The main issue I have is with Vesimir willing to make Ciri a Witcher. Based on the books females cannot become witchers. Even if you ignore that, Vesimir knows Ciri can die during the process. He's desperate to be able to make more witcher's again, but at the same time willing to risk killing the one source that can make this happen. Poor writing.
You can tell when the deviate from the books. The writing becomes bad.
This is the show and doesn’t have to follow the books so I don’t care about that, and I thoroughly enjoyed the books.
Some book changes I really liked:
1. The Elves moving into Cintra makes a ton of sense. I really liked what they did with that storyline to give the elves a bit more motivation and I like what they are doing with Fringilla.
2. I like how Ciri's power is creating new monsters. In the books Geralt basically stops being a Witcher after the first one and it's just a traveling adventure. In a visual medium doing the monsters is interesting and fun.
2. I like how Ciri's power is creating new monsters. In the books Geralt basically stops being a Witcher after the first one and it's just a traveling adventure. In a visual medium doing the monsters is interesting and fun.
Some I didn't:
1. Probably a dumb decision to try and make Ciri a Witcher but he was emotionally beaten after seeing so many Witchers die. We also don’t know if the death rates here match the books. May not have been such a foolish decision and was a desperate man. Either way I think it's explainable.
2. Agreed on the hookers in Kaer Mohren. That was dumb and unnecessary. Let's be honest though this show is kind of trying to be GoT-lite and there were very few opportunities for nudity in this season. Literally the only reason why I think it was added.
3. Book Geralt absolutely would have got down with Triss especially considering he thought Yennifer was dead.
2. Agreed on the hookers in Kaer Mohren. That was dumb and unnecessary. Let's be honest though this show is kind of trying to be GoT-lite and there were very few opportunities for nudity in this season. Literally the only reason why I think it was added.
3. Book Geralt absolutely would have got down with Triss especially considering he thought Yennifer was dead.
Admittedly I'm a little sensitive to people wanting things to hew to closely to the source material. I see it in GoT, the Expanse, etc. This is a show, and it has ever right to use the source material how it wants. Overall I think the show is doing very well. Everything can be nitpicked.