For those who couldn’t keep up with the first season of The witcher, rest assured that season 2 is a different beast. Most of the season breaks free of the complicated timeline that some have found too confused, and explores the relationships between its players for those who are worried the show isn’t emotionally deep enough.
but The witcher also enjoys the critical reaction thanks to a short scene with Jaskier the Bard. In episode 4 of the new season “Redanian Intelligence”, Jaskier is assigned to sneak aboard a ship so that he can give the all-clear to a group that is trying to escape to Cintra. He meets a guard who he charms by telling the guard that he that Bard.
It’s all a very nice interaction with the fans, until Jaskier is about to leave and the guard brings up a few final thoughts on certified lute jam “throw a coin at your witcher” and the plausibility of the story. “If you don’t mind me saying that, that’s not your strongest.” The port attendant goes on to say that the story is “a bit complicated” (it took him up to the fourth verse to understand that there were different timelines) , the magic kiss was “a bit cheap”, he saw the kite spin coming and also: “The bit when the lute player ends up with the warriors […] didn’t really sound true to me, I have to say. ”
If that sounds like The witcher The writing staff grabs the criticism of the first season because … it is. But showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich says it’s all carefree.
“We had so much fun,” says Schmidt Hissrich to Polygon. “I love interacting with fans (probably a little too much sometimes) […] I think it’s really fun telling fans like: Hey, we heard you listen like we’re not ignoring you! ”
It felt right that Jaskier was the one who was facing criticism. While the song certainly bounced around in our and their world, it is supposedly Jaskier’s art. And, as we saw in Season 1, Geralt didn’t give a shit that the song of his exploits went platinum in the continental version of it (keeping a bard well-fed and famous).
“Jaskier really is the storyteller of The Witcher, and he’s the one who presents himself out there and retells the story, so to speak, as he wants to tell it,” says Schmidt Hissrich. “And I thought it was so funny that this guardian pokes holes and has opinions and can express them.”
For them everything is in line with the great tradition of The Witcher world: “It is so ironic and self-confident what it is [Witcher author Andrzej] Sapkowski does it really, really well. And that’s what we want to bring in. “
