The Witcher

See now that is what I'm talking about, Spartacus was a show with busty wenches and the women had fucking pubic hair. Breakdown and the rest of you goddamn millienials spoiled that for us.

Attog said:

See now that is what I'm talking about, Spartacus was a show with busty wenches and the women had fucking pubic hair. Breakdown and the rest of you goddamn millienials spoiled that for us.

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I’m not a millennial . I’m just not a fucking weirdo.

Wanna be grossed out? Imagine Geralt having a prolonged sexual relationship with Fringilla in Toussaint after a falling out with Yennefer.

Cause that happens in the books.

Wow. Geralt and Fringorilla could have had a very powerful mixed baby. Half pale half black, half Witcher half Wizard.

Too bad Geralt cant have kids.

Attog said:

Best thing about this show was the tune "Toss a coin to your witcher..."

I can't stop hearing that line in my head.

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Dom said:

Didn't even need dates, just something that actually pointed out to the viewer that the times were different to begin with. The first time I actually knew they were different timelines was when the Yen side of things had the younger versions of the incest king/sister at the ball. I might have missed something earlier, but I don't think so.

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The first episode made a few very notable statements about time. "grandma won her first battle when she was 14!" Then, like 2 minutes into the scene change with Geralt and Renfri. "Queen Calanthe just won her first battle last week" or something like that. They were pretty careful about making fairly blatant statements of timeframe. "I've been attending to state affairs for nearly 3 decades"- Yenn with lady in the carriage.
But yes, a disclaimer would have done wonders. I was able to keep track because I had heard about it.

zzeris said:

If garbage like Supernatural can stay afloat for over 15 years with terrible acting and stories

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You can shut your filthy whore mouth.

Caliane said:

The first episode made a few very notable statements about time. "grandma won her first battle when she was 14!" Then, like 2 minutes into the scene change with Geralt and Renfri. "Queen Calanthe just won her first battle last week" or something like that. They were pretty careful about making fairly blatant statements of timeframe. "I've been attending to state affairs for nearly 3 decades"- Yenn with lady in the carriage.
But yes, a disclaimer would have done wonders. I was able to keep track because I had heard about it.

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Yea first episode was spent nailing down the word salad of cast of characters. Wasnt even aware who what queen was which and when until the episode was over. Could have been done much better, but still enjoyed it.

Jozu said:

The gold dragon episode was retarded.

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Agree with this. Outside of it being telegraphed, the dragon being a good guy was dumb and him talking in his normal voice in dragon form was cheesy as hell. It felt like something cut from Kevin Sorbo's Hercules

It just felt stupid. Two nubian warrior women following him....lol.

The cgi of dragons were laughable.

May have already posted this, but I thought it was hilarious that the two Zerrikanian women really didn't look the least bit exotic because of how many black people they already stuffed into the show.

Watching this with my hubby who was confused at the beginning with GoT and this is no different. The different timelines makes it confusing for him to figure out. After episode 2, I had to surmise what was going on, the importance of Frennefer and the girl in the woods.

I'm loving it. Hopefully he will learn to love it.

TJT said:

I really kind of hate disjointed timeline stuff. Most shows do it terribly as it takes considerable talent to make a disjointed timeline, mix and match it, and still come out with a coherent and easy to follow storyline.

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Yeah, agreed. But it'd be 100x better if they just did the obvious thing directors have done for decades -- text on the screen. "Five years ago".

Its like they've all decided they're gonna do it some artsy subtle way and it always fails. I can't think of a single split timeline movie or show where they refused to tell you "five year ago" and it actually worked.

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Unrelated to the above.

Gold dragon episode was retarded in so many ways. I'm ready to let the dragon nonsense itself go as a filler monster of the week episode. But the relationship shit with Yennifer is so stupid. So far Geralt has given exactly one indication of even liking her - when he said she smells good (which is hysterical itself given the casting. They really should have changed that line. Its like if they raceswapped a black chick into the role and then kept a line about how fine and silky her hair was).

Now its all weepy "you've already lost her" "I'm so sad I cant have a baby" melodrama. I'd hope its the end of her screen time but from what I've read I guess she remains a main character?

Blazin said:

I believe the law of surprise is to receive the first thing the person sees when arriving home that they didnt know they had. It's implied that this would often be a child born during their absence but it seems like that would be rare unless we start thinking more like Odyssey kind of trips or war. Where men would be returning home after long absence. I also think the "don't have at the time" is what defaults its to children more than it would otherwise. If a man is going to give you something valuable he will have in the future well for any young adult that is oft going to be able to interpreted as his children as he begins/continues having them.

So in this particular situation, the law is invoked "he doesn't know of the child" he learns of the child a few seconds later, contract filled.

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I'm mostly curious what happens if someoen comes home and finds two different things he didn't know about at the time of the promise.