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Since the 2nd season, I've noticing a thicker soap opera style of story telling. This first episode of season 3 is the clearest soap opera style story telling ever.

So I checked, apparently this writers and produces have met before doing Vampire Diaries and The Umbrella Academy. Clearly, they are over confidence with their writing credits and skills, but they are the ones who ruined The Umbrella Academy from a very unique superheroes mini series into funny weirdo heroes TV Series.

No wonder Henry Cavill quit. The Witcher has a very dense tragic story that has become weirdo sword & magic soap opera of love triangle. I pity Cavill for not being able to quit earlier.

I started the 3rd season, and thought...bahhhh. This first episode is...meh.

Towards the end of it I realized I needed to rewatch the 2nd season again; I'd forgotten a lot. It'd been almost 2 years since it came out, after all. I'm SO glad I did. Also, it's such a bad ass season to see again.

Rewatched S3 ep1 when finished (I may have skipped through the slow bits) and it made for much better viewing since the history of the 2nd season was fresh. Especially it's last scene; made more sense since I had completely forgotten who that dude was. (Hint: Ciri's recovering hedgehog of an average looking guy father)

Are there melodramatic dialoguing moments? Yesh. (I mean, is it possible to portray elves as anything other than moping, thwarted, and too serious for their own good? I'm just saying, it's old hat.)

Fantasy screen writers continue to lean their illogical, overly heroic, exposition dialog (eye roll...cue Jaskier) but that aside, it's worth tolerating for those smoldering Witcher stares.

Cavill, your replacement will never match your particular brand of Geralt broodiness. Wish things could've worked out.

Let's hope the rest of S3 does.

The writers and producers thought they could write better than Andrzej Sapkowski. They can't end of story.

Another miserable flop from netflix.

This team has put a lot of effort in making this unwatchable for 99% of the audience.

Apart from Henry, the show has no more reasons to continue to watch it, the world is wrong, the story is boring and floppy, the characters in need of a deep dive don't get it the ones that get it are completely off and goofy.

Diversity is bigger than delivering something watchable.

The fact that writers and producers win over a beloved actor who knows and respects the lore is the sole reason to belive this show has nothing more to deliver besides misery.

Except for the first episode S3E1, that was feeling like butter spread over too much bread, the episodes 2 - 5 are entertaining and sometimes thrilling. Unfortunately, it is not the story of the Witcher anymore. It has became a romance in a fantasy world with elves and mages, a drama with more words than action. Did you think that a witcher earns his living by killing monsters? Not in this movie. But you will learn some new exciting steps for your next dance party.

And one more thing - please make the actors pronounce words understandably, unless the producer thinks the dialogs are not worth understanding. It was not such a big problem in LOTR, so one can clearly understand many fantasy races.

This is a series that had/has so much potential...in story arc, situation, characters, relationships, monsters.. everything.

And yet it seems to fail at every step.

The characters are so dull that nobody cares if they live or die, the story is stupidly vague as to be non-existent and it is cut between scene to scene with almost no connections between each one and it just stops any momentum in the story telling.

It looks so good and so expensive that it is just tragic that it can be so poor.

I feel sorry for all involved, especially the actors who give everything they can with so little to work with.

They deserve so much better.

I think this series needs a huge overhaul and new people in control of the whole thing because the people doing it now are simply not up to the job.

Another Netflix show that has so much potential and money chucked at it and yet just fails to hit any targets that should be really easy to do.

Sort it out or just stop making it. It is embarrassingly poor for all concerned.