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The Witcher (Netflix) Final Trailer
- Thread starter Nightfall
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I will say, while I've personally enjoyed the trailers myself, I do think the absolute best promotional material Netflix has released for this show has been the three Character Introduction videos for Geralt, Ciri and especially Yennefer.
The Striga has been (understandbly, being sush an iconic moment) hidden away (we do see some glimpses) but the kikimore has been shown quite a lot.
The Striga has been (understandbly, being sush an iconic moment) hidden away (we do see some glimpses) but the kikimore has been shown quite a lot.
The showrunner has also teased there being some new monsters in the show based on old Polish folklore that we don't know about yet!
Lauren said they deliberately de-emphasized the monsters in trailers so they'd be a surprise and not blow what stories they're adapting in advance.
Oh man, I'm down just for a Last Wish adaptation. Still my favorite story.
The world seems very... un-Witcher like, though. Where're the elves and dwarves?
The world seems very... un-Witcher like, though. Where're the elves and dwarves?
The Dandelion song they released is about Geralt fighting elves, so I imagine they're around.
Given the amount of trashy hot takes I've seen from game-only consumers this year (where Triss at? - how come he only gawt one sward on his back? - whurz mah Dandy Lion?) I'd say the interest would be low.
I mean, if they're complaining it means they're taking interest. Good or not.
Personally, I love the games and am super hyped only b/c of that.
Naw- the games are great. Just think it's funny that Netflix has gone out of their way to throw up "BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING BOOK SERIES" in giant lettering on every trailer in order to avoid confusion and it just gets ignored.
In the Netflix video about Geralt's character, there is a shot of Toruviel
And in one trailer we saw one scene from the 5th episode, which is the adaptation of the short story The Bounds of Reason, where we can see some dwarves
I'm not at home so I don't have my boots to look at, but which story was about
The Dragon
I hope they have A Shard of Ice, A Little Sacrifice, and A Grain of Truth as side stories in the second season as flashbacks.
Just caught this video on my feed. He really should narrate the audiobooks.
Great video with the clips matching the book text. Emphasizes how they are adapting the books as closely as they can.
Yeah I love A Shard of Ice, I'm hoping we might get something in there seeing that the bathtub scene is from there and we've seen it in the trailers, but seems unlikely.
Great video with the clips matching the book text. Emphasizes how they are adapting the books as closely as they can.
Exaggerate your disbelief all you like, but the battles, especially the larger ones look extremely low budget, and this series actually cost a lot to make. The smaller scale fights look a little ridiculous too with the choreography. Maybe, just maybe these trailers are a poor representation overall of the series, but if so, then they didn't do a good job with them.
LMAO, case in point.
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Dunno what exactly you are watching, or what you are actually comparing it to, but it does look cheap. There are more than a few shows out now on TV that do both large and small scale fights pretty well, and might even do one or the other at a much higher standard than most. Nothing in any of these trailers show that this series can go beyond average at best. It's like a huge portion of the budget was spent on the monster CGI and the actors.
Unless they set up a gap in the timeline for flashing back to in the second season, A Shard of Ice should stay on the cutting room floor. Adapting that story after Ciri enters their lives would be disastrous, it would especially ruin Geralt as a character. The triangle dynamic is almost definitely staying, but I can't imagine it being the same story.
I feel like people are being blinded by their love for the source material. Everything I've seen in motion looks badddd so far. All of the fight scenes are floaty, with the weapons not even touching people yet they fall over and die. The choreography looks terrible and like a B-movie.
I love the games and novels a lot, but this just doesnt look promising to me, which is a shame because Henry deserves this to be a success.
I love the games and novels a lot, but this just doesnt look promising to me, which is a shame because Henry deserves this to be a success.
