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Originally posted by RobC2:
I am only two episodes in, but from what I have seen of the cast photos, I wish Triss looked like Triss.

True but Triss is really a minor character in this season......of course we do see A LOT of Yennifer.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:

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Originally posted by RobC2:
I am only two episodes in, but from what I have seen of the cast photos, I wish Triss looked like Triss.

True but Triss is really a minor character in this season......of course we do see A LOT of Yennifer.

Yennifer is my favorite

Interesting to read that this is Polish author's work, and the book series is quite popular in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Interesting to read that this is Polish author's work, and the book series is quite popular in Central and Eastern Europe.

Yep. They were very popular in Poland for over a decade in the mid/late 1990s and early/mid 2000s, before the series became popularized in the rest of the world due to the release of the first Witcher video game in 2007, which was a huge worldwide hit. English translations of the books followed, and the series has garnered a massive following in the US in the subsequent decade, culminating in this Netflix series.

It's considered one of Poland's biggest (perhaps the biggest) international pop culture exports. In fact, the Polish Prime Minister was so proud of it that he gifted a copies of the books and games to Obama during a presidential visit to Poland back in 2011.

We are quite lost after episode 1.

The timeline jumps around a good bit for most of the season, especially the early episodes. You've got the Yennifer back story that takes place a couple decades before the Geralt in Blovikin storyline, which takes place a couple decades or so before Ciri at the fall of Cintra. By the end of the season it is pretty much all meshed up. They don't do a great job of making what is happening when clear for people with no preexisting knowledge of the source material.

I didn't like Yennifer at first, but the actress is growing on me. She just doesn't fit the image in my head. How dare they not consult me on casting...

I DO NOT like the actress playing Ciri. She's just off. Hopefully there is enough of a time jump between Season One and Two that they can justify recasting her.

Triss...well...I'm just going to tell myself that Triss is using some magical glamor as a disguise, because that wasn't her. Not even close.

Overall I'll give the season a B. Cavill is spot on and I think there is enough interest to justify Netflix dropping a bit more coin into Season 2, especially for better CGI and creature effects.

Now I just have to spend the next few months trying to get "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" out of my head.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
We are quite lost after episode 1.

Three different time lines:

Ciri the Princess is the present

Geralt's is the past (the end fight is where he got the Butcher of Blaviken moniker).

Yennifer's is in the past.

As the episodes keep going you catch eventually up to the present (also seeing what occurred before), hence the the first episode is the titled "The End's Beginning". Episode 7 merges all the time lines into the present (or close to it) and sets up episode 8.

Destiny is the theme and Destiny will not be denied.

I was also a bit confused until episode 4 and did some reviewing of the books and games.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
We are quite lost after episode 1.

Three different time lines:

Ciri the Princess is the present

Geralt's is the past (the end fight is where he got the Butcher of Blaviken moniker).

Yennifer's is in the past.

As the episodes keep going you catch eventually up to the present (also seeing what occurred before), hence the the first episode is the titled "The End's Beginning". Episode 7 merges all the time lines into the present (or close to it) and sets up episode 8.

Destiny is the theme and Destiny will not be denied.

I was also a bit confused until episode 4 and did some reviewing of the books and games.

Who was the girl he was kissing one minute and killing he next? What was that all about?

That was Renfry. She may or may not have been cursed. Either way, she was planning to kill everyone in town until the mage came out of his tower so she could kill him (either because she was evil or because she had been persecuted by him her entire life). Her motivations are deliberately left vague. It's the moment that Geralt realizes that not making a choice between evils is still making a choice. After that he talks a big game about being neutral, but he clearly isn't, often to his misfortune.

It's a major plot string in the book that gets pretty condensed for the show.

I thought The Witcher (show) was good enough to watch. But I didn't like any of the characters. Kind of makes any consequences uninteresting, as I don't care what happens to any of them.

I really enjoyed it. I am now looking forward to the next season.

I never knew there were books or video games and I never cared to watch it but wound up watching it because nothing else was on. I have to admit I am hooked. Cavill does a good job in it and I like the way they are developing the characters.

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Originally posted by limblessbiff:

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Originally posted by jsbcody:

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Originally posted by RobC2:
I am only two episodes in, but from what I have seen of the cast photos, I wish Triss looked like Triss.

True but Triss is really a minor character in this season......of course we do see A LOT of Yennifer.

Yennifer is my favorite

She certainly transformed

im still watching and Yennifer is worth watching for nudity alone lol

Finished the season a few days ago. I avoided this thread after the first few posts to avoid spoilers until I caught up, which was unfortunate in a way due to the timeline issues discussed above. I finally figured it out but there was some head scratching up to that point. I’ve never read the books or played the games, so the specifics were all new to me, though the fantasy setting wasn’t.

Overall, I enjoyed it (except the very end, which seemed rushed and sort of silly—I probably missed something), and am now looking forward to season 2 in 2021 (supposedly).

I enjoyed it.

Knew almost nothing of the Books or Games prior.

Finished it last night. I had a passing familiarity with the world based on playing a video game or two years ago.

I liked the series but it took way too long for the story to come together into a coherent whole. I imagine for people coming in cold it would be way too confusing.

Now that the storylines are in the same timeline season 2 should flow much more smoothly.

Just starting Season 2. It was nice seeing the recap in a sensible order.

Season 2 was better than 1 in my opinion. The subtle shifting back and forth through time was a PIA in season 1.

Yeah, there's not timeline shenanigans in Season 2. It's totally linear. They actually listened to all the complaints about that from Season 1.

(There's even some inside jokes made about it in one of the episodes.)