The Witcher review – swords, sorcerers and supernatural incels
According to Streggy-boy, who is rapidly taking on the aura of a medieval incel, she is one of 60 girls accursed and dangerously mutated by an eclipse. The 4chan mage has had many of them killed and autopsied to prove his theory.
Watching ep1 now. Seems cool, but there are way too many fantasy tropes being thrown around.
Never read the books.
The fight at the end of episode 1 :whew
Just finished episode 2. So glad this is not just Game of Thrones lite. Definitely has its own identity and feel. Although, I think I'm missing out on a lot of things not having played the games.
Triss is real pretty. Also her winter cloak is gorgious.
Yeah, I got that impression too.Just finished episode 2. So glad this is not just Game of Thrones lite. Definitely has its own identity and feel. Although, I think I'm missing out on a lot of things not having played the games.
The stories in the books flesh out the stories more but I won't say you should be missing stuff. Each of the stories is taking place in different times though, i'm pretty sure which makes things confusing.
Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet :rage
Just finished episode 2. So glad this is not just Game of Thrones lite. Definitely has its own identity and feel. Although, I think I'm missing out on a lot of things not having played the games.
The stories in the books flesh out the stories more but I won't say you should be missing stuff. Each of the stories is taking place in different times though, i'm pretty sure which makes things confusing.
The fight at the end of episode 1 :whew
Episodes 3,4, and 5 are really good compared to episode 1 and 2 which are a bit wonky.
I'd read Cavill was really pushing to play Geralt and seems pretty clear he put in some work :whew
Critics are panning it because it’s 2019 and the show had tons of gratuitous nudity in episode one.
Critics are panning it because it’s 2019 and the show had tons of gratuitous nudity in episode one. I mean I read a critic claim the wizard who hires Geralt to kill that scrubby princess as an “Incel.”I thought people* hated this because the "SJW were committing white genocide" with the casting.
What the fuck is the point of critics at this point if they are going to be so reactionary to some titillation? Like fuck off.
On the Joe Bob scale how many titties are we talking here
quality tiddies, no less
HBILFs :rejoicemale gazeHonestly thought yen was hotter as a hunchback with perfect tits[close]
Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet :rage
Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet :rage
Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now
Worst part was when there weren’t any more episodes
Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet :rage
Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now
Apparently Manhattan has a Magnum Dong now?
Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet :rage
Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now
This made me feel like installing the first game lasted about 5 min then uninstalled it, I have unlimited bandwidth but still felt like a waste.
TBF, having never seen a witcher, I'd image that me and my gang of thugs could take one swords man too.
https://twitter.com/mrgracemugabe/status/1208667036932427777
I'm about halfway through and it's fun. I'm glad they went this live action seinen anime route instead of trying to class it up. Enjoying it more than I thought I would tbh.feel pretty much the same, though i don't think i'd like this much at all if i wasn't a fan of the games. truly the dark souls of games of thrones
Would this spoil anything?
I wanna watch this but I only played the first game and wanna play 2&3. Would this spoil anything?eh not really, watching this before playing 2 & 3 won't really make a difference other than recognising some names of characters and places. if anything, you'll probably appreciate cavill's portrayal of geralt more like his delivery and frequency of saying "hmm"
It mixes up things from the games and the books. From what I understand the books also had short stories that they turned into quests in the games but not necessarily in the same locations or order.So he fucks the goat chick?
The games were all loosely based on the source material and the series is loosely based on the books and the games.
In the series for instance, they combined certain characters or put them in different locations.
So you won't get any heavy spoilers.
Still, it's quite obvious that Cavill is basically acting out his own Witcher 3 play through :lol
Watched the first ep today. It's sparse on its worldbuilding, felt like a frail lattice on which Dark Fantasy was being glibly hung.
WHICH IS FINE. IT'S MY ADULT REPLACEMENT FOR BEASTMASTER AND HAWKE THE SLAYER.
Also, yes, screw that sorceror who has illusory naked ladies all over his courtyard, and then also imprisoned and killed women, and then held private autopsies to prove that he was correct to mete out his own justice.
Also-also, Geralt talking to his horse, Roach, is super-charming.
I'M ON BOARD.
Watched the first ep today. It's sparse on its worldbuilding, felt like a frail lattice on which Dark Fantasy was being glibly hung.
WHICH IS FINE. IT'S MY ADULT REPLACEMENT FOR BEASTMASTER AND HAWKE THE SLAYER.
Also, yes, screw that sorceror who has illusory naked ladies all over his courtyard, and then also imprisoned and killed women, and then held private autopsies to prove that he was correct to mete out his own justice.
Also-also, Geralt talking to his horse, Roach, is super-charming.
I'M ON BOARD.
Yeah it's basically a 90s adventure show for modern tastes and standards 100%, nicer budget.
Okay, don't have a Netflix subscription right now, but some 1980s hack and slash combined with cinemax late nite style gritty titty action does sound appealing
It's like Spartacus without dongs
Huh? Doesn’t look cheap to me at all. Looked fine.I only watched one episode.
Something that this show illustrates really well is how terrible video game writing is in the grand scheme of storytelling.
To my knowledge, The Witcher games are often held up as being "among the best" when it comes to quality of writing. In contrast, most people are judging this to quite rightly be super pulpy and mindless fun; the books too are not even considered more than "OK" among fantasy novels.
What is basically considered "average" writing in all other formats is being hailed as "groundbreaking" in video games.
I know there is more to it, but I just thought it was an interesting.
Full disclosure - I've never read the books or played more than an hour of The Witcher 3, so make of my comment what you will...
I love that Geralt is this.... all politics and politicians are the same neoliberal antihero and he keeps getting sucked into massive genocidal conflict between empires
Yens arc in this is so fucking good. And id totes get in that ass pretransformation.(https://sadgeezer.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Witcher-S01E02-Yennefer-With-the-hunched-back-and-chinny-chin-chin-e1577222182599.jpg)
resting bitchface :lawd
I can think of at least one thing that is more pleasurable to do to a resting bitch face...resting bitchface :lawd
One of life's pleasures is getting a woman with a severe case of RBF to smile
The worst part was they didn't even try to make it seem like people had agedHalf of the characters literally don't age, because magic, but yeah at least create distinct hairdoes or something to make it more clear.
I'd like to see more "monster of the week" episodes in season 2.The show literally felt like playing the game with all that shit, including those cookie cutter moral quandaries Geralt is put in front of. :lol
Geralt is a monster hunter, so I want to see more monster hunting.
Were any of the stories in this season used as the basis for questlines in any of the games?
Because I watched ep3 last night and I've only played W1 and that was forever ago, but that ep with Triss and the Shtriga and stuff all felt vaguely familiar.
Were any of the stories in this season used as the basis for questlines in any of the games?IIRC, all of the games, are well after the books.
Because I watched ep3 last night and I've only played W1 and that was forever ago, but that ep with Triss and the Shtriga and stuff all felt vaguely familiar.
https://www.businessinsider.com/witcher-passed-mandalorian-as-biggest-tv-show-in-the-world-2019-12?utm_source=reddit.comNice. 8)
Get fucked critics
Ya I'm less concerned about which show is better rather than witcher being viewed a lot.It's not enough that Witcher succeeds, Mandalorian must also fails, because i didn't like it. :doge
I really liked with narrative jumping in time they didn’t feel the need to hold your hand about it
I really liked with narrative jumping in time they didn’t feel the need to hold your hand about it
Did not realize how controversial of an opinion this would be lol
Huh? Doesn’t look cheap to me at all. Looked fine.
https://twitter.com/alexdnz/status/1214629951007285249Lol, Count Grishnackh going all puritan and shit...
LMAO
https://www.witchernetflix.com/en-gb
cool since the books dont have maps
Finished this today. It was wonderful, but wholly uneven. Parts of the finale felt epic, and other parts filmed at a renaissance faire.
I'm completely on-bard (heh) for s2. Hopefully they throw a bigger budget at it.
Episode 5/6 were rather weak but it really picked up with 7 and 8 for a stunning finale.
TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER
Finished this today. It was wonderful, but wholly uneven. Parts of the finale felt epic, and other parts filmed at a renaissance faire.
I'm completely on-bard (heh) for s2. Hopefully they throw a bigger budget at it.
it was actually pretty expensive, just incompetently spent.
Thinking about checking this out based purely on the song and Cavil being so charming doing the media rounds for it despite knowing nothing about the books or games ( I didn't even know there were books :lol )
The Ciri-arc books are worthwhile, IMO. If only because they introduce Regis and the rest of Geralt's party.
‘ In fact , the problem arose and acquired negative characteristics in true textbook style , ’ he continued a moment later . ‘ Even during my youth I enjoyed … er … the pleasures of good company , in which respect I was no different to the majority of my peers . You know what it’s like ; you were young too . With humans , however , there exists a system of rules and restrictions : parental authority , guardians , superiors and elders – morals , ultimately . We have nothing like that . Youngsters have complete freedom and exploit it . They create their own patterns of behaviour . Stupid ones , you understand . It’s real youthful foolishness . “ Don’t fancy a drink ? And you call yourself a vampire ? ” “ He doesn’t drink ? Don’t invite him , he’ll spoil the party ! ” I didn’t want to spoil the party , and the thought of losing social approval terrified me . So I partied . Revelries and frolics , shindigs and booze - ups ; every full moon we’d fly to a village and drink from anyone we found . The foulest , the worst class of … er … fluid . It made no difference to us whose it was , as long as there was … er … haemoglobin … It can’t be a party without blood , after all ! And I was terribly shy with vampire girls , too , until I’d had a drop . ’
Regis fell silent , lost in thought . No one responded . Geralt felt a terrible urge to have a drink himself .
‘ It got rowdier and rowdier , ’ the vampire continued . ‘ And worse and worse as time went on . Occasionally I went on such benders that I didn’t return to the crypt for three or four nights in a row . A tiny amount of fluid and I lost control , which , of course , didn’t stop me from continuing the party . My friends ? Well , you know what they’re like . Some of them tried to make me see reason , so I took offence . Others were a bad influence , and dragged me out of the crypt to revels . Why , they even set me up with … er … playthings . And they enjoyed themselves at my expense . ’
Thinking about checking this out based purely on the song and Cavil being so charming doing the media rounds for it despite knowing nothing about the books or games ( I didn't even know there were books :lol )
DGAF about the books, and the show made me interested enough to buy the game, and even go revisit Witcher 2, which I've had forever.