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Jaskier being Jaskier as Milva being Milva
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HIS HAND ON HER HAIR!!! HIS CHEEK SQUISHED AGAINST HER HEAD!!! THE WAY GERALT CLOSES HIS EYES!! NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS IS RUINING ME
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thedemonofcat · 9 months
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Given their shared noble background, I find the notion of Ciri and Jaskier being connected by blood quite intriguing. Perhaps they could be distantly related, such as third cousins, or Jaskier could hold a familial role as Ciri's uncle.
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arte-rose · 6 months
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✨Geralt of Rivia 🖤❤️
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fixationdump · 2 years
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get you a dad who can do both
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sandor clegane & arya stark or as i like to call them, geralt n ciri from the back of the spencer’s
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archeronlochan · 6 months
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all I want is for Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri to be a happy little family
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mantra4ia · 9 months
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I mean no offense to the people who enjoyed "The Witcher" Season 3: Vol 1 on Netflix. No judgement. And also no offense to the cast and crew who I am sure worked hard to bring this to the screen.
I love the Witcher, mostly from the books and some gameplay, so from my own personal perspective...
What in the actual hell did Netflix do?!
There's so much eloquent dialogue in the source material to draw upon and this steaming pile of ****e is what they came up with? It telegraphs so much without a whiff of subtlety or craft— not unlike Sabrina in 3x5— that I want to puke, the only exception being that Yarpen Zigrin is still no nonsense and true to form.
Emhyr, as is evidenced by his cringe, overlong speeches and dull drawl, is not written as cunning or menacing by any stretch of the imagination as he ought to be, and the lack of a strong villain does nothing to drive the pace of the season.
Why are we waxing on about Vissena to try and strum up audience feels? We don't need to revisit that unless it serves a purpose for the characters. It doesn't. If the audience has been watching any of the previous two seasons, we don't need Geralt's childhood memories of his mother to impress upon us that he takes newfound parenthood seriously and would spill blood and make sacrifices for his family.
If that weren't painful enough, Yennefer — who we know is cunning when she schemes— lacks all of her razor edged wit when "groveling" before the Brotherhood to form a conclave. The recycled dialogue with Tissaia about chaos and control has lost its potency, as lukewarm as the mages' council of armchair tapping, and even her speeches to Ciri like "my ugly one" have so much wasted potential because there's a speed run montage about how much Yen and Cirilla care for eachother in episode 1 rather than letting us growing into the emotions ourselves, so that by the time we get to Yennefer disclosing her past, the emotion is lost. Also, Cirilla is supposed to be in a little awe of Yen and her power of influence, which is what makes "ugly one" so endearing, because it's the ends way of saying that Cirilla is powerful but magic isn't all she is / she doesn't need to rely on it like the mages rest on prolonged youth. It's her way of saying I love you, and for all the exposition that season three uses to elaborate feelings, this most essential part is completely lost. It's like we're playing house with emotions that haven't been earned their screen moment. "Lilac and gooseberries, now that I can tolerate," but I cannot abide these trash conversations.
These were the action sequences, the fight choreography, and the monster concept visualization they came up with? Like, for example, a failing mass of conjoined limbs and disembodied heads! The idea of Ciri's doppelganger from the books has been so corrupted.
On top of that, the cuts from scene to scene are so rough it's like whiplash. Chase scene - recycled Geralt /Ciri hug - dark portal nonsense - crash through ceiling. No finesse.
The Belletyn festival, which is so meaningful and beautifully described in the books, was butchered in execution of costume (Yen's is a season 1 throwback but never underwhelming way), with ridiculous "masks" (it irks me so much that Yennefer tells Cirilla had to cover her eyes and hair for a low profile and then we speed cut to the next scene where neither occurs and the costume department decides that they aren't even going to attach Cirilla's mask to her face, she just carries it around in her hand because that makes sense), unnecessary mazes to separate our characters and engineer a sense of peril, the whole lot. They used Belletyn as a setup to engineer a subsequent bait scene, which was an appallingly insult to intelligence and fight choreography. PS: Yen can I do more than throw a knife, can we please utilize her a little better?
Speaking of choreography, Ciri descending from mid air to stab the CGI aeschna in 3x4 with the overlong shot pull of monster blood on her face was so poorly edited I wanted to fast forward the entire episode thereafter.
Lastly, this farce for humor is what they came up with?! They made layered source characters like Dijkstra into single line fodder, and they wasted so much time on sitcom rubbish like Queen Hedwig's Redanian funeral, and Phillipa's bedroom shenanigans, and Fringilla as a drunken poison tester. I want to slap someone. It's as if the whole of season 3 thus far is a live-action adaptation of Ciri and Jaskier's satire of Yen and Geralt. Except that no one left the audience in the joke.
Also, for a series called The Witcher there is surprisingly little in the way of meaningful dialogue and action for Geralt to do, and that's a shame
I'm angry.
Season 1 was fantastic, season 2 was good but with notable divergence to character integrity, and Season 3 so far is the refuse pile of Aedd Gynvael. The only highlight was Ciri telling Valdo Marx to shut up, like I wish I could do for the rest of the dialogue in the series. After "Sherrawedd" I kept thinking to myself, it will get better. Ironically Sherwood was probably the best episode so far because at least it kept the essence of idea in "dear friend" from the literature as a foundation. After which it kept sinking down into chaos.
But more than angry, I'm disappointed. I'm sad that the Yennefer/Jaskier frenemy dynamic ("Hello again witch) —a highlight of season 2— has been shirked; the only decent byproduct of which is the Ciri/Jaskier relationship. And I'm depressed that this is Henry Cavill's sendoff as Geralt.
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donna-arrabbiata · 2 years
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Geralt : Eskel isn’t answering the phone
Ciri : I’ll call
Geralt : Lambert and I have both tried six times each, what makes you thi-
Eskel : Hello?
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clairedelune-13 · 10 months
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I’m crying. 😭
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As disheartened as I am with the news that Henry is leaving The Witcher, if he's doing it because season three strayed too far from source material then I'm proud of him.
Since Ciri, and not Geralt, has been my favorite character in both the books and the show, there's a chance I'll still watch season 4 and any further seasons they make, as long as they don't stray too much further from the books and as long Liam doesn't suck too much.
But I won't be surprised if they cancel the show after season three based on the fandoms reaction to the news.
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thedemonofcat · 9 months
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During the boat ride Jaskier kept trying to convince Geralt to let them use Valdo has bait for the monster.
Geralt said no.
And Ciri kept taken his knifes. (Which no one is sure where/how he’s getting them)
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heytheredeann · 1 year
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Whumpcember, Alt. 1 - Nightmares (Geralt&Ciri)
(Ao3 version)
She has always had nightmares.
At first, she would wake up whimpering, occasionally screaming. She would look at her surroundings and shrink on herself, trying to hide her tears. He was hesitant to comfort her, avoiding her eyes for a few moments in the hopes of being kind. He would offer a joke if he could, some light conversation if he couldn’t, trying to give her a reminder that he was there, that she was safe, he would protect her.
He likes to think it reassured her somewhat, given how she’d usually drift back to sleep at the sound of his voice.
The first time he comes closer, it’s when she wakes herself up with a scream.
She jumps in a sitting position, eyes wide and terrified, trembling hands covering her mouth as she frantically looks around, shoulders heaving and tears streaming down her face. When her eyes finally land on him, though she doesn’t say a word he can hear her plead for him to help.
He is on his feet before he can weight his options, crutching down in front of her to offer a touch on her shoulder and quiet words of reassurance. It’s only after some tension has left her and she isn’t trembling as much under his touch that he gently pries her hands off her mouth, not encountering much resistance. He guides her as she lies back down, keeps close and talks in gentle tones until she falls asleep.
He pretends not to notice her fingers holding tightly onto his sleeve the whole time.
Then, she starts calling for him in her sleep. It warms him, in a way, that he’s the one that she instinctively calls when lost in the terror of her own mind, but it doesn’t do much to soothe the ache in his chest at the sight of her tears. No child should have to suffer the nights like this. And especially not this child.
Every time, he comes closer, offers a gentle touch, some reassurance, some meaningless chatter, and he lets her cling to his sleeve as she drifts back to sleep.
Eventually, she wakes up whimpering, the sound soft and subdued but still enough to drag him out of his own light sleep. He is already pushing himself up, about to stand and offer whatever comfort he may give her, but for the first time he doesn’t need to, as she doesn’t simply curl up on herself and wait for him to approach. Instead, she gets on her feet and covers the distance between them as fast as she can, jumping in his lap without asking and suffocating her tears in his chest.
He’s frozen only for a few moments, gaping at her as she utters his name like a plea, fingers clawing at his shirt and her shoulders shaking. He gathers her in his arms then, slow like he’s still expecting her to change her mind and run, and it’s kind of surprising, just how small she is, how easily she disappears in his embrace.
He sits there for as long as she’s awake to cry, and he doesn’t let go.
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lxdymormont · 1 year
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Shout out to Victor Hugo for making the original adoptive father - daughter relationship in media. Gotta be one of my favorite trope
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