@@harshitparaser9629 this video and my comment came out before the witcher season 2 dropped. And my comment was directed at season 1 which showed yennefer as a child, geralt as a fully fledged witcher with dandelion before ciri was even born, and ciri as a kid playing knucklebones with the kids in the city. 3 different time lines.
@@Matt_Robert and he's answering in regards to your hope that there was multiple time lines running at the same time for season 2, which it does not. Much more linear
It’s still kind of confusing tho, we need more examples as to how destiny and that “law” works it would be very cool to see more of that and the mages. If only Netflix could’ve shown this earlier at the start of season one *no spoilers plz I’m getting ready to watch season 2*
I liked the show, but removing ciri meeting geralt in Brokilon (it was way before attack on cintra in books) is hard to swallow :) And removal of hillarious exorcism joke is missed oportunity, but I can live with that. Looking forward for S2 anyway, it is still way better than that old Polish series.
@@JoaoFederle I am not being bitter. I just want the show to be better. They could have put more efforts in the show. Like fantasy is passion today take Wheel of Time for eg. That show slaps hard, unlike the Witcher. I just want it to be better this season
@@AmanGupta-zr6rd -- Have you watched the available episodes for 'The Wheel of Time'? It's so woke that it ventures into culture shock territory. Game of Thrones and The Expanse have done a great job with respect to depicting multiple races on-screen. I wish more thought was put into this for 'The Wheel of Time' as well. It feels forced. It feels like having Ancient Egyptians portrayed by Scandinavians. Sigh. Anyways, regarding The Witcher, Season 2 should tell us whether the show is a total bust or not.
@@AmanGupta-zr6rd -- Further to my previous comment, I also thought that 'Carnival Row' did a good job of depicting multiple races in a fantasy setting. If you haven't watched that show yet, I cannot recommend it enough.
@@ro4eva fortunately I have seen Carnival Row and I agree that it succeeded in showing great diversity, I have to disagree with you on WoT. I know that the diversity in that show may feel forced, but you know what the people making that show cares about the world of Jordan. Unlike the show runner of The Witcher who genuinely seems interested in the story, but still at points likes to modify it as for her own liking. I see that diversity did not need to be forced but that is not the only thing to be taken into account. So to me it's feels like WoT is a brillant adaptation of a brilliant story with its heart and soul intaced like LoTR.
that was really well done. Congrats for the voice over for being just the right amount of cringey to not be jarring. I enjoyed that even tho I didn't need a recap. :D
While Cahir is thinking how he gonna explain Ciri's escape to his boss, I really wonder how are showrunners planning on turning Cahir's line around now as they decided to screw it from the beggining
They decided to screw alot of plot points in season 1 in favor of unnecessary flashbacks episodes of Yennefer that took up way too much of the season run time ...surprised to see everyone defend the season
@@maxim196 Ugh same. I'm fine with the show adding some different things here and there, but completely changing important plot points (like the whole Brokilon Forest thing, Geralt & Ciri's re-meeting, etc) is just not cool and ruins special moments from the books that I was genuinely looking forward to in the show. We'll see how Season 2 goes!
Honestly after seeing this, I really do feel like they should just have showed things in order. Also, still super sad about Villentretenmerth looking like shit and that whole episode disappointing me. It's my favorite chapter from the books. Either way, can't freaking wait for S2
Yeah it looked shit. My main complaints were the order and the costumes/CGI. Thankfully they’re essentially on to the novels as source material noe so that helps the writing, and the CGI and costumes appear to have improved a lot.
What makes this series special is it's screenplay, I think it made us more engaged in each character I would wonder if we get invested the same, if it was narrated chronologically
I 💯% agree… I wish they’d just done it in chronological order. The confusion from cutting from one timeline to the other was completely unnecessary for the story to unfold.
I liked season 1 but felt the different timelines and various jumps in time weren’t obvious enough and left me feeling just confused enough that it took away from the experience somewhat. Also the plot moved so fast that I didn’t really buy into the relationships as much as I’d like. But the world is awesome and the characters and effects look cool and I’m on board for season 2. And this recap was great.
Well, I felt the same way about Game of Thrones Season 1. For example, during the first episode, in the span of ~15 minutes, there is a gap of over a month. It confused me. And the finale left me unsure how I felt about the show at that time. But after I saw Season 2, I was like, "Holy macaroni, bring on Season 3."
All they had to do was leave a subtitle telling which is the current timeline and which is 12 years before. All they had to do was write some time stamps. But it's clear in episode 7. As they merge it with episode 1.
So, that’s what happened. I learned more from this than watching the actual show. Convoluted as hell and presented out of order. No wonder the show struggles.
Some things I don't like: Why did they leave out the Tridam Ultimatum. It's totally not clear why Geralt needs to go to the market and kill Renfris Gang. This is a thing which just takes like 5 sentences to bring in and would immediately make the episode better. As an explanation for people who don't know what the Tridam Ultimatum is: In the book Renfri planned on slowly killing every person on the market (which was very busy that day) and pressure Stregobor into coming out of his tower to avoid bloodshed. Also I don't understand why they left out Lille in the "Edge of the World" episode. She's the one who tells the elfs to not kill Geralt and Dandelion. In the Netflix adaption it doesn't really make sense why the elves let Geralt and Dandelion go. Also I think they left unexplained why Torque has the iron balls. I could do this for every episode, but I'll just do the most important things now: They could have left out the episode with Foltest if they needed more time. Instead they should have added the "Sword of Destiny" short story where Geralt finds Ciri in the Brokylon forest to give Ciri more character. I think in the Netflix show they never met before Geralt finds Ciri in the end, so how do they know eachother? How they handled it in the show, the Brokylon was useless and could have been cut out entirely. Also I don't understand why they took the bows from the Dryads. It's kinda important for Milva later. Coming back to the episode where Geralt meets Ciri, they changed it so the merchant just randomly picks injured Geralt up. In the books Geralt saves him so the merchant promises him a child surprise although his wife can't get no more children. When they arrive at his home, they find out that his wife has adopted a child from Cintra which happens to be Ciri, so Geralt basically has her as a double child surprise. This would show way better how destiny works in the witcher than Ciri and Geralt randomly knowing eachother. Also as a sidenote: The law of surprise doesn't have an exact wording. You could als say "the first thing that greets you once you come home" and have a dog as surprise. Now to the relation between Geralt and Yen. In the books Geralts only chance to save Yen from the djinn is to use his wish to bind their destiny together, because the djinn cannot kill Geralt but wants to kill Yen. In the Netflix show it's not clear what he wished and why he wished for it. In general I think it would have been a better approach to tell Yens backstory in flashbacks spreaded across the multiple seasons. This would have given them more time for more important things. Minor Spoilers ahead Another thing that bothers me is what they did with Cahir. Why would they show his face so early, it would have been cool if they did it later. Also why is he the commanding officer? In the books he was part of a secret mission to capture Ciri alive. When he does that he's very gentle with her and eventually falls in love which leads to him joining Geralt later. They have ruined their opportunity to show this in later seasons. And how does he defeat Vilgefortz? Cahir is good, but gets absolutely destroyed when he later fights Ciri while Vilgefortz demolishes Geralt in a fight. There is much more to say, but the comment is already way too long anyways, so I'll save it for now. Respect if you read all of this.
Yeah....the first season kind of felt insulting in a way for me after reading the source material . They should have called the show The Sorcerer instead as they focused more time on unnecessary Yen flashbacks that were absent in the books + add faminist and SJW rants and butcher the source metarial with the cut Brokilon ending ..........just sad . But it's Netflix so it should have been anticipated
