re: Witcher season 2 middle ground thread. Now full book/upcoming season spoilers

They have given interviews that basically claim they know s2 is a bit shite and they done fricked up. Blood of Elves will probably be the most difficult of them all to adapt, in fairness. In comparison s1 is way more faithful to source despite having less material overall to work with. My problem with the reboot perspective, which initially though was fine even earlier in this thread, is the two above things coupled with what is actually in the books to come do make me think they will be much much more like the novels than this season, they’d be dumb as hell not to especially because most people are in position for the whole story to truly start now. And yes, while it may be good, cheating this season and not laying the proper foundation will almost certainly stop it from being excellent.

I could answer your questions but some of it would require fairly massive spoilers for what’s to come so I’ll be a bit non descriptive because I don’t think that’s fair even though this is a spoiler thread.

1) More or less yes. Many different factions want Cirilla for one reason or anything. Things play out and change. Non spoilery way of explaining it is they form of bit of traveling party and go adding and losing members.

2) Nilfgaard is portrayed as religious zealots for some reason. It’s dumb and they dial it back in s2 I imagine it’ll almost absent in s3. There is a pretty detailed massive backstory of them and war with the north but basically Emhyr has 2 goals 1) Get Ciri 2) conquer continent

3) If you mean the brotherhood of sorcerers think of them as their own political faction with their own goals loosely allied with the kings of the northern realms for now and leave it there.

4) The elves will likely somehow be formed into the sco’e’tail (spelling I can’t remember) basically guerrilla warfare. They interact with our main party and various factions.

5) King Vezemir of Redania. Redania is important moving forward yet they didn’t feel to ever really let anyone know it’s name unlike Temeria in s1. His advisor is Dikstra (again spelling) one of the best characters in the books and games. The owl is Phillipa one of the most powerful sorceress in the whole world she serves Redania, for now, but works to her own desires. She’s a major character and should’ve been brought in way before s3 because she’s mainly in owl form this whole season/

6) id put this out of your mind as something you want to know for now but it’s to come. There’s way too much speculation about both what the frick they intend to do with the Wild Hunt and Ciris father

No problem. You can find a lot of contextual information for the show both in terms of what is already in it and what’s to come in Witcher 3. If you go out and find it. There’s also pretty heavy spoilers for the show considering they take place in post show/book world with a retconned ending.

It’s much better than season one. It’s a different show.

And episode one is great.


I hate almost everything Hollywood pushes out these days. But this is really okay.

I mean I really enjoyed season one for what it’s worth. Witcher 3 is my only experience.

I just want to be entertained and think Henry sells it really well.

Honestly I think the best way to watch this show is to play just the Witcher 3 first and not read any of the books or first two games. You likely didn’t understand fully a lot of dialogue in the game at the time and it will retroactively enhance it for you while also giving you the details to not be frustrated by the frequent lack of world building Witcher s1&2 refuse to provide.

I'll admit I didn't think we would get the big reveal until S3. But as a said earlier,even though there are some things that I do not appreciate about this season,I don't feel as if they have completely gone off the rails and ruined the show.

I knew nothing about this until the first season came out. The series is great. I thought season one was the strongest, but still enjoyed season two. Need to read the books.

As much as I’ve criticized the second season in this thread it’s all relative. The Witcher is one of the best shows produced since GoT. If you don’t like dark fantasy why watch it and brag about how boring it is?

It drags a bit when Ciri and Gerald are stuck in Kaer Mohren, but I think The first episode was strong and then it picked up towards the end

It wasn’t as episodic as Season one, which is based on a book fo short stories, and I get That there was less punch in every episode, but back end picked up.