Based on the best-selling fantasy series, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family.
Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.
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“The Witcher” has been renewed for Season 5, which will be the end of the series, the streamer announced Thursday morning. It also confirmed that Season 4 is now in production, and it will film back to back with Season 5:
@WilliamDrakeMcGregor - Using Bard to narrate would have to be written/handled with a lot of thought and artistry. Off the top of my head, it could make the show too much about Bard instead of The Witcher, deflate the suspense in Bard's encounters, make the tone too upbeat, and the story even more corny, if not handled well. I guess, if we were to restart a new Witcher Procedural TV show, and Bard remained a background character, who was a novelty to encounter, who's stupid behaviour provided some much needed comic relief, using him to narrate could really work.
In fact, if all the other characters were a novelty to encounter, it would make them that much more interesting and enticing to get to know. Boring as they are, there just aren't enough episodes to flesh out an entire ensemble cast of characters backstories enough to care, as 9 episodes a season is barely enough to get to know Geralt or the rest of the Witchers, let alone an entire ensemble cast, but I digress.
by WilliamDrakeMcGregor posted 8 months ago
paisley1 said:
Full Disclosure: I think The Witcher is a bad story, plagiarized, borrowed, and hackneyed. I have never liked it.
I finally marathoned all three seasons of The Witcher, and it progressively got worse, like season 3 was terrible. Thing is, I finished the game multiple times, trying for different endings (there are 16 endings to the base game), so I'm very familiar with that world. I felt as though the main plot should have been told in passing in flashback, as all the writers really needed to do is a basic procedural outline to entertain it's audience: Geralt gets a contract, tracks a monster, kills the monster, gets new abilities, finds cool loot, repeat for 10 seasons. Deviating from this basic outline only annoys audience. :p lolz. Storyline should only focus on what directly affects Geralt, and be very first person, everything else political should merely serve as window dressing for a Witcher contract or mission. I would set hard and fast teleplay constraints with the writers of this show.
If I were to organize the short stories and novels into a TV show, season 1 episode 1 would absolutely start with the conjunction, what it looked like, how it works, and what it means for everyone, and a history lesson of why everyone is where they are, with lots of close ups of maps showing where all the realms are and the power struggle between groups, kinda like Lord of the Rings did, then I'd get into Ciri and the elder blood, and start Witcher contracts, and get into the Witchers. Everything else, you'd learn from an exposition moment by someone explaining to Geralt what happened in flashback, ie. Ciri in the desert (flashback), Mage Battle (flashback), etc. When this show did flashbacks, you didn't know they were flashbacks all that well, and it was confusing because they were doing too much with an ensemble cast with multiple storylines, when it should've focused only on Geralts story. I guess I just disagree with their approach to making a TV series for The Witcher, I think it works better as a procedural than a serial, because the story is so bad. :p lolz
I have all the other swords he used in the show, Witcher Steel Sword (Season 1), Forgotten Wolven Steel Sword (season 2 & 3), but at the end of season 3 in the woods Geralt is practising with a sword with a twisted metal cross guard, didn't recognize it, so I looked through my entire inventory, no idea. If you know what it is, let me know.
Annoyance: Jaskier/Bard is Dandelion. Using his Polish name in English drove me crazy! Just call him Dandelion.
Agree with many of the things you describe.
I would add that Dandelion should've been a narrator to the story. You have a Bard as a main character, use him to tell the story.
by paisley1 posted 8 months ago
Full Disclosure: I think The Witcher is a bad story, plagiarized, borrowed, and hackneyed. I have never liked it.
I finally marathoned all three seasons of The Witcher, and it progressively got worse, like season 3 was terrible. Thing is, I finished the game multiple times, trying for different endings (there are 16 endings to the base game), so I'm very familiar with that world. I felt as though the main plot should have been told in passing in flashback, as all the writers really needed to do is a basic procedural outline to entertain it's audience: Geralt gets a contract, tracks a monster, kills the monster, gets new abilities, finds cool loot, repeat for 10 seasons. Deviating from this basic outline only annoys audience. :p lolz. Storyline should only focus on what directly affects Geralt, and be very first person, everything else political should merely serve as window dressing for a Witcher contract or mission. I would set hard and fast teleplay constraints with the writers of this show.
If I were to organize the short stories and novels into a TV show, season 1 episode 1 would absolutely start with the conjunction, what it looked like, how it works, and what it means for everyone, and a history lesson of why everyone is where they are, with lots of close ups of maps showing where all the realms are and the power struggle between groups, kinda like Lord of the Rings did, then I'd get into Ciri and the elder blood, and start Witcher contracts, and get into the Witchers. Everything else, you'd learn from an exposition moment by someone explaining to Geralt what happened in flashback, ie. Ciri in the desert (flashback), Mage Battle (flashback), etc. When this show did flashbacks, you didn't know they were flashbacks all that well, and it was confusing because they were doing too much with an ensemble cast with multiple storylines, when it should've focused only on Geralts story. I guess I just disagree with their approach to making a TV series for The Witcher, I think it works better as a procedural than a serial, because the story is so bad. :p lolz
I have all the other swords he used in the show, Witcher Steel Sword (Season 1), Forgotten Wolven Steel Sword (season 2 & 3), but at the end of season 3 in the woods Geralt is practising with a sword with a twisted metal cross guard, didn't recognize it, so I looked through my entire inventory, no idea. If you know what it is, let me know.
Annoyance: Jaskier/Bard is Dandelion. Using his Polish name in English drove me crazy! Just call him Dandelion.
by jimslim posted 1 year ago
No Cavill - No watching
by TheFizza posted 1 year ago
Oh gawd, what an ending... I hope they can keep it up without Cavill?!
by some_one posted 1 year ago
bvereshagen said:
Would that make Geralt the maitre d' or Mr. Creosote?
Well, thanks for the entirely unwanted reminder of that particular skit. Actually... somehow a comedy troupe managed to create a more effective example of body horror than whatever the afforementioned "flesh monster" was more than 30 years ago.
lighton said:
The princess' and the Witcher's physical suffering in the last two episodes was too long-drawn-out for my taste, but other than that I enjoyed season 3.
It really wanted you to keep track of all the dozens of characters and their names this time around, yet gave at least me absolutely no reason to care about any of them. Not good, that. Then again, GoT was kinda the same and everyone seemed to enjoy it there...
by lighton posted 1 year ago
The princess' and the Witcher's physical suffering in the last two episodes was too long-drawn-out for my taste, but other than that I enjoyed season 3.
by bvereshagen posted 1 year ago
some_one said:
e.g. the flesh monster
Oh right,
Surely I can't be the only one who saw those stalk face things and immediately had to think of these guys?
In fact, if all the other characters were a novelty to encounter, it would make them that much more interesting and enticing to get to know. Boring as they are, there just aren't enough episodes to flesh out an entire ensemble cast of characters backstories enough to care, as 9 episodes a season is barely enough to get to know Geralt or the rest of the Witchers, let alone an entire ensemble cast, but I digress.
I finally marathoned all three seasons of The Witcher, and it progressively got worse, like season 3 was terrible. Thing is, I finished the game multiple times, trying for different endings (there are 16 endings to the base game), so I'm very familiar with that world. I felt as though the main plot should have been told in passing in flashback, as all the writers really needed to do is a basic procedural outline to entertain it's audience: Geralt gets a contract, tracks a monster, kills the monster, gets new abilities, finds cool loot, repeat for 10 seasons. Deviating from this basic outline only annoys audience. :p lolz. Storyline should only focus on what directly affects Geralt, and be very first person, everything else political should merely serve as window dressing for a Witcher contract or mission. I would set hard and fast teleplay constraints with the writers of this show.
If I were to organize the short stories and novels into a TV show, season 1 episode 1 would absolutely start with the conjunction, what it looked like, how it works, and what it means for everyone, and a history lesson of why everyone is where they are, with lots of close ups of maps showing where all the realms are and the power struggle between groups, kinda like Lord of the Rings did, then I'd get into Ciri and the elder blood, and start Witcher contracts, and get into the Witchers. Everything else, you'd learn from an exposition moment by someone explaining to Geralt what happened in flashback, ie. Ciri in the desert (flashback), Mage Battle (flashback), etc. When this show did flashbacks, you didn't know they were flashbacks all that well, and it was confusing because they were doing too much with an ensemble cast with multiple storylines, when it should've focused only on Geralts story. I guess I just disagree with their approach to making a TV series for The Witcher, I think it works better as a procedural than a serial, because the story is so bad. :p lolz
I have all the other swords he used in the show, Witcher Steel Sword (Season 1), Forgotten Wolven Steel Sword (season 2 & 3), but at the end of season 3 in the woods Geralt is practising with a sword with a twisted metal cross guard, didn't recognize it, so I looked through my entire inventory, no idea. If you know what it is, let me know.
Annoyance: Jaskier/Bard is Dandelion. Using his Polish name in English drove me crazy! Just call him Dandelion.
Agree with many of the things you describe.
I would add that Dandelion should've been a narrator to the story. You have a Bard as a main character, use him to tell the story.
I finally marathoned all three seasons of The Witcher, and it progressively got worse, like season 3 was terrible. Thing is, I finished the game multiple times, trying for different endings (there are 16 endings to the base game), so I'm very familiar with that world. I felt as though the main plot should have been told in passing in flashback, as all the writers really needed to do is a basic procedural outline to entertain it's audience: Geralt gets a contract, tracks a monster, kills the monster, gets new abilities, finds cool loot, repeat for 10 seasons. Deviating from this basic outline only annoys audience. :p lolz. Storyline should only focus on what directly affects Geralt, and be very first person, everything else political should merely serve as window dressing for a Witcher contract or mission. I would set hard and fast teleplay constraints with the writers of this show.
If I were to organize the short stories and novels into a TV show, season 1 episode 1 would absolutely start with the conjunction, what it looked like, how it works, and what it means for everyone, and a history lesson of why everyone is where they are, with lots of close ups of maps showing where all the realms are and the power struggle between groups, kinda like Lord of the Rings did, then I'd get into Ciri and the elder blood, and start Witcher contracts, and get into the Witchers. Everything else, you'd learn from an exposition moment by someone explaining to Geralt what happened in flashback, ie. Ciri in the desert (flashback), Mage Battle (flashback), etc. When this show did flashbacks, you didn't know they were flashbacks all that well, and it was confusing because they were doing too much with an ensemble cast with multiple storylines, when it should've focused only on Geralts story. I guess I just disagree with their approach to making a TV series for The Witcher, I think it works better as a procedural than a serial, because the story is so bad. :p lolz
I have all the other swords he used in the show, Witcher Steel Sword (Season 1), Forgotten Wolven Steel Sword (season 2 & 3), but at the end of season 3 in the woods Geralt is practising with a sword with a twisted metal cross guard, didn't recognize it, so I looked through my entire inventory, no idea. If you know what it is, let me know.
Annoyance: Jaskier/Bard is Dandelion. Using his Polish name in English drove me crazy! Just call him Dandelion.
Well, thanks for the entirely unwanted reminder of that particular skit. Actually... somehow a comedy troupe managed to create a more effective example of body horror than whatever the afforementioned "flesh monster" was more than 30 years ago.
It really wanted you to keep track of all the dozens of characters and their names this time around, yet gave at least me absolutely no reason to care about any of them. Not good, that. Then again, GoT was kinda the same and everyone seemed to enjoy it there...
Oh right,
Surely I can't be the only one who saw those stalk face things and immediately had to think of these guys?
https://cdn2.highdefdigest.com/uploads/2022/09/16/monty-pythons-meaning-of-life-4kultrahd-bluray-review-highdef-digest-2.png
Would that make Geralt the maitre d' or Mr. Creosote?