Finally watch the entire season of Witcher and here's my opinion. Having to read the Witcher books and playing the games, I found the Netflix series went way too far from the lore and the games themselves are more in line what the Netflix brought to the table. Yennifer herself was the problem.
For one, there is an obvious lack of understanding with the themes with some of the episodes. I'll use the most egregious one as an example. The book's chapter is called the lesser evil. In the books, Geralt figures out Shriek's plan through discussion with the characters of the chapter rather than some random vision, (But show, got to shorten things up, I get that) so he goes in takes out the group just like in the show. This is where Netflix miss out on the theme and change things. In the books, Shriek came out not with a child and her blade at her throat, but alone. Stating that Stregebor wouldn't leave the tower whether she killed the next three towns over, Crestfallen. She then fights Geralt, not for some let me kill the townsfolk BS, but because he just ended up butchering her entire group for what in the end...was no reason. He kills her in self-defense and he's stoned by the townsfolk not because Stregy is now the evil one, but because Geralt literally murdered a group of people who did and weren't going to end up doing anything wrong. This story is what's suppose to set up Geralts rigid outlook on neutrality in human affairs.
The show in of itself is horrible at playing the gray themes of The Witcher. It's more Lord of the Rings, evil against good, rather than gray against gray. I'm more disappointed on how they treat the Nilf's as psychopathic rather than how they treat their armor. Sure they weren't good people, but they're just cookie cutter in the show. The elves and human story is another episode that they take all the nuance out of it. Just painting 'human's bad, elves good', which is not how the books wrote it.
One of the reason's I dislike the fact that a feminist (I shouldn't go their but I am) is the main Director of the show is that those type of people rarely understand nuance. Rarely understand gray areas, it's either all good or all evil, and that's what the show is pushing. The extra scenes they add that push "Oh women are oppressed" is wasting screen time, but overall, ignoble. It's the philosophical aspects it hurts the most. The games are far superior in this way with keeping things gray with fresh narratives in the series. They also really screw up Yennifer. She was never the best student. (that was Philipa) She was never a sword fighter. It'd be like making Geralt suddenly being a master sorcerer. It doesn't make sense context wise and just feels wish fulfillment. Yennifer is ridiculously powerful person, she's in the lodge for a reason, but she's not fantastic at everything. (Which also goes into how they screwed up the magic system)
Finally, while having more interactions between Geralt and Ciri in the next season will be good, they've already lost a big aspect about it. Which is that they both had a little adventure and bonding time together before they realized who each other was. It was suppose to show that their relationship was more than just fate, (which is what the whole episode's name is for, which they skipped) that there was something there without it. Which is just lazy. Those are my general grievances, I still really like the show, it's fun. Geralt is cast nigh perfectly, Dandelion is played on point, Yennifer's actress while she doesn't look like her, does play her personality exceedingly well. The action is top notch. It's a good show, but it's not next level like it could be if it didn't have all these problems. (Which is to would be if it followed the books closer, not perfectly, but closer) And while there is a lot of race-washing in the show, it's honestly to be expected by modern Hollywood. (And their ever-growing hatred of Gingers, sad but true) I just wish we had more people on set that actually understood the story that they were adapting like Henry Cavil (which is another thing, he's a fan of the books/games and even comments on Yennifer is his waifu) does his character, because the story is good enough to deserve that, but right now it certainly doesn't.
One last thing, if you read the books like me, I rate it a 6/10. If you only played the games, I give it a 8/10.
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