re: The Witcher - Season 1 (Netflix)

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that has neither read the books nor played the games.

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Who cares? It's a show review. Good shows can be enjoyed without being fully abreast of the source material.

If you have to have read the books or played the games, it's not a good show. I enjoyed it, but it definitely has some writing problems. By the end of episode 8, I felt like I gave a lot less of a shite than I did after about episode 4.

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Who was the mage with the Demon Spider that was chasing Yennefor and the baby? He just kind of disappeared after hunting that baby

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He shows up briefly next to Fringella during the battle of sodden in the last episode, so assuming he was a Nilfgard assassin.

Pretty sure it was the same dude, it's during the night scene right after the two mages destroy themselves making fireballs if I remember right. Fringella nods at a mage with a beard and face paint that looked like the same person.

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Hopefully season two is just one track considering what happened at the end of the season 1 finale.

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It will be one track as far as timelines go, unless there are some minor flashbacks here or there. The last episode on this season is the last short story before the novels start, so the rest will be following one storyline.

Which should make it pretty straightforward for folks that were confused (understandably so) due to the constant timeline switching during each episode.

From what I can tell, they are using this season to kind of get everyone up to speed on the gist of what has happened to bring them to Ciri. Going forward, it will focus on the Ciri story.

I thoroughly enjoyed the series so far.

I assume for the sake of clarity season 2 will be more revealing, and of course the lead man has said so, conclusively.

I find the whole nature of Slavic folklore foreign to western folklore, and thus seeing and experiencing the seriousness of their belief in destiny to be refreshing and original.

The law of surprise and child of surprise was linked to their entire lives it seemed as a collective whole. To be broken brings chaos. Another feature of the show: chaos.

Ciri And Geralts finally connecting and the destiny fulfilled will establish order but with nefarious minds and desires wishing their own destiny outside of the gods, so to speak.

I find that all fulfilling as an outsider to these beliefs.

I assume since destiny has been fulfilled the world is safer. Geralt trains Ciri and becomes her destiny now alongside his and both become prime targets from here on out and both kick a lot of arse in doing so.

So, yes I'm all in. And Sabrina has some very nice breastesses. They couldn't stop bouncing enough in that final episode. Think I pulled a muscle.

Comments from the showrunner on the timelines.

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The show keeps it purposefully mysterious where events are on the timeline, but is there a massive timeline across the walls of the writers' room laying out all the specifics?

Hissrich: Yes! The writers actually — I was shooting at one point, and so I was in Budapest, and the writers excitedly sent me a picture of a whiteboard, which is the most thorough explanation of the timeline. And what's funny is I really based the timelines on the movie Dunkirk. I had gone to see it a while before working on The Witcher, and I'd read a great interview with Christopher Nolan and he was talking about these three phases of getting soldiers off of this beach. And he had said, if I told them, like, let's say one phase took a month, one took a week, and one took a day — if I told them and let the month-long one take up the most story, and then the week-long one, and then the day-long one, you would think that the day-long one was the least important because it took the least amount of time on screen when in fact, all three phases were equally important, which is why he told the story that way. And I had one of those moments where I was in the shower and I hopped out and I said to my husband, "Is this crazy? Like, is it crazy to do that with this story? Is it crazy to say that Ciri's (Freya Allan) story takes place over two weeks, Yennefer's takes place over, you know, it's like 70 years. Geralt's (Henry Cavill) takes place over 20 years. Is that crazy?" And he was like, "I don't think so if you do it well!" It was just such a challenge and it was a really fun way to explore the story.

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Yen is over 100 in the games. Her transformation gives her eternal youth.

Yeah, she is almost 100 at the end of the novels, and she and Geralt are well into their 100s by Witcher 3 timeline. Just discussing/figuring out what they are going with in the show timeline.