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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 19, 2019 22:51:14 GMT
Are you going to watch it ?
Personally i will watch it.
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Post by thebayharborbutcher on Dec 19, 2019 23:03:05 GMT
I may give it a try. I'm not sure yet. I kinda want to see what the reactions are first.
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Post by Sarge on Dec 20, 2019 7:45:28 GMT
I didn't get into the game but will check it out.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 20, 2019 8:39:08 GMT
I didn't get into the game but will check it out. The show is not based on the game, its based on the book series which was written between 1992 and 2013, 7 of them where written between 1992 and 1999 and the last one in 2013.
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Post by Nora on Dec 21, 2019 14:34:48 GMT
Are you going to watch it ? Personally i will watch it. yes will give it a try...
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Post by papamihel on Dec 22, 2019 4:58:39 GMT
It's so ordinary...
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Post by truecristian on Dec 22, 2019 5:22:58 GMT
Are you going to watch it ? Personally i will watch it. There's no doubt about it, that this show had some of the eeriest and most unsettling stories to ever be aired on TV. However, it would (I feel), be naive to think this show was the best of its kind. Like other anthology shows of its genre (NIGHT GALLERY, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, etc.) it suffers from a hodgepodge of dull scripts, mixed in with some genuinely effective ones. While the good on this series could be really good, the weaker shows could be insufferably boring. As a horror/fantasy enthusiast, it's those shows which I enjoy the most from this series, but the non-horror, the crime "thriller"s, those are generally a disappointment.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Dec 22, 2019 6:01:27 GMT
I watched the first episode.
It wasn't that great except for an exceptional sword fight toward the end.
The direction would be fine if not for the writing which I find horrendous.
I'm trying to pay attention to what they say but the poor writing is spoken indifferently by all the actors and it just sounds like "Blah, blah, blah"
There's just something...off about it that I can't put my finger on except the feeling that it is trying to be on par with Game of Thrones and it's not even close.
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Post by Marv on Dec 22, 2019 15:37:49 GMT
Watched the first ep and liked it a lot. *ep 1 spoilers maybe*I particularly liked the chemistry between the Witcher and the girl he’s after...was kinda surprised how that ended. Feels like a lot of exposition...and I hope a lot of it isn’t drastically important because I definitely didn’t get all of it. So long as we keep following the Witcher and he keeps stabbing things I’ll enjoy it.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Dec 22, 2019 15:55:40 GMT
Watched the first ep and liked it a lot. *ep 1 spoilers maybe*I particularly liked the chemistry between the Witcher and the girl he’s after...was kinda surprised how that ended. Feels like a lot of exposition...and I hope a lot of it isn’t drastically important because I definitely didn’t get all of it. So long as we keep following the Witcher and he keeps stabbing things I’ll enjoy it. You liked it despite what I hated about it. I couldn't past the dialogue. It was almost like the show was on mute for all the help the story gave. That swordfight though...
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Post by Marv on Dec 22, 2019 16:17:21 GMT
Watched the first ep and liked it a lot. *ep 1 spoilers maybe*I particularly liked the chemistry between the Witcher and the girl he’s after...was kinda surprised how that ended. Feels like a lot of exposition...and I hope a lot of it isn’t drastically important because I definitely didn’t get all of it. So long as we keep following the Witcher and he keeps stabbing things I’ll enjoy it. You liked it despite what I hated about it. I couldn't past the dialogue. It was almost like the show was on mute for all the help the story gave. That swordfight though... Halfway thru the second episode and the plot lines get a little more clear. We seem to be following the Witcher and his loner bear ‘who is and isn’t a monster’ rhetoric...the princess who escaped capture after her city was destroyed...and a new thread which I find more interesting, which is basically like Harry Potter with a collection of female students learning from the main sorcereress in the land. I like the last part more so far because I’m not quite sure which way the character in this thread are leaning. They don’t seem evil but there is a sinister feel about the whole thing.
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Post by DSDSquared on Dec 22, 2019 23:04:43 GMT
I am on episode 7 right now. I like it so far. The show is a little cheesy at times, but the story is great and the fight scenes are nice.
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Post by Marv on Dec 22, 2019 23:34:56 GMT
Finished it. Very enjoyable.
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Post by Morgana on Dec 24, 2019 9:21:26 GMT
I've just finished watching episode 3 and I'm starting to like it. The dialogue is below par, and the acting in some instances, isn't great, but in episode 3 things start to make a little more sense and the story is more interesting. I think a big problem with the series is that before it aired, people were saying it will be the next GoT so expectations, well mine anyway, were high. It is nowhere near the quality of GoT and never will be.
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 10:47:42 GMT
I've just finished watching episode 3 and I'm starting to like it. The dialogue is below par, and the acting in some instances, isn't great, but in episode 3 things start to make a little more sense and the story is more interesting. I think a big problem with the series is that before it aired, people were saying it will be the next GoT so expectations, well mine anyway, were high. It is nowhere near the quality of GoT and never will be. It’ll inevitably get compared to GOT because it’s in the same genre. Sword and shield fantasy with magic...although the magic in Witcher is far more common. I don’t remember any characters acting being ‘take me out of the moment’ bad. I don’t remember any of them being great either. I actually had no expectations coming into it tho. I’ve learned not to buy into hype so I was pleasantly surprised.
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Post by Morgana on Dec 24, 2019 12:15:18 GMT
I've just finished watching episode 3 and I'm starting to like it. The dialogue is below par, and the acting in some instances, isn't great, but in episode 3 things start to make a little more sense and the story is more interesting. I think a big problem with the series is that before it aired, people were saying it will be the next GoT so expectations, well mine anyway, were high. It is nowhere near the quality of GoT and never will be. It’ll inevitably get compared to GOT because it’s in the same genre. Sword and shield fantasy with magic...although the magic in Witcher is far more common. I don’t remember any characters acting being ‘take me out of the moment’ bad. I don’t remember any of them being great either. I actually had no expectations coming into it tho. I’ve learned not to buy into hype so I was pleasantly surprised. It doesn't have the depth of a GoT, or it's political intrigues, but yeah, I think that was why I didn't like the first two episodes - I had high expectations of it from all the hype. As I said though, episode 3 was really good. My complaints are to do with some of the acting being wooden, but the dialog might be to blame for that. In the first two episodes it was inane and very cliche. I also wish the Witcher would stop growling his words. Since you've seen the whole season, am I right in thinking that the scenes with the witches are things that happened in the past, and that the scenes with the Witcher are now?
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 12:27:06 GMT
It’ll inevitably get compared to GOT because it’s in the same genre. Sword and shield fantasy with magic...although the magic in Witcher is far more common. I don’t remember any characters acting being ‘take me out of the moment’ bad. I don’t remember any of them being great either. I actually had no expectations coming into it tho. I’ve learned not to buy into hype so I was pleasantly surprised. It doesn't have the depth of a GoT, or it's political intrigues, but yeah, I think that was why I didn't like the first two episodes - I had high expectations of it from all the hype. As I said though, episode 3 was really good. My complaints are to do with some of the acting being wooden, but the dialog might be to blame for that. In the first two episodes it was inane and very cliche. I also wish the Witcher would stop growling his words. Since you've seen the whole season, am I right in thinking that the scenes with the witches are things that happened in the past, and that the scenes with the Witcher are now? I think Geralt as a character is meant to be mostly emotionless. So his acting may come off as wooden but I found it to be spot on character wise. There’s a running theme of Geralt not being attached to the politics of the world and hardly letting his emotions let thru. It makes for nice character moments when his guard goes down. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say the Yennefer stuff takes place ‘in the past’ but the Witcher stuff is also ‘in the past’...using the Cirilla?(princess character) timeline as the present one. The show doesn’t come right out and tell you this at first but by the 3rd episode I saw enough examples to realize that was the case. So yes, we are kind of looking at 3 different timelines and you can figure out which ones happen before the other by some world events and characters meeting up. They merge closer together as the series goes on.
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 12:31:10 GMT
Episode 1-2 spoilers....
Individually the Witcher and Yennefer timelines happen chronologically. But the First scenes of Yennefer happen prior to the Witcher becoming the Butcher of Bludhaven or whatever they called him. And the sacking of the city at the end of episode 1 is the present timeline.
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Post by Morgana on Dec 24, 2019 13:14:04 GMT
It doesn't have the depth of a GoT, or it's political intrigues, but yeah, I think that was why I didn't like the first two episodes - I had high expectations of it from all the hype. As I said though, episode 3 was really good. My complaints are to do with some of the acting being wooden, but the dialog might be to blame for that. In the first two episodes it was inane and very cliche. I also wish the Witcher would stop growling his words. Since you've seen the whole season, am I right in thinking that the scenes with the witches are things that happened in the past, and that the scenes with the Witcher are now? I think Geralt as a character is meant to be mostly emotionless. So his acting may come off as wooden but I found it to be spot on character wise. There’s a running theme of Geralt not being attached to the politics of the world and hardly letting his emotions let thru. It makes for nice character moments when his guard goes down. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say the Yennefer stuff takes place ‘in the past’ but the Witcher stuff is also ‘in the past’...using the Cirilla?(princess character) timeline as the present one. The show doesn’t come right out and tell you this at first but by the 3rd episode I saw enough examples to realize that was the case. So yes, we are kind of looking at 3 different timelines and you can figure out which ones happen before the other by some world events and characters meeting up. They merge closer together as the series goes on. Does the Witcher not age then? In the Yennefer scenes you see the brother and sister as children, but then it switches to the Witcher who is trying to rescue the Princess from the curse. I'm confused now.
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 13:35:47 GMT
I think Geralt as a character is meant to be mostly emotionless. So his acting may come off as wooden but I found it to be spot on character wise. There’s a running theme of Geralt not being attached to the politics of the world and hardly letting his emotions let thru. It makes for nice character moments when his guard goes down. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say the Yennefer stuff takes place ‘in the past’ but the Witcher stuff is also ‘in the past’...using the Cirilla?(princess character) timeline as the present one. The show doesn’t come right out and tell you this at first but by the 3rd episode I saw enough examples to realize that was the case. So yes, we are kind of looking at 3 different timelines and you can figure out which ones happen before the other by some world events and characters meeting up. They merge closer together as the series goes on. Does the Witcher not age then? In the Yennefer scenes you see the brother and sister as children, but then it switches to the Witcher who is trying to rescue the Princess from the curse. I'm confused now. The brother is the princesses father. He is a young boy in Yennefer scenes and an old man in the Witcher’s. So those two events are roughly 40-50 years apart. It seems Yennefer doesn’t age. None of the sorceressrs seem to. The Witcher I’m not sure. I can assume due to mutations he may age slower but he definitely ages.
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