The Witcher - Netflix Series
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Some of the early reviews were really positive, can’t wait to binge it over the Christmas week.
It's out on Netflix! It's received decent reviews. Anyone watched any of the episodes yet? The only negatives I've read so far is that if you aren't familiar with the story it can be a lot of information to take in. Similar to Game of Thrones, but even more difficult.
Let’s just say my Geralt wouldn’t have struggled with that kikimore the way Netflix Geralt struggled with it in the opening sequence.
Beings how most nobody knows anything about this series, I'd hardly call that a spoiler
. But yeah, I get why you did it to be on the safe side.
Last Witcher thing I did was play Witcher 2 like 15 years ago. I think it makes sense and I've barely thought about it. I watched 1 episode this morning - I actually remember some of the names I think, but I don't remember much of the plot.
If you’re basing plot points based on the games (which I’m basically doing myself), your plot points are too far in the future. This show is covering what occurred in the books, which is at minimum 5 years before what occurred in the games. Books I myself haven’t read yet.
Thanks for the tip on the timeline. I'm basing all of my knowledge off the first two witcher games.
Interesting. I don't know anything about the books or that they were sort of a prequel for what happened in the games. I guess is it the witcher 1 or 2 that starts with just a wounded Geralt walking back to a castle? I mean it's been a super long time since I've played them.
You kind of have it backwards - the books came long before the games - although the books didn’t start getting translated into English until after the first game became popular in America. I wouldn’t even necessarily call the games canon to The Witcher story in general, as the author Andrzej Sapowski wasn’t the writer for it, although it seems he approved the direction of the story (in spite of his hatred of video games in general).
And yes, the first Witcher game starts with a wounded and amnesiac Geralt finding himself returning to Kaer Mohren, the results of which are explained in the books (apparently) and The Witcher 3 (which I also haven’t played, but I’ve watched an extensive amount of “lets play” on YouTube. And since it’s currently 70% off on Steam, guess what I’m buying myself for Christmas...)
The first episode is really good.
The story seemed pretty easy to understand in a broad sense. At least in the first episode I’d say they went out of their way to make sure they didn’t bury you in the lore.
Episode 1 felt like a classical “pilot” episode, with the exception of the Ciri story. Episode 2 feels more like the traditional “first” episode, especially with the introduction of Yennifer.
I read a review of this, and had no idea of the games or books. The review was really negative.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/entertainment/the-witcher-review-trnd/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/entertainment/the-witcher-review-trnd/index.html
Not good ratings overall. 53/100 so far on average on Metacritic. This one is 0/100. Yikes.
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/12/2...11EA-953C-16C14744363C&utm_source=twitter.com
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/12/2...11EA-953C-16C14744363C&utm_source=twitter.com
If you like fantasy, you’ll like this show.
I’ve seen two episodes and will gladly finish it off and am guessing I’ll like it a lot by the end and be satisfied.
I turned on subtitles to get all the info from episode one, helped a lot.
Episode two introduces more characters and we learn about races and magic in the Witcher world.
I’ve seen two episodes and will gladly finish it off and am guessing I’ll like it a lot by the end and be satisfied.
I turned on subtitles to get all the info from episode one, helped a lot.
Episode two introduces more characters and we learn about races and magic in the Witcher world.
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I saw that one on Reddit so I read a bit of it. They watched episode 1,2, and then 5. Then complained the story was incoherent. Very bizarre review.
I tend to trust IMDB over “professional” critics because they’re reviewing based on things I would never care about, whereas IMDB is ratings by ordinary viewers like us. Currently the series holds a 9.3 out of 10 stars overall.
Not sure how anyone could think posting a review of a show without watching even half of it would be a good idea, much less not even a continuous half. Like does anyone watch the first 30 minutes of a movie and then another 15 somewhere further along and just go with that? That should be darn near career-ending for someone getting paid to do that.
Seen the first three episodes and I’m having no continuity issues with the plot. The only thing that surprises me is I thought Yen was supposed to be a lot older than Triss (something like 100 to 40) and Yen had been a sorceress for much longer than Triss. I’m not making this statement by looks (because sorceresses can change their appearances by illusion and age may not mean much in terms of appearance in the series anyway), I’m basing it on Yen’s behavior being extremely childish, and from the things I’ve read (like I said, not the books themselves) I’ve picked up the assumption that Yen is a much more experienced sorceress than Triss. Or maybe I’m wrong about my details. I don’t know. All I know is I like the series.
