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Post by Morgana on Dec 24, 2019 13:52:19 GMT
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. I thought they were brother and sister. Anyway, thanks Marv.
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Post by Morgana on Dec 24, 2019 15:14:43 GMT
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. I thought they were brother and sister. Anyway, thanks Marv. I've just finished watching episode 4 and things are coming together. I understand some of the different timelines better. I am still confused about the things that happened in episode one where the Witcher kills the woman and her men. When did that take place? Also, I'm still waiting to figure out how Yennefer fits into everything. Oh, I wanted to ask you - if the bard is in the scenes with the Witcher, does that mean it's now?....and speaking of the bard, I wish he would disappear. His dialogue is jarring and out of place. It takes me out of the story.
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Post by senan90 on Dec 24, 2019 17:29:41 GMT
I like it so far, surprisingly pretty good.
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 17:39:39 GMT
I thought they were brother and sister. Anyway, thanks Marv. I've just finished watching episode 4 and things are coming together. I understand some of the different timelines better. I am still confused about the things that happened in episode one where the Witcher kills the woman and her men. When did that take place? Also, I'm still waiting to figure out how Yennefer fits into everything. Oh, I wanted to ask you - if the bard is in the scenes with the Witcher, does that mean it's now?....and speaking of the bard, I wish he would disappear. His dialogue is jarring and out of place. It takes me out of the story. Geralt killing Renfrie and her men in Blaviken are the first events we see with him (as an adult at least). This is where he gets the name Butcher of Blaviken. This is before he meets the bard since the Bard calls him Butcher of Blaviken. The Geralt events are chronological to his own story.
Yennefer starts to fit into Geralts story in episode 5...but more importantly she introduces us to the White Flame or whatever, that seem like theyre a political organization of sorcerers and sorceresses that have influence over various kingdoms...keeping peace, assisting where necessary, offering kings and queens council, etc. Kind of like the Maesters in Game of Thrones, except badass magic users.
An overarching timeline would be something like...
Beginning of time - Yennefers ascension into sorcery - The Witchers various monster hunts and other warrior deeds/Yennefer after the assassin with the bug - Cirilla on the run from the Nilfgardians - Final Episode
I liked the Bard a lot. I thought he was perfectly annoying...in an entertaining way.
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 17:46:29 GMT
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. I thought they were brother and sister. Anyway, thanks Marv. In the witcher scenes, the old man is that realms king or whatever, named Foltest. It's revealed he was in a sexual relationship with his sister Adda and the princess (who is the beast that killed the other witcher) is their offspring.
In the Yennefer scenes, there is a young boy and girl at the ball where she first appears after enchantments, the young boy is Foltest, and his sister is Adda.
So the Yennefer ball scenes are approximately 40 years or so prior to the Witcher dealing with the beast at that castle. This episode was the first one that made it obvious to me we were watching two timelines. The timelines do intersect as the series goes on and become more or less one.
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Post by Marv on Dec 24, 2019 18:45:35 GMT
PS they did a great job making Anya Chalotra go from ugly to stunningly beautiful. It's an underrated thing to convincingly make a pretty girl not so pretty in movies and tv. 
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Post by Nora on Dec 25, 2019 0:39:31 GMT
Are you going to watch it ? Personally i will watch it. watcjing it now but not impressed much.. |
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Post by Nora on Dec 26, 2019 3:25:02 GMT
Finished it. Very enjoyable. Yeah i ended up enjoying it too, much more than I expected. |
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Post by Morgana on Dec 28, 2019 8:57:27 GMT
I've finished the series and I can't wait for season 2. Now that I've stopped comparing it to GoT, I'm loving it.
My only complaints now are: I do wish they could decide on how they want the characters dialogue to sound, because the way some of the characters speak (the bard for instance, uses modern terms frequently) is taking me out of the story, and the directors should take the series more seriously.
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Post by 5hole on Dec 29, 2019 4:19:16 GMT
Henry Cavill is great. The series... not so much.
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 5, 2020 17:15:49 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. Going to watch the first episode tonight......Seems the show might offer me things that I like. Glad that you liked it.
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Post by Nora on Jan 6, 2020 11:52:28 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. yeah exactly, me too, i really liked him and Renfri interacting and was expecting her to be more significant in the season because how good the actress and their chemistry was... |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 6, 2020 15:35:36 GMT
Its important to remember it based on books so if the character died early on in the books she has to die early on in the show.
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 10, 2020 1:28:33 GMT
I absolutely loved it. Feologild OakesI want to read the books. Any way you help me by guiding which book to start with? |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 10, 2020 1:39:31 GMT
I absolutely loved it. Feologild Oakes I want to read the books. Any way you help me by guiding which book to start with? If you are going to read the story in chronological order than you should start with "The Last Wish" which is a short story collection. The order to read the books in is this The Last Wish (short story collection)
Sword of Destiny (short story collection)
Blood of Elves (beginning of novels)
Time of Contempt.
Baptism of Fire.
The Tower of Swallows.
Lady of the Lake.
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Post by Marv on Apr 21, 2021 21:59:49 GMT
Rewatching some of this now. Been over a year...see how I feel about it the second time thru.
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Post by onethreetwo on Apr 21, 2021 22:07:44 GMT
It's a very confusing show. I'm having a hard time following it. I don't dislike what I've seen, but why can't they make it a little more...clear?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 21, 2021 22:16:51 GMT
It's a very confusing show. I'm having a hard time following it. I don't dislike what I've seen, but why can't they make it a little more...clear? Apparently season 2 will only have one timeline, unlike season 1 which had 3 timelines. So it will probably not be as confusing as season 1. One reason i think season 1 was a bit confusing was because they never made it clear that it was 3 different timelines.
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Post by Marv on Apr 21, 2021 22:28:31 GMT
It's a very confusing show. I'm having a hard time following it. I don't dislike what I've seen, but why can't they make it a little more...clear? Apparently season 2 will only have one timeline, unlike season 1 which had 3 timelines. So it will probably not be as confusing as season 1. One reason i think season 1 was a bit confusing was because they never made it clear that it was 3 different timelines. Agreed. There’s many small details that flesh out the timelines but nothing so major as a bottom caption that reads ‘Present Day’ or anything. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2021 23:05:34 GMT
It's a very confusing show. I'm having a hard time following it. I don't dislike what I've seen, but why can't they make it a little more...clear? Once I looked up the timeline, I rewatched it. So much better. |
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