Craigsters Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 "You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." On the Waterfront 1954 M.Brando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candy_Licker Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 12/27/2019 at 7:39 AM, Slappy212 said: Triss is one of the most beautiful sorceresses in the books. She doesn't use magic to alter her looks like Yennefer does. And they made her look thoroughly average in in the series, lol. Ah sh*t. My Witcher waifu I tried to watch the first episode, totally confused. All the different timelines + I'm not really good at differentiating faces. Doesn't help that I was high as a kite and quite tired. The battle scene grossed me out a bit. Just some senseless, overly brutal slaughtering and I don't know what's even going on (again, high af). I'm not that much into tv violence lately. I already deplete my tolerance for violence with video games, when I'm watching tv I prefer something more relaxed and light-hearted (which again, probably has to do with being stoned half the time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Pink Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) On 12/25/2019 at 9:14 AM, Pesos said: I don't buy this argument really, as there are many, many instances of where the disparity is in the opposite direction and it's quite clear that (mainstream, at least) critics aren't looking at things objectively. Later seasons of GoT being prime example there of. Critics are just a sh*t and outdated relic. For sure there is a disparity the other way. My argument isn't suggesting it's exclusively one-way. And some times I disagree with it but other times it's a film that might be more appealing (over average) to critics than the audience. Films for the general audience will always have a different appeal to those that largely just want some entertainment versus those that professionally make a living from reviewing a film. Remember, critics aren't one union or collective organization. They are made up of professional individuals with their own politics, tastes and dislikes. But in order to become a credible critic, you have to at least display a professional level of understanding of visual arts, filmmaking, narrative and story. Does that mean all crticis are good? No. But the ones that generally are able to make a living (people like Mark Kermode) and have a following of people that seek his professional opinion (keywords 'professional' and 'opinion') have credibility and skill in understanding cinema. So to say, "critics are sh*t and outdated" is like saying anyone that has a decent understanding of cinema and expresses that opinion is "sh*t and outdated." Let me go one-step further. If you watch this analysis of Taxi Driver, a film with 97% critics rating and 93% audience rating, you'll understand that this film is probably more layered than what a casual film fan would see. In fact there's probably more subtext and metaphor than the average movie enthusiast will spot. And that's fine. And you don't need to pick up on all the subtext to enjoy the film. This analysis of the film was done by guy that studies film. I would say he's educated and is good at speaking about film. And the likes to dislikes ration reflects this. Now, it's not a huge stretch that a good film critic has this same or similar education to Criswell, the guy that's doing the analysis. So when a collective of people with reasonably more education on a subject that analyse the subject professionally, they'll have differing opinions to people looking to just consume some entertainment. So when there's a disparity and critics favour higher a film, much more than the audience (not always) but usually, I put that down to education. Some times it seems like politics or something else, and that could be true. Keeping on topic, my original point is that some times individual critics that then make up the collective, may not favour some film or TV show where the audience does. In this case it's The Witcher series. My argument is that a factor in this is that they may be reviewing it professionally and are more objective in their analysis. Whereas the audience, especially for an much loved and all-ready established IP can love a show or film (in this case The Witcher) because they are all ready emotionally invested in the series, be it through the books or videogames. I think that's reasonable. I haven't got around to watching yet, so I'm looking forward to it. Edited December 28, 2019 by Mister Pink 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙸𝙲 𝙽𝙾𝙽 𝚂𝚃𝙾𝙿 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigsters Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) I finally finished watching the whole first season episodes, inspired me to want to play the game again, but the game menu's where to confusing and building's all intertwined and I kept getting lost not knowing which village, hamlet or tavern I was to go into!.. Edited December 31, 2019 by Craigsters "You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." On the Waterfront 1954 M.Brando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Today The Witcher 3 peaked at 101k concurrent players on Steam, an all time high for the game on Steam and there's tons of stories of players on other platforms going back to the game or playing it for the first time as well. Crazy how well the show has landed and how much of an impact it's had on the game. Personally I got about 50-60 hours into the story on PS4 back when it came out but got burned out with tons of story and quests to do, but I picked it up on Steam the other day and with a few mods I'm having a blast with it. Fresh start has really helped me get into the swing of it which I struggled with when trying to return to my PS4 playthrough. LittleJesus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Finished it the timelines were very confusing I hope the second season makes the timeline a bit more clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Craigsters 1 "One day I will think of this as just another job. After all, this is what I do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapper Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Finished it today. It was a bit lore heavy and constant switching between timelines didn't help too. Overall it was pretty good first season. Time to read the books I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) Personally I really didn't have an issue with the timeline jumping once I clicked onto what was happening which I did by like episode 4. Given how series 1 ended I assume it'll be less jumpy aroundy when it comes to that in series 2 though. Edited January 4, 2020 by Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigsters Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 I wonder if they're be long stretches between new seasons like GOT? which was known for 18 months tell new seasons "You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." On the Waterfront 1954 M.Brando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) I wasn't expecting to see a pure adaptation of the first two books, and I'm not even a big proponent of that. I don't believe that books are always necessarily better than movies or shows. In this case, books are definitely so much better. Some of the choices they made, changes to the story and how the events unfold, are just bizarre, and quite honestly cheap and stupid. It's not a very well written show. And it's weird that they did that, because the stories are written in so much detail, they feel almost like a script. Edited January 4, 2020 by DareYokel Mr. Scratch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonely-Martin Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Not read the books, nor played the game, and I can't help but get Game of Thrones vibes, and Skyrim, lol. Great show though, and funnier than I anticipated too. Henry Cavill to me was the perfect man for playing Superman but he's definitely found another role he's gonna thrive in here, he's bloody great. I look forward to next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Russo Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 I personally didn't enjoy this as much as other people. Wasn't a big fan of how messy and hard to follow the story was. It was decent, but I probably wouldn't watch it again and I'm not sure if I'll watch another season of it. Henry Cavill did a good job though, and most of the casting was fine. I think if Season 2 has a more consistent and easier to follow story, I'd be down for it. Lonely-Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigsters Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 "You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." On the Waterfront 1954 M.Brando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 "One day I will think of this as just another job. After all, this is what I do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jason Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 It's not bad at all but I do prefer season 1's armour my self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEADWOODZ Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 (edited) Edited June 18, 2021 by DEADWOODZ Is this The Guy? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEADWOODZ Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 (edited) Trailer: Edited July 9, 2021 by DEADWOODZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 December? Damn... DEADWOODZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Is this The Guy? Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Can’t wait!! Long wait though yikes. Man Henry Cavill sexier then the entire cast combined, and that includes the women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Anyone watched season 2? Finished watching it earlier and I'm a little mixed on it, it starts really strong but sorta fizzles out towards the end. I've heard it deviates heavily from the books which I know has fans of the books up in arms but I'm fine with them telling their own version of the story honestly, so my issue isn't with that. Full season spoilers: Spoiler My main issue is that it just felt like another entire season of setup, season 1 was one long season of getting Geralt and Ciri together, season 2 was one long season of getting Geralt and Ciri with Yen. Then the near season long arc of Yen w/o her powers just felt a bit meh. There's also the all the Witcher deaths, none of which carry any weight and worry me going forward, there's not exactly many left now. Also there wasn't as much Geralt fighting action as I was hoping but at least he wasn't benched in the finale again this time around lol. Overall it was enjoyable but yea it sorta felt like they dragged out a story arc that didn't need to be dragged out. Hopefully we get season 3 next year and not in two years too. DexMacLeod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexMacLeod Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 6 hours ago, Jason said: Anyone watched season 2? Finished watching it earlier and I'm a little mixed on it, it starts really strong but sorta fizzles out towards the end. I've heard it deviates heavily from the books which I know has fans of the books up in arms but I'm fine with them telling their own version of the story honestly, so my issue isn't with that. Full season spoilers: Reveal hidden contents My main issue is that it just felt like another entire season of setup, season 1 was one long season of getting Geralt and Ciri together, season 2 was one long season of getting Geralt and Ciri with Yen. Then the near season long arc of Yen w/o her powers just felt a bit meh. There's also the all the Witcher deaths, none of which carry any weight and worry me going forward, there's not exactly many left now. Also there wasn't as much Geralt fighting action as I was hoping but at least he wasn't benched in the finale again this time around lol. Overall it was enjoyable but yea it sorta felt like they dragged out a story arc that didn't need to be dragged out. Hopefully we get season 3 next year and not in two years too. Just finished it myself and yeah, it was just kind of okay. I sort of expected it all to be a stepdown from season one after the showrunner promised it would be "simpler" and I kind of got what I expected. Spoiler I agree that it felt like a lot of setup again. My biggest problem with that is that I don't really know what's being setup. I get that all the bad guys want Ciri cause "she's special" but everyone's motivation for finding her either feels really vague or just sort of generic. That leads to my second main problem with the season. The bad guys are just boring. I found myself kind of drifting away anytime Geralt, Ciri, or Yennefer weren't on screen. With those three all together it meant that the side characters had to carry the B and C plots and they just don't have enough to them to do that. What's worse is that those plots never really seemed to go anywhere. When they first introduced that there were a bunch of Witchers I thought for sure that most of them would get killed off. The more they began establishing them as actual characters the more I started bracing myself for a sad ending. Then the only ones they killed off were the voiceless background characters. Kind of a waste, if you ask me. I did like that they at least wrapped up the big bad of the season, though. So despite the season feeling like a lot of vague setup there was also a good amount of closure in the end. Oh also, how small is this continent they're on? It seems anytime Geralt goes anywhere he either just happens upon a monster or randomly bumps into someone he knows. It got to be a bit silly by the end of the season when he just happened to bump into the dwarves from season one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 6 hours ago, DexMacLeod said: Just finished it myself and yeah, it was just kind of okay. I sort of expected it all to be a stepdown from season one after the showrunner promised it would be "simpler" and I kind of got what I expected. Hide contents I agree that it felt like a lot of setup again. My biggest problem with that is that I don't really know what's being setup. I get that all the bad guys want Ciri cause "she's special" but everyone's motivation for finding her either feels really vague or just sort of generic. That leads to my second main problem with the season. The bad guys are just boring. I found myself kind of drifting away anytime Geralt, Ciri, or Yennefer weren't on screen. With those three all together it meant that the side characters had to carry the B and C plots and they just don't have enough to them to do that. What's worse is that those plots never really seemed to go anywhere. When they first introduced that there were a bunch of Witchers I thought for sure that most of them would get killed off. The more they began establishing them as actual characters the more I started bracing myself for a sad ending. Then the only ones they killed off were the voiceless background characters. Kind of a waste, if you ask me. I did like that they at least wrapped up the big bad of the season, though. So despite the season feeling like a lot of vague setup there was also a good amount of closure in the end. Oh also, how small is this continent they're on? It seems anytime Geralt goes anywhere he either just happens upon a monster or randomly bumps into someone he knows. It got to be a bit silly by the end of the season when he just happened to bump into the dwarves from season one. Spoiler Yea the mages stuff and the Nilfgaard/Elf stuff was a bit uninteresting, because the characters weren't great, though I think the Elf stuff was the most interesting of those arcs or at least ended on the most interesting note, though that might be cause I've played TW3 and read up on the lore in the past so the Emir stuff I knew was coming and I sorta know how that plays out. The Mages stuff just felt like a lot of bickering with nothing happening on screen. As for the travel time yea it got hella silly, Kaer Morhen seemed like a days ride away at most from anywhere in particular, even having a nearby brothel by the sounds of it. It's a TV show trying to move things a long so I didn't pay too much attention to it my self but yea it got a bit silly, might as well find someway to use portals for it. After thinking about it a bit more I think the season was good, I think by the end the main three characters are where they need to be but yea again it was a lot of setup for that. Hopefully season 3 doesn't find a reason to split them up and drag them finding each other again for a whole season, as it's those three (plus Jaskier) who carry the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) On 12/19/2021 at 11:36 PM, Jason said: Anyone watched season 2? I watched the first episode of the new season and kinda lost interest immediately. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good, either. Mediocre is perhaps the perfect word for this show. Therefore, my opinion from last year hasn't changed. Especially since the story from the first episode is an adaptation of one of the best short stories from the books, and it just made me think how much better this show would have been if they followed the books closer. It felt cheap. There was no suspense, no mystery. The atmosphere was all wrong. But they wanted Ciri in the first season and they wanted Yennefer in every episode, so they had to make some pretty big and pretty dumb changes. Do yourself a favor and read the books. At least the first two, which are short stories. They are so unbelievably good. Edited December 20, 2021 by Yokelsson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pesos Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Still enjoyed it in parts but noticeably worse than season 1. And for me anyway, what torpedoed season 2 for me was.. Spoiler the introduction of Voleth Meir, the Deathless Mother. Pretty much everything bad this season flows on from her inclusion. I haven't read the books but I have a fairly solid grasp of events, this was an absolutely massive change and honestly even if I didn't know sh*t about The Witcher, I'd of thought it was sh*t. Seems as if one of the showrunners really liked Gaunter O'Dimm from the games (a character I also didn't like for the Witcher setting) and wanted their own absurd evil incarnate entity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-l- Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 The soundtracks for both seasons are great. There is one favorite of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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