I’ve started watching this on Netflix and it’s awesome! I loved the game, never read the books but it’s still all very familiar without feeling like I know everything.
I think if the producers of this show got their hands on some Warcraft material we’d finally get something to watch that was successful.
The atmosphere is right there, I’m not sure how they did it, but it certainly has the haunted feel of the video game, which they apparently did not use for reference.
Anyway it’s a great show if you like the fantasy genre, check it out, and hope these guys get a call from Blizzard sometime soon
I think I’m enjoying it because I’ve never read a Witcher book, or played the games really. I messed around with Witcher 2 when it was free/games with gold, on Xbox 360, but did not get into it really. Never got Witcher 3 on Xbox One, though it got good reviews. Maybe I’ll try it now.
So to me, it is just a cool fantasy show based on material I’m not familiar with
This where I have to very questionable of them cause Episode 3. Yeah. That was a Boss fight. Not boss like badass and cool. Which it was. That was straight up a unprepared hard boss encounter.
If that wasnt inspired from the game, even more props to their production team to pull it off like that.
Oh I totally question it, the series is totally spot on from the video game perspective.
I haven’t read the books so it’s possible that they are great reference for this stuff but I still think they would have watched at least some game play and cinematics possibly pulling inspiration from that.
Ive read the 1st book, many moons back. So far it captures the good and the bad (rando flash back without indications it is a flash back.) Although, for a modern fantasy, it holds up very well. Not levels of GoT, which had obvious bigger budgets. But I say it fits between LotR movies and GoT in size and scaling.
When out in the world, it feels vast and expanding, when in rooms, halls it can be spacious and roomy, to suddenly cramped and dangerously crowded feeling.
Very few modern and classic fantasies can pull that off. Doesn’t mTter if they tongue and cheek like Galavant, to trying to damn hard with bright or even, ugh. Shannara chronicles. Luckily Witcher found a solid middle ground that can expand upon.
True. But even with the book, it only described it for so long without it starting to feel redundant. Cause then it would taken away from (want to give spoilers but wont).
While they the producers say it isn’t inspired by the game, i think they are just saying that while using both mediums to build it for the show. Either way, I am still very happy with it.
Must be a shannara fan. They the ones who been most out spoken against Witcher.
I, kid, I kid. But honestly, they been rather moody about the show though.
It was not. That battle is the opening short story to his first collection The Last Wish.
That scene was recreated as a CGI for the game, but it’s just an opening cinematic when you turn the game on, like the WoW expac cinematics. They keep all the same story beats in all 3 versions but the show went with it’s own depiction. Most of Geralts scenes this season come straight from various short stories with some mild adaptation.
Henry Cavill is a huge fan of the books and video games and he clearly has taken inspiration from both in his portrayal of Geralt.
Was it the whole multiple timelines thing? Basically every comment I’ve seen about the show said they had no idea what was going on with the timeline thing until like the 4th episode, then it started to make sense.
Seems like a bad choice if people were that confused, but, whatever.
I kinda figured after the 3rd or 4th episode that this would be what those unfamiliar with the series would end up thinking.
I feel like the Pavetta and Dunny story was jammed in a very unusual place that doesn’t necessarily clearly explain that Ciri is her child, nor really give any hint that the plot is background story for the “law of surprise” thing and happens MANY years in the past.
They also took a lot of liberties to create a story that didn’t exist previously (Ciri coming and going from Brokolon) , so that probably did nothing to help the confusion.
On the whole, I dig it. But I can see where it would start to lose an audience that wasn’t already familiar with the source material. Bit of a shame, and I hope they work on that in future seasons.
