None needed for this. It's way way before the games and essentially the begining of everything.
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The Witcher (Netflix) Final Trailer
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None needed for this. It's way way before the games and essentially the begining of everything.
I've only read the first book and played the games but Geralt doesn't really care about his horse does he? Doesn't he switch them out frequently and just calls all of them Roach?Tell me witcher . . . . who's your one true love?
Geralt:
Triss barely shows up in the first two books. And she is in the trailer at 0:59, left side.
Edit: Try to avoid the youtube comment section, racists everywhere.
The books are complete, so it is harder to mess up. Although, that trailer actually hyped me a lot less. I was expecting all of the short stories from the first season. This has the look of being more streamlined into a linear telling to align with the later books. Hopefully, they are using the last short as a kind of over arching story line for the season with flashbacks to the other short stories. And it can't be said enough that the Nilfgaard armor is a huge design mistake.
Lauren has said that there is enough material to cover like 7 seasons so I don't think she's trying to rush through the material.
Why would he fit into this season? He doesn't even show up until the fourth book (fifth, if you count Season of Storms) as far as I can recall, and I just finished reading these books (except Season of Storms, which I'm currently reading).
And I'm surprised Triss is even in this season. She doesn't really feature until the third book, though I can see them bringing her forward along with the rest of the Ciri storyline. Regardless, Triss is a really minor character in this story, which is going to confuse those who've only played the games.
looks exciting. can't wait to watch it.
i couldn't enjoy the books so hope this does a better job.
i couldn't enjoy the books so hope this does a better job.
"Don't touch Roach"
Hahaha
I would explain the scene but it'd be spoilers.
It's not what you think, basically.
Hahaha
I would explain the scene but it'd be spoilers.
It's not what you think, basically.
Well they are expanding on the background of many characters, one of them is Vilgefortz
New The Witcher stills
They'll introduce saga book characters like Cahir, Triss and Vilgefortz in this season (that is mainly focused on the short stories but will delve a bit into BoE) for people to get used to them. You can actually see Vilgefortz in this trailer fighting Cahir (why I don't know) at around the 1:00 mark (although I'm going by what Reddit is saying, it's kinda hard to see if that is really the actor, either way there's a Vilgefortz actor casted for this season).
Triss has a very small part in the books, it's really the game witcher 1 that made her a major character, and that takes place after the books this tv show is based on.
Well, now we know which episode Jaskiers "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher" will be in. Nice!
He shows up in the second book at Thanned, but whatever, that's not the point. The point is that the show did already cast his role, so they're clearly planning to show him.
I actually have not. I thought the idea of splitting it up into multiple movies was a mistake and it killed my interest.
Still not happy with the casting of Triss.... does Hollywood have an issue with Ginger haired characters or what
Yeah they did say it's not 100% like the books, so some things will be new or different.
She's not ginger in the books. She's described as having chestnut (brown with perhaps a tint of redishness to it) colored hair.
I'm also not sure why hair color matters so much to people.
I love the books but the overall structure wouldn't work so well for a show. Three seasons of largely less connected episodes then after that suddenly a bunch of connections and importance on characters that had maybe a few showings the first seasons wouldn't be great. You need to get people on board with the big players in the story. Smooth out the transition to the saga. That's largely what they did, I've heard.
I mean, Ciri is practically more the main character in the saga than Geralt.
To add to the correction posted above, I think the books call her hair.. Chestnut?
Edit: okay, the detail was already added by someone else, whoops.
But yeah, she's not the redhead from the games, because she isn't supposed to be.
Why does it have the weird British framerate smoothing shit that permeates all British shows? I hate it.
Hopefully the acting stands up, because I think that's about all that it's going to have going for it. I swear, each time I see one of these trailers, I expect to see some kind of improvement over an earlier one, but it really looks like to me like their ambition far outweighed the budget, so you end up with a bunch of scenes that are supposed to look "epic", but look like they are from a Syfy original in quality.
It's like it wants to be both Game of Thrones and Vikings, yet can't manage to do what either of them are good at even decently.
They have all been about the same to me.
Yeah, I just can't understand the "Game of Thrones looked like shit" in the first season revisionism that started after the third or fourth season hit. Comparatively it might have looked lower budget, especially King's Landing, but it never looked like shit. It always looked really good from the start in most ways. Cinematography helps immensely too.
And besides that, even if Game of Thrones somehow did look like shit in the first season, how is that an excuse for a show that arrived eight years later?
It's like it wants to be both Game of Thrones and Vikings, yet can't manage to do what either of them are good at even decently.
They have all been about the same to me.
Yeah, I just can't understand the "Game of Thrones looked like shit" in the first season revisionism that started after the third or fourth season hit. Comparatively it might have looked lower budget, especially King's Landing, but it never looked like shit. It always looked really good from the start in most ways. Cinematography helps immensely too.
And besides that, even if Game of Thrones somehow did look like shit in the first season, how is that an excuse for a show that arrived eight years later?
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Thanned is the fourth (fifth) book. It's only the second if you start with Blood of Elves, which this TV series does not.
It's in the second book of the saga. Jesus.
Edit: Regardless, again, the point is Vilgefortz is a character from the saga. If they cast him, they're probably going for saga storylines sooner than later.
Eeeeeeeeeeh. This looks generic-ass fantasy show, and the character doesn't help either. Will watch in the beginning but it doesn't look special at all.
No, they are starting with short stories, but introducing elements from the saga.
It sounds like he's trying. But he obviously isn't Doug and it is ok because Doug's voice is more so his natural voice so he doesn't have to try.
I'd also hope that Roach ends up in the roof of a house at see point. I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen.
Is Geralt not a monster hunter in this any more? None of the trailers seem to highlight that if so. Which is probably why all the trailers look bad to me.
I guess I can understand if they just didn't have the budget for it, but it's super disappointing to see Only him battling a few soldiers.
I guess I can understand if they just didn't have the budget for it, but it's super disappointing to see Only him battling a few soldiers.
You can see him fighting a striga, a kikimore and gouls in most trailers and in his featurette video.
Really? It must have been a fast ass cut then. That picture above in this thread is the first that I think I've seen of the Kikimore.