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Some quick points: 1. The story of Renfri is from the books (Lesser Evil). 2. Stregobor captured and killed all those girls (Mousesack told Ciri that long time ago girls were captured and killed). 3. Ciri aks her grandmother about her first battle, when she was her age (Renfri says to Geralt, that Queen Calanthe just won her first battle).
One thing i noticed watching the full episode reaction just now. They literally give you the Geralt-Ciri timeline in the 1st episode: 1. Calanthe mentions to Ciri she won battle at hochebuz when she was Ciris age (So before Ciri was born so you know its atleast 15~ years ago) 2. Renfri tells Geralt in the forrest "Calanthe just won her first battle at hochebuz" I did not catch this on my first watch tho.
Longer than that, Calanthe is Ciri’s grandmother. Therefore if Ciri is 13, then the queen was 13, so actually the Renfri story was more than 30 years earlier. You’ll find out later in season that Geralt is well over 100, magic and training has extended Witcher’s lives to centuries rather than decades.
Mr. Sapkowski first wrote a collection of stories. In some, there is a big time difference. It's hard to show on the show. By the time Yen meets Geralt, she has been a wizard for over 100 years. For someone who hasn't read stories it can be hard to understand.
@@tysonas1 I know i said atleast 15~ because im not sure of Ciris age so i didnt want to overextend, I just liked to point this out because i know many people complained the timelines were confusing and badly done (mostly on reddit)
@@theuprising2216 Yea i do too but at my first watch i was too busy writing down names, cities, monsters, plot points etc and i thought Renfri was referring to "Calanthe won at battle of hochebuz" as the past but no she says "SHE JUST WON"
@@normalmighty Dude, this is the first episode of a series/world I know absolutely nothing about. How should I know how likely or unlikely it is for them to meet or not meet? It is absolutely a spoiler.
I'm so glad this show got one big actor and then the rest are relatively unknown to 90% of people (bar Adam Levy). It's fantastic, now we have even more exceptional talent to look forward to in the next decade and beyond.
@@Ronin5B So there goes the rule, straight off the window... To my defense, I only read about it at the beginning of Witcher casting, way back last year. No escape from GoT in real life. By the way, what a great Yoren Francis Magee was.
Henry Cavill was THE PERFECT choice to play Geralt. When he said “Fine” in that gravely voice I knew no one else could play this character. Also this is the best sword fighting I have seen in my life. Take notes Star Wars.
@aspi rine The casting choice for Fringilla Vigo was a travesty... And anyone who actually read the books knows why. *cough* Cahir's aunt *cough* Anna Henrietta's second cousin *cough* is supposed to look a lot like Yennifer *cough*
For me too deep voice that all Geralts got in English dub through all media, just feels not natural and fake. Makes his inhuman in the worst way, especially with how monotone english voice acting gets. Mixing it up with soulless english translation of book's dialogue style, makes for really cheap B-class fantasy feel the whole Netflix series has.
Queen Calanthe isn't Skelligan royalty, Eist was King of Skellige as well as King of Cintra. Bran who you probably know from the games, is his brother.
i also love how you can kinda tell Geralt is supposed to be used to fighting monsters with his style, He uses a lot of momentum of his body to make hard hits that would cut a monster in half but really he wouldnt need to do it against humans
My only drawback is that the fight with Renfri and the butcher of Blaviken is the best in the season. It just doesn’t get any better from here in terms of choreography and how it plays out which was a bit disappointing. I was expecting some to be even better than this but oh well. Sill hyped for Season 2.
Was really looking forward to Eric's reaction as well. He's so into choreography and fight scenes.. This show would be perfect. Either way.. Excited you guys are watching!
Henry Cavill is a witcher fan too, he played a little of the second game and a lot of the third, also read all the books, he said in an Interview, i actually think he is the best actor for this role
Thank you to The Witcher for showing people what good swordplay is like instead of a lot of shaking camera closeups and weapon swishing bluriness. That was great
This is long overdue. But to anyone who doesn't know. Verruka (the little girl) asked is Gerult could tell her where Rivia is and Gerult said no, not because he didn't want to, ITS BECAUSE he doesn't know where it is. He was never really from Rivia, he just took the accent after hitting the path as a witcher. For personality to give himself
Love this show. First time I’ve heard of it. I am saddened to see Eric and Arron aren’t apart of this. It would have been so amazing to see everyone’s reaction to this awesome show. Id kinda like to know ahead of time who will be reacting to what when new shows like this come around. Just to soften the sadness when finding out it’s not the whole crew.
Hell yeah! I knew you guys would react to this, especially since rick is such a fan of Witcher 3. I just finished all the episodes yesterday, I binged the hell out of it in one sitting lol.
@@DinkLover69 they were literally in the other room recording another reaction - these guys do so many shows they often split up. Arron, Eric and Melonie for example do the Arrowverse stuff without this trio.
I loved this first episode. Tbh I binged watched it all last night, but thanks BlindWave because I wouldn’t have watched this if I didn’t see the thumbnails for these reactions.
Damn I'm so happy that you are doing this Guys! This is what I wanted!! You gonna like this a lot and glad that one of you are a major Witcher fan!!! Good luck
I love this channel, everyone is intelligent, has thoughtful opinions and always reacts to the best stuff. Got nothing but love and respect for you all and I have to say thanks for all the great times watching you all's videos. Keep killing it guys
I binged watched this all night. It was Awesome!!! I didn't know anything about The Witchers before watching it but I could follow it. I want to read the books.
#thewitcher season 1 was so great, can't wait for season 2. Nice reactions guys. Would love to see Eric and Aaron's reactions to this episode as well as upcoming episodes🙏🏽
I just realized, the woman with Geralt says that the Queen of Citra just won her first battle, now I see that they were hinting the timeline from the start
Yup. That was the only hint in the first episode, sadly. Only if you read the books you'd know that Geralt became the Butcher of Blaviken long before Ciri's birth.
Watchmen deserves some more love. I hope they aren't avoiding it because of the backlash the show faced for being "too political", having a "left-wing bias", and for "making Rorschach racist". I thought those criticisms were ridiculous seeing as the source material was already pretty left-wing with strong anti-racism sub-text, and Rorschach was always implied to be racist.
Robert Winslade these guys are way too in the middle and out of the “social media war” to care about that or let it effect their view. They usually just reference things they’ve heard but still watch it for themselves.
can we talk about how video gamie (in the best kind of way) the first episode is -- you have two opposing kill missions provided by both sides -- you attempt and fail to get the third peaceful option - your forced to make an ultimatum and then there is the moral choice at the end -- even the scen where ciri screams the bolder falls and creates a canyon between them is so video game logic translated perfectly to film i love it
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Good god , what take you guys so long . Lol
for videogame players:
mousesack = ermion
jaskier = dandelion
urcheon = emperor emhyr
crach an craite is calanthe's nephew
Some quick points:
1. The story of Renfri is from the books (Lesser Evil).
2. Stregobor captured and killed all those girls (Mousesack told Ciri that long time ago girls were captured and killed).
3. Ciri aks her grandmother about her first battle, when she was her age (Renfri says to Geralt, that Queen Calanthe just won her first battle).
Moist Von Lipwig dude, spoilers...
Game of thrones at least the tv show
Away seem ashame of showing
Magic... guess with the way the white
Walker were treated it makes sense
One thing i noticed watching the full episode reaction just now. They literally give you the Geralt-Ciri timeline in the 1st episode:
1. Calanthe mentions to Ciri she won battle at hochebuz when she was Ciris age (So before Ciri was born so you know its atleast 15~ years ago)
2. Renfri tells Geralt in the forrest "Calanthe just won her first battle at hochebuz"
I did not catch this on my first watch tho.
Longer than that, Calanthe is Ciri’s grandmother. Therefore if Ciri is 13, then the queen was 13, so actually the Renfri story was more than 30 years earlier. You’ll find out later in season that Geralt is well over 100, magic and training has extended Witcher’s lives to centuries rather than decades.
i knew it was a timejump in the first episode as i pay alot of attention to basically any show i watch
Mr. Sapkowski first wrote a collection of stories. In some, there is a big time difference.
It's hard to show on the show.
By the time Yen meets Geralt, she has been a wizard for over 100 years.
For someone who hasn't read stories it can be hard to understand.
@@tysonas1 I know i said atleast 15~ because im not sure of Ciris age so i didnt want to overextend, I just liked to point this out because i know many people complained the timelines were confusing and badly done (mostly on reddit)
@@theuprising2216 Yea i do too but at my first watch i was too busy writing down names, cities, monsters, plot points etc and i thought Renfri was referring to "Calanthe won at battle of hochebuz" as the past but no she says "SHE JUST WON"
Toss a coin to the people who encouraged them to watch this.
That’s not how it happened
Oh ooo oooo, oh ooo oooo
xxdavecz I mean he already spoiled that Geralt would meet Cirilla. He’s gotta be more careful :(
@@GrahamSiggins I wouldn't really call that a major spoiler, it would have been pretty unlikely for them not to meet.
@@normalmighty Dude, this is the first episode of a series/world I know absolutely nothing about. How should I know how likely or unlikely it is for them to meet or not meet?
It is absolutely a spoiler.
The actor who plays Stregobor is Mads Mikkelsen's brother. It's pretty cool seeing him in stuff like this when I only know him from danish movies etc.
I knew it was him as soon as I heard him speak. Loved him in Sherlock too.
He played Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels
he plays the russian president in House of Cards too, if anybody watches that
The roles i know him from is Thrawn in Rebels and president Viktor Petrov in House of Cards
I'm so glad this show got one big actor and then the rest are relatively unknown to 90% of people (bar Adam Levy). It's fantastic, now we have even more exceptional talent to look forward to in the next decade and beyond.
get the whole crew into this please
Those two fools back there are missing out!!!
Taimur Ali Khan
Sod off, troll.
Eric and Aaron are reacting to Watchmen
@Taimur Ali Khan Idiot pak troll
No other guys are very negative
the grandma queen actor was in GoT too...she was the wood witch cercei went to to get her future prophecy reading
You are right! A rare exception to the Witcher casting No. 1 rule: no GoT people around.
@@kreese-yi2nb There's also Yoren the Night's Watch guy, in episode 8
kreese 1984 What about Charles Dance playing Emperor Emhyr since he played him perfectly in the game
Also the fight choreographer of the show is the Night King Actor ;)
@@Ronin5B So there goes the rule, straight off the window... To my defense, I only read about it at the beginning of Witcher casting, way back last year. No escape from GoT in real life.
By the way, what a great Yoren Francis Magee was.
I was watching this thinking rick and shane are going to be hyped with those sword fights they're great, loved that one shot
Henry Cavill was THE PERFECT choice to play Geralt. When he said “Fine” in that gravely voice I knew no one else could play this character.
Also this is the best sword fighting I have seen in my life. Take notes Star Wars.
His "hmm" is even better and the "f*ck" is also great =D
@OriginalTharios What's out there being made recently that's better, since you seem to know better than everyone else?
@@jaycee8852 'The Expanse' is blowing everything else out of the water if you're a fan of Science-Fiction.
@aspi rine The casting choice for Fringilla Vigo was a travesty...
And anyone who actually read the books knows why.
*cough* Cahir's aunt *cough* Anna Henrietta's second cousin *cough* is supposed to look a lot like Yennifer *cough*
For me too deep voice that all Geralts got in English dub through all media, just feels not natural and fake. Makes his inhuman in the worst way, especially with how monotone english voice acting gets.
Mixing it up with soulless english translation of book's dialogue style, makes for really cheap B-class fantasy feel the whole Netflix series has.
Someone get Eric into these reactions.
Eric....? Get him
No te olvides de Aaron.
The structure of this show makes it perfect for the entire crew to react too and have a good discussion about.
As someone who seems to love fight choreography as much as Eric does he HAS to react to this series!
I’m so happy that you guys were so blown away by the last fight
and so he shall be known as the butcher of blaviken
Toss a coin to their Patreon, oh valley of plenty
MaikNL the valley of PEE**SSS!!
Hmm
they make a shit load of money from patreon
I love how happy Rick is with the first episode. Especially after GoT.
Rick is*
Queen Calanthe isn't Skelligan royalty, Eist was King of Skellige as well as King of Cintra. Bran who you probably know from the games, is his brother.
I totally forgot that Bran was his brother! Thank you!
@@NarinderxBali They did. Some good, some okay, quite some bad.
@@GerryTheProdigy And Mousesack in the show is Ermion in the games.
Does Crach an Craite make an appearance?
@@TheHiddenNarrative Yes
YES!!! So happy that you guys are reacting to this! It's soooo good!!
Also... would love to have Eric and Aaron in on these reactions too!!
The sword fights are choreographed by Vladimir Furdik aka the Night King ;) I love how the fights almost look like a dance.
i also love how you can kinda tell Geralt is supposed to be used to fighting monsters with his style, He uses a lot of momentum of his body to make hard hits that would cut a monster in half but really he wouldnt need to do it against humans
My only drawback is that the fight with Renfri and the butcher of Blaviken is the best in the season. It just doesn’t get any better from here in terms of choreography and how it plays out which was a bit disappointing. I was expecting some to be even better than this but oh well. Sill hyped for Season 2.
Was really looking forward to Eric's reaction as well. He's so into choreography and fight scenes.. This show would be perfect.
Either way.. Excited you guys are watching!
god every time i see that last fight i’m blown away. That was top notch Choreo.
Henry Cavill is a witcher fan too, he played a little of the second game and a lot of the third, also read all the books, he said in an Interview, i actually think he is the best actor for this role
I'm pretty sure everyone on TH-cam knows at this point
And that in the games he chose Yennefer?
Amen
@MartaAyanami Bro, only watch Man of Steel, not the others.
Binged whole season yesterday finally. Such great sword choreography!
can't wait for Rick's reaction and the crew when they see the other witcher that looks like rick
Thank you to The Witcher for showing people what good swordplay is like instead of a lot of shaking camera closeups and weapon swishing bluriness. That was great
awww im so happy y’all are doing this. i’m super interested to see how rick is with this series. i wish Eric & Aaron we’re here too :(
Eric said he was excited to watch this, I need to see his reaction!
everyone toss a coin for Blind Wave for being the best channel on TH-cam
i dont have any coin but do you take silver pants?
This is long overdue. But to anyone who doesn't know. Verruka (the little girl) asked is Gerult could tell her where Rivia is and Gerult said no, not because he didn't want to, ITS BECAUSE he doesn't know where it is. He was never really from Rivia, he just took the accent after hitting the path as a witcher. For personality to give himself
Finally! But seriously, you gotta bring in Eric and Aaron for these.
That fact everyone is not here is sad because it’s such a good show and I’d love to see everyone’s reaction 😔
But I’m glad we got this reaction 🙂
So happy you guys started this, would still be awesome to have the whole crew for this if possible.
Love this show. First time I’ve heard of it. I am saddened to see Eric and Arron aren’t apart of this. It would have been so amazing to see everyone’s reaction to this awesome show. Id kinda like to know ahead of time who will be reacting to what when new shows like this come around. Just to soften the sadness when finding out it’s not the whole crew.
Hell yeah! I knew you guys would react to this, especially since rick is such a fan of Witcher 3. I just finished all the episodes yesterday, I binged the hell out of it in one sitting lol.
awwww and here i thought the whole crew would be here but anyway ; - ; love this show and your reaction! (as always)
Is Eric and Aaron really not a part of this? They would love it so much please bring them in.
@@DinkLover69 they were literally in the other room recording another reaction - these guys do so many shows they often split up. Arron, Eric and Melonie for example do the Arrowverse stuff without this trio.
apparently eric and aaron watch Watchmen instead.. i wish they were here instead of watching that shit
@@skodedickinson6544 fuck arrow
@@minimi1 watchmen is incredible as is this wym.
@@rickhunter8484 lol, meh, you don't watch much good tv do you...
WHAT? IM HAPPY, but this show deserves the whole crew!
@@awildmoose6541 And what did you disliked so much that you can't watch it?
@@awildmoose6541 seems like ur the type of guy who would consider it bad because majority likes it. you cant even say what makes it garbage
SOOO happy you guys are reacting to this!! Thanks!
I loved this first episode. Tbh I binged watched it all last night, but thanks BlindWave because I wouldn’t have watched this if I didn’t see the thumbnails for these reactions.
Man you guys do everything, from DBZA to Witcher. I forget how much love and effort you guys put into your channel and for your fans. Cheers! :)
This deserves the full crew!
Thank you Santa!!!!!!!!!
I don't think we can say that because Eric isnt doing the video. Which is treason!
@@iceman10129 I bet he will do a reaction to it eventually.
Damn I'm so happy that you are doing this Guys! This is what I wanted!! You gonna like this a lot and glad that one of you are a major Witcher fan!!! Good luck
I love this channel, everyone is intelligent, has thoughtful opinions and always reacts to the best stuff. Got nothing but love and respect for you all and I have to say thanks for all the great times watching you all's videos. Keep killing it guys
I binged watched this all night. It was Awesome!!! I didn't know anything about The Witchers before watching it but I could follow it. I want to read the books.
And Henry Cavill did the majority of his stunts!!!
yea i never played the games or read the books i knew nothing and i loved it. I had to take notes to remember alot of cities and names but i liked it
the choreographer is Vladimír Furdík (the Night King from GoT), he is incredible at this!
Finally! Been waiting for this to come out for ages! Get with the other episodes please!!!
Their Swordfight Choreigrapher is Vladimir Furdik- The Actor who played Night King in the Game of Thrones!
i have been waiting for this reaction so long
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS! Was my reaction when I saw you reacted to this. Thank you!
I've watched the series three times so far, I absolutely love it.
Been waiting for this! Thank You!
Can't wait for you guys to meet our favourite humble bard next episode
Ciri's a rather unruly child, but a lot of people adore that about her.
When playing the games I wish she was a little Lea unruly so I didn’t have to spend like a good few months chasing her ass down
OMG, i'm so happy you guys react to The Witcher !!! Your reactions are the best ! And yes, this show is awesome !
Have been waiting for this reaction for days... so happy
Loooooved this season!!
I was waiting for y'alls reaction cause I loved this series!!
I have been waiting for this reaction since it came out, Im so hyped to watch this whole series with you guys!
YES! Can't wait til they start watching more episodes because it just keeps getting better and better.
Love how you guys are writing down notes haha. I should probably do that too in the future I always get lost with these shows.
I love how he moves that two handed sword like it was a dagger 🔥
It's good that you've read the short story collection, because the first season is an adaptation of those!
When Rick's happy I'm happy
Can't wait for episode 2 and 3!
Oh baby getting on the episode 2 reaction right after work! Amazing as always guys
I'm so interested to see your guys take on this show. No complaints about the trifecta.
Fun fact: Stregabor is Mads Mikkelsens brother.
THANK YOU! i've been waiting for you guys to react to this!!!
I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD DO THIS, FUCK YEAH
So excited that y'all are reacting to this! It's such a good show!!
#thewitcher season 1 was so great, can't wait for season 2. Nice reactions guys. Would love to see Eric and Aaron's reactions to this episode as well as upcoming episodes🙏🏽
Can't wait to see you review n talk about next episodes. Subscribed
I just realized, the woman with Geralt says that the Queen of Citra just won her first battle, now I see that they were hinting the timeline from the start
Yup. That was the only hint in the first episode, sadly. Only if you read the books you'd know that Geralt became the Butcher of Blaviken long before Ciri's birth.
@@QuinlanLJ I'm fine with story telling like this, I love how everything comes togheter at the end
Im so happy you guys are watching this !
I’ve been waiting for this .. your reaction for soooo long! Good to see you guys! Merry Christmas.
I'm so excited for this series great people in this video look forward to more
I hope Eric can also join for some episodes 😊 i bet he'll be watching this series too
@@lucasstefano7374 Doesn't mean he can't watch it on his own time and tell us what he thinks about it later.
Perfect timing!! Just finished the series yesterday :D
Yes! Glad you guys are reacting to this show, great late xmas gift.
Yess Toss a coin to your witcher
🎶 O’Valley of plenty 🎶
"O'valley of... Penis!"
Yes I’ve waited for y’all to react
This show and Watchmen(when ever y’all start that) deserves the ENTIRE crew!!!! 😭😭😭😭
Watchmen deserves some more love. I hope they aren't avoiding it because of the backlash the show faced for being "too political", having a "left-wing bias", and for "making Rorschach racist". I thought those criticisms were ridiculous seeing as the source material was already pretty left-wing with strong anti-racism sub-text, and Rorschach was always implied to be racist.
Robert Winslade these guys are way too in the middle and out of the “social media war” to care about that or let it effect their view. They usually just reference things they’ve heard but still watch it for themselves.
I've been checking everyday for this
So glad u guys are doing reactions to this show.! Loved this season
can we talk about how video gamie (in the best kind of way) the first episode is -- you have two opposing kill missions provided by both sides -- you attempt and fail to get the third peaceful option - your forced to make an ultimatum and then there is the moral choice at the end -- even the scen where ciri screams the bolder falls and creates a canyon between them is so video game logic translated perfectly to film i love it
this was enough to finally make me go early access on patreon
Finally! Ive been waiting for your reaction. :)
I really loved first season...and i was looking forward for your reaction guys:)
The Butcher of Blaviken! They showed us! Finally! And the one shot sword fight at the end though, lit af!
I enjoyed this first season and cant wait for more seasons.
these should be whole crew reactions, worth it
Thursday's with Blind wave just got a lot Better
I am 70 years of age and I love this postmodern young, and fresh perspective towards this forms of art. Very Good!
Oooh here we go! I've binge watched the series twice, loved it!
About time! Ive been checking daily for this to pop up!
Thanks, Shane! Thanks, Rick! Thanks, Calvin! 😊
We want the whole squad here it’s worth it where is Eric and Arron
This is a quality show that deserves having the entire crew react to it.
I've been looking forward to this reaction. Can't wait to see the rest.