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just finished reading all the books and man that last one is some next level poo poo. sincerely doubt that the producers of this show will be capable of faithfully adapting it but, heres hoping. one of my favorite books ive ever read.
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chaosapiant posted:You talking Lady of the Lake? Was that ending a gut-punch or what? The ending to that and Sword of Destiny both hit me in the heart. powerful stuff. there were a bunch of big emotional moments and every one of them hit hard. the part with iola and the dwarf surgeon dying trying to save victims of the plague, ciri et al visiting the graves of the rats, the squirrels in the cart reaching out to the humans for bread..... lotta tears from me.
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Feb 17, 2020 21:10
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chaosapiant posted:The show definitely has its work cut out for it, but I'm really hoping they pull it off and land all the seasons. I want to see a lot of those scenes come to life. im just glad it encouraged me to read the books and, now, replay the game. even if the show turns out like game of thrones, it will have been worth it for me
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Feb 17, 2020 21:20
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chaosapiant posted:Not sure if you're up for it, but if you just finished the books, I'd recommend playing all three games in order. I think everything is tied together really well. im sure it is but theres a limit for me and its playing for-real pc games
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Feb 17, 2020 21:23
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still thinking about this book......fringilla vigo getting so embarrassed by geralt she has to invent a new face cream that makes it impossible to tell when shes embarrassed lmao
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Feb 18, 2020 01:18
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Hunterhr posted:This was me. absolutely read the books. the game is full of payoffs to book content
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Mar 2, 2020 15:19
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yeah the whole sequence with the oneiromancer in novigrad is a bunch of book references, but it also works really well as a short primer on ciri
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Mar 7, 2020 14:14
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does anyone in the game ever say “you have mistaken the reflections of stars on the surface of a lake for the night sky”
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Mar 7, 2020 14:15
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Terror Sweat posted:Man Vilgefortz was a huge letdown, he’s not charming or charismatic, has almost no screen presence, just awful. And cahir is hilariously over the top evil for his character. agreed that they hosed up cahir but i didnt think vilgefortz was an especially charismatic or compelling villain in the books either. just seems like a conniving rear end in a top hat
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Jul 18, 2020 06:13
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Straight White Shark posted:He's got a certain superficial charisma in the show. Not familiar with any of the other material so I can't say what they were going for but I thought he worked OK. thats exactly how he is in the books until half his face is destroyed and he goes insane
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Jul 18, 2020 19:18
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jokes posted:I think Witcher is one of those RPGs that would really benefit from a glamour system so we can dress up Gerald without giving a poo poo about the numbers. just put it on easy mode lol
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Oct 24, 2020 15:57
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pidan posted:Unpopular opinion: The ballsack has way more character than that offbrand GoT armor. stupid and hosed up opinion
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Oct 29, 2020 22:16
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the character is inside the armor......
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Oct 30, 2020 01:06
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less distracting armor probably means a better performance from the actor
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Oct 30, 2020 01:07
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davidspackage posted:They're really funny. it was written like a decade later which might account for the tone variance. i still really like it
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Oct 30, 2020 12:51
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chaosapiant posted:I thought Season of Storms was an awesome book meself. I think all The Witcher books are absolutely incredible. I’m excited for season 2. That is all. agreed
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Oct 31, 2020 16:34
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ok. whens the premiere
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Mar 23, 2021 12:58
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Zeta Acosta posted:this show was really bad hope season 2 sticks to the loving books the song rules
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Mar 24, 2021 17:32
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feedmyleg posted:I really dug season 1 because it was exactly what I wanted out of a fantasy show: a bard and a rogue traveling together and having monster of the week adventures. Also a solid YA fantasy book about witch school woven in between. the books are ftw
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Mar 24, 2021 23:24
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banned from Starbucks posted:As someone who never read the books or played the games I enjoyed the show. the books are really really good
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Apr 4, 2021 21:00
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Zeta Acosta posted:they used the lovely gimmick of time cuts and different timelines. the only recent time it was used well was on westworld season 1 westworld season 1 was really bad
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Apr 6, 2021 12:39
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Zeta Acosta posted:it was the only good season of that show it was definitely better than the second season but it still wasnt really good. lost kind of hosed up the way some tv shows are written where theres an obsession over generating discussion and theorizing in online forums after every episode, to the detriment of the shows overall coherency. westworld would have been way better if it wasnt written in a way to optimize the amount of reddit threads predicting what certain plot beats foreshadow
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Apr 6, 2021 16:59
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Terror Sweat posted:The Witcher books get progressively worse as they go on, but the first two short story collections are bangers this is completely the opposite of reality
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Jun 19, 2021 20:45
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theres a big drop off as you move past the short stories into the series proper but the books just get better (as the translation improves) and the last book is next-level payoffs and character beats from cover to cover. its awesome
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Jun 21, 2021 02:55
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esperterra posted:Yeah, the translations aren't terrible by any means. It's more that you can definitely feel the difference when it switches to the new translator. right. i cant pinpoint what is improved but the david french-translated books are definitely better and lady of the lake is just sublime
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Jun 21, 2021 22:07
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Riven posted:My favorite thing about Lady of the Lake is how all his authorial quirks get together and go into overdrive. Like his love of having scenes told in retrospect by some brand new character you’ve never met before, but pretty instantly like. yeah the condwiramurs chapters are probably my favorite thing about the book
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Jun 22, 2021 14:55
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Phenotype posted:Honestly, this felt like a fault to me, too many differing, widely-spread viewpoints that bogged down the main plot and necessitated more and more info-dumps about who these characters were and why they cared. It's a shame because you're right, I DID like that character, but it felt entirely unnecessary and a bit indulgent to introduce yet another group of people instead of just, yknow, advancing the plot using one of the dozen characters that already existed. If the entire saga had been framed from her point of view, it might have felt less scattershot. theres no reason to be economical with characters in literature.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:39
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Rinkles posted:They also announced some Netflix series stuff is making its way to the game, without specifics i hope its the nilfgaardian scrotum armor
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Jul 9, 2021 22:08
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MarcusSA posted:Did I miss something because it seemed like they killed all the mages that had the knowledge on how to make a Witcher? thats correct
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Nov 13, 2021 23:48
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the chaos terminology will probably work pretty well with the (book spoilers) ciri in the desert using up her magic stuff
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Dec 16, 2021 17:38
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theblackw0lf posted:Just read the sword of destiny short story from, well, sword of destiny and I’m gobsmacked that they didn’t include it. they shouldve just not changed anything at all
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Dec 18, 2021 04:06
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im also really mad about all the book changes
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Dec 19, 2021 09:34
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the books are already so good. why are they just throwing that away……tv writers are so stupid
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Dec 19, 2021 09:42
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threeagainstfour posted:Wife and I just finished it, I’ve only played the games and read the short stories. I very much enjoyed this and thought it was a big step up from season 1, not that I thought season 1 was bad or anything. you should read the rest of the books. they are insanely good
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Dec 19, 2021 10:12
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Vilgefartz posted:God drat this show is bad. That being said it's impossible for me to judge it on its own merits without referencing the book... its devastating lol. its unbelievable how bad everything that isnt from the books is. it almost destroys the show but the books are just that good
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Dec 19, 2021 12:29
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theres so much horrible trash in this show but the thing that disgusts me most is the scene where the paralyzing poison activates in everyone at precisely the same moment and nobody afflicted with it collapses after having knives driven into their brains
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Dec 19, 2021 12:38
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:The way I interpreted it was that there has to be some sort of property to nightshade that allows a mage to activate it "remotely" on demand once it has been ingested. They all froze up around the same moment after all. thats very generous of you
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Dec 19, 2021 16:03
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Mike N Eich posted:2 episodes in, enjoying it more than season 1. As others have said, merely going to a linear storyline massively benefits the show. wrong, idiot. the books are almost exclusively involved epic political fantasy drama. the show sucks because the people adapting it think theyre smarter than sapkowski. they very clearly are not
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Dec 19, 2021 16:23
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i love these dang books so much and im massively pissed at how disrespectful this adaptation is. its like the last two seasons of game of thrones, but from the start. pathetic
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Alexander Hamilton posted:I only played the games but I generally thought Geralt was the most boring part of them and wished they focused more on the other characters but with this I generally spend the whole time Geralt’s not on screen thinking, ‘Where’s Geralt?’ Every time he’s not on screen it feels like the show completely dives in quality. They really should have made him the viewpoint character and introduced the backstories of the other characters as they interacted with him. thats basically how the books are written edit: for the first couple at least
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