litterally. I'm pretty sure the Witcher only got green lit because of game of thrones. It confuses me how the writers were allowed to do what they want when GoT was at its peek when following the books.
I believe the Witcher series got green lit simply because Ciri turns gay for a while in story. And Hollywood loves virtue signaling about LGTV. They already needlessly turned two characters into rainbow people adding no value to the story whatsoever.
I think it’s more lack of reading comprehension rather than contempt. The writers are terrible at understanding literature, it shows in their shallow writing.
Cant believe you didnt discuss the madness of Ciri running away from Yen (not clearly explained or shown at all), for her then to be riding somewhere random being chased by the wild hunt and then runs into Geralt who throws one sign to scare the wild hunt away. Then they explain theyre 2 days away from Yen and Yen has just been talking absolute shite and doesnt even mention once that Ciri had run away and she doesnt seem to give shit or be aware of whats happening. But she mentions to Triss that Ciri is with Geralt? Genuinely mind numbingly stupid.
yeah this right here.. i thought I dozed off and missed an episode and rewinded the show only to realize that this was high school level film student shit narrative. just mind boggling retardedz.. and the wild hunt can be chased away with one sign? speaking of signs. do the writers know of the other 4 sign besides Aard? it seems they are only aware of Aard, he hasnt used any of the other signs from what I can remember. this woman hissbitch has ruined ironfist and is now on her second conquest to demolish the witcher. how in the name of fuckity fuck does she still have a job
Fantasy really can't catch a break from the constant beating it's getting can it? Every writer seemingly wants to punch the entire genre into the void.
@@benwarwick4290 they are doing it intentionally, they don't want to write fantasy, they want to write modern drama and is just using the Fantasy as a backdrop. That is why they don't care what the source material is, they just want to tell their own stories, only using the bare minimum of the material they get, like the names of characters.
Coz these activist writers think it's THEIR fantasy. No wonder why they blame the fans and get triggered whenever anyone criticizes their horrendous work coz it's their personal fantasy.
@@thejikzter6782 I usually wouldn't say they are activists, because that is dirtying the term Activists. They are more selfish egotistical assholes that believe they can write better than the author that wrote the materials they are adapting.
I was also disappointed with Radovid in season 3. He gets introduced as this deep, mysterious character but in the end, his only objective & purpose is to hook up with Jaskier.
technically Radovid was supposed to be around 13 or 14 at this point and still very much a boy. but what pisses me off the most is that dandelion is the biggest womanizer ever. hes not fuykin gay.
It's hilarious how they really forced the mother-daughter relationship of Yen and Ciri for how they butchered it last season. Then have Geralt forgive Yen coz she writes him cute little letters lmao. No wonder Henry left- it literally turned into a fanfiction (especially when they made Jaskier gay for Radovid who was a child in the books).
I wonder how much they knew about who Radovid was (or any character in general). Radovid should not only be a child, he is cannonically younger than Ciri by 3 years. Netflix is just the worst tbh.
Not to mention the only real characterization of radovid beyond his age is from the games, where he isn’t someone I’d personally choose for diversity representation. Sure the games aren’t canon to the show, but clearly the books aren’t either
@@BigChap117 Honestly the idea that these people know what they're doing or indeed have any concept of themes or messaging and took even a single second to consider any of it is just ludicrous at this point, so I gotta disagree with you there. (Also they didn't make Radovid a child, they literally made him an adult when he was supposed to be a child, that's the exact opposite, not that it makes it any better)
I was watching the show throughout my day while doing chores, and was literally shocked when the season ended. I was still waiting for the climax and it just ended. Thought maybe they only released half the season. No action, plot character development, really nothing. My laundry went through more stages of development than this show.
You could just go on Wikipedia and read the summary. Basically nothing happens. They run from here to there a bit of yada yada yada and basically no plot progression. The big reveal is Vilgefortz is the big baddie. But we all know that from season 1 when he killed his own soldier. He wants Ciri for his own power. Basically all the kingdoms including Vilgefortz want Ciri so they can control the monoliths which are portals to the conjunction of spheres allowing them to travel to other worlds and dimension. Vilgefortz wants to banish the elves sending them to another world. There's alot of nonsense in the books and weird character motivations but in a nutshell everyone wants more power and controlling the monoliths thru Ciri seems to be the key.
Complete Witcher season explained in one sentence "Things start off bad, maintain a steady amount of bad only to end slightly more bad then the start". 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The scene with Ciri foretelling the death of the royal messenger Aplegatt is from the books but it's adapted in a really bad way because it's Netflix of course. She should be in a trance when she's saying the prophecy and look more absent with glassy eyes. And when the trance is over she should look confused and not know what just happened because she doesn't remember these trances. When Aplegatt saw her in the books he thought to himself that she's probably just weird or maybe even mentally ill if I remember correctly.
That Ep 3 scene was only in there to set up him being bi.. because up until now we had absolutely no indication of that. A womanizer, sure, but bi? None. So they had to have his sex friend Vesbula, I think her name was, say that he banged everything, including polymorphs. And damn they miscast Margarita, Kiera and Mistle.. good lord. No where in the books are any of the sorceresses fat. -And the Rats.. none of them would be fat either. They'd be skinny as they are basically homeless vagabonds. Being fat isn't possible for them!
I really hate how in the books the sourceresser are supposed to look really conventionally pretty, but Netflix does everything to make them unconventional or downright ugly. The point is that they all make their own appearance overly gorgeous (often because they're making up for something) and many of them are meant to be really vain. There are chracters who could look more unconventional, like Milwa or Angueleme, but they had to mess with the literal league of supermodels.
as a gay man i was offended they'd ruin Jaskiers character! Jaskier is a womanizer.. do the writers think the viewers aren't paying attention? It felt so forced
@@rubenmorales9725 Yes, they do. Every plot item is spoon-fed in conversation, be it the magic or politics. The show is written for morons who can't see anything by themselves.
I can’t believe Fringilla just played dead to escape, this whole time I thought she used magic to disguise herself as the guy that died next to her, guess Nilfgard doesn’t know how to check a pulse.
@@OOL-UV2 damn your actually right about that, I completely forgot about the war crimes she committed last season she should’ve been a top priority criminal, and they should’ve burned or buried her or something. I agree.
I watched the first 2 seasons, in memory of a friend who really loved the books and the games. But Season 3? No way, plus I canceled Netflix after Cleopatra!
i cancelled every thing and watch 100% on bootleg. i use free stream live 1 for all UFC and sporting events as well. i pay for nothing and watch everything for free. free streams live has a discord so when it does get taken down they have a new site up the next day and those who know, know where to go next...easy peasy
Its just random scenes of people talking about nothing, and then maybe a monster comes into frame and we have something worth a damn. Without Henry, this is nothing.
I disagree with the costume praise. I do think that many of the outfits looked good (especially when compared to the first season and the infamous scrotum armour), but they didn't all fit. Philippa was dressed up like a Brazilian carnival dancer and whoever put Yen in a glittery Bollywood outfit should get slapped. Same with her weird blue blouse she wears in this season, those particular outfits looked way too modern and just out of place, especially when shown next to Geralt's padded tunic thingy, which looked great. The armour also god a lot better, Emhyr looks good now even though the actor they chose is too young.
This might be a bit pedantic of me, but I also thought Yennefer looked like an overgrown twelve-year-old in those long, dirndl-like skirts that stopped just above her ankles. She's supposed to be this beautiful, sophisticated mage and she's stomping around dressed like one of the Von Trapp children? Who thought that was a good look for a grown woman?
So before season 1 came out, pictures of shitty costumes were revealed. The production company was roasted. But then they fixed it. My gripe is why when writers are told their story is shite can they not be expected to fix their work? Season 3. It's all over the place. I'm not very knowledgeable able Witcher lore, so having the characters teleport from town to town doesn't do or mean anything. And yes, every episode is very padded.
I don't understand Season 3 Ciri. In the first Season, it was suggested that she had magical powers (she did afterall topple a monolith just be screaming, and also killed some assailents just be screaming). How is it that in Season 3, her first response to any challenge is to draw a Sword? where are the powers that make her so unique, so much so that everybody is trying to capture her? Is she just another Witcher?
Her powers in the show are very much not what they were in the books. What she does is travel between the spheres or dimensions. Though most people who haven’t been obsessed with her bloodline just want her to sell her to the highest bidder, be it Nilfgaard or the northern kingdoms as she’s the heir to Cintra with ties to skellige, temeria and of course Nilfgaard itself
Now that you mention it, I'm sure the show is getting tons of flack for not having enough "Witcher" in the show called "Witcher" and their response was to give ciri more sword scenes instead of what we really wanted, more Geralt.
@@Herr_Gamer I see. i haven't read the books, so my understanding of her importance is based on the show, and in Season 1 they make a very big deal of how powerful her magic powers and bloodline (Elder Blood etc....) are. Then season 3, not so much
@@harrietmuchu4070 the show’s writers think they’re smarter than the original writing which leads to a hard to follow, murky and unclear overarching plot. If you have an actual interest in the witcher, I highly recommend the books. They should be readily available as audiobooks if you’re not a big reader
Jonny. Man. You've obviously been on the run, that bit was smooth, criminal. That bit was just bad. These issues are never just black or white. Honestly, the studio deserved it though, it's just human nature, they don't care about us. So keep it up, don't stop 'til you get enough.
House of the Dragon and the earlier Seasons of Game of Thrones are a great example of how to do slow build up relying on massive amounts of dialogue and minimal action.
My dad said it best about this season: “ im leaving this with nothing. If i didnt watch it i would feel exactly the same” I wouldnt say it better. I saw it few days back and apart from the last episode (which was repeated multiple times) i dont remeber anything, because its just so boring
I remember being so excited when this project got announced. No one could have predicted that the coming of the streaming age of movies would mark the worst era of fantasy/sci-fi production in the entire history of hollywood.
Haha! The streaming services haven’t made sci if and fantasy movies worse, it’s always been a terrible genre! It has, however, lifted the trash from obscurity to directly rub it in your face.
It was actually predictable. In an age when everything on TV can be downloaded freely from torrent sites, people write for the fringe that's still dumb enough to pay: the young, naive, female and technology inept American moron.
Me and my misses even found Witcher season 2 boring. We’ve seen better shows in fantasy writing. We just want House of the Dragon season 2 now. And tbh, I think I’ll stick to the books and the games where it’s actually good.
"Forgive me if I don't jump up and down with glee. Your record in the department of cunning plans isn't exactly the best. So what is the plan?" "We do nothing." "Yep, it's another world beater."
When the audience knows that the story is much better in the video game, why put up with this insulting, agenda-driven vanity project that has little to do with the source material? Showrunner ruined it.
Because whichever walking septic tank produced this garbage didn't want to make a good show with a compelling narrative and faithfully adapted characters. They wanted to make propaganda with the express intention of furthering their corporate masters' political goals. And propaganda has to feel pervasive to be effective.
@@dantesinporno Also, they might never be found and heard if they tried to be original, but take an existing property with many fans, and set aside all hope for quality and fidelity, and suddenly the bait and switch gets them noticed.
Im having a hard time figuring out wtf this Yennifer's deal was. Shes so wishy washy. Also i hate the fact that she never has any repurcussions on her actions within the circle. In other media her action should have warranted a bounty on her head and forever banned in the circle.
She's basically a good mage with a personal agenda and then her character arc is she realizes she must serve the greater good and tries to train Ciri to be the 🐐 and the 3 of them save the kingdom. That's kinda the deal in a nutshell. But it needs more Witcher bad assery. The books make a big deal about Ciri and Yennifer but let's get real here. Watching the two of them fight is about as exciting as watching paint dry. We fans want more Geralt monster slaying and minimize all the political dribble. And don't make such a big deal about Ciri and Yennifer. They're nothing more than a plot device for Witcher action.
Johnfreeman9682 is spot on. I also noticed the show makes a big deal about Yennefer's background (her living at a pig farm then screwing Istredd in that cave with ghosts - pointless drivel). Her background in the books is simply this: Geralt looks her in the eyes and figures out she's a hunchback using magic to appear pretty.
@jonfreeman9682 that's the problem I'm having. There's too much drivel with the sorceress and Yennifer side story insertion. Even her losing powers was a WTF situation. Like , how? Why? And season2 is just about her looking for a way to retrieve that powers...like, are we even watching Witcher or Yennifer show? Anyway I dropped it after s2 so it's not big of a deal, I'm just trying to figure out her character since she was always in the fore front
Gta say, the casting of both Triss and Yen is absolutely shocking. Two characters that you really did have to absolutely get right... And they're both so crap.
Firmly in the same boat. Chalotra has never come across as anything other than a CW plant. There has literally not been a single moment in all 3 seasons when I went, 'Yes, THAT is Yen!'. Her expressions, costume, voice, demeanour, projection of power...everything is off. Triss is ok, in that she's mostly a non-entity so it's hard to have any opinion.
@@theruintheruin337yes they have written yen horribly, but i also do not think the actor fits the role honestly, they could have done muuch better, but that is to be said with everything on this show
@@theruintheruin337yes, they are great actors, but it doesn't mean they are perfect for the role. Yen's actress looks too young, and she is also supposed to look pale. Triss' actress looks too old. In the books,Triss is supposed to look like she could be Ciri's sister. In the show, Triss looks older than Yen
The string of puns at 2:51 was hilarious, you smooth criminal you. This is the content that makes me hold off on the toaster bath and think "Johnny just dropped a new video. Heaven can wait a bit longer."
Ok first of all Mr. Scandinavian Architect… it’s my first time seeing your channel… first thing I saw were those three posters back there of those three bangers of videogames… I’m hitting the sub button…
The Witcher Season 3 Review☠️ This wasn't good. As the show has tried to extend its scope and scale it's clear the people making it have a reach that far exceeds their grasp. Everything from pacing, structure, character work, and even the action set pieces feel like rushed first ideas hastily executed and cobbled together to meet a deadline rather than well-honed sequences, scripts, and scenes that have been toiled over and shaped with care and a firm vision for what the show is trying to convey. Plotholes, contrivances, wonky magic systems, empty mysteries, and modern self-aware dialogue are rife, and it feels like a show made out of obligation rather than passion and creative drive. It's such a shame, because while not perfect, the books are excellent, so some of the burden creatively shouldn't be as visible as it is in this show, but this need to do their own thing and sometimes vandalise beloved characters and story beats has only placed more pressure on writers and producers to deliver something they simply aren't capable of. The biggest issue for this season apart from the lack of coherent story telling. Is that they are trying to be something they are not. They are not Game of Thrones, they are not Lord of the rings Rings of Power. S1 opened the world of the Witcher. And by s3, I don't even know what I am watching. There is no focus, just long periods of side stories... boring, CGI is there just to be there. Writing has become lazy. You can see that they don't care about the source material. And you can see they try to add modern values to it... Which makes it even worse. There is a clear lack of understanding from the show runners to the writers room of what makes for competent storytelling. They had good source material, an amazing cast, and world class crew, yet somehow managed to fall into cliche traps (telling instead of showing, character narrating to rush the storytelling process, poor character development). It's like film school freshman read the book report of a failing middle schooler of the Witcher books, then attempted to make something and put their stamp on it rather than respecting the intelligence of their audience. season 3 character arcs & characterization of the Witcher is really bad. its a sad waste of time. they turn GERELT into a side character in his own show. his action scene are good but the show barely focuses on him , which really a shame because Gerelt is a captivating character as always. i thought the writers might have concentrated on his character more but as usual the Witcher writers are clueless. they turn Radovid into an annoying LEX LUTHER type of character from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. the writers turn Emhyr var Emreis, Deithwen Addan yn Carn aep Morvudd The White Flame Dancing on the Barrows of his Enemies into an incredibly bland boring character. his dialog is the worst. its completely takes you out of the show. Radovid & Emhyr are two of greatest characters & antagonists in The Witcher franchise , [ books , games & anything else ] , so it's really stinks that these characters suck so bad in the show. if you know anything about BLOOD ORIGIN , then you know that Eredin Bréacc Glas the King of the Wild Hunt is kind of a weakling & really non-threatening so that a waste of an antagonist / villain so i don't have any hope of The Witcher tv show being a really cringe but entertaining tv show , but The Witcher tv show its just awful , i don't know how the writers of the show made Thanedd Coup so dull. uninteresting. boring. tedious. tiresome. they tried to make this entire season into GAME OF THRONE lite , it barely resembles Thanedd Coup. As for YENNEFER , she failed to apologize in any meaningful & significance way to GERALT or Cirilla for releasing discount baba Yaga , taking CIRI to cintra to be possessed , YENNEFER doesn't show any guilt for the Witchers who died in KAER MORHEN or anything. YENNEFER does try to shallowly & half-heartedly apologize to GERALT for maybe a couple minutes in one episode if you add the total up but it lacks substance & any type of conviction at all. As for YENNEFER apologizing to CIRI for taking advantage of her trust & getting her possessed , they have a one minute conversation about it. I'm honestly not sure because it went by so fast that I can't even say that's what the conversation was about. Then the writers just hand wave the situation & nobody brings it up again period. As for YENNEFER actions in relation to the plot season 3 , it was established in almost the whole franchise that YENNEFER doesn't care for politics [ in the games YENNEFER only cares in relation to saving other people, in the books YENNEFER is not that good at politics & you get the gist that among the mages of the north Philippa Eilhart & Vilgefortz are excellent at politics by comparison to YENNEFER & she only cares in relation to her magic school or saving someone , even in season one of the show's YENNEFER leaves politics behind her early. So because season 3 focuses on a GAME OF THRONE LITE version of Thanedd Coup YENNEFER character really suffered from the bad writing especially after her character assassination characterization of season 2. YENNEFER costumes are terrible in season 3. its laughable. Philippa Eilhart & Dijkstra were underutilized & don't live up to their characters at all. Vilgefortz is decent but he's going to be the most unsurprising surprise villain ever because the writers have been dropping really unsubtle hints since season one. Vilgefortz killing the mage in season 1 & interrogating Tisseia about CIRI in season 2 gave the surprise away. as for CIRILLA , she's good but she's only half as endearing , charming , engaging & cool as her counterparts in the books & games. I like her a lot & her relationship with GERALT is nice , even if I consider it diminished by all wasted potential opportunities of season 1 & 2. The writers do this really annoying thing with her character where they write themselves into a corner so CIRI will constantly get caught by any & everyone after her , even after GERALT & YENNEFER tell her constantly & repeatedly to be careful & stay safe. It gets irritating after a while. CIRI trains with magic & different ways of fighting for a bit but its so so to me because she gets interrupted repeatedly so I don't think of her as a great fighter. A good one but not outstanding. A problem with her character is that the writers are trying to portray her as a great physical fighter instead of a person who uses agility , flexibility, magic sword menship to kick ass & Freya Allen looks thin & tall , in other words not a strong physical fighter. The other critique I have about CIRI is that in season 3 she's just there , she doesn't really do anything plot wise , CIRI is like the Infinity Stones in Avengers Infinity War an important element of the plot but she's inertia in her actions in the show. Hopefully she does something by the end of season 3. Let's say these 5 episodes have more books stuff than the previous season, but still not enough to call it an adaptation, they just quote the books while they play their horrendous fun fiction, it's boring, bad though, full of inconsistencies, plot holes, and bad dialogues. I'm not interested in watching more of the Swicher. I wouldn't mind if they actually made improvements on the source material but all the so called improvements were even worse than fanfiction. So I'm not interested in Lauren's terrible writing & directing. Besides people have read the article from the CGI &VFX artists , everyone knows she is not adapting the books for Season 3. Lauren is writing something never before seen in the books & the games. So anything Lauren says about following the books is just more lies. People watching Season 3 of the Swicher will just encourage these Netflix Morons to produce more of this trash. I'm not watching the CIRI & YENNEFER show. So if you haven't seen it yet , save yourself from the suffering , if you have seen it. tell me what you think
I thought you said something about James Bond (I was making my coffee at the time) and wondered to myself “How long before they make a steaming pile of shit out of that franchise by making 007 a woman”? All of the people raging about the idea of Idris Elba playing the role might then become slightly self-awa… nah, who am I kidding? It’s inevitable, though. A female James Bond. And it isn’t like Doctor Who, where a person can make a somewhat compelling argument that the Doctor is a genderless alien (even if the vast majority of boners could never be swayed and I personally don’t care, so meh). I wonder which route they’d go? James Bond’s daughter or erasing 60+ years of a very fleshed out character whose sex and gender haven’t ever been up for debate? Either way, I do believe making 007 a woman would put our dear Johnny well over the 100,000 sub’s achievement (replacing the character entirely by making he a she is the worst and most likely outcome; it would also fast track Johnny). I say this as a woman, feminist (not this crazy 4th or 5th wave type), an Anglophile, and someone pretty good at seeing the finish line; the point Hollywood is trying to make with all of the senseless changes to beloved books is having the opposite consequences. There have been a ton of original, strong female protagonists by modern standards written in the last 20-30 years. Do THAT; create an entirely new world with all new characters. They can be whoever screenwriters want them to be. I get they don’t come with a built-in fan base, but those fan bases don’t want stupid changes. I’m sure there are people on TikTok whining that Lara Croft is inherently fat phobic and a representation of oppression fat bodies face and until a 500 lbs, gender neutral person is running around the jungle, descending into caves, and swinging from vines, and are hailed sex god/dess (give Disney or Amazon a year or two), their experiences are the same as… actually, I’m not repeating it. There is a woman who calls herself the fat doctor or something similar and says the most insane, appalling things (it isn’t satire, sadly), it will dismay you that she’s an actual medical doctor. I need to drink my coffee to slow down my morning ADD brain. Jesus.
"There is now a dwarf in handcuffs running for his life." Funny, that's exactly what I heard somone say the last time the BDSM party took a sinister turn.
You really can't blame the actors, they are given crap from the writers and that's all they have to work with. The best thing Netflix could do is to sell the rights to a production company that would be faithful to the source material. That is if it could even get made after this fiasco. PLUS, as for the geography in the show it seems like the writers seem to be using video game "fast travel" for the characters to be getting around this world.
I just wanted Geralt and roach to go around hunting monsties. Solving mysteries. Classic Witcher fun! That’s what made the game, so fun that was the best parts. Not the stupid boring cinematics with exposition about ciri or other dumb characters, we don’t care about….
You know I hope the whole Radovid arch turns out to be him seducing Jaskier to get to Ciri because at least then it will actually make some sort of sense
Costumes? Seriously? When I watched the show they were one of the biggest things I hated. Why on earth are they so modern? Modern fabrics, modern shilouettes, modern accessories. Ciri looks like a random teenager these days - I literally have the exact same jeans and a vest from Concept club in my wardrobe. Yennefer is wearing a flower shirt that looks like modern days Zara, Istredd, just as Geralt is also wearing a very modern jacket, you could easily buy now and don't even get me started on that swimsuit Yennefer is wearing at the ball. Oh boy, is it distracting from the story. Seeing her and Stregobor in the same shot made me feel like I was watching some cosplay party without any specific theme. At this point they could have also given them red plastic cups instead of glasses, and they would't look odd in the shot. And that is not to mention that they completely blew off the fact that she is only supposed to wear black and white. God, I hate those costume designes so much. P. S. Great review, tho. I totally agree with the rest.
You know, theres a joke in early 2000's cartoon show "futurama" where the protagonist "fry" writes a full half hour episode of late 90's sitcom "ally mcbeal" that, when performed by a cast of actors, only takes the cast 2 minutes perform. The joke being that it took fry half an hour to write so he assumed that it would take half an hour to read. I have since learned that the only difference between Fry and this shows writers is fry's willingness to stick to the source material.
freya acting and ciri in this show makes me physically enraged and cringe. whenever i see her acting i want to run into a wall head straight. also i like how fake ciri acts , sound and looks more like "real" ciri
I hated all of it. It was just another moving Henry Cavile selfie, like how they butchered Superman. It's just a camera zooming in on augmented people, trying to look "sexy" to increase their image, and using your favorite fictional universes to do it. Sorry everyone. Hollywood sucks now. It's dried UP... Time to read a book. 😉
One of the only good things about Season 2 was the guy who played Rience, he had great screen presence. But he’s been recasted. They butchered Yen, Triss, Fringilla and Keira, the only thing this show has going for it now is Graham McTavish as Dijkstra.
Imagine using the manual called THE FKN BOOK ITS BASED ON as an actual indicator for a story. No we rather let our protagonists actor leave out of frustration over the story-changes, Henry Cavill is the only reason people are watching this show 😵Why couldnt they just do a stupid and fun action-show like the old Hercuels or Xena tv-shows...
As someone who read all the books, played all the games and kept up with all the news of the series from the moment the first rumours dropped, all I gotta say is it’s the worst piece of dogshit I’ve seen in terms of adaptations. One thing is how they butcher the source material, but that’s not the end all be all. Adapting after all implies change. However, the changes they made are flat out unintelligent. They cannot write and moreover, they cannot comprehend basic worldbuilding logic. They could’ve had the easiest job in the world by just following the events of the books, but they had to «fix» it. One thing that irks me in particular is how small the world feels. Half the books took place on the road and made a big deal out of how travels were hard and long, and it was on these travels they came accross the various adventures they undertook. In the series, they just hop from the northern end of the continent to the southern in the blink of an eye. Furthermore, Radovid was supposed to be 12 at the time of season 3 and his only real characterization beyond being a child comes from the games - where he is a tyrannical despot who burns mages and nonhumans for fun. Not the greatest choice for gay representation. Particularly when one of the main characters already does that. If they hadn’t wasted so much time with nonsense, they might’ve gotten to those parts of the story before the show gets cancelled.
Maybe they were clapping because the sheer delusional audacity of Yennefer to walk into Aretuza after freeing a prisoner awaiting an execution and running means she must actually be in a mental home and these are her therapists and she just did a public speaking project she's been working on as a hobby. Or maybe they were clapping because she somehow outran about a hundred mages, many of whom have the ability to teleport, in addition to *AN ENTIRE ARMY OF SOLDIERS* (including cavalry) when she freed Cahir last season. Goddamn her Stealth level must be over 10,000.
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I have no loyalty to the Witcher source material and I though season 1 and 2 were okay (heavily carried by cavil imho) but 2 episodes in to s3 and I just have no desire to watch any more. I’m not offended by it and Gerald action scenes are very watchable, but it just doesn’t grab me at all…
Ok, first I want to clarify I haven't read the books and I haven't played the games (the 1st and 2nd I tried for a while but they didn't do it for me, so I never tried the 3rd, even if everyone keeps telling me "it's the best!"). I criticize the series for what it shows to me, and the stories it gives me. With that out of the way, I have to say that season 2 was... meh (specially the ending, that last episode started for me as if I just missed an episode before, so... bad), and season 3 started really boring and inconsistent. But I wouldn't know if all the five episodes are boring. After the 1960s effect of Ciri galloping somewher BECAUSE, my love for the series finished. I started watching episode 4, stopped after the guy (can't even remember his name, that's how memorable or important he was to me) wakes up in his room because the king opens the curtains and sends him on a quest. I gave a thumbs down review, and removed from my list, never to watch again. So, if you say the whole season sucks, even when it's just half the season, I believe you. :)
4:49 - Just to point out, as soused as she was going that hill, she likely bounced all the way nice and relaxed and was fine. I saw a guy get hit by a 3-4k lb. car doing 90 and he was so drunk he had lacerations on his chest from the busted windshield and his leg got really messed up when he landed after a 20 foot bounce but he was otherwise fine, except for a likely concussion as well.
It was a big buildup with zero payoff. Then to top it they split the season into 2 parts to milk Cavill's final presence for as much as they can. I can kind of see what they were trying to attempt with episode 5 (very badly by the way) because i normally love episodes like this. Agents of Shield season 1 episode 13 T.R.A.C.K.S. achieved what they were trying to do. Similar timeline repeated from different perspectives and done SO MUCH BETTER.
After another season of the series, I must admit that it looks like an "inside job" of someone who worked for TVP and do everything to make the old Polish series look like a masterpiece of book adaptations
Bless you Jonny... your opening bit killed me... yes, I am a spirit watching this video... lawsuit incoming, because you slayed This video was a full-on riot my man!!!
I was hella frustrated with the script. & I don't think the season being split is going to help this. 😅 lore of surprises 😂 must admit, I was happy about the cat that lived, best character 🫡😎
I just kept thinking, through the whole season, i really hope we somehow get a future series, in Polish, with Henry, fully 1:1 with the books, and with the correct historical characters of Polish (North European decsent) .. it doesnt need to be full Polish speaking, maybe just the accent in English.. but man, that would make squillions..
The 5th episode is definitely the most boring episode of the entire series .. it’s like they’re purposefully chasing away their audience before the 2nd half of the season
Am I about to re-watch Merlin for the 14th time? Yes. Yes I am. I wonder if there ever will be a good fantasy show. Doesn't even have to be an adaptation. Just.. something good. Interesting. No cut-corner rushed mismanaged mess. Please I'm begging.
The Witcher really could have been a good show if they had better writers but even in the first season the writing was lacking. Henry Cavill deserved better than this.
I wish the writers didn't have open contempt for the books and just adapted them, instead of making so much bs up.
litterally. I'm pretty sure the Witcher only got green lit because of game of thrones. It confuses me how the writers were allowed to do what they want when GoT was at its peek when following the books.
that abomination dont have anything to do with witcher story :D it just borrowed few names, thats it...
I believe the Witcher series got green lit simply because Ciri turns gay for a while in story. And Hollywood loves virtue signaling about LGTV. They already needlessly turned two characters into rainbow people adding no value to the story whatsoever.
I think it’s more lack of reading comprehension rather than contempt. The writers are terrible at understanding literature, it shows in their shallow writing.
@@CaulkMongler I remember one of the writers on the previous season said that he didn't like the books, so at least one writer does.
Cant believe you didnt discuss the madness of Ciri running away from Yen (not clearly explained or shown at all), for her then to be riding somewhere random being chased by the wild hunt and then runs into Geralt who throws one sign to scare the wild hunt away. Then they explain theyre 2 days away from Yen and Yen has just been talking absolute shite and doesnt even mention once that Ciri had run away and she doesnt seem to give shit or be aware of whats happening. But she mentions to Triss that Ciri is with Geralt? Genuinely mind numbingly stupid.
I'm glad im not the only one who was so confused at this point... made no sense at all.
yeah this right here.. i thought I dozed off and missed an episode and rewinded the show only to realize that this was high school level film student shit narrative. just mind boggling retardedz.. and the wild hunt can be chased away with one sign? speaking of signs. do the writers know of the other 4 sign besides Aard? it seems they are only aware of Aard, he hasnt used any of the other signs from what I can remember. this woman hissbitch has ruined ironfist and is now on her second conquest to demolish the witcher. how in the name of fuckity fuck does she still have a job
he probably erased it from his mind or was already asleep when it happened LMAO
Wow ok I thought I had missed something but I couldn’t be bothered to rewind to check. This clears it up. This show is truly dogshit.
That sticks in my mind as one of the worst scene changes in the whole series, and maybe any media ever but I’m just focusing on the Witcher right now
Fantasy really can't catch a break from the constant beating it's getting can it? Every writer seemingly wants to punch the entire genre into the void.
Well there not doing that intentionally. However that is one of the outcomes when you try and cashcow and import politics and social engineering!😂😂😂
It's what happens when far less talented writers use an IPs name to further their own career.
@@benwarwick4290 they are doing it intentionally, they don't want to write fantasy, they want to write modern drama and is just using the Fantasy as a backdrop. That is why they don't care what the source material is, they just want to tell their own stories, only using the bare minimum of the material they get, like the names of characters.
Coz these activist writers think it's THEIR fantasy. No wonder why they blame the fans and get triggered whenever anyone criticizes their horrendous work coz it's their personal fantasy.
@@thejikzter6782 I usually wouldn't say they are activists, because that is dirtying the term Activists. They are more selfish egotistical assholes that believe they can write better than the author that wrote the materials they are adapting.
2:50 “they came to Billie Jean for information and she told him to beat it”
I just spit out my coffee 😂😂
I was also disappointed with Radovid in season 3. He gets introduced as this deep, mysterious character but in the end, his only objective & purpose is to hook up with Jaskier.
Reminded me of HBO's "The last of us" episode 3 were game fans were baited into watching the gayest thing that ever happened
OMG. True. It was gross.
Radovid is 2 years younger than Ciri is in the books. Which would be 13 in this season, I believe.
technically Radovid was supposed to be around 13 or 14 at this point and still very much a boy. but what pisses me off the most is that dandelion is the biggest womanizer ever. hes not fuykin gay.
@@genin69 Technically he'd be bi, btw, that is a thing.
It's hilarious how they really forced the mother-daughter relationship of Yen and Ciri for how they butchered it last season. Then have Geralt forgive Yen coz she writes him cute little letters lmao. No wonder Henry left- it literally turned into a fanfiction (especially when they made Jaskier gay for Radovid who was a child in the books).
I wonder how much they knew about who Radovid was (or any character in general). Radovid should not only be a child, he is cannonically younger than Ciri by 3 years. Netflix is just the worst tbh.
Not to mention the only real characterization of radovid beyond his age is from the games, where he isn’t someone I’d personally choose for diversity representation. Sure the games aren’t canon to the show, but clearly the books aren’t either
It's like were supposed to forget what happened in s2.
Oh these people know what they're doing with making Radovid a child and making Jaskr gay. They're playing out their desires by substitution.
@@BigChap117 Honestly the idea that these people know what they're doing or indeed have any concept of themes or messaging and took even a single second to consider any of it is just ludicrous at this point, so I gotta disagree with you there. (Also they didn't make Radovid a child, they literally made him an adult when he was supposed to be a child, that's the exact opposite, not that it makes it any better)
I was watching the show throughout my day while doing chores, and was literally shocked when the season ended. I was still waiting for the climax and it just ended. Thought maybe they only released half the season. No action, plot character development, really nothing. My laundry went through more stages of development than this show.
You could just go on Wikipedia and read the summary. Basically nothing happens. They run from here to there a bit of yada yada yada and basically no plot progression. The big reveal is Vilgefortz is the big baddie. But we all know that from season 1 when he killed his own soldier. He wants Ciri for his own power. Basically all the kingdoms including Vilgefortz want Ciri so they can control the monoliths which are portals to the conjunction of spheres allowing them to travel to other worlds and dimension. Vilgefortz wants to banish the elves sending them to another world. There's alot of nonsense in the books and weird character motivations but in a nutshell everyone wants more power and controlling the monoliths thru Ciri seems to be the key.
But your thought was right? It's not the whole season, 3 more episodes coming on 27th July
yes. .. its half the season bro
I'm stealing the laundry character development quote.
And a worse feeling than when vol. 1 ended.
Complete Witcher season explained in one sentence
"Things start off bad, maintain a steady amount of bad only to end slightly more bad then the start".
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The scene with Ciri foretelling the death of the royal messenger Aplegatt is from the books but it's adapted in a really bad way because it's Netflix of course. She should be in a trance when she's saying the prophecy and look more absent with glassy eyes. And when the trance is over she should look confused and not know what just happened because she doesn't remember these trances. When Aplegatt saw her in the books he thought to himself that she's probably just weird or maybe even mentally ill if I remember correctly.
You remember correctly. I recently read them wished it was more like this
Aplegatt had a long POV chapter in the book and I thought "who gives a shit about this character" Glad NFLX changed it
That Ep 3 scene was only in there to set up him being bi.. because up until now we had absolutely no indication of that. A womanizer, sure, but bi? None. So they had to have his sex friend Vesbula, I think her name was, say that he banged everything, including polymorphs.
And damn they miscast Margarita, Kiera and Mistle.. good lord. No where in the books are any of the sorceresses fat. -And the Rats.. none of them would be fat either. They'd be skinny as they are basically homeless vagabonds. Being fat isn't possible for them!
I really hate how in the books the sourceresser are supposed to look really conventionally pretty, but Netflix does everything to make them unconventional or downright ugly. The point is that they all make their own appearance overly gorgeous (often because they're making up for something) and many of them are meant to be really vain. There are chracters who could look more unconventional, like Milwa or Angueleme, but they had to mess with the literal league of supermodels.
This goes to show the garbage that is being cooked for the remaining episodes. The "inclusive" propaganda will be pushed on full throttle
It's all about making the garbage feel normal.
as a gay man i was offended they'd ruin Jaskiers character! Jaskier is a womanizer.. do the writers think the viewers aren't paying attention? It felt so forced
@@rubenmorales9725 Yes, they do. Every plot item is spoon-fed in conversation, be it the magic or politics. The show is written for morons who can't see anything by themselves.
Side note: Geralt is a Witcher, no mere mortal should be able to sneak up on him.
I can’t believe Fringilla just played dead to escape, this whole time I thought she used magic to disguise herself as the guy that died next to her, guess Nilfgard doesn’t know how to check a pulse.
@@OOL-UV2 damn your actually right about that, I completely forgot about the war crimes she committed last season she should’ve been a top priority criminal, and they should’ve burned or buried her or something. I agree.
I watched the first 2 seasons, in memory of a friend who really loved the books and the games. But Season 3? No way, plus I canceled Netflix after Cleopatra!
i cancelled every thing and watch 100% on bootleg. i use free stream live 1 for all UFC and sporting events as well. i pay for nothing and watch everything for free. free streams live has a discord so when it does get taken down they have a new site up the next day and those who know, know where to go next...easy peasy
myflixer is also a great place
@@30.06onaGrassyKnoll love comments like this. The world is slowly healing lol
Well you could keep Netflix and just not watch Cleopatra. That's the beauty of Netflix. You can choose what to watch or not.
@@jonfreeman9682 nah f the modern landscape for media. Im good picking and choosing and not giving them my hard earn cash.
Its just random scenes of people talking about nothing, and then maybe a monster comes into frame and we have something worth a damn. Without Henry, this is nothing.
I just finished watching wat they put out for season 3 and half the talking is literally pointless...and the monster fights were terrible.
I gave up after 4 or 5 episodes in season 1. Henry is good everything else is sub par at best. Yennifer is butters compared to the game.
I disagree with the costume praise. I do think that many of the outfits looked good (especially when compared to the first season and the infamous scrotum armour), but they didn't all fit. Philippa was dressed up like a Brazilian carnival dancer and whoever put Yen in a glittery Bollywood outfit should get slapped. Same with her weird blue blouse she wears in this season, those particular outfits looked way too modern and just out of place, especially when shown next to Geralt's padded tunic thingy, which looked great. The armour also god a lot better, Emhyr looks good now even though the actor they chose is too young.
This might be a bit pedantic of me, but I also thought Yennefer looked like an overgrown twelve-year-old in those long, dirndl-like skirts that stopped just above her ankles. She's supposed to be this beautiful, sophisticated mage and she's stomping around dressed like one of the Von Trapp children? Who thought that was a good look for a grown woman?
So before season 1 came out, pictures of shitty costumes were revealed. The production company was roasted. But then they fixed it.
My gripe is why when writers are told their story is shite can they not be expected to fix their work?
Season 3. It's all over the place. I'm not very knowledgeable able Witcher lore, so having the characters teleport from town to town doesn't do or mean anything. And yes, every episode is very padded.
I don't understand Season 3 Ciri. In the first Season, it was suggested that she had magical powers (she did afterall topple a monolith just be screaming, and also killed some assailents just be screaming). How is it that in Season 3, her first response to any challenge is to draw a Sword? where are the powers that make her so unique, so much so that everybody is trying to capture her? Is she just another Witcher?
Her powers in the show are very much not what they were in the books. What she does is travel between the spheres or dimensions. Though most people who haven’t been obsessed with her bloodline just want her to sell her to the highest bidder, be it Nilfgaard or the northern kingdoms as she’s the heir to Cintra with ties to skellige, temeria and of course Nilfgaard itself
Now that you mention it, I'm sure the show is getting tons of flack for not having enough "Witcher" in the show called "Witcher" and their response was to give ciri more sword scenes instead of what we really wanted, more Geralt.
@@Herr_Gamer I see. i haven't read the books, so my understanding of her importance is based on the show, and in Season 1 they make a very big deal of how powerful her magic powers and bloodline (Elder Blood etc....) are. Then season 3, not so much
@@harrietmuchu4070 the show’s writers think they’re smarter than the original writing which leads to a hard to follow, murky and unclear overarching plot. If you have an actual interest in the witcher, I highly recommend the books. They should be readily available as audiobooks if you’re not a big reader
Jonny. Man. You've obviously been on the run, that bit was smooth, criminal. That bit was just bad. These issues are never just black or white. Honestly, the studio deserved it though, it's just human nature, they don't care about us. So keep it up, don't stop 'til you get enough.
This is gold.
Heh hee! Shamone!
Like the Norwegian architect look. You look you're about to go watch a silent film marathon abd I love it 👍👏
You could see the look of disappointment on Henry's face as they were filming the show. I don't blame him for leaving.
I wish I was a busty woman so I could just let him weep into my bosom.
Poor fella.
Should never have signed on it’s been terrible since the first episode
@tobylerone4285 he honestly thought he could help bring it in.. sadly, they prevented this with all their might..
House of the Dragon and the earlier Seasons of Game of Thrones are a great example of how to do slow build up relying on massive amounts of dialogue and minimal action.
My dad said it best about this season: “ im leaving this with nothing. If i didnt watch it i would feel exactly the same”
I wouldnt say it better. I saw it few days back and apart from the last episode (which was repeated multiple times) i dont remeber anything, because its just so boring
I feel exactly the same! Such a waste of time and i had to force myself in the hopes that there would be some redemption towards the end. Nope!!
I remember being so excited when this project got announced.
No one could have predicted that the coming of the streaming age of movies would mark the worst era of fantasy/sci-fi production in the entire history of hollywood.
Haha! The streaming services haven’t made sci if and fantasy movies worse, it’s always been a terrible genre! It has, however, lifted the trash from obscurity to directly rub it in your face.
@@Monkey-fv2kmHaha! I have an opinion that actually disagrees with you. Therefor, I’m right and your wrong!
It was actually predictable. In an age when everything on TV can be downloaded freely from torrent sites, people write for the fringe that's still dumb enough to pay: the young, naive, female and technology inept American moron.
Commies; only capable of destroying, they can’t create.
@@Monkey-fv2kmthere is no such thing as a terrible genre you utter fanny fart
Me and my misses even found Witcher season 2 boring.
We’ve seen better shows in fantasy writing. We just want House of the Dragon season 2 now. And tbh, I think I’ll stick to the books and the games where it’s actually good.
I got angry Witcher forgave Yennifer
I think the much larger issue is that the show butchered her character badly enough last season to require the apology in the first place
The script forced him to do that
Well he has to because in the books the 3 of them are the central trio that saves the kingdom.
Season 2 ruined yen
His name is Geralt you absolute goof
Baldrick level of cunning 🤣
"Forgive me if I don't jump up and down with glee. Your record in the department of cunning plans isn't exactly the best. So what is the plan?"
"We do nothing."
"Yep, it's another world beater."
Your outfit made me think of a James bond villain. "No Mr. Witcher, I expect you to die."
When the audience knows that the story is much better in the video game, why put up with this insulting, agenda-driven vanity project that has little to do with the source material? Showrunner ruined it.
Because whichever walking septic tank produced this garbage didn't want to make a good show with a compelling narrative and faithfully adapted characters.
They wanted to make propaganda with the express intention of furthering their corporate masters' political goals.
And propaganda has to feel pervasive to be effective.
@@dantesinporno Also, they might never be found and heard if they tried to be original, but take an existing property with many fans, and set aside all hope for quality and fidelity, and suddenly the bait and switch gets them noticed.
Get ready for Season 4 of The Switcher!
This comment deserves to be among the top ones
I loved the sentence: "Baldrick's levels of cunning".
Im having a hard time figuring out wtf this Yennifer's deal was. Shes so wishy washy. Also i hate the fact that she never has any repurcussions on her actions within the circle. In other media her action should have warranted a bounty on her head and forever banned in the circle.
She's basically a good mage with a personal agenda and then her character arc is she realizes she must serve the greater good and tries to train Ciri to be the 🐐 and the 3 of them save the kingdom. That's kinda the deal in a nutshell. But it needs more Witcher bad assery. The books make a big deal about Ciri and Yennifer but let's get real here. Watching the two of them fight is about as exciting as watching paint dry. We fans want more Geralt monster slaying and minimize all the political dribble. And don't make such a big deal about Ciri and Yennifer. They're nothing more than a plot device for Witcher action.
Johnfreeman9682 is spot on. I also noticed the show makes a big deal about Yennefer's background (her living at a pig farm then screwing Istredd in that cave with ghosts - pointless drivel). Her background in the books is simply this: Geralt looks her in the eyes and figures out she's a hunchback using magic to appear pretty.
@jonfreeman9682 that's the problem I'm having. There's too much drivel with the sorceress and Yennifer side story insertion. Even her losing powers was a WTF situation. Like , how? Why? And season2 is just about her looking for a way to retrieve that powers...like, are we even watching Witcher or Yennifer show? Anyway I dropped it after s2 so it's not big of a deal, I'm just trying to figure out her character since she was always in the fore front
Gta say, the casting of both Triss and Yen is absolutely shocking. Two characters that you really did have to absolutely get right... And they're both so crap.
I really cannot agree with you here. Both actors are great. Story is still utterly shit though.
Firmly in the same boat. Chalotra has never come across as anything other than a CW plant. There has literally not been a single moment in all 3 seasons when I went, 'Yes, THAT is Yen!'. Her expressions, costume, voice, demeanour, projection of power...everything is off. Triss is ok, in that she's mostly a non-entity so it's hard to have any opinion.
@@theruintheruin337yes they have written yen horribly, but i also do not think the actor fits the role honestly, they could have done muuch better, but that is to be said with everything on this show
@@theruintheruin337yes, they are great actors, but it doesn't mean they are perfect for the role. Yen's actress looks too young, and she is also supposed to look pale. Triss' actress looks too old. In the books,Triss is supposed to look like she could be Ciri's sister. In the show, Triss looks older than Yen
yen and triss are great choices imo
The Michael Jackson bit was *mwah* smooth criminal/10
The string of puns at 2:51 was hilarious, you smooth criminal you. This is the content that makes me hold off on the toaster bath and think "Johnny just dropped a new video. Heaven can wait a bit longer."
7:24 I'm just imagining the metal pipe falling sound effect while Fringilla gets yeeted down the hill
It feels like it's written by children.
It's written for young female Americans.
Ok first of all Mr. Scandinavian Architect… it’s my first time seeing your channel… first thing I saw were those three posters back there of those three bangers of videogames… I’m hitting the sub button…
The Witcher Season 3 Review☠️
This wasn't good. As the show has tried to extend its scope and scale it's clear the people making it have a reach that far exceeds their grasp. Everything from pacing, structure, character work, and even the action set pieces feel like rushed first ideas hastily executed and cobbled together to meet a deadline rather than well-honed sequences, scripts, and scenes that have been toiled over and shaped with care and a firm vision for what the show is trying to convey. Plotholes, contrivances, wonky magic systems, empty mysteries, and modern self-aware dialogue are rife, and it feels like a show made out of obligation rather than passion and creative drive. It's such a shame, because while not perfect, the books are excellent, so some of the burden creatively shouldn't be as visible as it is in this show, but this need to do their own thing and sometimes vandalise beloved characters and story beats has only placed more pressure on writers and producers to deliver something they simply aren't capable of. The biggest issue for this season apart from the lack of coherent story telling. Is that they are trying to be something they are not. They are not Game of Thrones, they are not Lord of the rings Rings of Power. S1 opened the world of the Witcher. And by s3, I don't even know what I am watching. There is no focus, just long periods of side stories... boring, CGI is there just to be there. Writing has become lazy. You can see that they don't care about the source material. And you can see they try to add modern values to it... Which makes it even worse.
There is a clear lack of understanding from the show runners to the writers room of what makes for competent storytelling. They had good source material, an amazing cast, and world class crew, yet somehow managed to fall into cliche traps (telling instead of showing, character narrating to rush the storytelling process, poor character development). It's like film school freshman read the book report of a failing middle schooler of the Witcher books, then attempted to make something and put their stamp on it rather than respecting the intelligence of their audience.
season 3 character arcs & characterization of the Witcher is really bad. its a sad waste of time. they turn GERELT into a side character in his own show. his action scene are good but the show barely focuses on him , which really a shame because Gerelt is a captivating character as always. i thought the writers might have concentrated on his character more but as usual the Witcher writers are clueless. they turn Radovid into an annoying LEX LUTHER type of character from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. the writers turn Emhyr var Emreis, Deithwen Addan yn Carn aep Morvudd The White Flame Dancing on the Barrows of his Enemies into an incredibly bland boring character. his dialog is the worst. its completely takes you out of the show. Radovid & Emhyr are two of greatest characters & antagonists in The Witcher franchise , [ books , games & anything else ] , so it's really stinks that these characters suck so bad in the show.
if you know anything about BLOOD ORIGIN , then you know that Eredin Bréacc Glas the King of the Wild Hunt is kind of a weakling & really non-threatening so that a waste of an antagonist / villain so i don't have any hope of The Witcher tv show being a really cringe but entertaining tv show , but The Witcher tv show its just awful , i don't know how the writers of the show made Thanedd Coup so dull. uninteresting. boring. tedious. tiresome. they tried to make this entire season into GAME OF THRONE lite , it barely resembles Thanedd Coup. As for YENNEFER , she failed to apologize in any meaningful & significance way to GERALT or Cirilla for releasing discount baba Yaga , taking CIRI to cintra to be possessed , YENNEFER doesn't show any guilt for the Witchers who died in KAER MORHEN or anything. YENNEFER does try to shallowly & half-heartedly apologize to GERALT for maybe a couple minutes in one episode if you add the total up but it lacks substance & any type of conviction at all. As for YENNEFER apologizing to CIRI for taking advantage of her trust & getting her possessed , they have a one minute conversation about it. I'm honestly not sure because it went by so fast that I can't even say that's what the conversation was about. Then the writers just hand wave the situation & nobody brings it up again period. As for YENNEFER actions in relation to the plot season 3 , it was established in almost the whole franchise that YENNEFER doesn't care for politics [ in the games YENNEFER only cares in relation to saving other people, in the books YENNEFER is not that good at politics & you get the gist that among the mages of the north Philippa Eilhart & Vilgefortz are excellent at politics by comparison to YENNEFER & she only cares in relation to her magic school or saving someone , even in season one of the show's YENNEFER leaves politics behind her early. So because season 3 focuses on a GAME OF THRONE LITE version of Thanedd Coup YENNEFER character really suffered from the bad writing especially after her character assassination characterization of season 2. YENNEFER costumes are terrible in season 3. its laughable. Philippa Eilhart & Dijkstra were underutilized & don't live up to their characters at all. Vilgefortz is decent but he's going to be the most unsurprising surprise villain ever because the writers have been dropping really unsubtle hints since season one. Vilgefortz killing the mage in season 1 & interrogating Tisseia about CIRI in season 2 gave the surprise away.
as for CIRILLA , she's good but she's only half as endearing , charming , engaging & cool as her counterparts in the books & games. I like her a lot & her relationship with GERALT is nice , even if I consider it diminished by all wasted potential opportunities of season 1 & 2. The writers do this really annoying thing with her character where they write themselves into a corner so CIRI will constantly get caught by any & everyone after her , even after GERALT & YENNEFER tell her constantly & repeatedly to be careful & stay safe. It gets irritating after a while. CIRI trains with magic & different ways of fighting for a bit but its so so to me because she gets interrupted repeatedly so I don't think of her as a great fighter. A good one but not outstanding. A problem with her character is that the writers are trying to portray her as a great physical fighter instead of a person who uses agility , flexibility, magic sword menship to kick ass & Freya Allen looks thin & tall , in other words not a strong physical fighter. The other critique I have about CIRI is that in season 3 she's just there , she doesn't really do anything plot wise , CIRI is like the Infinity Stones in Avengers Infinity War an important element of the plot but she's inertia in her actions in the show. Hopefully she does something by the end of season 3.
Let's say these 5 episodes have more books stuff than the previous season, but still not enough to call it an adaptation, they just quote the books while they play their horrendous fun fiction, it's boring, bad though, full of inconsistencies, plot holes, and bad dialogues. I'm not interested in watching more of the Swicher. I wouldn't mind if they actually made improvements on the source material but all the so called improvements were even worse than fanfiction. So I'm not interested in Lauren's terrible writing & directing. Besides people have read the article from the CGI &VFX artists , everyone knows she is not adapting the books for Season 3. Lauren is writing something never before seen in the books & the games. So anything Lauren says about following the books is just more lies. People watching Season 3 of the Swicher will just encourage these Netflix Morons to produce more of this trash. I'm not watching the CIRI & YENNEFER show.
So if you haven't seen it yet , save yourself from the suffering , if you have seen it. tell me what you think
😂 Steve Jobless was good! May I also offer: Witness Protection Moby.
I very recently found your channel and I’ve been enjoying it a ton. Perfect balance between seriousness and comedy ❤
I thought you said something about James Bond (I was making my coffee at the time) and wondered to myself “How long before they make a steaming pile of shit out of that franchise by making 007 a woman”? All of the people raging about the idea of Idris Elba playing the role might then become slightly self-awa… nah, who am I kidding? It’s inevitable, though. A female James Bond. And it isn’t like Doctor Who, where a person can make a somewhat compelling argument that the Doctor is a genderless alien (even if the vast majority of boners could never be swayed and I personally don’t care, so meh).
I wonder which route they’d go? James Bond’s daughter or erasing 60+ years of a very fleshed out character whose sex and gender haven’t ever been up for debate? Either way, I do believe making 007 a woman would put our dear Johnny well over the 100,000 sub’s achievement (replacing the character entirely by making he a she is the worst and most likely outcome; it would also fast track Johnny).
I say this as a woman, feminist (not this crazy 4th or 5th wave type), an Anglophile, and someone pretty good at seeing the finish line; the point Hollywood is trying to make with all of the senseless changes to beloved books is having the opposite consequences.
There have been a ton of original, strong female protagonists by modern standards written in the last 20-30 years. Do THAT; create an entirely new world with all new characters. They can be whoever screenwriters want them to be. I get they don’t come with a built-in fan base, but those fan bases don’t want stupid changes.
I’m sure there are people on TikTok whining that Lara Croft is inherently fat phobic and a representation of oppression fat bodies face and until a 500 lbs, gender neutral person is running around the jungle, descending into caves, and swinging from vines, and are hailed sex god/dess (give Disney or Amazon a year or two), their experiences are the same as… actually, I’m not repeating it. There is a woman who calls herself the fat doctor or something similar and says the most insane, appalling things (it isn’t satire, sadly), it will dismay you that she’s an actual medical doctor.
I need to drink my coffee to slow down my morning ADD brain. Jesus.
There was only one season of the Witcher, 4 seasons of game of thrones, 2.5 star wars movies, and no seasons of wheel of time.
"There is now a dwarf in handcuffs running for his life." Funny, that's exactly what I heard somone say the last time the BDSM party took a sinister turn.
Someone shouted you out in Drinkers superchat catch-up today. Get ready for your debut on Open Bar!
You really can't blame the actors, they are given crap from the writers and that's all they have to work with. The best thing Netflix could do is to sell the rights to a production company that would be faithful to the source material. That is if it could even get made after this fiasco. PLUS, as for the geography in the show it seems like the writers seem to be using video game "fast travel" for the characters to be getting around this world.
A season so boring I didn’t bother watching. Since season 2 didn’t stay true to the books or the lore established in the games either. Lol
Yeay🤣🤣
Fringilla has broken her ribs.
I just wanted Geralt and roach to go around hunting monsties. Solving mysteries. Classic Witcher fun! That’s what made the game, so fun that was the best parts. Not the stupid boring cinematics with exposition about ciri or other dumb characters, we don’t care about….
I think you should stay away from the books then 😅
@@delsamiwell, they can read the first two books at least
You know I hope the whole Radovid arch turns out to be him seducing Jaskier to get to Ciri because at least then it will actually make some sort of sense
This is written by feminist cunts. Logic is "toxicly masculine" to them.
hisrich is not that smart my man
@@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it shhh 🤫 I’ve got 11 days left before my bubble has to be burst
Even GoT was good for 6 seasons. The gameplan was simple, stick to the source material.
Costumes? Seriously? When I watched the show they were one of the biggest things I hated. Why on earth are they so modern? Modern fabrics, modern shilouettes, modern accessories. Ciri looks like a random teenager these days - I literally have the exact same jeans and a vest from Concept club in my wardrobe. Yennefer is wearing a flower shirt that looks like modern days Zara, Istredd, just as Geralt is also wearing a very modern jacket, you could easily buy now and don't even get me started on that swimsuit Yennefer is wearing at the ball. Oh boy, is it distracting from the story.
Seeing her and Stregobor in the same shot made me feel like I was watching some cosplay party without any specific theme. At this point they could have also given them red plastic cups instead of glasses, and they would't look odd in the shot.
And that is not to mention that they completely blew off the fact that she is only supposed to wear black and white. God, I hate those costume designes so much.
P. S. Great review, tho. I totally agree with the rest.
I looked at my wife during the exact scene you showed in your thumbnail and said to her “this is so fkin boring”… What a coincidence!
You know, theres a joke in early 2000's cartoon show "futurama" where the protagonist "fry" writes a full half hour episode of late 90's sitcom "ally mcbeal" that, when performed by a cast of actors, only takes the cast 2 minutes perform.
The joke being that it took fry half an hour to write so he assumed that it would take half an hour to read.
I have since learned that the only difference between Fry and this shows writers is fry's willingness to stick to the source material.
Jonny, today you look like an off-duty ninja, after a few beers, whatever that might look like… 😂
freya acting and ciri in this show makes me physically enraged and cringe. whenever i see her acting i want to run into a wall head straight. also i like how fake ciri acts , sound and looks more like "real" ciri
I hated all of it. It was just another moving Henry Cavile selfie, like how they butchered Superman. It's just a camera zooming in on augmented people, trying to look "sexy" to increase their image, and using your favorite fictional universes to do it. Sorry everyone. Hollywood sucks now. It's dried UP... Time to read a book. 😉
I don't like to think of what Jonny's IT teacher's search history might have been, but my respect for him has risen a hundredfold.
One of the only good things about Season 2 was the guy who played Rience, he had great screen presence. But he’s been recasted. They butchered Yen, Triss, Fringilla and Keira, the only thing this show has going for it now is Graham McTavish as Dijkstra.
If we are totaly honest... all 3 seasons sucks.
Imagine using the manual called THE FKN BOOK ITS BASED ON as an actual indicator for a story. No we rather let our protagonists actor leave out of frustration over the story-changes, Henry Cavill is the only reason people are watching this show 😵Why couldnt they just do a stupid and fun action-show like the old Hercuels or Xena tv-shows...
I have loved this show. I didnt even finish the first episode before I got bored and have no interest in finishing
Episode 5 rotted my brain
To create a show based on Hate of Source material and then wonder WHY fans of Source material do Hate it?
You grow what you seed.
As someone who read all the books, played all the games and kept up with all the news of the series from the moment the first rumours dropped, all I gotta say is it’s the worst piece of dogshit I’ve seen in terms of adaptations. One thing is how they butcher the source material, but that’s not the end all be all. Adapting after all implies change. However, the changes they made are flat out unintelligent. They cannot write and moreover, they cannot comprehend basic worldbuilding logic. They could’ve had the easiest job in the world by just following the events of the books, but they had to «fix» it. One thing that irks me in particular is how small the world feels. Half the books took place on the road and made a big deal out of how travels were hard and long, and it was on these travels they came accross the various adventures they undertook. In the series, they just hop from the northern end of the continent to the southern in the blink of an eye.
Furthermore, Radovid was supposed to be 12 at the time of season 3 and his only real characterization beyond being a child comes from the games - where he is a tyrannical despot who burns mages and nonhumans for fun. Not the greatest choice for gay representation. Particularly when one of the main characters already does that. If they hadn’t wasted so much time with nonsense, they might’ve gotten to those parts of the story before the show gets cancelled.
Fringilla became Calypso from Pirates??
Yennifer is using passive mental magic. In another galaxy far far away they call it the force 😂
Maybe they were clapping because the sheer delusional audacity of Yennefer to walk into Aretuza after freeing a prisoner awaiting an execution and running means she must actually be in a mental home and these are her therapists and she just did a public speaking project she's been working on as a hobby.
Or maybe they were clapping because she somehow outran about a hundred mages, many of whom have the ability to teleport, in addition to *AN ENTIRE ARMY OF SOLDIERS* (including cavalry) when she freed Cahir last season. Goddamn her Stealth level must be over 10,000.
Tell me you were being sarcastic about the costume design. Those costumes are shit.
i thought the same, those costumes look cheap as hell
Costumes too modern and the make up was way too excessive (Yenn, Ciri, most of the sorceress) Throwed me off instantly.
It was complete garbage.
Just found your channel with this video. Subscribed immediately and going back to watch some of your other videos. Starting with Avatar and Velma. You're a genuinely entertaining person. Hope your channel blows up soon.
I have no loyalty to the Witcher source material and I though season 1 and 2 were okay (heavily carried by cavil imho) but 2 episodes in to s3 and I just have no desire to watch any more.
I’m not offended by it and Gerald action scenes are very watchable, but it just doesn’t grab me at all…
Ok, first I want to clarify I haven't read the books and I haven't played the games (the 1st and 2nd I tried for a while but they didn't do it for me, so I never tried the 3rd, even if everyone keeps telling me "it's the best!"). I criticize the series for what it shows to me, and the stories it gives me.
With that out of the way, I have to say that season 2 was... meh (specially the ending, that last episode started for me as if I just missed an episode before, so... bad), and season 3 started really boring and inconsistent. But I wouldn't know if all the five episodes are boring.
After the 1960s effect of Ciri galloping somewher BECAUSE, my love for the series finished. I started watching episode 4, stopped after the guy (can't even remember his name, that's how memorable or important he was to me) wakes up in his room because the king opens the curtains and sends him on a quest. I gave a thumbs down review, and removed from my list, never to watch again.
So, if you say the whole season sucks, even when it's just half the season, I believe you. :)
i think season three drew heavy inspiration from amazons fantastic rings of power series
The way he described Henry Cavil's situation reminds me alot of Ryan Renolds and Fox with Deadpool in Wolverine
20:12 Don’t forget the gay sex - they didn’t! 😂
4:49 - Just to point out, as soused as she was going that hill, she likely bounced all the way nice and relaxed and was fine. I saw a guy get hit by a 3-4k lb. car doing 90 and he was so drunk he had lacerations on his chest from the busted windshield and his leg got really messed up when he landed after a 20 foot bounce but he was otherwise fine, except for a likely concussion as well.
The Mohawk elf was a complete wast of time. I thought maybe he was from last season but no, he was created and died in like one episode. Why?
Season 2 was already shit its painful to watch :(
The part of Ciri with the message rider is actually from the books. She didn't want to say it, she was in a transe.
The only thing that got right about this show was the hair which in the wig something that Game of Thrones couldn't do right but that's about it
Bro where’d you get the ffx poster? It’s my fave game of all time and I love thst poster
12:05, you could even say that - “All is not, As it seems”
Get it? HaHaHaHaHaHa
It was a big buildup with zero payoff. Then to top it they split the season into 2 parts to milk Cavill's final presence for as much as they can.
I can kind of see what they were trying to attempt with episode 5 (very badly by the way) because i normally love episodes like this. Agents of Shield season 1 episode 13 T.R.A.C.K.S. achieved what they were trying to do. Similar timeline repeated from different perspectives and done SO MUCH BETTER.
After another season of the series, I must admit that it looks like an "inside job" of someone who worked for TVP and do everything to make the old Polish series look like a masterpiece of book adaptations
It definately was much closer to the original books and casting was spot-on. :)
Bless you Jonny... your opening bit killed me... yes, I am a spirit watching this video... lawsuit incoming, because you slayed
This video was a full-on riot my man!!!
Jonny Jobs! It just hit me... lol... love your stuff man.
I was hella frustrated with the script. & I don't think the season being split is going to help this. 😅 lore of surprises 😂 must admit, I was happy about the cat that lived, best character 🫡😎
My, my, that Michael Jackson bit was hilarious beyond measure. 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you. 👍
MAn when u said FRANGILA i was expecting her to be some brunette hot chick from what i saw in the GWENT card game.. Damn the Law of surprises got me.
What happened to your cool moustache?! It looked really good on you.
there's one ep. that she was at the party and everyone wears a mask except her. that's so strange, isn't it?
I just kept thinking, through the whole season, i really hope we somehow get a future series, in Polish, with Henry, fully 1:1 with the books, and with the correct historical characters of Polish (North European decsent) .. it doesnt need to be full Polish speaking, maybe just the accent in English.. but man, that would make squillions..
The 5th episode is definitely the most boring episode of the entire series .. it’s like they’re purposefully chasing away their audience before the 2nd half of the season
For adaptations we don’t need writers, we need plagiarists. They would adopt the material and condense it for a tv show
Radavit is… a spoon… 😂 I envy his hash or whatever he’s smoking.
i wish the writers of Arcane wrote the witcher show - they knew how to write compelling characters that made sense
If only..
I'm mad that I seen the Michael Jackson in her😢
Am I about to re-watch Merlin for the 14th time? Yes. Yes I am.
I wonder if there ever will be a good fantasy show. Doesn't even have to be an adaptation. Just.. something good. Interesting. No cut-corner rushed mismanaged mess. Please I'm begging.
The Witcher really could have been a good show if they had better writers but even in the first season the writing was lacking. Henry Cavill deserved better than this.
On point mate. That little prick does look like Michael Jackson. I hadn’t noticed till you pointed it out but can’t unsee it now.