Monsters, wizards, guns, and swords. Netflix & # 39; s Witch it's a good ton of high quality pulp, especially if you're already a follower. We sit down to talk about what we did and did not like in this recent adaptation of a classic book series.
Witch tough around the edges but with a lot of heart. Book lovers will hopefully find how each episode feels like a familiar short story and fans of the game will have the opportunity to learn more about Geralt's past. What works? What? Time to break it all down.
Heather Alexandra: Let's throw a coin in Witch, can we?
Riley MacLeod: Ugh, now that song is in my head again. Can we talk about music, though? The music… is amazing. I like it, but it's tricky. I can never say exactly what it is trying to be – it's like an underground show where someone is trying to make back ballads from the Middle Ages
Heather: We can talk about many things. I think this show has some pretty cool radicals and a few frustrating options out there. You tell me you don't like Jaskier guns & # 39; s bitchin & # 39; magicin & # 39;
Riley: I don't know if I love them! I really like Jaskier. As I wrote in my house the first five episodes, I feel like you are adding some of the energy that the show really needs. I'm not surprised that it is so fun, but I did have a few moments of frustration with violence and chastity.
Nathan Grasyon: Jaskier's great ballad at the end of episode two (or three?) Is what made me realize that I love this show. Or at least, that I was really excited about.
In addition, Witch it is based on anachronics, so having anachronistic music makes sense. On the one hand, he has swords and sorcery, but he also has enough science to change the human species. Geralt himself is a long-term man in many ways – he is older than most people he meets but sometimes he is modern in his expressions and feelings. In short, I think the music fits in and gets to the heart of why Witch able to operate beyond many means of communication (books, video games, now, television).
Heather: I think WitchI always distinguish that difference between blood and tongue-in-cheek. That said, I think before we talk we should let people know where we stand with the series. I read most of the books and played Author 3, and I think if you approach this series as a read The Last Will, you'll end up digging a lot more than you expect big Wild Hunt epics.
Riley: I've played Wild Hunt and learn The Last Will, and the experience of everything that sounds familiar. To finish the last three episodes yesterday, I shouted "That person is a Gwent card!" More than once.
Nathan: Yes, of course Big Epic Moments is the one that worked for me the least (I'm allowed, I've watched five of the eight episodes available, but anyway). The happy structure they try to piece together sometimes feels too isolating to cling to any mysterious or emotional ride. I enjoy Geralt and Yen's stories, but Ciri's Ciri feels disconnected, as if treading water until Geralt and Jen arrive. Strange driving on the show's side, given that Ciri is a middle-class person and, at the same time, would be the show's main character.
Heather: The show building is probably one of my biggest complaints, though I really liked it. We jump from three characters, sometimes we jump at a time, and we try to piece together the last moments. I think that's good to inform each character individually; I think it also makes it difficult to follow a clear line from start to finish.
Riley: The three things of election season… are unique and crazy choices.
Nathan: Yes, and I think it also makes the characters disservice in a few cases. Witch it should have distinguished between the gradual introduction of the letters and the promptness of the meeting, and it is shown. For example, I really dislike how they handle Yen's motives. Like, she has her big turnaround time, and then the next time we see her, 30 years later, hates her job, and wants a baby for a reason. None of these reasons were ever shown. He gives this great talk to a dead baby on the beach (did Hideo Kojima write this?) And it doesn't sound like it's getting too little money.
Riley: I'm actually annoyed by her "I want a baby" arc, which may be that I'm living a life now surrounded by people with children when I have no desire (or, like our stars, physical ability) to become children. As in later episodes, there is this sense of "her legacy" and all this stuff that is so closely related to procreation, and I just like, "Buddy, you're right. Stop worrying about the kids. However, I do love him. I think she stands out as a character on her own, which is very often the case with women on TV.
Nathan: Yes, I agree that you are generally a good person. I just wish they would have given it to us, as an extra special episode showing him doing his work in some royal court or another. I want to know why he hates all these things and how he sticks to her suddenly realizing he needs a baby. I hope she eventually comes to realize that what she wants to communicate with other people? That they don't have to be a kid, and then they eat the Geralt-Ciri-Yen pseudo-family dynamic?
Heather: WitchIt has always been a series about inheritance. That is very clear to Ciri, who communicates the connection of special blood with political and magical power. I think, to some extent, the variables that will eventually be developed with Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri are a rejection of what most people in this setting would consider important. And I think Nathan has a right to it: Yen begins to seek power and position. As time goes on, you need more.
Riley: It's definitely the most powerful of the crowd, smart-character, which is unfortunately. However, I can't recognize her name without being paralyzed with my Wild Hunt birthday, so maybe I could be prejudiced.
Heather: You were a Bad Father, this is true.
Nathan: I find it funny that the omnipotent Source character has one story unchanged from any source app. Which I think describes the weakness of his arc.
They have a lot to spend on Geralt and Jen's short stories, but they just needed Ciri to do something … for a while. And that a lot has happened has been nothing. All the while, they were putting on this “thing” designed to constantly remind people that Geralt and Ciri would eventually meet. That feels really crippling and it goes against the spirit of the show for me.
Heather: There they are pieces and pieces. For example, his appearance in Brokilon.
Riley: I really liked when Geralt and Ciri finally met. The final episodes are a bit more intense in the fight, but I think they are just as emotionally involved as I've been looking for in the first episodes. (Maybe that's a mess? But: You know they'll meet!)
Nathan: Even that little Brokilon was very upset. The chiefs learn things about Ciri we already know, then a deception emerges, and he goes on about it, though he can't explain what happened to him after they parted ways at the destruction of his city. AND OTHERS HAVE A LOT OF WATER RECEIVING A MULTIPLE ILL INTENT, THEY SHOULD SHOW THE WATER AS A BUY, AND GIVE THAT HE SEEED DOING EVERYTHING.
Also, can we talk about Dara for a second? Because seriously, what the fuck? In the woods, he tells Ciri about how his people rebelled against him, and he's like, "Nah, that can't be true," and he's like, "Mom fuckucker, the only reason I live to hide." that he had been shot by an arrow earlier and did nothing to help him after saving his * double * life. But then when Ciri decides to leave the forest for sure The Real Mouseack, Ciri is like "We're a family," and Dara is like "Yeah sure, that's enough for me to get rid of all my motivation, needs and feelings."
Heather: I think both of these behaviors are correct. The series can be fun and emotional, and then it can be really frustrating. For me, and I'm really shocked to say this: I think the glue that it covered was Henry Cavill as Geralt.
Riley: You make me cry “MOUSESack” whenever someone says their name and face. But yes: Henry Cavill as Geralt is … okay? He has grown on me, even his Doug Cockle voice.
Nathan: I loved his evil Doug Cockle voice!
Riley: His relationship with Yenn has always seemed racist and rushed to me in the canon, but I was deeply moved by them on the show. And the episode about her past gave me tears, or I'm fully exposed I was using a foam roller at the time, so they might be in tears.
Heather: Getting to know Cavill and the series helps a lot. You've played games and it's obvious. I think it was done by Anya Chalotra, but she is quite comfortable with this character and I think it is obvious.
Riley: As I wrote in my comments, I felt like she didn't have much dating Witch times – like, I don't think we actually see what being a witch really means. But he plays the character in the kind of distance I expect from Geralt, but with a lot of personality going on under the face, especially the way he interacts with the people around him. I loved him, he wasn't sure I would, because I doubt I can love Geralt played by anyone who isn't.
Heather: Not least, I buy him in the squares where he endures political zeal just as much, I buy him a lot in the action scenes. Holding those two sides of Geralt feels important to me.
Nathan: I actually like the closest scenes he gets, too. Like, first of all, a striga episode. It's pretty cool Witch action around. The fight was both engaging and fun.
But then again, the show does an excellent job of letting the characters express themselves in combat.
Heather: It's one of the better short stories, too.
Riley: The striga episode was good, even if the monsters were small Buffystudy?
Nathan: More than once, Geralt reveals his true motives in the way he fights.
Renfri's battle in the first episode is a great example, but the striga episode also comes up. In both cases, they must try hard not to kill another person, even if it is very easy to do so. And with Renfri, he finally decides to kill him in his battle after trying so hard not to fight for their many battles. I wish more video games let you continue to make that decision until that moment!
Heather: It's a beautiful picture.
Riley: Yes Renfri's stuff was also good. The show does a great job with the "monster war but also means other things" plot.
Nathan: Yes I mean, it's easy to make fun of the monsters with the slightest look Buffy-I, but also … a little show Buffy-y.
Heather: Export is Polish pride culture, but it is also a pulpit. And that's okay!
Nathan: Better than good! I want more pulp, not less. Grind everything into a pulpit and put it right into my mouth.
Riley: But also, at some point, a serious political myth? Which Witch that is, to be fair, but those things sometimes cost me. I, for instance, have completely lost sight of what a political picture was and why it was worth it immediately, which should always be my problem with the canon, and I think just by guessing.
Heather: I am definitely not how Nilfgaard feels on this show. Yes, it needs to feel like this never ending road that spills everything, but for a moment it's all the same.
Nathan: I have yet to reach a point where I understand their motives, and am over the stage during the season!
Riley: Did I feel like Nalfgaard turned in the latest episodes? They felt like the Generic Marching Army for a while, but over time, they had something different and shocking to me. Sorry, Nathan! We're underestimating everything … you probably already know. The show has to go weird line, because it seems like the viewers are aware Witch but it's also still a great game.
Heather: They are working on this exact construction of who supports all of this. Which! If you know, just wait for the tip to lower. Otherwise, I think it's a good idea, but it leaves Nilfgaard as an empty business for a while.
Riley: I don't think I'm watching a show I don't know Witch, or. I envy the random Netflix subscriber who goes "ooh, monsters!"
Heather: I think it's fair to say that the series thinks you're here because it's already open WitchThe bull.
Nathan: Which is weird, because it also seems like Korgflix wants this to be it Game of Thrones.
Heather: I think it's going to be a few more seasons. But I don't think it takes nearly as much.
Riley: Well there is a second season at least, which is good. This season definitely feels like it's planning all the pieces.
Nathan: I know, though, thanks that it's not just that Game of Thrones, but starring a white man with blonde hair. It has its high, sometimes surprisingly wacky (witty school of eel power? Lmao sure), though it does take a bit to convey just how strange it is. Based on the trailers, the first episode, and things like that, I think it would be easy for newcomers to think otherwise.
Heather: I'm just happy that Monster of the Week is back.
Nathan: Personally, I can't wait until season three, when Geralt and his friends finish high school and defeat the mayor, who is also a big snake.
