
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Dec 20, 2019 10:35
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Dandelion's casting proves to be 
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Dec 20, 2019 10:36
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ep 2 ”DID YOUR MOTHER gently caress A SNOWMAN??” lmaoooo I’m sad I have to stop after this ep because this show is much better than I expected
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Dec 20, 2019 10:37
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I've only watched the first episode, but it feels like 300. There's no ambient, natural light so everything has a weird, false/hyper-real feel to it. The swordfight at the end rules though, so idk, maybe they'll nail it?
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Dec 20, 2019 10:43
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There I go again, just delivering exposition. And that, children, is when I knew I loved your mother's show.
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Dec 20, 2019 10:43
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esperterra posted:Yeah, I expect Geralt to show more of his personality the more he meets his future friends. I bounced off the first two games because I thought Geralt was a stiff and boring protagonist, until finally getting him when I tried the third. Similar to Reese from Person of Interest — sometimes a well-written character with a stoic and dry personality can take a little while to distinguish from a badly-written character lacking any personality at all. I think episode 1 did a good job by the end of showing that Geralt does have a personality, but I won’t be shocked if some viewers new to the IP struggle to care about him at first in the same way I did. Enjoyed episode 1, gonna try to keep moving onward...
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Dec 20, 2019 10:46
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Ep 2 done: Really drat good.
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Dec 20, 2019 10:57
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I thought ep 2 took the focus away from Geralt a little too much but the other storylines are still good so it wasn’t a big deal really
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Dec 20, 2019 11:01
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EP 3 seems Geralt focused again.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:08
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A key thing about the books after the short story collections, they're really Ciri's story. Once the saga proper starts in book 3, it's a relatively even split between Geralt/Yen/Ciri. Or random tangents with other characters to flesh things out. Also episode two owns.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:08
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The books don't really feel bound to follow nothing but Geralt. I'm glad they're happy to do stretches with other characters.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:10
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Ep2: Not a fan of whatever they're doing with Yen. The harry potter school for witches is kinda dumb.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:11
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JBP posted:The books don't really feel bound to follow nothing but Geralt. I'm glad they're happy to do stretches with other characters. 
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Dec 20, 2019 11:12
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EP 3: Foltest looks nothing like a duck wtf
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Dec 20, 2019 11:20
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Ep 2 first half better than Ep1 but the second half worse. Agree with what Kaedric said about magic school being dumb. If it's from the books and those books were written awhile ago I can understand but it's been played into the ground at this point almost as much as zombies. HP, Doctor Strange, The Magicians, etc.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:20
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Kaedric posted:Ep2: Not a fan of whatever they're doing with Yen. The harry potter school for witches is kinda dumb. Ep2: we'll see how the execution pans out long term, as a storytelling thing it makes sense to me because she's a central character and it's an alternate angle for giving the audience a lot of the necessary exposition we're missing by not getting Geralt's direct perspective on things (including his quick read on Yen's backstory and motivations + showing what utter bastards wizards and sorceresses tend to be) also not really a spoiler but Dandelion does indeed own and seems perfectly cast
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Dec 20, 2019 11:22
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(E2) Changing Yennefer's bit of elven blood from her mother to her father is a bit random. Maybe to make him seem less cruel than if he were selling his biological daughter? nbd but it caught my attention more than the other small changes to how she ends up with the sorceresses.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:22
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I'm also liking how each episode is around an hour and ten to fifteen minutes. Never understood why Netflix would give a poo poo about staying close to the 40-50 min time limit on their own produced shows.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:30
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Tehran 1979 posted:I'm also liking how each episode is around an hour and ten to fifteen minutes. They do have a tendency to just let an episode run for however long they think it needs to. Which is sometimes really cool, but sometimes gets a bit obnoxious. I remember when some of the Netflix Arrested Development episodes would run to nearly 40 minutes, and the pacing was just all over the place.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:36
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Ep 3: Gets loving real at the end
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Dec 20, 2019 11:46
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The only thing really throwing me off is some of the timeline. But maybe they'll reveal a certain storyline is indeed in the past as it should be.
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Dec 20, 2019 11:49
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stev posted:They do have a tendency to just let an episode run for however long they think it needs to. Which is sometimes really cool, but sometimes gets a bit obnoxious. I remember when some of the Netflix Arrested Development episodes would run to nearly 40 minutes, and the pacing was just all over the place. Yeah, I imagine comedy is the worst thing to do that with. You can't just tell the writers "just make up more funny stuff for 10 more minutes every episode but make sure it doesn't mess with pacing". Works great for this though.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:02
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Episode 3 is by far the best episode of the first 3.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:03
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cheesetriangles posted:Episode 3 is by far the best episode of the first 3. I've just started it. Great story this one I'm excited.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:05
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ep3 Lol pronouncing it the temple of 'melly telly'. Again not a huge fan of Yen's story here, they decided to go from subtlety (hey, sometimes working with magic has side effects, such as Yen's infertility) to 'hey let's literally remove her entire uterus on camera'. On casting choices: - Cahir was hamming it up a bit too much with the whipping his head around comically like a bird - Fringilla has a weird kinda... moon-face that feels very out of place in the setting - Foltest is supposed to be handsome damnit! Not a low-rent version of King Baratheon - Triss looks literally identical to Maya Rudolph and I can't not see it every time she's on screen
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Kaedric posted:ep3 Lol pronouncing it the temple of 'melly telly'. Again not a huge fan of Yen's story here, they decided to go from subtlety (hey, sometimes working with magic has side effects, such as Yen's infertility) to 'hey let's literally remove her entire uterus on camera'. Yeah (E3) they made a couple weird changes, most of them didn't bother me or make any difference at all (like changing how she ended up with the sorceresses in the first place, or making her elven blood come from some missing father instead of her mother's side, bla bla), but the literal removal of her uterus was a bit much lmao. Otherwise that scene was great, and I loved them cutting it with the striga fight. I'm enjoying Anya as Yen so far, but I'm reserving full judgment til we see The Last Wish tbh. On casting, I'm loving everyone so far. Dandelion is a standout fo sho. Triss is the only one I'm iffy on, and honestly just because she looks old compared to Yen. The actress was fine tho with what I've seen of her so far. e: further E3 thoughts: Having them remove her uterus during the glamour/magic surgery scene kind of ruins the sacrifice of her fertility, t b h. The infertility in the books come from the use of magic, and not all mages are infertile. Some very important characters are born of sorceresses. I guess it means we won't get a storyline in the future about (general book stuff) Yennefer's continued quest to find ways to fix her infertility, b/c motherhood is lowkey important to her, if she doesn't have a uterus lmbo. esperterra fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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Dec 20, 2019 12:41
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Episode 3 great. I've seen horror movies that were less scary and action movies with less interesting action (Cavill has even been in a few, kek)Kaedric posted:Triss looks literally identical to Maya Rudolph and I can't not see it every time she's on screen I've got the same thing with the way they're pronouncing Ciri. Don't care if it's pronounced like that in the game/books, it's always making me think Siri.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:41
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Do the episodes adapt The Last Wish? If so what episode is which story?
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Dec 20, 2019 12:43
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CJ posted:Do the episodes adapt The Last Wish? If so what episode is which story? From the cute lil hints they released with the episode titles, The Last Wish will be episode 5.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:48
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How many of the eps have been based on stories/stuff from the books so far?
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Dec 20, 2019 12:54
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It'll be a couple of hours before I get to watch the show but, from what I've read, it seems like a frustrating mix of 'good' and 'determined to remove some of my favorite book moments'
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Dec 20, 2019 12:55
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Pretty much all of it.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:55
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Uhhhhh what the gently caress is going on with the time line in Ep 4
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Escobarbarian posted:How many of the eps have been based on stories/stuff from the books so far? I'm on episode 4 and so far all of them Tehran 1979 posted:Uhhhhh what the gently caress is going on with the time line in Ep 4 the stories are being told in non-linear order, something that only become really apparent in Episode 3 and much more obvious in Episode 4
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