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Old 12-23-2019, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Lakewood NJ/Murrells Inlet SC/ N. Naples FL/Swainton NJ
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As for timelines: My daughter who has finished S1 tells me the Yennifer plotline was 30 years past and the Ciri plotline 15 years in the future.....
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Old 12-23-2019, 05:31 PM
 
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I saw all the episodes. Didn’t read the books or play the game. It’s pretty violent. I don’t like the time jumping either. At least give Henry different hair style for different time line.
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Old 12-24-2019, 12:21 AM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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I usually like it when shows/movies play with time, but it felt kind of unnecessarily convoluted here. I think the character's arcs would have had more resonance if they'd been a bit more episodic, like here's Yennefer's story, here's Geralt's story, here are a few world building stories, here's Ciri's story, now let's bring them all together. Mixing them just made for some weird tonal shifts within episodes.

A geography lesson at some point would have been really helpful. And some insight into why we're supposed to be anti-Temeria, other than "they don't follow the Geneva conventions."
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Old 12-24-2019, 04:33 AM
 
Location: Homeless
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I saw all the episodes. Didn’t read the books or play the game. It’s pretty violent. I don’t like the time jumping either. At least give Henry different hair style for different time line.
I don’t understand why people complain that something like The Witcher is violent. Surly you saw the preview....
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Old 12-24-2019, 06:55 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I saw all the episodes. Didn’t read the books or play the game. It’s pretty violent. I don’t like the time jumping either. At least give Henry different hair style for different time line.
I agree. They should have made his hair style different or added scars on his face to insinuate a time change.
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Old 12-24-2019, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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I don’t understand why people complain that something like The Witcher is violent. Surly you saw the preview....
The previews are much of a small portion of highlights about the entire show, or a little of everything and not enough to form an opinion about the show.

I was so bored watching some of the episodes up to perhaps the 5th, that In used the FF button of the remote a bunch of times to fast-forward to an interesting spot, then I gave up watching the show.
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Old 12-25-2019, 01:55 AM
 
Location: Springfield, Ohio
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It definitely helps to have context from playing the games or reading the books. Hopefully the second season will be more friendly for those who are new to the story/franchise.
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Old 12-25-2019, 02:43 AM
 
Location: Itinerant
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The previews are much of a small portion of highlights about the entire show, or a little of everything and not enough to form an opinion about the show.

I was so bored watching some of the episodes up to perhaps the 5th, that In used the FF button of the remote a bunch of times to fast-forward to an interesting spot, then I gave up watching the show.
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Old 12-25-2019, 09:59 PM
 
Location: Tulare County, Ca
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I'm wondering if closed captioning would help me.

Me too Creekcat. I could hardly understand what they were saying. Sounded like they were they were talking underwater. Tried it on two tvs and on my computer. Guess I need to go to the ear doctor.
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Old 12-25-2019, 11:31 PM
 
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It definitely helps to have context from playing the games or reading the books. Hopefully the second season will be more friendly for those who are new to the story/franchise.
The episodes are based on two books of short stories published in Poland in early 1990s by Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈandʐɛj sapˈkɔfskʲi]; born 21 June 1948)

Sword of Destiny ( Miecz przeznaczenia) published 1992 - 6 stories
The Last Wish (Ostatnie życzenie) published 1993 - 7 stories

1 "The End's Beginning" Based on "The Lesser Evil". | Mniejsze zło from The Last Wish (Ostatnie życzenie)
2 "Four Marks" Based on "The Edge of the World". | Kraniec świata
3 "Betrayer Moon" Based on "The Witcher" | Wiedźmin
4 "Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials" Based on "A Question of Price". |Kwestia ceny
5 "Bottled Appetites" Based on "The Last Wish". | Ostatnie życzenie
6 "Rare Species" Based on "The Bounds of Reason". | Granica możliwości
7 "Before a Fall" Based on "Something More". | Coś więcej from Sword of Destiny ( Miecz przeznaczenia)
8 "Much More" Based on "Something More". | Coś więcej from Sword of Destiny ( Miecz przeznaczenia)
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