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burningblake · 2 years

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ok i just finished my 8-hour long marathon of the witcher and I have opinions to share, some bitter some good, so let's start with the good:

I absolutely adored the yennefer-jaskier bonding scenes, especially when she hugged him and he was so surprised asdfgh and then how she saved him, my lovely girl has such a big heart and love to give. also bonus jaskier later defending her actions to geralt omg adorable

the moment tissaia sees yennefer after she thought she was dead 😭😭😭

the yennefer - geralt reunion I freaking replayed it so many times!! And then when Geralt introduced her to Ciri and that talk they had, asdfg found family united at last. (Would have loved the "dear friend" letter but I understand it wouldn't fit the pace and the vibe of the show to suddenly see geralt and yen writing letters)

The dessert!!!!

The unicorn reference!! 🤭🤭

I loved that Ciri's training is slow and gradual and she didn't like get all perfect and fearless at once

Ok that about sums up the good things, now the bad things, well!! I have a lot of complaints and quite honestly I am salty, if you don't want the negativity, don't read further but I need to express it so..

Why oh why the fuck did they change the plot so much?! What was this absolute shit with the hut spirit? Why???????? I am so pissed!!!

Listen!! Yennefer met Cirilla because Geralt ASKED her to take care of her and help her control her magic and YENNEFER was so different from Geralt in her teachings that Cirilla instantly made her her role model and thought of her as a mother figure!!!

THEY FLEED WITH THE HORSES FROM MELITELE BECAUSE YEN WAS PROTECTING HER WHAT THE ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT

yennefer would have never sacrificed an innocent life (much less CIRI!) no matter the cost, she valued life more than anything, SHE FREAKING RISKED HER LIFE TO SAVE A RANDOM BABY and you're telling me she would steal Geralt's baby and give her to the wolves?! EXCUSE ME but I call bullshit. Like sorry for the all-caps but I'm feeling strongly about this, they destroyed the perfect mother-daughter relationship from the books and I AM BITTER

why spend an entire episode at the beginning with that meaningless non-canon plot about yen fringilla and francesca finding some ancient spirit that determined their paths for the entire show WHEN WE COULD HAVE HAD AN EPISODE OF YEN TRAINING WITH CIRI WTF!!!!!!!!

Why the fuck is tissaia with vilgefortz? Where did that freaking come from?! LISTEN! TISSAIA IS EITHER A LESBIAN OR ASEXUAL LEAVE HER THE FUCK ALONE

The Geralt-Rience fight scene was supposed to be like this: Rience finds Geralt and he insults Yennefer in his face and so Geralt pretty much tells him that that insult just determined his fate and killed him on the spot because no one insults his wifey. INSTEAD Yennefer somehow freaking led him to Geralt?! As a distraction to take away Ciri?! HONESTLY FUCK THE FUCK OFF

Also why all that queerbaiting? Like excuse me but I am fairly certain that when Cahir asked Fringilla about her relationship with Francesca and he said "is she just a friend?" and that look fringilla made?! Yeah that was gay and then they twisted it to "she is your plan" yeah I'll tell you what plan her freaking wedding plan!

Even though I understand the cost Yennefer paid for her heroism at Sodden, I still think it was too far-stretched for her to only get her magic back at the very end and only to perform a small healing. My girl should have been able to join the final fight and save Ciri single-handedly along with Geralt and not be like "oh I made a potion"

Which leads to another thing I am bitter about, how did her "making a potion" serve the plot? Such a lazy writing ugh!!!

I HATE NETFLIX

All in all the bad things far outweigh the good for me - they changed so many freaking things without freaking reason!!!!! Ugh I am so annoyed and dissapointed! Truly sorry for the negativity, you can block me if you want, I am simply having a moment and I can't help being so salty about this

#the witcher #the witcher spoilers #yennefer of vengerberg

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vecna · 4 years

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So, yesterday I finally got around to watching the Witcher show!

I have a lot of complicated thoughts about it, but I’ll try to summarize them briefly:

On the positive end of things, I genuinely loved it. I had some serious issues with certain elements of it, but overall enjoyed it a lot, and will probably rewatch it soon.

On a shallow note, I loved a lot of the visuals -- the sets, the practical and special effects, etc. I very often expect “cheap” looking effects in fantasy TV series, but this one did amazingly IMO.

Also enjoyed seeing POC just casually out there, as everyone from important figures to fantasy races to just farmers and randos. I hope it inspires other fantasy series to follow suit.

Choreography was some of the best I’ve ever seen, sorry GoT and like every other fantasy series except for maybe LotR.

The acting was phenomenal. I still have some issues with some casting decisions (more on that later), but I don’t think there was a single person who didn’t bring their A-game performance-wise. Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan and Jodhi May kinda stole the show for me.

I haven’t read the books, but having spent a ton of hours on the wiki, I was impressed with how they adapted a lot of the stories. And while I wasn’t expecting a non-linear plot, I didn’t feel like I had a hard time following it. Some of the changes or expansions to character backstories I actually really liked, too. (Yen’s in particular.)

Favorite episode was definitely the whole Pavetta wedding sequence, oh my lord. It was so well done, I ended up watching it again after I finished the season lol.

However, I did have a number of major problems with it. I’ll put those under the cut.

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I wholesale hated everything they did with Nilfgaard. I hate what they did with Cahir. I hate that they made them weird almost religious fanatics. I hate that they got reduced to near feral bloodthirsty conquerors, instead of the nuanced faction they are in the books and games. Just all of it. Hated it.

I also fucking hated 90% of the costumes? I felt like I was watching Reign at a lot of points? I don’t expect period accuracy, but many of the dressed looked like they came from a mall, and even the decent costumes had just bizarre fabric choices lol. And I talked about this a lot with @rosewaterhag but -- in the games, every nation and faction had a unique fashion and “look”, so you could tell where someone was from at a glance, and it was symbolic of how varied all the different cultures are in the series. The show had none of that.

Also, while I LOVED many of the cast members’ performances, I still had a lot of misgivings about the casting choices. I was never able to see Henry Cavill as Geralt, he was just Henry Cavill to me the whole time -- wish they’d gone with someone less known. Anya Chalotra delivered an absolutely stellar performance, but I never stopped being unsettled at the fact that she looks far too young, and it outright skeeved me out every time there was a romance scene with Yen and Geralt. And while I ADORE the diverse casting, it bothered me that nearly all of the POC sorcerers and sorceresses were antagonist characters. Fringilla, Vilgefortz, Artorius to a lesser extent, etc. It felt like they took two steps forward, and one step back.

Also why was Yen topless or naked more often than she was clothed?? Y’all.

Finally, there were many parts of the show that... didn’t make sense. And a lot of cool plot threads that seemed to go nowhere. One episode ended with Ciri having a vision of that otherworldly tree that spoke to her, then the next episode started with “Anyway...” and it was never mentioned or addressed. What the fuck happened to the doppleganger. Why was the last scene with Jaskier one where he got run off like a kicked puppy, and he was never seen again?? How does Jaskier not age??? He met Geralt shortly after Calanthe’s first battle, and then several decades pass and he’s still a 20 year old twink???? WHAT. And tbh I spent the last two episodes in a stupor because I was just like, “Well, idk what’s happening now, but it looks great.”

And I had to spend half the show with the wiki open, so I’m genuinely unsure how people who are new to the series even know wtf is going on lol.

NEEDED MORE ELVES.

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Anyway, don’t let my complaints put anyone off. I really expected to hate this show, based on early promo stuff + my friends’ reviews, but ended up actually loving it.

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