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Ant221 said:
I wasn't aware people hated Jaskier, all I've seen are comments liking the character.
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I'm talking whoever threw him in prison. Which could have been for something he actually did, or it was some crusty ass lord peeved because he smiled at his wife once.

Jaskier is also seemingly too dumb to be properly traumatized by the experience. Which doesn't help the butthurt.
 
I enjoyed it. Book purists are losing their damn minds. Like a couple of book choices made me sad, but overall, a solid season. With a dramatically bigger budget (or a dramatically better art direction)
 
Wouldn't Ciri just become more dangerous if she was successfully turned into a Witcher
 
She would likely die from it, and even if she didn't, she would suffer for long time, so it's not worth the risk in the mind of Geralt (and even Vesimir, who did it to kids before, isn't all for it).
Plus, she's got enough unique stuff for herself anyway :p
 
Cambion said:
Wouldn't Ciri just become more dangerous if she was successfully turned into a Witcher
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As people have said above she would probably die. But if it somehow worked Witchers are sterile and isn't Ciri's descendant supposed to save humanity by teleporting them to a new world before the ice age kills them lol?
 
Just finished it last night while I did enjoy series 2 I can't help but feel like not much really happened and it felt like it was mostly just set up for series 3? Which arguably series 1 was all set up to get Geralt, Yennifer and Ciri in the right places but I remember most episodes monster of the week plots being more a lot more entertaining than anything in series 2. Jaskier song was great though I can't say if its as good as Toss a Coin to Your Witcher but its still great.
 
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‘The Witcher’ Season 2 Joins Netflix’s Most-Viewed TV of All Time

Netflix Ratings: 'Witcher' Season 2 joins Netflix's most-viewed TV shows of all time.
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The second season of the fantasy epic, which blends the genres of horror, action, romance, drama and occasionally comedy, has joined the streamer's most-viewed TV shows of all time list, amassing 462.5 million hours of view-time.

Season 2, starring Henry Cavill as the titular monster hunter, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra and Joey Batey, is now on Netflix's Top 10 alongside its inaugural season, which garnered 541.010 million hours of viewership during its first 28 days on the streamer.

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Very much liked this season, it was good, had some weak moments but generally left me wanting more.


I did feel the Jaskier getting a bloke killed because he had to tell off a boorish fan and then like...immediately moving on was a bit much. I have a lot of time for his unique quirks and humor and he and Yen bouncing off each other pretending to only see the worst in each other when they know that deep down both are good people who just feel admitting that invites a punch in the face is cute.


Ciri bonding with the Witchers was wonderful but tbh her story there seemed to be constantly being pulled towards a pretty straight forwards and positive direction and then getting yanked away towards a different path but then she can't go down that path either because her destiny. It just feels like there is what Ciri thinks she wants, what Geralt thinks she needs, and what the plot requires and all are completely incompatible. Which should be a source of dramatic tension but instead just kind of feels like she's driftwood bobbing around. These characters are so descisive and bold and straight talking so it feels weird to have so much of their screen time charging down dead ends.


One final winge, I swear characters walk or ride places faster than they teleport. They seem to cross the continent a lot this series. Last series they seemed to spend far longer travelling and significant events were weeks, months even years apart whilst here it feels like the entire series happened over a month despite objectively probably being several months or even a year.
 
Honestly any adaptation/canon nitpicks don't really matter. Because this season really felt like they understand the franchise and were pushing super hard to be as faithful in spirit as possible. Just within the limitations of a slightly low budget fantasy adventure TV show.

I especially liked how they transferred the 'butthurt about Geralt ghosting them for years' role from Yennefer to Jaskier, while still dropping the 'dear friend' line that they can maybe follow up with later.

Only thing that really bothers me is all the guff they make about the monoliths and all that shit. I feel like we don't need to know the magical mechanics to explain why Ciri's powers might be apocalyptic. You have spooky visions and nightmares for that. And I felt they could have used that screentime to build up the evil witch spirit, who was a cool end-season boss but felt like it needed more buildip.

Armour and clothes seemed a little mickey mouse at times, yet at the same time I think the aesthetics on everything is a little more inspired than Game of Thrones was.
 
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Haven't finished Season 2 yet (Cavill remains great and that's all that matters to me as I enjoy seeing him do well) but Jaskier's breakup song about Geralt is fantastic.
 
Reveen said:
Honestly any adaptation/canon nitpicks don't really matter. Because this season really felt like they understand the franchise and were pushing super hard to be as faithful in spirit as possible. Just within the limitations of a slightly low budget fantasy adventure TV show.
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In no possible way is The Witcher "slightly low budget".
 
silentorphan said:
The first season saw the budget pegged at approximately $10 million per episode, although Netflix and the production companies have never released official figures. For Season 2, all that was heard--again unofficially--was that it was "on par" with Disney+ MCU shows, which are supposed to cost around $25 million per episode.
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I am enjoying the Witcher show immensely - especially since they stopped jumping around in the timeline. I hope however Netflix measures things it justifies next season and that the crew can keep the high quality so it continues to do so.
 
I wouldn't be suprised if Cavill left on his own accord, he's a fanboy and the writers have been pretty fucking terrible with how they'd been treating the source material.
 
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