The Witcher: Season 3 - A Desperate Attempt for Redemption 

Lack of total integrity tbh. If showrunners had courage this would have been done for GoT as well.

Has there ever been a show that's done that for a previous season?

​@@tmmnago2722 Serious question? Dallas.

or take courage and continue that way. it would be probably difficult, but eventually they could have come back to the book while also telling their story. that could have been also successful IF (very big IF) they care for their characters and lead them well. unfortunately they had shown signs that they don't care that much, and that is made clearer and clearer with every new half season, so yeah, I am just making a hypothetical point...

@@mdberg65and parodied by Family Guy

If they’d just used the source material, they’d have a great series on their hand.

@@BELLAoBARTALK it actually disappointing considering they had source material that was good enough to make a show as long running show like game of thrones

I literally imagine the "I am a surgeon" meme when i imagine the screenwriters and director. And Cavil is Daniel Dae Kim.

@@BELLAoBARTALK this was before the stupid writers strike too wtf. What dumbasses

Of the things that most interested me in the first season was costume designing, so sad to see that change drastically…

I quit the show just as I realised they made him gay

You’re right it easy to explain. Netflix had to get the gays in somehow.

@@cosmic-creepers9207 All this gay talk is totally worthless. Atm Jaskier is at best bisexual and taking into consideration his caring over Ciri he might as well do everything for her safety. In my opinion Jaskier might simply play being in love. @pspppe I'm actually afraid that nowadays there's almost none serious movies about children. Seriously not a single ambitious role for teenage actors. I grew up on Sixth sense or on Leon: the pro. But on the other hand I wouldn't want to be an actor these times...

@@MichalBackwater you evidently aren’t aware of the source material.

@@cosmic-creepers9207 gay people dont need gay/bi characters to enjoy a season. I am just as confused about Radavid as you are, considering hes supposed to be a CHILD and Jaskier was hetero in the books. that said, gay/bi people exist. Yes, even in fantasy. Could writers have created a queer character and written them in so it made sense and didnt change the orientations of already existing characters? Yes and it probably would have been the smarter play in my opinion. But if you are still upset over lgbt presence in media in 2023? I refer you to what Neon Knight says at [8:06]. Seek help lmfao.

Forced gay romance

It’s rarely cute, Yen is trash in the game and even worse in the books. She’s lucky she’s a big titty goth chick.

Books did a great job showing that love is the center of humanity and even if someone spend centuries on this Earth you may not be all that good at it. Especially when society is brutal and demands roles of us, but we are still our own separate entity with our own choices. Struggles. And desires. And then to share all that, brutal reality included, with someone.

@@pt6238 it's a fact that there's forced straight romances in plenty of media too - I always found it telling how *angry* people get about forced gay romances but not forced straight romances.

@@c.f.bellairs1055 both are lame. But gay romances are a product at this point, because look at us we have gay people. It is ingenuine and just a way to get more people to watch.

totaly. You can see his pain, especialy in episode 5. It's unbearable and I 100% understand why Henry quit. Makes me wonder why he is the only one because no actor serious about their craft can possibly carry on with this BS.

@@raphael2407Most of the other actor’s are smaller than Cavill or are newcomers to show business. I can’t blame them for not skipping out of a job. (I get your point though)

It's terrible even when he's the main character they killed the franchise

Considering he was already fed up by Season 2, I can't even imagine the frustration he was feeling and I'd bet the sword fight scenes were intense, as a way for him to blow off steam.

@@raphael2407 I am not serious about my craft. I put up with it $$

Said almost the exact same thing last night , it’s so off putting. That’s been an issue since season 1 but it’s so noticeable this season and with multiple different characters.

@@andrewpequita6569 yeah, seems kinda funny seeing Geralt in Full black armor and then Yen walks by with the clothes she just bought at SHEIN.

And she's supposed to walk around like an Orca

Funnily enough the purple shirt and the black skirt are actual H&M clothes

Worst outfit by far in my opinion was emhirs fake chest plate. I cringed so damn hard 😅

bro, its like Star Trek turning Capt Kirk into a background character

I mean, he basically becomes a side character in the books too

to be fair...... that's a problem from the books too. Just got to Baptism of Fire now and im really hoping that issue is fixed

Witcher..really lost something great..should have stuck to straight story..Cavill is a hollywood great..as a lady who swoons over all the great classic movies..hes in that league..and he stayed classy the whole time..in a time when so much is divisive..glad to see an actor ..always stay positive..always move forward..and takes his fans with them..

​​@@ashkahiri2064Baptism of Fire is actually actually my favourite of the books lol. That's when Geralt gets to meet up with the crew. Zoltan, Percival, Milva, Dandelion, Regis etc. Tower of Swallows is also great. All on an adventure! And I like The Rats story with Ciri as well.

That was so bad. And there's no context either into any of the wild hunt stuff. We are just supposed to know. *shrug*

I literally rewinded it to see if I had missed Yennefer and Ciri arguing and then her leaving..but nothing. Ah boy.

I thought I fell asleep and rewind 3 times 😂😂

Yeah...and then he casts 1 single Aard sign and the Wild Hunt is just...gone. In the 3rd game at the battle of Kaer Morhen you can have 3 sorceresses, 5 witchers (Geralt, Lambert, Eskel, Vesimir, Letho), a druid, a dwarf, war veterans Roche and Ves, 2-3 experienced raiders from Skellige and the Wild Hunt still kicks the player's ass, until Vesimir sacrifices himself and Ciri goes beserk.

I thought it was a dream too during the whole scene😂 It was so abrupt and Geralt coming out of nowhere was so dream-like scenery, but no, it was just bad screenplay/writing🤨🙈

He has that ability, but uses it to find people to play gwent with

It's more of a Roach-power to appear just as Geralt whistles :P

Almost like he's... Superman...

@@MrFudgepump This is why Cavill plays such a good Geralt.. they're both secret nerds.

It did take me a second to realize he really did save ciri. I thought it was a dream or something it was weird

Like when he refused to have a sex scene between Geralt and Yenn because he didn't think that was "lore accurate" ? lmfao

He will always be the witcher

I think it's interesting. Cavill has mentioned he never read the books and had only played Witcher 3 -- not even Hearts of Stone or Blood & Wine, just the base game!). He portrays Witcher 3 Geralt fairly well, but has no context for the slightly more lore accurate versions of Geralt (despite plot contrivance Triss amnesia) that Witcher 1 & 2 offer. Everyone keeps lauding Cavill as a big Witcher fan when he told us in interviews he really liked Witcher 3's base game and their depiction of a much less intellectual version of Geralt.

​@@itisyerdad I actually read all of them really

​@@itisyerdadActually I recently watched his interviews and his stated MULTIPLE times that he played the games 1st then realized there were books and read all of them as well I don't know where u got that he only played the base game information from but its logical to assume that ur statement is incorrect Not to mention he loves games like warhammer and this other strategy game i forgot the name of

He was perfectly cast and subsequently wasted for two amazing roles and then fired from one immediately after quitting the other.

Knowing Netflix they will make him black in the next season 😂

@@paddyoleary7695what the f*ck?

​@@paddyoleary7695Next season is one of the Hemsworths.

Yeah...but he chose the right path..and gained even more respect..hopefully ..Warhammer project stays pure..I think it will!!..love his dog..nice big dog..grew up with giant Alaskan Malamute..big dogs the best!

this is the most relatable thing i've ever read

I had exactly the same feeling watching the third season. By third episode, I thought, maybe it'll help if I saw both Season 1 & 2 again... maybe that'll help in understanding the story. But then I thought, it'll still be a waste of time... why torture myself even more, after having seen Blood Origin.

My partner and I had the same thought also. Two episodes into season 3 and we had to stop and watch some season 1 & 2 recaps. And even then, we couldn't remember what was going on, why, who was who. What a mess. Even watching this video, I remember images, but not what it all adds up to or where the story is supposed to be going this season. It's incomprehensible.

Yeah, try reading the books and watching the tv show at the same time... shit gets confusing as hell cuz of how different both are 😂 I should have finished the books before this season came out ffs hahaha

that is the problem when you have woke producers and writers.. triss and yennefer being ethnically swapped.. Yennefer should look like Eva Green.. and Triss.. well kinda like bryce dallas howard and another problem was making Geralt not the main character of the show similar to Doc Strange in his last movie.. secondary character to Wanda and the little girl

Same!!!

In the book it actually makes more sense, because first Geralt was close to the city where Yennefer and Ciri were Gors Velen, nearby isle of Thanedd, as Geralt was actually shadowing them (first taking out the assassins trailing them) and then wandered around in the area. "Molnar,' she said coldly. 'Let sleeping dogs lie. I doubt that he still considers me dear to him, and if he finds out about the erased debt, he will hate me even more. You know him, how obsessed with honour he is. How long ago was he in Dorian?' 'About ten days ago. He has been spotted later in Little Meadow. From there, as I was informed, he rode to Hirundum, answering the notice of local peasants. A monster, as usual.'" ... "'These poor souls,' she interrupted, 'probably had nowhere to run. Fabio? Where's the town... Hirundum?' The boy gave her a confused look. 'Hirundum's not a town,' he corrected. 'It's a huge farm. There are orchards and gardens providing vegetables and fruit to all towns in the region. There are also many ponds with carps and other fish...' 'How far is Hirundum? Which way is it? Show me.' 'Why would you need to know that?' 'I asked you to show me.' 'See that road, leading west? The one the wagons are at? That's the road to Hirundum. About fifteen miles, through the woods.' 'Fifteen miles', Ciri repeated after him. 'Not far for a good horse... Thank you, Fabio.' " So in the books Ciri was missing Geralt and upon hearing he is nearby he wanted to ride to him and he was indeed some 15 miles away, in the book though Yennefer cast a spell which drove off the phantoms of Wild Hunt. The netflix show doesn't do worldbuilding of the witcher world, and any sort of geography any proper way :).

Gotta love plot armor

Same I had to rewatch it so many times

Same!

Eyyy, come on... she wrote letters, give her a brake ;P Honestly I just skipped those scenes from second letter forward, they got me super frustrated and almost made me not watch the entire season. The letters at the beginning and the cut of the final episode are seriously unbelievably bad. Not a matter of taste, it's like a 10 year old made and cut those. WTF netflix?

why DA FUCK did you give them views?

Ice skating together >>>> selling your soul to a demon for power

come on, stop crying...that was a week ago, how long do you want to be sad? I'm really "sorry" ;D

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So did all the Witcher fans. I've learned my lesson that ANY adaptation by Disney, Netflix, or Amazon is not worth watching at all. You already know what they're going to do which is use it for politics and ruin everything people loved about the original source material because their 'progression' requires getting rid of great things and replacing them with shit. Especially character assassination on every major male character with characteristics they hate in men, but love in women, like masculinity lol

even if it's not based on anything its just predicable and sometimes just plain nonsensical. it's just not a great show overall even if you disregard the source material fully

exactly

I haven’t read the books either but I have no desire to watch season 3. Season 2 was such a convoluted mess that I’ve no idea what even happened.

😊

Thanks, someone with a brain still exists, it seems!

I do wonder when someone hunted by THE WILD HUNT has time to find medieval make-up, especially when such stuff is really only a nobility-thing to afford and reason to use.

and her hair? it's two hours of a modern hairdresser's work and ridiculously impractical in her circumstances with all the loose hair flying around her face. straight out of Euphoria High

@@alicjakempisty2729 for settings with utilitarian magic (D&D got that for example), I can accept pretty hair without effort...cuz ya know, magic to do it fast.

i immediately noticed that.... it was so out of place and no other character seemed to have such make up (thankfully) ... but she looked all glammed up for no reason and honestly it wasn't doing her any favours either, just made her look worse imo

Anya Chalotra lacks charisma. She was an absolutely awful choice for Yennefer and looks much too young and scrawny to boot.

@@arpitakodagu9854 honestly I gotta disagree. I thought Anya Chalotra absolutely killed it in season 1, her chemistry with Cavill was also solid. Sometimes, an actor just can't save bad writing, especially when their as young and inexperienced as Chalotra.

It could be the writing or it could be Anya's acting. Either way, nothing she does comes off as genuine with any of the other characters. Same goes with the actress who plays Fringilla.

@@jamesgarretson2922 maybe don't cast young and inexperienced for a character who should come off as mature and experienced

Turns out only having one half of a uniquely compatible character relationship be accurately portrayed completely throws off the dynamic, which kills me because I think it's the most important part of the story. Henry did what he could and I don't fault Anya but they simply failed to portray Yennefer's true personality whatsoever.

Yeah what the hell was that about.. the people working on this show have no clue what they are doing .. garbage

Perfect comment. I liked it better than what this video has to say about it

Stop hurting yourself, just abandon this monstrosity

Same. Checked as well if I accidentally rewind the episode. It was really testing my patience

i love your comment and thank you sharing yours thoughts. I haven't watched the witcher s3 and prolly wont later on. Only watched the other 2 seasons and also dont know the lore but im very confused throughout

That’s how I felt reading the scene in the books, though. I haven’t seen the show, but in the books I was very confused about whether or not Ciri was dreaming. Sometimes she was being chased by phantom Squirrels (elves) that disappeared into thin air, then random ghostly figures, then nothing, then the wild hunt randomly shows up and you thinks she’s still hallucinating until she reaches Geralt and Yennefer shows up to blast the Wild Hunt away. It felt like a confusing jumble.

Agreed. Hate watching is the absolute worst thing you can do if you don't like a show. All these companies care about is views and you just gave it to them. Apathy FTW.

pirate it.

@@GIN4368this is the way

@@GIN4368got any websites to watch it? i used to watch a few shows on 123movies a few months ago but the link doesn’t work anymore

wat were the attempts?

They would have been better off with “and then Geralt woke up” to get away from season 2 😂

@@warlordofbritannia Not even being sarcastic that would be better. Just redo Blood of Elves in S3 that way

@@JayTCU They could have even said Season 2 was a nightmare caused by the Wild Hunt or Avalach or Vilgefortz for that matter

Cool. I feel like you aren't, though. You'll be back complaining in two weeks.

The show calls everything fire magic. But in the books they can use spells that involve fire, but they can't (shouldn't) use fire as a source of magic "energy". Yen never used it as a source but Ciri did and it took over her, which is why she lost magic abilities. The show is just messy

I’ll never understand why studios turn “adaptations” into effective fan fiction. What’s the thought process-is it hubris? If they don’t believe the original material was good why are they even adapting to begin with?

​@@warlordofbritanniaI think the same, they should stick to the original material, i don't understand Why they don't do It. It's the easiest thing to do.

@@charlespc They don't do it because they have these massive egos and think they are better writers than the author of massively popular books.

He actually left because WB offered him his Superman gig back.

​@@joseaguilar3323He also hated show, dude is a huge nerd lol.

It's a shame really, feels like a lot of what they do falls flat because of terrible decisions in S2. That said there are still some terrible decisions - i.e Radovid and Dandelion serving no plot purpose at all, literally just so Netflix could have a male gay relationship

Yes this

The question is though why did Henry leave then? Had he already made up his mind after Season 2 or did something specific in Season 3 push him over the edge? I get the feeling this Season still has a few major book changes we haven't seen yet.

@wafflingmean4477 The damage may have already been done or something.

What specifically does it not stay true? Season 1 is and 2 is straight from the books. 3 is pretty good.

It's so creepy and weird.

ruined everything

I read the books but dont remember radovid, was he important?

@@grey21hunter20 He’s a small boy and the son of King Vizimir.

​@@grey21hunter20Mate, did you even watch the video? It's explained in detail.

where i do understand your sentiment i honestly think you're missing out. this season was, at least, quite enjoyable where it made sense. they completely deserve the thrashing they are getting review-wise, but i still think the season deserves a watch. It doesnt have to be on netflix though, wink wink. i just hope they dont completely obliterate it on the second part, but its netflix, in the wise words of videogame dunkey, "they'll find some way to fuck it up".

Watch it, it’s actually really good👌

@@filipecabralpinto I agree, I didn't like season 1 and absolutely hated season 2, but season 3 is kind of okay. As someone who loves The Witcher's world, it's just nice to watch something related, even if it's not that good.

REAL

@@filipecabralpinto See, you're wrong for 2 reasons: 1. I can't get invested in this show anymore after witnessing all the character assassination of season 2 2. I refuse to get invested in this show knowing Geralt will simply not exist for the rest of the story when he's the god damn protagonist (or worse, be swapped with another actor while we pretend it's still Geralt)

The show is not following the games, they're not canon in this universe, so it is irrelevant what happened in them.

@@nirachien2274 I know. It is sad. They had a perfectly good source material, they could have followed the books (I listened to 3 or 4 in audiobook format), they could have followed the games (played 2 and 3), made a mix of both, but no...logic and fanbase be damned!

@@nirachien2274 still given the fact that the games are extremely popular, they should know better. ppl will look at Radovid and think about TW3 Radovid, if they wanted to give Jaskier a male romantic interest they should have made a new character. also... Radovid is a teenager in that book so it's icky af they aged him up for that.

@@ladansemakabre In The Witcher 3 there is that male elf who dresses up in women's clothes sometimes, I think it's the "Broken Flowers" quest. They could have created a character like him (though I think in the game their relationship is platonic). The romance with Radovid is like when they killed off "Eskel" in season 2, and everybody who played the game was like "But Eskel lives in the game. Lambert can die, but only in specific circumstances...".

What's especially moronic with this 'romance' is that in the books, Jaskier/Dandelion already has a romance...with a woman,...duchess Anna Henrietta in the later books :).

My thought is that he, Radovid, serves as a decoy so that they can take Ciri. Have not read the books(and think the episode was awful) but that could still be the case?

@@oscarlindvall1053 possibly. I haven't gotten there in the books yet, I'm on Blood of Elves. I still think it's stilly that they have a bard guarding Ciri when there's a defensive spell on the room. Just went to show that they couldn't think of another way to have Jaskier meet Radovid? It's all just weird.

@@oscarlindvall1053radovid is a child in the books and jaskier and radovid don’t meet at all both are the polor opposite of each others. Jaskier is a womanizer while radovid is a psychopath ruler who uses religion to kill all the other races in most brutal way possible. He also had Phillips’s eyes cut out. So yeah

He is the biggest waste in this show after Cavill. What a travesty, esp after he was done somewhat ok'ish in s2.

Making Dandelion bisexual is such a bad and unnecessary choice. There is 0 reason to change him as he is such a unique character in the witcher world. He is in touch with his emotions, sings songs rather than swings swords and uses his wit to get out of danger. Contrasting him to the more stereotypical macho men that are so common in the books is a great example of representation. Not all men have to be brigands, warriors or drunkards. Yet Lauren takes one look at a man who is in touch with what would be considered 'non traditional gender traits', and concludes that he can't be straight? Way to make your show less diverse by trying to force diversity for no reason. And I didn't even talk about his paramour being Radovid yet ffs.

That's the character arc I cannot get over. I'm sure y'all know who have read books and played games. Dandelion is a whoremonger lol. He loves women folk not radovidfolk. Being bi is fine but it does not sit well with me with dandelion or Jaskier whatever we are calling him 😎✌️

@@0MJF0 It’s so weird, isn’t it? Dandelion is basically the epitome of “free love” but I guess Netflix didn’t respect the intelligence of the audience enough and had to make him-is flamboyant considered offensive?-bisexual so he didn’t seem like a fuckboi

@@warlordofbritannia i could imagine dandelion sleeping with a man, but RADOVID????

Dandy fucked fantasy hitler 💀

right?? since s2 she looks so weird... why put SO much make up on her? weird ass decisions...

I agree! The makeup artist really messed up there- she had obvious contour on her face after months in the woods!! 😂

I always feels like the make up artist did a really bad job since season 2, esp with Ciri. She looks so much older with that modern make up look.

Yeah my wife and I also discussed how weird she’s looking. It looked like a 12 yo doing make up her first time

I did notice her makeup in a mad way, while the other ladies looked purposeful and I didn’t notice, I definitely noticed ciris

Right? It would’ve been even funnier and book accurate since his senses are quite sharp!

Funny thing is, that if they were concerned about spending to much time by just talking (still, TV is mainly visual medium), they could have "fix that" by just inviting Yen on Kaer Morhen instead of Triss (on the contrary, she could be used as a link with politics and we would learn thanks to her what is happening in the world). That would give us that needed relationship betwen main trio, whole season could have ended on Thanned and we would be in third episode of season 2 where season 3 begin. Instead, we got stupid, pointless filler that undermines everything, makes no sense, and doesn't get us anywhere. My guess is the show doesn’t make it past season 4

​@@marty.m2933unfortunately we are getting 5. Netflix management either thought announcing the renewal for 2 seasons around the cavil announcement would help ratings , or the show runner is friends with someone in management.

I think they announced both because they're planning to film seasons 4 and 5 back to back. Also nice since the cast who are still under contract can get out quicker!!

Passing out of context references to things front like 4 different time frames even dif characters and books isn't strait from the books

The problems stem from season 1 though. That's where they had a chance to build Ciri, Geralt and Yens relationship, but no. The show has been a trainwreck from the get go.

That will largely depend on how faithful Amazon are going to stick to the source material. Rings of Power and Wheel of Time are the perfect example of how NOT to do it.

@@Azhalan Henry Cavill is the one in charge. Is not just an actor, he´s the producer.

@@Azhalan 100% they need to stay the f away.

@@drbadenes exactly, i have faith he will stay true to the material.

He is A producer. Most of the money will most certainly come from Amazon and other sources. He will certainly have a say in the matter, the question is how much that will be.

Mr Cavill is making a Warhammer series for amazon!! He's a massive fan of Warhammer 40k, so hopefully it won't go off the deep end like this did

Yen would have sacrificed an entire town of people for a bit of power in a heartbeat. She would have taken most deals to get herself an advantage. The only person she wouldn't sell out is Ciri - and what do the showrunners decide on? At this point it has to qualify as weaponized incompetence.

another popular IP adapated, another failed adaptation. The cycle never ends.

Well if the fourth season would stick to the books, Henry would never have left, so f*** you, Showrunners🙄

So did most people, I imagine.

I don't even want to see this shit!

​@@sulcusulnarisBruh...

@@sulcusulnaris no that will come later.

@@sulcusulnaris😂

​@@sulcusulnariswhat???

​@@sulcusulnarislmao you left me in splits

I hope you do not include Yennifer in this 3 main actors group.

I thought I was the only one with this opinion ever since season 1. It just feels forced compared to everyone else and I would just wonder why they like each other so much other than talking about their trauma and sleeping together.

Exactly! They have no chemistry then boom Geralt admits he loves her. It was a travesty

@@Dedivasmith I mean, she does have a magical box

Season 1 I loved them, season 2 I was like "what is this" and season 3 I won't touch because of how bad season 2 was.

They're just rolling relationship dice for every episode.

I guess that was Lauren’s attempt at trying to redeem the insane choice she made in the previous season to have Yen betray Geralt and Ciri, but it just further destroys the core of the character. Yen is proud and stubborn but also very loyal, and keeps to her own sort of moral rules. So she’d of never tried to betray them in the first place, and sure as shit wouldn’t be groveling to anyone. Other commenters are correct that Geralt in the books/games would’ve of course killed Yen for that, so making her a begging pitiful simp was the best they could come up with to keep them in the storyline together? You can really tell how much they hate the source material.

Off topic; but when I saw Queen Charlotte, in ep 4 they did the similar thing. They repeated the entirety of first 3 episodes line by line from king george’s perspective. And then there’s this screenplay for fifth episode of the witcher. I wonder what’s going on in Netflix

😂

the "all is not as it seems" song line very 5 seconds was driving me insane ... WE GET IT ITS NOT ALL AS IT SEEMS MY GOD

@@mrs.h2725 "she’d of never tried" - hey, my inner grammar nazi wants to burn down houses, I could only push it back behind the facade of civility by making this comment here

That’s honestly crazy damn

If they cut the budget that drastically I’m wondering if they’re preparing to cancel…which would be a first, the first time Netflix canceled a bad show instead of a good one 😂

The moment I saw Yen's and Ciri's outfits I thought they looked like discount H&M. I am not surprised thet Yen's shirt was actually traced back to be H&M.

Cosplayers at fantasy conventions have better costumes than the Witcher cast.

I can assure you, I bought better looking pleather for my cosplays than whatever junk Henry got to wear… and it wasn’t even expensive. It almost takes effort to find stuff this cheap looking.

when one of the protagonist has a relationship with fantasy hitler

For me, the final nail on the coffin for the show to me was killing Eskel.

@@Practitioner_of_DiogenesYep. I thought the show was a decent mess before that. Eskel’s character assassination is where I began to hate it. And after that, it just goes downhill, characters completely making choices their actual characters would never make. They have Geralt putting Ciri in imminent danger. Yen sacrifices Ciri to the witch. Vesemir sways Ciri to undergo the grass trials and then tries to kill her. The writers never picked up the damn books and it shows.

@@ojroche5217 Oh, it absolutely was a mess before Eskel's death. It was a mess before the first episode of season 1 aired, to be honest, with how wrong the characters were casted, as the books are rather clear how certain characters look.

Seriously? They did that? I cancelled netflux but i wasnt going to watch this crap anyway. Its just bloody annoying - two men cant have a close friendship these days without all the fucking woke people assuming its a sexual gay romance. Imagine if that was reversed and every female character was made to have a sexual relationship instead of just a friendship. Politically, im a far leftie but im really sick of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE needing to represent a minority. Minorities are minorities but these days its like everyone’s a minority. And the ultimate irony - Ciri is gay in the books.

Sorry but these are just hack writers and some moron further up gave the all clear on the terrible writing. Netflix has got the funds to pay their staff adequately and has shown with The Witcher that they're fine taking their time to get it made. It just comes as such as slap in the face that they take so long to polish a turd. Such a shame no-one would listen to Henry.

woke useless writers

We also need to learn that adaptations need to be faithful to what they're adaptating. The fans are in love with the material for a reason. A single screen writer can not possibly revise/rewrite something that fans loved enough to spark an adaptation. Heck. Even the og writer couldn't possibly do that

How about hiring strikebreakers from Estern Europe who will be cheaper and way more competent?

@@lefterismplanas4977 nope, they don't have to be faithful...they can make it better and not worst. Things that work in the books sometimes don't work in television. But the authors doesn't like the books and laughed about the books behind the scenes. I don't care about the series, that is not the witcher from the books or games....that is something else. In the end they will right some multiverse stuff in the series and so they explain the change of Geralt and than they will cancel the witcher after season 4 :D

Yeah they don't want to make some "basic" fantasy and want to twist it their way They don't understand that a good quality "basic" fantasy is what we want. But you're right it's because they have no love or even respect for fantasy. To them it's just an opportunity to evolve their career

I disagree. They are fine with Fantasy; they just disrespect the Witcher Material. It's a writers' room of feminists and it shows in the story telling.

@@shuntao3475 they destroy yennifers bad ass character because of feminism? Okay, I just think they’re bad writers.

@@ryomaanime4563 The problem is The Witcher is not some basic fantasy. There are actually deep philosophical and sociological discourses going on there, but they were too cheeky and couldn't see past fable-like setting and decided to make up their own depth with such a pathetic result, that it would be laughable if it wasn't so irritating. It's like they tried to tell you the joke, they didn't understand themselves.

You got a lot of hope. Keep watching trash like this and that'll be empty soon enough

I 100% agree. If you aren't aware of the source material the story is really hard to follow. The pacing is all over the place and the characters are very poorly motivated...

Do yourself a favour once the show is done and gone and read the books. They're every easy to read and very enjoyable.

S3 part 2 isnt better- i feel bad for you 😭

Frodo needed full 2 days to get from Hobbiton to Buckland. Not even leaving the Shire. LotR is all about how long it takes from point A to point B, and fantasy writers should probably look at it more for inspiration

@@535phobos yeah...Tolkien was meticulous worldbuilder and was seriously working out on geography and time of travel, hell he made sure that Frodo journey time was reflecting the actual moon phases...now tha's dedication...while Sapkowski is not nearl as meticulous worldbuilder as Tolkien, and he never even made an actual official map he still worked through writing to give some sense of geography...and the next witcher book which netflix show will start butchering in season 4 deals heavily with difficulties of travel there is one scene in that book where Geralt calculates the distance to cover: "'So why do you stand here alone in the moonlight?' 'I'm counting.' 'Huh?' 'Since we left Brokilon, twelve days have passed, during which we have travelled about sixty miles. Ciri, so the rumors say, is in Nilfgaard, the capital of the empire, a place that separates me by two thousand five hundred miles. A simple calculation shows that at this rate I'll get there in a year and four months. What do you say to that?' 'Nothing.' Milva shrugged her shoulders and cleared her throat again." Witcher, Baptism of Fire And when it comes to Geralt saving Ciri from Wild Hunt, in the book Time of Contempt Geralt is actually following the Yennefer and Ciri, or rather shadowing their movements to some degree keeping thungs off their back like the Professor the famous assassin he kills, in book they were follwoing Yennefer and Ciri as they travelled to Gors Velen port city, close by to the isle of Thanedd and Geralt after dispatching those was nearby....several miles away from the city in the farming land of Hirundum and Ciri learned he is close and escaped Yennefer to meet with him (for at this point in books Geralt and Yennefer have not seen each other, they only contacted through letters on actual distance for it's been years since they last saw each other and Ciri was first with Geralt until he travelled with her to temple of Melitele and went hunting for Rience and answers to the questions and helping secure her safety while Yennefer was given message in the letter to travel to the temple of Melitele in Ellander to train Ciri in magic....Time of Contempt book and the events of Ciri's escape lead to Geralt and Yennefer first reunion. Witcher books also work out particular geography of this world: "Aplegatt rose and looked around. Downhill was a river and behind it were forests. The courier rushed his horse. Time was pressing on. He was on his way for the past two days. King's orders and letters found him in Hagge, where he was resting after his return from Tretogor. He left the castle at night, galloping along the left bank of Pontar, he crossed the border of Temeria before dawn and now, at noon of the following day, he was already near the bank of Ismena. Had king Foltest stayed at Vizima, Aplegatt would have handed him the message just this night. Unfortunately, the king was not in the capital - he stayed in the southern part of his country, in Maribor, two hundred miles away from Vizima. Aplegatt knew this, which is why in the vicinity of the White Bridge he left the main, west-leading road in favour of forest paths in the direction of Ellander. It was a bit risky. The Squirrels still prowled the forests and pitiful was the lot of one who got in their arms or found himself in the range of their bows. But the royal messenger must take risks. Such is his work." Basic worldbuilding! "'As you wish. It's not hard to figure that Yennefer is going on the convent of Wizards, which will take place on the Thanedd Island in Garstang at the beginning of July. She's moving slyly, doesn't use magic, so it's hard to trace her. She was still in Ellander a week ago, so I presume that it will take her three, four more days to reach the city Gors Velen, just a stone throw away from Thanedd. On the way of Gors Velen she will have to go through Anchor village. If you set out now you will be able to take out those who are following her. Because, indeed, she is being followed.'" ... "'Leave it, Heim.' The man with the glasses gestured. 'He's a royal messenger. Not a troublemaker. What is the name of this establishment, innkeeper?' 'Anchor.' 'And how far to Gors Velen?' 'What?' 'How many miles?' 'Me, I never measured it in miles. But it must be three days travel...' 'By horse?' 'By cart.' " ... "Molnar,' she said coldly. 'Let sleeping dogs lie. I doubt that he still considers me dear to him, and if he finds out about the erased debt, he will hate me even more. You know him, how obsessed with honour he is. How long ago was he in Dorian?' 'About ten days ago. He has been spotted later in Little Meadow. From there, as I was informed, he rode to Hirundum, answering the notice of local peasants. A monster, as usual.'" ... "'These poor souls,' she interrupted, 'probably had nowhere to run. Fabio? Where's the town... Hirundum?' The boy gave her a confused look. 'Hirundum's not a town,' he corrected. 'It's a huge farm. There are orchards and gardens providing vegetables and fruit to all towns in the region. There are also many ponds with carps and other fish...' 'How far is Hirundum? Which way is it? Show me.' 'Why would you need to know that?' 'I asked you to show me.' 'See that road, leading west? The one the wagons are at? That's the road to Hirundum. About fifteen miles, through the woods.' 'Fifteen miles', Ciri repeated after him. 'Not far for a good horse... Thank you, Fabio.' "

Geralt showed us the meaning of haste like Shadowfax did.

​@@535phobosGoT also nailed this in the first few seasons, like how the Lannister army had to ride day and night to salvage King's landing, or how it took Rob weeks to assemble an army, march to the twins, bargain a crossing etc. etc. When the showrunners took over we saw teleporting armies and ships.

@@daarom3472 what;s funny is that one can actually try to calculate how fast is Shadowfax and his unusual speed is due to his special origin as a mearas, a special 'magical' breed of horses with greater strength, stamina, speed hehe, I mean one even with Shadowfax needs some time to cross the vastness of Middle-earth hehe for example: when Pippin and Gandalf ride him from Dol Baran (where they camped with the Rohirrim shortly after leaving Isengard) to Minas Tirith. According to Appendix B ("The Tale of Years"), they leave Dol Baran during the night on March 5, and arrive at Minas Tirith at dawn on the 9th. When they first meet, Gandalf tells Denethor that it was a journey of 150 leagues (450 miles, about 724 km). Since they only travel at night, that's 4 nights of riding. :)

Radovid in Netflix: 😇 Radovid in the games: 💀

@@william4x4yea such a blunder

@@justlivin2499radovid had so much potential

And how beautiful mages like Margarita is played by a overweight black woman. And half the other cast being black as if the Northern Kingdoms were like modern central London

Your replies are full of racists. Yuk.

Same

I likewise had an amazing amount of ducks* to give this season. * zero. I have zero ducks.

I went in with 0 expectations and I actually enjoyed it. Way better than season 2 imo, if you like less action and more personal scenes between the main characters

@@janekmundt579 Sorry, but I can't just forget season 2 ever happened like the showrunners want. Hell, I haven't even read the BOOKS and I was still livid with what they did to the characters.

It's fantasy.

@@insertname2035 Game of Thrones is also fantasy but it defines its geography. Westeros, Essos and Sothoryos are different continents with different cultures and proves that a fantasy world can be well written

@@insertname2035- You could not have made it more apparent to everyone that you have zero understanding when it comes to immersion and proper “world building” within a fantasy setting. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is more ignorant than what you just said. Congratulations, you played yourself.

@@insertname2035 Fantasy doesn't have to mean completely unrealistic though. There are reasons why people are different and what not. People living in a cool northern climate for dozens of generations aren't going to look subsaharan, or dress in arabic garbs you'd see in a very hot climate.

@@hel59 that was a personal choice by the author. It's his fantasy world. Keep up. He can stick to that format of defining cultures by continent or make up his own rules. Just like he did with the seasons lasting years at a time. If you are looking for realism in a genre like fantasy, and are getting triggered that things are different, then pick up another book

I wonder why they didn't just go with Priscilla x Jaskier instead they just always wants to represent man to man instead..

And they have absolutely no chemistry on top of it all. I really don’t think jaskier gets enough screen time to make it worth shoving an extra romance in there. Especially when it’s pretty tokenistic, and Ciri canonically has a gay relationship anyway. Although they’re probably going to cut the rats out of the show so who knows if the actual queer relationship in the books will even happen lol

And to not forget that the writer was like -“Let’s have Jaskier and Radovid have a romance” -“But Jaskir is about 40 and Radovid is 12…” ………

the woman who pickpockets Ciri just before Ciri fights/kills the young Wyvern is who they cast for Mistle.

​@@andersnilsson4589lol typical Hollywood.

Ikr, it’s absolutely caked on. And that’s even after it was toned down from the last season. I also can’t deal with Yen’s really dark prominent lip liner.

Overall the makeup in the show is atrocious, obvious false eyelashes everywhere, modern looking eyeshadow, drawn on blocky eyebrows and Triss' gel manicure was the cherry on top

That also really stuck out to me. I more or less anticipated it was some built-up to a new (randomly invented) disease or similar. It's also in *every* scene, so it's not just a single bad day. Really weird and more than a little off-putting.

@@poisonbiscuits I didn't even notice the gel manicure 💀

For real, I kept thinking of TLOU when watching this season of the Witcher. Like I CAN BE DONE just DO IT but it's too late now. RIP The Witcher, Season 1 to Season 1. 😂

It really seems like they change their whole script after every season, maybe they will take it in a new direction in season 4 as well, I really can't see the story stay true to the books with „Other dimension Geralt“ (That's not really how dimensions in the Witcher work, they aren't dimensions with the same people in different ways but every dimension seems to have its own individual people)

facts

Fr that purple blouse is straight out of H&M

diversity

I hated Renfri - thought they had 0 chemistry. But I don't think Yen has chemistry with Geralt in the show either. Frankly Geralt should just be Ciri's Dad and everything else should just be to the side.

I feel like that's because cavill is off for geralt and anya is off for yen. don't get me wrong, both of them are amazing actors and deserves all praise, but I never felt like cavill represented geralt very well. he's too expressive. it's usually what you go for a protagonist in a show revolving around a main character, but geralt is a weird character in the books. for me, what sells their chemistry in the books is that both geralt and yen act as emotionally detached and excessively pragmatist, in opposite ways of manifesting coldness. however, this hides a vulnerable and passionate personality. that's why they are so violently attracted: they act kinda opposite, but at the same feels the same way inside. most relationships that they form revolve around people that understands how they truly feel inside, that's where their chemistry lie for me. as crazy as this sounds, I think cavill would actually be way more suited to protray cahir. cahir is the naive, idealist knight that defies his duty to do what he believes is right. he feels like he must protect ciri and even defies geralt himself, eventually. actually, thinking about this just makes me sad remembering what netflix did to cahir on the series...

Cavill doesn't have chemistry with anyone tbh, he's just really overrated as an actor. Anya is great but she's nothing like Yen because of the material she has to work with

@@poisonbiscuits Yennefer is bad in every single scene...

@diomedes7971 It's kind of like George RR Martin. It's weird that such talented writers have to be such personally shitty people. It's one of the reasons I prefer reading Brandon Sanderson works these days. He doesn't have the massive ego that other writers seem to develop.

@diomedes7971 It brings a smile to your face seeing other people suffer? Are you okay?

​@diomedes7971lol ok. It's still his story and universe

@diomedes7971lol agreed. Love that the writer is fucking seething 😂

​@@Spectacular_InsanityI hate to break it to you, but Brandon Sanderson has a huge ego as well. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's as bad as Martin, and I love his books.

No, you shouldn’t watch it. I stopped half way through season 2 and went back to the game as well as being now onto the third book. The more people watch this show, the less the writers fail. There’s nothing more that I want than for the writers to fail hard and the show to stop being produced.

I stopped 10 minutes into the second episode. I couldn't deal with the writing. Its awful. Like Twilight/young adult level bad.. Also characters just know things without being told and just randomly show up to places.

@@JaneDoe-ym7de Yeah, you are right. I'm just a completionist, and don't want to form opinion about something I don't actually know. But since I skipped Blood Origin, I might as well stop watching the main story too

@@diomedes7971 I agree, but I guess most of us really wanted to give the show a second or even a third chance. That maybe the writers listen to the viewers and Cavill, and stick to the books. Instead, they made things even worse...

Don’t! It’s hot garbage. Just watch all the reviews like this one breaking down each scene and you’ll feel like you’ve “completed” the show while laughing at how badly the writers fucked it up.

same. watching Cahir in the show is so painful, i can't stand him even tho he's one of my favorite characters in the books...

I’m doing a rewatch to see if they laid a foundation for the Vilguefortz plot twist, and I noticed this as well. If Vilguefortz is hundreds of years old, there is no way that he would either a) waste his magical energy so quickly doing such a dumb thing as throwing and retrieving his sword multiple times, and b) would lose that easily in a fight with a human.

I have the feeling they actually had these plot points you mentioned in mind but changed them. It feels like they change their whole plans after every season making multiple important seeming scenes absolutely unimportant

​@misstweetypie1 I thought Vilgefortz is younger than Yennefer (about the age of Triss).

Considering how easily he fucks up Geralt in the books - so badly that it continues to cause him pain through the rest of the story - it was stupid to make him appear weak - but hey, clearly the writers are indeed stupid.

@@Theeldritchwitch even still, Vilguefortz should have decades of skill on the black night, no way he would make stupid mistakes like that in a real combat situation. The whole scene felt out of character and unrealistic.