TV: Witcher TV Series

[RandV]

Nah, don't have time. Besides, I write, I don't read.

I took audio books out from the library and listened to them while I was driving/shopping/cooking/cleaning. Though I wouldn't say they're books you go out of your way for if you don't really read, but it's easy enough to do these days.

For the series though? I loved the 1st season. 2nd season was... just okay so pretty disappointing. Trying to remember what specifically happened in it which isn't a good sign as I tend to follow stories really well on one viewing/reading. From the looks of the season 3 trailer I get the impression it's going where I thought season 2 would end up.

 

[beowulf]

 

[Jussi]

 

[Belenos]

Thoughts on vol. 1 anyone?

 

[Osprey]

I haven't watched it yet, but it's a bit funny that it came out 3 days ago and the thread is only now getting bumped. It seems like I'm not the only one who's not very excited for it when we know that Cavill is leaving the show over it not being very faithful.

44% audience score on RT, even worse than Season 2, isn't a good sign, either.

 

[PeteWorrell]

No reason to watch a show where the writers dislike the material and are just being paid to write glorified fanfiction.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I haven't watched it yet, but it's a bit funny that it came out 3 days ago and the thread is only now getting bumped. It seems like I'm not the only one who's not very excited for it when we know that Cavill is leaving the show over it not being very faithful.

44% audience score on RT, even worse than Season 2, isn't a good sign, either.

I’ll watch it eventually but the whole main character leaving has really put a damper on things.

 

[Jussi]

I think I'm on episode 4 and to me the storytelling is much smoother and tighter than in the previous seasons. From a non-book reader's perspective, this is so far the better than last season.

 

[Jussi]

I haven't watched it yet, but it's a bit funny that it came out 3 days ago and the thread is only now getting bumped. It seems like I'm not the only one who's not very excited for it when we know that Cavill is leaving the show over it not being very faithful.

44% audience score on RT, even worse than Season 2, isn't a good sign, either.

Diclaimer: streaming content Audience Score is unverified so there's no way of knowing if the person giving the score even watched the show.

 

[Osprey]

Diclaimer: streaming content Audience Score is unverified so there's no way of knowing if the person giving the score even watched the show.

The same goes for the IMDb scores that you often cite. There's no reason to think that the audience score in this case isn't close to genuine, though. Season 2 has a 58% rotten score and there wasn't any reason for people to vote that down without seeing it, since Season 1 has an 89%. If that's legit, then a further drop to 44% is believable. Also, the reviews that describe what they don't like about the season are mostly low scores and corroborate the overall rating. Finally, it doesn't make sense for fans to try to bring down the score of this when they're not bothering for the Dial of Destiny, which people are a lot more upset about.

 

[Jussi]

The same goes for the IMDb scores that you often cite. There's no reason to think that the audience score in this case isn't close to genuine, though. Season 2 has a 58% rotten score and there wasn't any reason for people to vote that down without seeing it, since Season 1 has an 89%. If that's legit, then a further drop to 44% is believable. Also, the reviews that describe what they don't like about the season are mostly low scores and corroborate the overall rating. Finally, it doesn't make sense for fans to try to bring down the score of this when they're not bothering for the Dial of Destiny, which people are a lot more upset about.

The book readers are the ones voting down. I'm not one of them so I don't see a reason for downvoting, so far.

IMDB has accounted for downvoting via weighted scoring.

 

[Osprey]

The book readers are the ones voting down. I'm not one of them so I don't see a reason for downvoting, so far.

There's also no reason to believe that those book readers are voting it down without watching it. They're the ones who would watch it just in case some of it is faithful to the books.

 

[HTFN]

I've actually enjoyed parts of this season, making it a little bittersweet that the Cavill run will end right as I find investment again.

I will say that episode 5 teetered between good and bad, but I think I just had a pet peeve. The metronome effect between flashback and present uncovering details was very pleasant, even though it's really clear from the first go round that's what they're doing, I liked each layer.

The "all is not as it seems" song or whatever playing over and over and over again was annoyingly heavy handed and every time it started again I was like "yeah, I know, I f***ing got that a long time ago, it was already obvious before the first time we heard the song" and then just got worse and worse...

 

[Jussi]

There's also no reason to believe that those book readers are voting it down without watching it. They're the ones who would watch it just in case some of it is faithful to the books.

Oh, such innocence...

 

[AlanHUK]

It's an improvement on season 2, but it would be hard not to be because that was a hot mess.

It's still not close to the quality of season 1 sadly, which is a shame because the main cast certainly deserved better than they've been given with the way this has developed

 

[Siamese Dream]

The main problem this series has to me is it seems like they can't decide what it wants to be. Whether it's telling the actual story from the books or having Geralt tackle a different monster each episode like Scooby Doo or the Pokemon anime or something.

They flip flop back and forth between the two and it affects the pacing. They can't make the geopolitics exciting enough so they have to throw in Geralt fighting a monster to have some action.

 

[Morbo]

It's not The Witcher.

It's The Heroic Female Side Characters That Nobody Cares About Show.

 

[Jussi]

It's not The Witcher.

It's The Heroic Female Side Characters That Nobody Cares About Show.

WHERE'S MY WHITE MALE HERO??????!!!!

 

[RandV]

It's not The Witcher.

It's The Heroic Female Side Characters That Nobody Cares About Show.

You're talking about the video game here. While the show writers may not be honouring the books this is what the show is based on and unlike the games had as much Ciri & Yennifer as it does Geralt.

Or for the main story at least, which was the bulk of the series. The first two books were a collection of Witcher Geralt short stories going from fairy tale to fairy tale, and the final book was an extended Witcher Geralt throwback set before the main story.

 

[Osprey]

Oh, such innocence...

You're proving that you made it up completely by not having a better counterargument. FYI, the IMDb scores for the 5 episodes so far are pretty bad, as well, and you just argued that IMDb compensates for downvoting with weighted scoring.

 

[Jussi]

You're proving that you made it up completely by not having a better counterargument. FYI, the IMDb scores for the 5 episodes so far are pretty bad, as well, and you just argued that IMDb compensates for downvoting with weighted scoring.

Most important question: have you watched any of season 3?

And it's pretty apparent IMDB compensates only so much when the downvoting is this heavy: "The Witcher" Reunion (TV Episode 2023) - Ratings - IMDb It's clear none of those downvoters even watched the episode.

 

[Osprey]

Most important question: have you watched any of season 3?

And it's pretty apparent IMDB compensates only so much when the downvoting is this heavy: "The Witcher" Reunion (TV Episode 2023) - Ratings - IMDb It's clear none of those downvoters even watched the episode.

No, I haven't, but that doesn't matter, nor does it matter that you've watched it and liked it. You liking it is not proof that downvoters never watched it.

 

[Jussi]

No, I haven't, but that doesn't matter, nor does it matter that you've watched it and liked it. You liking it is not proof that downvoters never watched it.

It's like you've never seen a prospect play but insist that prospect sucks.

 

[Osprey]

It's like you've never seen a prospect play but insist that prospect sucks.

I haven't said that this season sucks. You're miscomprehending my argument.

 

[HanSolo]

I didn't read the source material so I didn't mind what we were getting in the first two seasons. But swapping Cavill out is just...
I've had zero desire to get started with this.