Can we get Geralt's mom in the Redhead thread?

I'd rather trade her for the actress playing Triss. Seriously, WTF? :#

I've watched the first 3 episodes as well and I agree. I barely know anything on the source material as well. This show deserves the views.

Finished it tonight. I know nothing. No books no games no nothing. I did watch a YouTube about what you need to know before watching. It helped some.

Hooked me good. Normally heavy magic shit turns me off. But this one seemed to do OK. There is still a little power exponent thing going on but it didn’t kill it for me.

Cavil killed it. The action was really freaking good. He rolled through some dudes.

As far as the timeline I didn’t have trouble. The stuff that you would get mixed up about the order didn’t really screw up the story. And they were good about rolling dead ass characters out to bash you over the head and tell you to pay attention.

Most of it I was doing other stuff but I caught most of it I think. I haven’t unwound where everyone ended up, but it didn’t seem like there was a lot of wasted time in there. And MAN, a LOT of shit happened. A LOT.

Anyway, hopefully it picks up another season. It was really good.

Just finished it yesterday, and yeah, it all came together in the end. I get why they told the story the way they did with all the time jumping. It was confusing, but I'll watch it again soon. Can't wait for the next season, this is great.

The other one I'm looking forward to (and I'm sure there is a thread) is The Last Kingdom. Not GoT, but it was nice to watch while waiting for GoT to come out with another season. I think there are 3 seasons of it. It's great as well. Different than The Witcher, but epic awesomeness all the same.

If anyone is interested, the first book of short stories covers several episodes (I'm about a third of the way through) such as the Butcher of Blevikan and the Striga stories. They are short and easy to read if interested in more of the backstory (his potions, eyes, etc.).


https://readanybook.com/online/565901#383081

Last Kingdom season 4 hasn't had a trailer drop yet, but it's expected to arrive sometime in 2020. Season 1 came out in October, season 2 was in March and season 3 was in November, so it's kind of hard to get a read on when it'll be, exactly.

Really good show...

Just finished this. Really enjoyed it. I only played The Witcher 3, haven't read any of the books, but from what I gleaned from lore in the game it seems to be following the story pretty closely. What exactly is the plan assuming this continues to do as well as it has? Work through the story all the way through TW3?

Man I loved this. Binged the shit out of it. I usually do two episodes at a time, but I couldn’t stop. Then talking about it with friends on Christmas who like it but found it confusing. I showed them the explicit moments that made the timeline evident even before half the first episode was done and they decided to rewatch because they missed some important stuff. Clearly some critics did too. I have no knowledge of the story ahead of watching except for the trailer, but I had a day off and a good night sleeping so I was particularly attentive. The information is dense and I think the storytelling is quite sophisticated for adaptation of short story material but everything is clearly laid out for the timeline in the dialogue. I might watch it again to see what even a close watch might have missed now that I’ve seen the finale. Can’t wait to see where it goes next season. Top 10 first season for a show I watched all at once. I judge shows I have to watch weekly differently because they have to recap and repeat information so I have to forgive them some repetition. Liked Cavill before but love Geralt already.

I actually thought the grunting was great. Like truly great. There are a lot of characters that try to be grumbly but suck at it. Cavill did a great job.

Besides, when he talks things like this happen.

"Fine. I'll take the law of Surprise, like you did. But don't worry, if I come back here, it will be to kill monsters."

"I'm pregnant."

"****"

ROFL

Admittedly, the Geralt "****!" parts were perfectly placed. Netflix gets props for that.

I can kind of imagine if you were a close-to-immoral being you'd get just sick as hell of common dialog, and would just grunt and growl a bunch...

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LMAO

Into episode 2 and the wife was like ‘so this is The Punisher meets Lord of the Rings?’

Just caught this, . . . setting the bar for biggest laugh of 2020 to date. ;)


trivial bit spoilerized

You’re right. I couldn’t remember the exact words. But goddamn I laughed hard. ROFL

Started another playthrough of the game - probably my fifth or sixth.

Did you play the first 2?

Anyhow I totally did not realize that was Henry Cavil till I was about 30 minutes in and I was like hey that's superman.

Overall good show that has the potential to run for a long time. Not a big fan of what they've done to some of the characters. I completely get that all of the characters in the video game are white so they're gonna change that....but what they did with Triss is pretty bad.

I played and really enjoyed the first one. The second one pissed me off so much that I quit fairly soon in; hit a spot that I just couldn't get past, got frustrated, and that was it.

This describes me to a T.

Didn’t play the games, read the books, watch YouTube vids, nothing. Went in cold. Understood most of what was happening enough to enjoy the action scenes, the stakes in the scenes etc. great series. Cavill, a chiefs fan, killed it.

Yup, that was my reaction to the second game as well. Got to the dwarf city, and it is so damn annoying to navigate that I have given up. Replaying number 3 and loving it.

I finally picked this up for $17 bucks a couple of months back. Started playing it last week. Sticking to the main quests to start off with and am about 3 hours in...I can't believe I did not play this sooner. It is really great.

Still getting used to the combat, and have not really delved into the oils, potions and spells. A lotta stuff to learn.

Cast him as Vesemir now.

Just remembered that I bought this a while ago and it’s still sealed in plastic. I need to change that.

Hmmm

I got bored with the first one fairly quickly. The English translation just seemed ...off. And I didn't find the combat that great.

The second one, I too hit a spot that I just couldn't get past. Not a fight, but trying to figure out where the **** to go. There were these little ledges you needed to jump off and they were very specific about where you needed to be to jump down. And they weren't marked, and they were in an area with a ton of tall grass, and there were several of them and the goddamn map was no help and it was just a frustrating ****ing maze and I just didn't give enough ****s to continue.

The first time I played the first game I didn't like it. At all. Quit almost immediately. Then about six months later I gave it another shot and loved it.

The main problem with the point in the second game that I couldn't get past was the color scheme. The background was so colorful and vivid and that I couldn't make out what was happening in the fight with some giant swamp creature that kept killing me. I think I tried to beat the goddamn thing for a couple of hours before I quit in disgust. Never tried that one again.

Pretty cool interactive map of the Witcher timeline:

https://www.witchernetflix.com/en-gb

Saw a study comparing the Witcher and Mandolrian downloads and streams. Binge or Weekly?


Conclusion was the Witcher had more views but the majority were on release weekend. Mandalorian got near to the Witcher with the last episode. But since currently Netflix has millions more subscribers, the Mandalorian was more popular. And the word of mouth and publicity for the show wasn't close with the weekly release of the Mandalorian.

Baby Yoda is the only reason The Mandalorian is popular, if they hadn't included that character no one would be talking about that show.

So you're saying a popular show is popular because they have a popular character?

Sounds like you're close to that promotion you've been working for, Lieutenant Obvious.

This is the third article in Forbes in as many weeks attacking the binge release philosophy. Somebody has an agenda.

Mark Hamill has expressed interest in being Vesemir too.

Not with the shoddy promotion paperwork I received, he’s not.

They aren't necessarily wrong though are they? It seems like Netflix could have wring a lot more buzz, word of mouth, advertising, etc. out of the Witcher if they had gone the GoT release route.

In general, not completely wrong. For The Witcher though, I really think they needed existing game and book fans and new watchers who like to binge in order to contradict the reviews and give it some love. The needed them fast and on youtube in a hurry, and a bunch of fan videos went up in the first 24 hours praising the full season. It really depends on what the specific show needs. For instance, I'm not sure Stranger Things would have done as well with a weekly release, in the first season anyway.

Release strategy should be flexible as water cooler phenomenon are rare, and GoT in some ways ruined that as much as basked in it. When all that resolved to nothing, people were very disappointed. True Detective as well. Tons of conversation and theory leading to a much simpler resolution. Alot less people getting into things at that GoT level now. Something will come along to spark it again, but the signal won't be great weekly numbers in the first season. It will be big growth in between seasons. For Mandalorian vs. Witcher, we won't know until we see the growth into seasons 2.
Streaming means shows have year round life with new viewers joining and renewing the buzz.

I just don't think we have definitive answers to how shows are best released yet, and Forbes was recently bought by a Chinese media company though I haven't figured out what their interest is yet. There have definitely been rumors that the editorial board is not as free as it used to be.

Throw a coin to your Witcher..?

https://i.imgur.com/j6cg5vA.jpg

Interesting point of view that I hadn't considered. And my anecdotal circumstance bears that out to some degree. I'm a new watcher, never read the books, and I'm now hooked for season two. I wasn't aware of any bad reviews and likely would have liked it just as well if it had been released one week at a time but I see your point.

And watdafuq Forbes? Is it too soon for yellow journalism punnery?

That's neat...

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The details are DELICIOUS. Note the shoulder shrug and wrist flip as he withdraws the sword from yet ANOTHER body @:57

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Betcha didn't notice that on first viewing

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Pioneers of social distancing.

What in the actual **** is going on in that video. That is some epic nerd shit.

Great Edit, hypeclip [still not as good as the Fargo scene, though]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: The Witcher Season 2 is officially coming to Netflix on December 17. <a href="https://t.co/Oy7PeysOQ6">https://t.co/Oy7PeysOQ6</a> <a href="https://t.co/JsvwlUlJiu">pic.twitter.com/JsvwlUlJiu</a></p>&mdash; IGN (@IGN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1413553054822109196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Stoked!

That looks amazing. :rockon:

I’m so ready

Did they get a new actor to play the princess? She doesn't look the same to me but it could be she is just a bit older now.

It's the same actress. She definitely looks older, though.

Appreciate the bump. This is one of the many shows I started and never finished; fixing that now.

Woah.

Buckle in.

I’d probably rewatch all of it.

I checked it out fully expecting not to like it. . . I mean, swords and sorcery, based on a video game, . . right after GoT went down in flames. . . Was altogether pleasantly surprised.

Don't watch with expectations, whether it's narrative or tone or whatever, just let it be what it is.

Finished it up. I enjoyed it a great deal.

The dialogue was really great throughout, definite moments of sly and dry humor. Very much looking forward to season 2.

It's worth your time to give it a go and finish.

The world building was great, I look forward to fleshing it out next season. I also love the dueling story lines.

Really excited to explore the Witcher culture too!

I'm not a gamer...like at all...so I watched this as a story...and it's fantastic. Cannot WAIT for Season 2...

I got about 1/3 of the way thru The Witcher Wild Hunter and stopped because it was an investment but the series was great.

Anyone catch the animated Nightmare of the Wolf 'episode'

Decent bit of lore to tide you over.

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Yeah. It is a prequel.

yep i liked it

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Also, season 3 and an animated spinoff confirmed.

This is a show I'll watch. I rarely watch anything anymore but Season 1 delivered. The main character is great and brilliantly acted.

When's season 2 coming?!

Season 2 Dec. 2nd....

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Oh lawd I hope they don't play up the "young girl training to be a kick @ss killer/assassin" angle, so overdone (see GOT).

It's a large focus of one of the books. Geralt is not the only character in the series. I actually really enjoyed Ciri traing at Kaer Morhen with other Witchers. It provides more background to Geralt's history than any other storyline.

Budget!!

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It’s source material. They aren’t making anything up that isn’t in the books.

I am actually watching the first season for the third time right now... love it. I am pumped for season 2.

Still pissed about ugly Triss. But the rest pretty much rocks.

Looking forward to Season 2. :rockon:

Is the proper plural "Witchers" or "Witcherii"?

Toss that coin!!

Is it finally out?

Tomorrow. Can't wait. Just finished season 1 (for the third time) last weekend in preparation.

A lot of people seem to be rewatching season 1 since it's trending #2. lol