The Witcher

watched the first 2 episodes of season 2....

pretty good episodes

Gets even better.

My least favorite thing was

Spoiler:
that dragon man. Geralt did him a tremendous service, and he kept this condescending attitude towards him, and barely offers to grace him with help for his problems.

Pretty good season. An improvement on the first.

The recap is everything wrong with the show. Forgot about the pointless Law of Surprise drama, and the woods weirdness.

Geralt is great as a character, and the forced feminism narrative can be ignored to enjoy the good stuff. To be fair it's almost mandatory to have this in television, even Batman The Long Halloween made Carmine Falcone into a condescending misogonistic father, when in the comic Sofia was always treated as an equal to the men gangsters, and even was directly asked for help by Falcone.

I didn't notice a "forced feminism narrative" in the Witcher. Certainly it happens in many shows *cough* Wheel of time *cough* but the Witcher doesn't have it. Yennefer is powerful, sure, but she's a very flawed character and her arc isn't about dealing with sexism (hell that's completely absent).

With that said, I will admit that almost anything that doesn't focus on Geralt or Ciri is pretty boring. And that includes Yennefer's plotline.

Originally posted by ares834
I didn't notice a "forced feminism narrative" in the Witcher. Certainly it happens in many shows *cough* Wheel of time *cough* but the Witcher doesn't have it. Yennefer is powerful, sure, but she's a very flawed character and her arc isn't about dealing with sexism (hell that's completely absent).

With that said, I will admit that almost anything that doesn't focus on Geralt or Ciri is pretty boring. And that includes Yennefer's plotline.

If the law of surprise is so bad, why did Geralt even ask for it?

Could have asked for literally anything else. Or just walked off into the sunset asking for nothing.

It's not "so bad". It's random hence why it's called a "surprise". The one dude

Spoiler:
Emhyr

Originally posted by ares834
It's not "so bad". It's random hence why it's called a "surprise". The one dude

Spoiler:
Emhyr

basically demands that Geralt choose something so he just says the law of surprise because he can't think of anything else.

Right after he says it though, he gets a "What have you done??"

So assuming this is generally known as a problematic reward.

Would have been better off asking for something useful like a horse.

Originally posted by cdtm
If the law of surprise is so bad, why did Geralt even ask for it?

Could have asked for literally anything else. Or just walked off into the sunset asking for nothing.

Probably because the entire main plot of the books, games and show would never have happened otherwise. That'd be my guess.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Probably because the entire main plot of the books, games and show would never have happened otherwise. That'd be my guess.

Ah.

Never read, and only really played part of the second (Which was really fun, but I put it off finally playing Mass Effect 3 and Dragons Dogma, and even Skyrim.

I'm a slow gamer.)

finished season 2

i enjoyed it as i hop henry cavil continues to do it until he stops

only thing i didd not like where the fights which i feel coulda lasted a little while longer but season 3 is coming soon

My take:

Season 1 = Interesting

Season 2 = Well done

Looking forward to Season 3.

Originally posted by cdtm
My least favorite thing was

Spoiler:
that dragon man. Geralt did him a tremendous service, and he kept this condescending attitude towards him, and barely offers to grace him with help for his problems.

Spoiler:
The dragon man found/supported/fed a vampire who proceeded to kill innocent people and turned his location into a ghost town. This vampire was also responsible for his physical corruption, and he admitted to have killed his own servants. His problems stem from his own lack of judgement. No wonder he put off both Geralt and Ciri when they learned much about him.

Anyone seen the Nightmare of the Wolf animated film of the same verse? The Witchers of Vesemir's generation appeared ridiculously more powerful than the current ones.

Not hard to imagine that they were more capable or better trained in their heyday, look at the force users in the Prequel trilogy compared to Luke, Vader, etc in the Original trilogy.

Originally posted by samhain
Not hard to imagine that they were more capable or better trained in their heyday, look at the force users in the Prequel trilogy compared to Luke, Vader, etc in the Original trilogy.

Originally posted by HulkIsHulk
Well them being more skilled would have been understable, but the raw power difference is staggering. One Witchers was jumping and spinning around 30 feet in air like Spiderman, and Vesemir's Arrd was causing shockwaves for miles around. Vesemir's teacher was completely confident of his few dozen Witchers trouncing an entire army without a scratch.

I chalk it up to it being animated and the writers falling into the anime trap (where effects tend to be exaggerated), because the witchers there were way more powerful than they've ever been depicted in the books, the games or the live-action show. And let's not even get into the really stupid stuff like the one witcher being able to cast Aard with his friggin' arm stump.

Henry Cavill to be replaced by Liam Hemsworth.

Originally posted by Impediment
Henry Cavill to be replaced by Liam Hemsworth.

Any idea why?

Seems odd to just up and quit, unless he had other obligations or was lowballed on compensation.

Don't blame him tbh. Must've been very frustrating for Cavill given how he's a fan of The Witcher he has to have a writing team who disdained the books and games and who openly mocked them.

This is what happens when you staff projects with jobbing writers instead of people who actually care about the source material.