esperterra posted:

I'm warning everyone, here and now, that I refuse to call Dandelion Jaskier. I will forever refer to him as Dandelion whilst discussing this streaming television program. Just keep this in mind.

esperterra posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-egGn5WYrk

esperterra posted:

...or if they painted him so insanely evil as a means of conveying how loving scary those memories are for Ciri in the book. That poo poo haunts her.

Lil Peeler posted:

Did anyone else notice the weird loving editing in episode 1's the 2nd scene coverage shot where Geralt is riding back to Blaviken. It looks like they just took a horse cutout and moved it along in a few different edits. Super bizarre and I chalk it up to an oversight but lol

Phenotype posted:

Ep7 What made Geralt come back to Cintra to get Ciri after all these years?

mcbexx posted:

Speaking of, did we ever see the medallion vibrate? Also, the lack of Drowners was disappointing.

Scooter_McCabe posted:

So I've never played the Witcher games, is it worth picking up Wild Hunt?

JBP posted:

I really think this needed a long sequence in episode three in which Geralt painstakingly prepared himself. It's not made clear enough how his power works and what it takes for him to win. I also think that episode needed to include him stopping his heart with a potion for the ambush

Fashionable Jorts posted:

Oof this show is dull. It was a slog to make it to the end of episode 2, and I really doubt we're gonna watch any more. Its a strange writing choice to have two hours of content and not set up what any characters are trying to accomplish.

MeatwadIsGod posted:

All I want is a rock troll

davidspackage posted:

Speaking of unnecessary, people get killed at the drop of a hat on this show, with very little consequence. Geralt, Duny and Eist seem to slaughter half of Calanthe's guards and party guests if all the bad looking CG blood spurts are any indication, which seems like it should be more of a problem.

davidspackage posted:

In fact, overall I feel the costumes look kind of wretched. There's no unified ideas or motifs, it's like it's been scavenged together from other fantasy shows. Every king or queen's crown looks like it wasn't made to fit them.

Jimbot posted:

https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1209649003345797120

Call his agent, cowards!

Tehran 1979 posted:

Synastren posted:

I appreciate that the sword in the brooch has been replaced with a real one, but it's clearly the same thing. Black grip on the brooch and real sword is a nice touch.

zoux posted:

Still can’t believe they broke down his lute and kicked in his teeth 😔

zoux posted:

What is the total playtime of Witcher 3 if you do everything? Skipping like “collect every fuckberry” stuff

zoux posted:

Also should I play it with the mod that makes Geralt look like Cavill

Torquemada posted:

Reminding me I need to do W2 again to see Iorveth’s side of things.

Phenotype posted:

Should I play The Witcher 2 first? I own them both on Steam apparently, I was just getting W3 downloaded tonight. Does the story continue from 2 into 3 or are they totally separate stories?

Pollyanna posted:

Goddammit, this show makes me want to actually finish Witcher 3, but I was rubbish at the combat and I couldn't wrap my head around the equipment advancement/enhancement system. Are there tutorials anywhere?

Orv posted:

6/10/17: Pellisworth's excellent spoiler-free newbie guide in second post. Read It.

Frionnel posted:

I really dislike the depiction of magic the show went for, specifically it consuming your life force or whatever.

For one, it makes Aretuza a really brutal place, the way they turn poor students into eels to power up the school. As mentioned by others Yennefer sends Ciri to this place later on. Would she really have done this if there was a chance Ciri would get non chalantly turned into a battery?. Mages characterized as elite, rich, power hungry, decadent, but human sacrifice is too much and made me instantly loose any sympathy for Tissaia and everyone else.

Then these two Nilfgaardian mages sacrifice their lives to create like, a lovely fireball? That get deflected instantly with no ill effects to the defenders? I think later on this will create a problem where important mage characters are obviously immune to the ill effects of magic as they do awesome stuff. Yennefer is supposed to go blind after this battle, but that's too little for creating a firestorm if a measly fireball cost the lives of two mages, idk. And of course Nilfgaard has no problem sacrificing these mages like this because they're religious fanatics now which is the other bad part of this show for me.

Geralt's parts were good though.

Kaedric posted:

Another case of making a 'for tv' decision that kinda sucks tbh: late book spoilers The show says 'fire magic is forbidden' which is a (dumb) twist on *drawing* from fire as a source being *dangerous*. In the books mages generally use water or the earth as sources for their magic, as they are stable. Ciri, while lost in a desert and dying of hunger/dehydration, without any magic in the area to draw from ends up trying to use a small fire as a source to cast magic and heal her wounded unicorn companion, against Yennefer's previous warnings. Ends up being like PCP where she believes herself capable of anything with the huge amount of power available to her and she goes a bit mad with it, until she actually burns out her ability to use magic entirely. From that point on she's unable to do even the simplest of spells. I like that bit of sacrifice better than just 'oh hey have a mook wizard come over and turn into dust so we can cast a thing'.

Tythas posted:

Cavill said in an interview that he would wear the armour everyday no matter what he was doing, he even slept in it to make it look worn

Tythas posted:

https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/12/20995768/the-witcher-netflix-season-1-geralt-costume-swords-monsters-set

Kaedric posted:

Not at all, his prophecy didn't rhyme, therefore it wasn't true.

esperterra posted:

To add the timeline stuff, or something else?

ThePopeOfFun posted:

Just left Brokilon forest. I have only played small amounts of the game. I've enjoyed it, but there's some missing elements. Mainly with Yennefer.

I found Yenn's origin compelling, but why she's lame and weak after 30 years I don't understand.

codswallop posted:

Makes sense! And if their Order was destroyed, I imagine they'd probably have to practice on a few kids before refining their first-hand memories of the ordeal into the most workable practices.

Were girl-children ever put through the process? Is Calanthe over here thinking that her Ciri is in danger of being Witcher'd if Geralt claims her?

chaosapiant posted:

I first saw Cavill in the Count of Monte Cristo and he was good in that, and I far prefer him to Reeves in his Superman role. Haven't seen Mission Impossible. But he does really well in every role I've seen him in, especially as Geralt, and never quite get the criticism of him.

Alhazred posted:

He shows more natural charisma reading the book than during the show, so I have to assume making Geralt boring and uncharismatic was an intentional choice by the ones producing the show and not by Cavill. The show was fine but Geralt was the worst thing about it. It would honestly be much better if the show focused on the mages, it certainly seems like that was what writers were most interested by.

I actually did like that the show made the viewer figure out the various timelines in the show and I wish that more shows would do the same. We don't always need letters on the screen saying "ten years ago" or "now".

steinrokkan posted:

It's an excuse in the sense that it's much easier to refer to some made up guild bylaw prohibiting the killing of intelligent monsters than to argue with an angry village elder that you aren't going to kill the local godling because it would be wrong.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Geralt will kill sentient monsters if they attack first or if they are causing other kinds of damage to people. Trolls are a thing of the past in my Drunken Bomb Flinging rear end in a top hat playthrough.

Herostratus posted:

https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/netflix-reportedly-greenlit-season-3-witcher/

TLDR, sources (hopefully reliable) say the show has been greenlit for a third season, to be based on the second Witcher novel, Time of Contempt.

Sirotan posted:

Just when I finally got it out of my head

https://twitter.com/kyle_reclaim/status/1210832873944690688

Arglebargle III posted:

Where did you learn this?

Arcsquad12 posted:

I like that Borch himself admits he's not very good with names in the book. He knows it's a stupid name but he had a hard time picking one he liked.

evilmiera posted:

The Striga was REALLY good in comparison to the rest of the monsters and a lot of the magic. Sound design, how it looked, making it actually frightening, all good stuff.

I'm almost thinking that scene and some of the siege stuff was where they blew their budget.

Edit: And I don't mind them not spending a lot of time in Brokilon, since I kept hearing it as Broccoli.

Elfface posted:

I think it got lost in arguments, but going back to Fringilla and mage assignment, my reading of the situation is that the council didn't want her there because they were worried she'd do exactly what she did: advise them on how to be a world power, and not an easily controlled small kingdom.

Strong Convections posted:

Maybe it's me, maybe I'm the one taking crazy pills, but in the djinn episode do people really think it was about Geralt wishing for sleep?

I thought (since it gets called out as ridiculous multiple times and he's cagey about it), it was meant to very obviously be that he's been hunting down leads for a djinn for a wish to undo the child surprise stuff. That yes, technically he can't sleep, but his wish isn't going to be salve on a tumour - he's planning to wish away what's keeping him awake at night.

stev posted:

They've now renewed Stranger Things, The Crown and 13 Reasons Why for fourth seasons, so they might be getting a bit more generous - or they might be replacing their previous big hitters.