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The Witcher (Netflix) Final Trailer
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Dandelion <3
for what it's worth, this is by far the least spoiler-y one
for what it's worth, this is by far the least spoiler-y one
20th December. So next week. And as usual all episodes drop at once.
Of course it isn't. GoT is really an outlier in regards to production value. GoT also wasn't always as expensive and elaborate as it was in later seasons and after its immense success.The first seasons were much more modest.
To be fair, I don't remember GoT season 1 at all. It was a long time ago.
The more I see of this show the more I hope it goes full book accurate and it covers all novels.
Eh.
Looking like a 3/10 show. Maybe even worse.
They don't show Triss or Dandelion. Not good signs.
Looking like a 3/10 show. Maybe even worse.
They don't show Triss or Dandelion. Not good signs.
I really hope this will blow up the way GOT did and we'll get 7+ seasons of it. I know Netflix already ordered season two, so here's to hoping.
Isn't that Dandelion at the end of the trailer?
Don't see how, seems pretty clear they are at the very least mishmashing and squishing the timelines of things.
I believe that that last part is what happening; I remember reading an interview with Hirsch that they brought forward some of the saga-storylines. Can't seem to find it at the moment tho.
He's literally in the last scene of the trailer. Granted, they're going with his original Polish name from the books (Jaskier) rather than Dandelion.
Maybe lookswise, but the dude's singing is on point.
According to the showrunner,
this first season jumps back and forth in time, so that the audiences can get to know Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri all equally, rather than starting squarely with Geralt and slowly learning more about the other two overtime from his POV. So stuff like Yennefer's backstory from the books will actually be shown onscreen rather than just told to Geralt via dialogue as in the books.
S1 of GOT looked much better than this production budget wise. Still looks decent though.
Not feeling it. In fact that music is terrible.
I also read all of the books and he was delightfully Dandelion in all of them. I am getting a Zack Snyder DC movie vibe from this. In that these people have no fucking idea what they're doing. I dearly hope I am wrong.
Didn't they cast Vilgefortz? If so, it's going to use storylines from the saga, Vilgefortz is very much a character in the saga. Same goes for Thanned school, which was shown in one of the trailers.
Dandelion is in the Geralt feature they released the other day and Triss is a minor character so she's not being shown as much at the moment.
Not sure I'd agree with this personally, but then again, it's been a hot minute since I last rewatched S1 of GoT. It's definitely not quite on par with what GoT had from maybe S3 onward though, but the footage I've seen for this so far looks pretty great production-wise.
Eh, fair enough. My main point though was more that his singing was great, which I think is something we could probably both agree on regardless if we disagree about the song itself.
Eight episodes total, I believe.
Oh, this is nice, great voice. I just don't like what they are doing in the last minute or so of the song where the singer is completely drowned out by other instruments and ad lips and all sorts of effects. Weird...
Agreed, I like the song a lot overall, but the last minute definitely feels like it steps out of the realm of being something that Jaskier would perform in-world. I have a feeling there'll be a less bombastic, less orchestral version of the song in-episode and then this version will be used for a montage or end credits.
They are so far adapting these short stories for the first season:
- Episode 1: The Lesser Evil
- Episode 2: The Edge of The World
- Episode 3: The Witcher
- Episode 4: A Question of Price
- Episode 5: The Last Wish
- Episode 6: The Bounds of Reason
- Episode 7: Sword of Destiny
- Episode 8: Something More
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Interesting. Thanks. I wonder where does Vilgefortz fit into that.
Been a little tough to ignore the deluge of 'we have a new exciting show' content from Netflix for this.
Any of them mandatory?
As for me:
Loved Witcher 1.
Bought the first two English-translated books (Last Wish and the....other one).
Loved Witcher 2.
Haven't read the books yet.
Haven't finished Witcher 3.
Any of them mandatory?
As for me:
Loved Witcher 1.
Bought the first two English-translated books (Last Wish and the....other one).
Loved Witcher 2.
Haven't read the books yet.
Haven't finished Witcher 3.
Looks interesting, I know nothing about the books and have never played the video games, should I still give the show a shot?
Haha nope, not doing that! Watched the first 2 trailers, that is more than enough for me.
I'll watch it properly on the 20th
The show will likely be close to the books and not at all like the games. I'd say give it a shot, the story is very good.
Ok cool. I'm assuming a lot of background isn't needed?