"what are the writers doing?" Is the question the entire fanbase has been asking.
@syngyne
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I thought the first episode of this season was an improvement over season 2, and then the quality just rapidly falls off a cliff.
@HSPaisley
Жыл бұрын
That's so funny because I think I felt the other way around but I haven't read the books this far yet. So I'm not comparing to anything.
@vatt9320
Жыл бұрын
@@syngyne What kind of nonsense did you write? The first episode is just a patch of last season's mistakes. The second episode begins the main line of the book "Time of Contempt".
@syngyne
Жыл бұрын
@@vatt9320 I've read the books, and the way they've been adapted here is... not great.
@animux
Жыл бұрын
@@HSPaisley if/when you get around to it, I highly recommend the books. The first 2 in the series are lots of short stories (part of why season 1 had episodic tales). Ciri's main story doesn't really begin until the 3rd book. The books are much more focused on Geralt until Ciri comes into the picture and then take on a more consistent overarching plot while switching between them (lots of what you're seeing in season 3 - season 2 was padded to the gills with extra stuff that's not in the books). Yennefer is not really a focus in the books but is a prominent character nonetheless. Anyway, Sapkowski's characters and world building in print far outshine the TV adaptation.
@AndrewD8Red
Жыл бұрын
04:00 Yeah. ... Sorry, what was I doing?
@HSPaisley
Жыл бұрын
LOL
@kristofferremmell
Жыл бұрын
Codringher and Fenn are killed in a fire about this time in the books. That wager made no sense. The Nilfgaardian Emperor is planning on marrying Ciri, but in the book version you don’t discover he’s her father until the final book. Which isn’t a spoiler since the series revealed that at the end of S2. The weird thing is that he revealed that openly in royal court. When it was suppose to be a secret even to his own people in the book to allow him to marry her. There’s a reason for it in the book that I won’t spoil. The possible marriage is why so many factions want Ciri dead, but it’s not explained too well in the series. Factions in the north believe that the Emperor wants to marry Ciri to justify his invasion of this war, and Cintra is a strategic location at a major river. It wouldn’t be an occupation but an alliance after the marriage. The kings and queens of the north really don’t want that.
@HSPaisley
Жыл бұрын
This was so helpful. Thank you!
@kristofferremmell
Жыл бұрын
@@HSPaisley Glad to be of help. 👍 I’m actually sympathetic why series revealed who Emperor Emhyr is so early. You can get away with the late reveal in a book in scenes. You can’t do that in a TV show. Any trick of not showing his face in key story scenes would never keep the secret, because the actor would still need to be credited. It just confusing why he’d reveal his secret in royal court to people he didn’t trust. That breaks a few things down the road having Fringilla and Cahir know that.
@AndrewD8Red
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy this series. Like, it's somehow just a really comfortable thing to watch. ... But that may say more about me than anything else.
@vatt9320
Жыл бұрын
It's amazing that Codringher and Fenn have lived so long at all, considering how dangerous their business of keeping other people's secrets was.
@Viaxus
Жыл бұрын
Yes Codringer and Fenn died the same way in the books, although if I remember correctly it wasnt Rience directly, some thugs following his orders
@thomasolson1154
Жыл бұрын
Yes Rience sent 3 other guys to kill them, which they did.
@vatt9320
Жыл бұрын
4:35 This is a scene from the book. It is clear that there was a leading to it in more detail, but the essence is the same. Codringher is very involved in the story with Ciri and Geralt. Geralt could have paid him the amount of money that Codringer is asking for, but he doesn't have time to earn it (Ciri is in danger), so he offered him this wager with the star. Before he offered to him, Codringer told him about the star and that he had gotten the hang of throwing it at his father's portrait, so he would not be in danger if Rience came. He also offered Geralt to take a couple of stars, since he has a lot of them, but Geralt said that they are useless cause they're whistling, and he would easily have dodged even standing with his back, that why he said the phrase "I heard you aiming to miss."
@vickijackson5547
Жыл бұрын
That was so helpful. I too was so confused by that scene, I was literally doing the Cardi B meme - "what is the reason? WHAT IS THE REASON???!!!"
@bogna8877
Жыл бұрын
@@vickijackson5547 the reason is this: the writers had to make some book references and that's the way they fulfill the task by turning any resonable scene into absurd one but close to books on the surface.
@MBNHedger
Жыл бұрын
Geralt is a marshmallow... And Radovid is like 14 in the books and 19-ish in the games...
@chassan10
Жыл бұрын
They really should have stayed closer to the book series' plotline. But alas, with Eskel and The Professor now dead, I guess we'll never get to see the game trilogy's story eventually adapted to TV, with Triss finally getting her romance with Geralt.
@HSPaisley
Жыл бұрын
She was so unappealing in the third book that I'm kind of over her. Season 1 show Triss is my favorite.
@frozen1762
Жыл бұрын
I think most things that happened are pointless. Geralt scene with 2 investigators, because he didn't find out anything new, the whole scene with flashback, drunk Fringilla, Emyr talk, Cahir and his buddy...and you are not dumb about not understanding politics, they just didn't explain it in a good way. Basically, Northern monarchs want to kill Ciri because they think Emyr wants her to marry her and get her land. Mages were up for it in season 2, what changed I don't know because now they are not for it lol
@vickijackson5547
Жыл бұрын
I was enjoying this show because I never read the books or played the games, but it's seriously started to lose me. I rewatched S1 so many times and even memorized dialogue. S2, not so much and S3...just weird and a bit boring. Henry Cavill is the only thing keeping me interested and ...well... SIDENOTE: The quilter in me is absolutely LOVING that awesome, colorful pinwheel quilt behind you!! Did you make it or was it a gift from a very talented friend/family member?
@andrzejpienczykowski9086
Жыл бұрын
Maybe I will go back to watching. I had a hard time since I read all the books and played the game. This show just goes against some of the subplots in both.
@HSPaisley
Жыл бұрын
I think this is why I'm able to enjoy it. I am not comparing it to anything, the show is my entry point to this world.
@andrzejpienczykowski9086
Жыл бұрын
@@HSPaisley Maybe you are right. I just realized that changing how I imagined and felt about the characters makes it even more difficult.
@Octopugilist
Жыл бұрын
I still haven't forgiven them for what they did to Nivellen the Beastman for the sake of a lazy twist at the end of the episode In the books he served as a great example of how unfair curses are, because they never take into account atonement or character growth. Nivellen was a victim too, the abused son of a bandit king, only 12 years old, forced to take berserker mushrooms, and told by the group of killers that raised him that assaulting the priestess would make him a man, a story all too common in Sierra Leone. Instead it made him a monster. He spent the rest of his life in isolation and shame, and it's clear a lot of the punishment is self-inflicted. His magic castle became a sort of shelter for unwanted women and disposable daughters. Over and over he would help these women, fall in love, and send them away with all the gold they could carry because he believed he didn't deserve to be happy, even though many of them loved him back horns and all. (nice Beauty and the Beast parody.) The biggest difference is that Book Nivellen didn't keep his crime a secret from Geralt, and that Geralt had judged that he'd long since proven himself unworthy of his punishment. There are countless men who have done far worse and never once felt sorry. Nivellen was an extremely complex and nuanced character, and he really hit Witcher's recurring theme of magic making things worse
@vickijackson5547
Жыл бұрын
@@Octopugilist I never read the books, but even the way the actor played the role, I was able to find sympathy for him and feel like he had shone very obvious remorse for his actions. I was surprised when Geralt chose to just walk away from him so coldly.
@dbzking02
Жыл бұрын
Is it weird that I'm more excited for the One Piece live action show than I was for this season? Not to say I hated this season. It was fun and had cool action scenes, but it was a little confusing here and there. Though maybe it mostly felt bittersweet knowing that Cavill isn't coming back. Also, waiting a whole month for only 3 more episodes is ridiculous.
@ravenward626
Жыл бұрын
You may be happy to know that the game "Witcher III: The Wild Hunt" does a better job of teasing out the world's history and politics.
@anthonyleecollins9319
Жыл бұрын
I thought this episode was a step down from the first one, but, yes, that's a strong final line. I think the narrative gain of splitting up Jaskier and Geralt, from time to time, is that we get to see Jaskier, without Geralt, interacting with other characters, and then Jaskier gets to be a main character, rather than only a sidekick. (In any case, you don't want Geralt glooming around while Jaskier and Radovid flirt. Nobody wants that. 🙂 )
@deadlymouse7033
Жыл бұрын
Yes its his kid, that is 100% his plan, at least in the books. This show is just getting less coherent with every episode. This weird Dominatrix relations shit with Philippa Eilhart, and Sigismund Dijkstra is so fucking creepy. In the books and games it was a unrequited love kind of thing. I don't know if you have watched Amazons Wheel of Time, but its like the writers of that show and this are having a bet of who could screw up their source material even more.
@htetaung7652
Жыл бұрын
Yay! first comment
@HSPaisley
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@GNETT
Жыл бұрын
that was one freaky looking monster. Sad what happened to the women.
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