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Netflix "The Witcher" anyone watching?
I've watched a few episodes. It's not bad. I think I saw the first GoT episode, maybe not even the whole thing. One of the kids thought the wife would be interested and brought the season 1 DVDS for us to watch. The wife wasn't interested in it so we stopped. I think this is capitalizing on the popularity, but it seems to be toned down a bit.
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I watched it as long as I could. No matter how hard I tried I just was not able to care about the characters. I also got tired of all the irrelevant ‘lore’ and history. The Witcher character himself is kind of interesting in an old-timey, super-hero kind of way.
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I have noticed that they tried to make the main witch a sympathetic character, but they don't seem to be getting it quite right.
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The lead Henry Cavill also played in the awful "Tudors" series. I watched Witcher for a few but man is it bad. The actress that plays Yennefer looked great all naked and sweaty but that's not enough to keep it going. I expect a short lived series.
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Is the story line true to, or does justice to the books? My teenage daughter is a massive fan of the books, but is literally too scared to watch it as she's terrified they will screw it up.
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No idea, I'd never heard of it before the show.
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01-03-2020, 08:25 AM
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Watched the first episode.
Not interested. Maybe for the younger crowd?
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I thought it was based more on the game than the books. Not that it makes much difference and no, I have not watched it.
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I saw 2 episodes. 2 thumbs down.
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2 episodes in.
If the main character keeps up with that brooding low speech I'm out. He's trying way to hard and not getting very far with it.
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It's a lot easier to watch after Yennefer transforms... But same as you guys, I gave up about Ep3 initially, and eventually finished when I got bored on a trip, much later... The end is better - they put some $$ in the final battles... I suspect the books are better. Cavill just doesn't work for me in that role...
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The quality swings wildly from episode to episode, sometimes from scene to scene.
But worth watching.
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I finished the first season last weekend. I'm glad that they semi tied up a couple of things. Some series' like to drag things out.
In the beginning, I found it a little odd that the timeline seemed to bounce around with no indication that things/time was different other than when you got a statement like "I've been doing this for 30 years." It's not going to win any Oscars, but it was entertaining enough for me to veg out to.
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I enjoyed it. The producers have said it follows the books more than the games. I just started reading the first book so we will see.
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Im sitting there thinking wait, didn't that guy get an arrow in the eye Ep 1 and she jumped out a window? WTF is going on here? Then the 3 decades comment and I was all confused. They could have done a better job of laying out that individual character arcs are occurring on different timelines. Would be easier to follow.
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