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The Witcher |OT| Something More (Dec. 20th Netflix) - TAG SPOILERS WITH EPISODE
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Finally going to sub to Netflix tonight to watch this! I've avoided the app for so many years I feel kinda sad about it =P I assume I can find a free trial or something somewhere?
Reviews are about what I expected, but I'm glad to see all the gaming publications love it. Means it should go down well for us at least! And with season 2 already locked in I guess the main thing we hope for now is strong viewing figures, if we want a long series with increased budget.
Reviews are about what I expected, but I'm glad to see all the gaming publications love it. Means it should go down well for us at least! And with season 2 already locked in I guess the main thing we hope for now is strong viewing figures, if we want a long series with increased budget.
Not a Witcher fanboy at all ( hated 1. 2 was okay, 3 was better but got bored) and never read the books. Liked first episode quite a bit
They down right admitted to watching the 1st episode then skipping episodes then bothering to not even finishing the season.
What the fuck is that Entertainment Weekly review, what an embarrassing shit show. Don't publish a review if you're gonna do -this-
This is where I'm at. Pretty happy with it so far.
Only issue is the Snyder desaturation look to most of the scenes. The one scene with colors that popped and were vibrant looked fantastic and felt closer to witcher 2 and 3. Think the show would be better if it was color graded like that instead of the drab MoS look, though its not a huge issue either way.
The cast is like the most important thing after one episode though.
That makes sense, she was trying to be awkward! and to me it felt like a adult and not a girl that is about I think 14 at this point in the story. Not in a gross way but I'm around 14 year old girls every day so the body language felt really off to me. Kind of like child actors that when doing interviews come off as like a thirty year old in a kids body😂 now yen on the other hand still looks way to young to me!
Right? Reads like it was written by a toddler throwing a tantrum. Wonder if they'll react to it, it's a downright embarassing piece.
First Episode was great. It felt like a book adaptation of a game adaptation of the book if that makes sense.
They can say it's based off the books all they like but so many scenes might as well be larp from the games (in a good way so far.)
First episode wrapped up. Not as good as my lofty hopes, but a lot better than I expected.
At times it's a bit cheesy and off putting, some costumes a little cosplay-ish, dialogue a bit hammy, and so on and so forth. It's definitely straight down the gullet with the whole setup and concept and doesn't shy away from the heavier fantasy elements. Despite using Eastern European instrumentation the actual tone of the show is a bit neutral, in the sense that it's Typical Medieval Fantasy stuff. The ballsack armour is awful and probably the best example where a silly conceptual design and vision really looks cheap given the surrounding production quality.
That being said, I enjoyed it a lot. The acting is completely fine, even if Cavill is full blown channelling video game Geralt. I really like the actress playing Ciri, her performance is strong. The supporting characters so far deliver their lines well and fine that eloquent balance between seriousness and humour. The first episode is faithful to the source material and does a superb job of setting up the hooks. The fight scenes both small and large are a lot better than I expected it. Episode 1's market fight is just utterly sublime; very well shot and choreographed.
It's good. I'm in. I hope it holds this quality at least, because I'm enjoying what I'm in for. It's not quite as coherent in its visual tone as I'd like, and doesn't really have the cultural imprint of its source material, but so far it's doing a good job with what it has to work with.
So yeah. Colour me surprised, and happy.
At times it's a bit cheesy and off putting, some costumes a little cosplay-ish, dialogue a bit hammy, and so on and so forth. It's definitely straight down the gullet with the whole setup and concept and doesn't shy away from the heavier fantasy elements. Despite using Eastern European instrumentation the actual tone of the show is a bit neutral, in the sense that it's Typical Medieval Fantasy stuff. The ballsack armour is awful and probably the best example where a silly conceptual design and vision really looks cheap given the surrounding production quality.
That being said, I enjoyed it a lot. The acting is completely fine, even if Cavill is full blown channelling video game Geralt. I really like the actress playing Ciri, her performance is strong. The supporting characters so far deliver their lines well and fine that eloquent balance between seriousness and humour. The first episode is faithful to the source material and does a superb job of setting up the hooks. The fight scenes both small and large are a lot better than I expected it. Episode 1's market fight is just utterly sublime; very well shot and choreographed.
It's good. I'm in. I hope it holds this quality at least, because I'm enjoying what I'm in for. It's not quite as coherent in its visual tone as I'd like, and doesn't really have the cultural imprint of its source material, but so far it's doing a good job with what it has to work with.
So yeah. Colour me surprised, and happy.
Also, the first scene made me sad...stupid spider! I was hoping a drowner was going to jump up. I read the books...but to me the games are "my" Witcher. And so far it feels like the games to me, especially the music while different seems pretty close to the games style. Also stupid knuckles game. At first I thought they were playing the dice game from Witcher two.
They mixed the short stories with the main books, which is the correct approach.
Doing one or the other alone wouldn't work. But the timelines are hard to follow as Yen for example is quite old (I think even older than Geralt) and there's no indication that her origin story takes back in the past. Taking the present as Ciri's stuff, that is.
No. I'm gonna sit down for the second episode shortly and I assume that introduces her. The first sets up Geralt and Ciri as characters, and begins their arcs.
Yeah makes sense. I watched basically every interview on YouTube and it was obvious Henry and Freya were going to be decent at worst. Yen seemed a bit more spotty so I'm most interested in how that works out. I'll be watching in about an hour though anyway.
Pretty much. From the start she's been my big worry, and I still don't know why they cast someone so young as Yen, but I've got my fingers crossed she makes rather than breaks. I've been pretty cynical about the whole thing for awhile now, and I'm a lot more positive after the first episode.
Just finished watching the first episode and thought it was very promising. My only real complaint (and this is just first judgment, she may get better) was that Ciri came across as a bit bland. I almost wish they'd swapped her actress with the girl from Blavekin as she was immediately likeable.
This seemed to me a matter of material, but she was pretty great.
I don't know if I'll be able to finish this season. Already had to take a break during episode 1 or else I would probably burst.
Everything looks fake and sound stagey. Even when it's pretty, it looks like a shampoo commercial. There's no sense of place and constant cutting between timelines doesn't help.
The writing is incredibly stilted and whenever they come close to quoting the books, it sounds like a tl;dr version of the original. The Lesser Evil shouldn't have been rushed through and chopped up like this.
Cavill hasn't said a single line that sounded natural. He's not acting, he's just doing a Video Game Geralt impression.
So far, the highlights have been the bit parts and original characters. Marilka sounded more like Sapkowski's Ciri than the constipated princess (incidentally, that's the character Freya Allan was originally cast for).
The woman playing Renfri had potential, it's too bad her story was cut down so much, she ended up being a shell of her former self.
Everything looks fake and sound stagey. Even when it's pretty, it looks like a shampoo commercial. There's no sense of place and constant cutting between timelines doesn't help.
The writing is incredibly stilted and whenever they come close to quoting the books, it sounds like a tl;dr version of the original. The Lesser Evil shouldn't have been rushed through and chopped up like this.
Cavill hasn't said a single line that sounded natural. He's not acting, he's just doing a Video Game Geralt impression.
So far, the highlights have been the bit parts and original characters. Marilka sounded more like Sapkowski's Ciri than the constipated princess (incidentally, that's the character Freya Allan was originally cast for).
The woman playing Renfri had potential, it's too bad her story was cut down so much, she ended up being a shell of her former self.
Man the sword fight in the first episode is one of if not the best live action sword fights ive ever seen and it's very much channeling the witcher games whilist showing why witchers are so feared in combat. Wild.
Short stories and mainline books. The first episode draws from;
The Lesser Evil and Blood of Elves.
Oh this is great to hear!
Man that review was really really embarassing. Skipping straight to the 5th episode "Nobody has time for this nowadays". Uhm..you are a reviewer?
I won't be able to watch for a few more hours, but the sword fighting and battle scenes have pretty consistently received the highest praise from those who have watched it.
I enjoyed the first episode quite a bit. Man that sword fight when Geralt got back to Blavikin was super fucking cool.
