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Post by Hier0phant on Dec 21, 2019 17:35:13 GMT
Watched the first two episodes and not bad. Henry was decent as Geralt, i liked Calanthe's casting too, but the casting for Eist Tuirseach seemed off to me because i expected him to look older, and more rugged (Skelligan). It could just be the game adaption retroactively screwing with my perception of the Skelligans, and Cahir looks too old. Also, the Cintran military costume looked beautiful, and made the Nilgaardian ballsack costume look so jarring by contrast. Cathir's helmet looked like a homage to Space Balls.
While the casting was spotty i think the show's weakness will be in it's choice of generic English architecture, and costume for it's identity over Polish inspired ones, or just it's entire budget in general.
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Post by The Biotic Trebuchet on Dec 21, 2019 18:17:03 GMT
I just finished to watch all the chapters, i rate it 6.5-7.0/10 It needs more polish stuff (and people), and as the guy above me said, there's too much english stuff all over it. It might not be as "dirty and crude" as the games portraits the world of the witcher, but it has a bit of it. (might update this later)
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Post by KingDarious BBB on Dec 21, 2019 21:34:08 GMT
I've watched the 1st 2 episodes so far and I'm loving it. The only complaints I've seen are people saying it has to much female nudity, and not enough male nudity.
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Post by slimgrin727 on Dec 21, 2019 22:17:10 GMT
Man they have really twisted Vilgefortz and Cahir up from the books. I'm confused by Vilgefortz's actions in the end. They basically made him a good guy which he isn't in the books. And then by the series logic what he does in the end makes no sense. And apparently Cahir is just a pure bad guy now.
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Post by aglomeracja on Dec 22, 2019 0:21:37 GMT
Man they have really twisted Vilgefortz and Cahir up from the books. I'm confused by Vilgefortz's actions in the end. They basically made him a good guy which he isn't in the books. And then by the series logic what he does in the end makes no sense. And apparently Cahir is just a pure bad guy now. I haven't watched it till the end, but in the books it took a long while before Cahir did something redeeming, and Vilgefortz the opposite.
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Post by Sweet FA on Dec 22, 2019 3:03:06 GMT
Up to episode 3 now. Improvement on episode 1, but I feel the show suffers from being studio bound and It kind of gives me the feeling of a stage (theatre) production rather than a tv/film one. Yeah it definitely feels like I'm sitting in a theatre watching a play at times rather than in front of my tv.
Pacing and editing remains a bugbear for me, pedestrian pace at times with plodding dialogue, too much time indoors talking for what seems like an eternity, and not enough Witcher/monsters they needed to dial back the verbosity. Feels artificially stretched out, actors delivery of dialogue feels painfully slow, it's like pulling teeth. Maybe should have cut the episodes to six rather than eight to make them tighter and more focused. Henry Cavill shines as Geralt though. I'll stick with it.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 22, 2019 3:23:36 GMT
Utter garbage.
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Post by melbella on Dec 22, 2019 3:28:53 GMT
lol....have you even watched it? And if you did, what for since you don't like the witcher universe to begin with? Just so you could call it "utter garbage"?
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Post by dragontartare on Dec 22, 2019 5:34:55 GMT
I just finished the whole thing. I actually like Yenn's portrayal now that I've seen her in action.
The editing and the way they organized the storylines is a mess, though. Even having read the first few books, keeping track of the time jumps was confusing. I can't imagine someone who isn't familiar with the universe keeping track of when each scene actually takes place in the larger timeline.
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Post by fylimar on Dec 22, 2019 7:36:16 GMT
lol....have you even watched it? And if you did, what for since you don't like the witcher universe to begin with? Just so you could call it "utter garbage"?
Just imagine, we would barge into their Josephine thread and start saying mean things about Josie. But obviously it is ok to offend other people's favorite characters and fandoms - without giving a reason.
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Post by fylimar on Dec 22, 2019 7:41:05 GMT
I'm now 5 episodes in and still like it. The bard has to be my favorite and his chemistry with Geralt is just hilarious.
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Post by Babar Guy on Dec 22, 2019 7:58:17 GMT
I just finished the whole thing. I actually like Yenn's portrayal now that I've seen her in action. The editing and the way they organized the storylines is a mess, though. Even having read the first few books, keeping track of the time jumps was confusing. I can't imagine someone who isn't familiar with the universe keeping track of when each scene actually takes place in the larger timeline. I find it fairly simple to keep track of where the storylines are relative to each other in the timeline. They have three different main characters who they follow, Ciri could be seen as the character in "present day", Yen starts the furthest back in the timeline, then her storyline converges with Geralt's who starts off a decade or two before Ciri's storyline. I have a few episodes left (I wish there was more, I'm hooked!), but I assume all three are just about to be in the same place in the timeline after which everything will be happening in "present day". There's dialogue and events peppered throughout to give a rough idea of when things are taking place relative to each other Like Geralt meeting with a clearly middle aged King Foltest and dealing with the striga, and then Foltest later being in a scene with Yen as a child during her storyline.
Or Geralt being at the court of Cintra and saving Duny when we've already seen the child Duny and Pavetta will have and seen the same kingdom be completely overwhelmed by Nilfgaard who have gone from a laughing stock to an emerging empire in 10-15 years (just estimating based on how old Ciri looks to be in her storyline).
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Post by CHRrOME on Dec 22, 2019 12:28:16 GMT
I might or might not finish the whole season today. Plain and simple, gotta say, I like it. Based on what it is, and knowing beforehand this wasn't going to be like the games, or the books even (thinking about the "adaptation" word), but rather be inspired by them, I think the series is pretty damn good. Muh boi Henry is doing a phenomenal work as Geralt, imo. Definitely the center piece (so far) about the whole series for me. So, unless you have a picture of Geralt from the games in your side monitor, with the voice playing also for comparisons, I'd say sooner or later, you get used to the "new" Geralt. After episode one I was like "yeah, I'm buying it". The voice playing is really good, to the point that whenever I hear it in the show is "yup, that's Geralt" Since the guy inspired from the original voice actor it feels very similar. It also has humor, which reminds me a lot of Geralt from the games. I'm starting to accept this actress as Yennefer also, not too bad I suppose. Ciri is also fine, right now. I mean, if she's supposed to be a child in the series because of the timeline, it's totally fine the actress they picked. My only gripe right now is Triss, I just can't put my finger on this actress just yet. I guess it's because I have a pretty strong image of Triss from game 2 and 3, and my thought process is "there was nothing wrong with her look", all the opposite actually. Also (and not to bring racial aspect, it's not the intent), and I'm talking out of ignorance here, is there supposed to be black elves? And not just that, the elves in general feel kinda off. Especially the ones in the forest Jaskier/Dandelion is actually pretty good too imo. It's funny they call him Jaskier here, because they call him Dandelion in the games. I remember "Jaskier" from the spanish subs from the first game, wasn't aware that was his name/alias also. The show also has pretty good vistas, and I'd say as of now being in Ep6, this thing is yet again, pretty damn good for me personally. Oh, also. I got lost completely at one point with the whole "this happened a long time ago" jump in the timeline kinda thing they did, because they never tell you on screen like many movies or shows do (you know what I'm talking about if you saw it). But finally I caught up with what was going on, but I'll admit it took me longer than it probably should. Maybe I'm dumb.
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Post by Shinobu on Dec 22, 2019 14:44:20 GMT
Binge watched it yesterday and liked it a lot. I'm glad there's a second season greenlit because it seems the plot is just getting started.
The effects could be better and I'd personally prefer fewer boobs, but I liked the characters and fight scenes. Geralt's chemistry with Yen, Jaskier and Roach was excellent.
It made me want to go back and try playing TW3 again.
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Post by CHRrOME on Dec 22, 2019 16:44:46 GMT
Just finished whole S1. And I stand by my opinion, this thing is really good. Absolutely loved it, definitely looking forward for the next season.
The acting is good. I didn't hate any characters. The writing for what it is, is not bad at all. I've never felt that there was stupid BS going on. The effects are good, considering this isn't a movie.
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Dec 22, 2019 16:51:02 GMT
While the casting was spotty i think the show's weakness will be in it's choice of generic English architecture, and costume for it's identity over Polish inspired ones, or just it's entire budget in general. it's CD Project speaking in you. the show is based on the books which were never either Polish or Slavic fantasy. There's just a bunch of monsters from slavic folk tales, and that's it. most of the Witcher's names are either Celtic or German, the plot and the tropes are distinctively Western European (some king Arthur legend in action, too). I have no idea why people keep on calling The Witcher "slavic fantasy" or keep expecting some Slavic shite in there.
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Post by Babar Guy on Dec 22, 2019 17:16:56 GMT
you can't fucking end the last episode like that and then make me wait for a year or longer before there's more of this
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Post by CHRrOME on Dec 22, 2019 17:32:13 GMT
IMDB says S2 is apparently being aired on 2021? I sure hope they're wrong...
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Post by Kappa Neko on Dec 22, 2019 17:43:26 GMT
Plenty of TV shows have 2 year gaps between seasons these days. AWFUL I have yet to watch. Can't right now. It's killing me. My buddy who's a huge fan of the novels really liked it. He's watching for the third time already! He did say the show has all kinds of issues with narrative and editing but overall it looks like that it's not the mess I was worried it would be. So I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by CHRrOME on Dec 22, 2019 17:46:29 GMT
Plenty of TV shows have 2 year gaps between seasons these days. AWFUL I have yet to watch. Can't right now. It's killing me. My buddy who's a huge fan of the novels really liked it. He's watching for the third time already! He did say the show has all kinds of issues with narrative and editing but overall it looks like that it's not the mess I was worried it would be. So I'm looking forward to it. Well, as I've said personally. Don't jump in expecting this to be like the books, even if it's based on them (I haven't started with the books yet), because it's not gonna. Same happened with LOTR, and in a more horrifying way, GoT. Take this as its own thing, and honestly I think most unbiased people would at least like it, some like me might love it. The ending really let me with that "god dammit!" feeling, when you wanna keep watching, but it's over.
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Post by dragontartare on Dec 22, 2019 18:30:50 GMT
I just finished the whole thing. I actually like Yenn's portrayal now that I've seen her in action. The editing and the way they organized the storylines is a mess, though. Even having read the first few books, keeping track of the time jumps was confusing. I can't imagine someone who isn't familiar with the universe keeping track of when each scene actually takes place in the larger timeline. I find it fairly simple to keep track of where the storylines are relative to each other in the timeline. They have three different main characters who they follow, Ciri could be seen as the character in "present day", Yen starts the furthest back in the timeline, then her storyline converges with Geralt's who starts off a decade or two before Ciri's storyline. I have a few episodes left (I wish there was more, I'm hooked!), but I assume all three are just about to be in the same place in the timeline after which everything will be happening in "present day". There's dialogue and events peppered throughout to give a rough idea of when things are taking place relative to each other Like Geralt meeting with a clearly middle aged King Foltest and dealing with the striga, and then Foltest later being in a scene with Yen as a child during her storyline.
Or Geralt being at the court of Cintra and saving Duny when we've already seen the child Duny and Pavetta will have and seen the same kingdom be completely overwhelmed by Nilfgaard who have gone from a laughing stock to an emerging empire in 10-15 years (just estimating based on how old Ciri looks to be in her storyline). Yes, I'm aware of the clues. As I said, I've read the first few books. But you don't get the first real clue that they are time skipping back and forth until you're a few episodes in, which leaves it somewhat confusing in the moment. I knew Yenn's backstory had to happen long before the other storylines, but only because I'm familiar with the series. A newcomer would not know what was going on with the timeline until they caught one of those clues peppered in several episodes later. As far as the other two, since Freya/Ciri does not look 11/12, I thought they'd changed her story to occur at an older age. (It wasn't until near the end of the season where a line of dialogue lets you know her age.) And if they changed hers, why not mess with Geralt's timeline too? Until the episodes you mentioned, there was no indication as to when they'd intended Geralt's scenes to take place in relation to Ciri's or Yenn's. Knowing when they happen in the books doesn't mean they did the same thing in the show. I enjoyed the show overall, but I think they could have handled the time skips a lot better.
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Post by slimgrin727 on Dec 22, 2019 18:50:40 GMT
While the casting was spotty i think the show's weakness will be in it's choice of generic English architecture, and costume for it's identity over Polish inspired ones, or just it's entire budget in general. it's CD Project speaking in you. the show is based on the books which were never either Polish or Slavic fantasy. There's just a bunch of monsters from slavic folk tales, and that's it. most of the Witcher's names are either Celtic or German, the plot and the tropes are distinctively Western European (some king Arthur legend in action, too). I have no idea why people keep on calling The Witcher "slavic fantasy" or keep expecting some Slavic shite in there. Well it's Sapkowski's experience in post WW2 Poland that formed a lot of his ideas. He does draw from Slavic folklore for monsters and other things. His actual descriptions of architecture and outfits is not particularly slavic but the grim humor and fatalism are.
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Post by aglomeracja on Dec 22, 2019 19:06:33 GMT
Tomek Bagiński recently said that they are listening to feedback and are going to make some changes in future seasons. When asked for example, he said "many Nilfgaardian soldiers have fallen (during first season events) and new recruits most likely will be equipped with different armor" I'm after 4 episodes and it's pretty great. It's very close to the source material and most changes they made make sense, acting is pretty good, fight scenes are pretty amazing (good job mr Cavil), and what they did with mixing timelines is actually pretty clever, although very confusing. As others stated before, I realized what they're doing when whatching 4th episode.
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Dec 22, 2019 19:26:45 GMT
it's CD Project speaking in you. the show is based on the books which were never either Polish or Slavic fantasy. There's just a bunch of monsters from slavic folk tales, and that's it. most of the Witcher's names are either Celtic or German, the plot and the tropes are distinctively Western European (some king Arthur legend in action, too). I have no idea why people keep on calling The Witcher "slavic fantasy" or keep expecting some Slavic shite in there. Well it's Sapkowski's experience in post WW2 Poland that formed a lot of his ideas. He does draw from Slavic folklore for monsters and other things. His actual descriptions of architecture and outfits is not particularly slavic but the grim humor and fatalism are. i dunno what formed Sapek's ideas but i do know that, for instance, his depiction of the elves is deconstruction of the western fantasy literature's elves. So it just follows the way of western literature. In a way, the whole Witcher is just another take on the traditional western fantasy. and yes, there is some slavic monsters like stryga and kikimora but there's as many (if not more) non-slavic monsters (vampires, driadas, manticoras etc). most location names are non-slavic (the only distinctively slavic that comes to mind is Novigrad), an overwhelming majority of characters names are non-slavic (Emhyr, Vilgefortz, Triss, Ciri etc.) there is more Celtic and Germanic names and there is more Celtic and Germanic mythology in the Witcher than the Slavic one. Pretty much the only Slavic influence in the setting is a bunch of monsters and a couple of names. But let's face it, most people don't read/watch/play the Witcher for the sake of drowners, kikimoras, and strygas. as of "slavic grim humour and fatalism", i dont believe there's such thing as nationally-specific type of humour or fatalism. It sounds like some woodoo to me tbh.
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