“[I] tried to explain: There was an uprising against Germany, but the Russians were across the river, and on the German side there were also soldiers from Hungary or Ukraine,” he said. "For Americans, it was completely incomprehensible, too complicated, because they grew up in a different historical context, where everything was arranged: America is always good, the rest are the bad guys. And there are no complications
Haven’t read the books, never even finished Witcher 3 (or 2, lol), so I couldn’t give less of a shit about the faithfulness of the adaptation, or whatever. Also, I possess the European brainpan, capable of understanding complex story structures, a rare trait supposedly
It was just a bad season. Had its moments, to be fair - but overall, it was just… pretty bad. Not terrible maybe, but nothing I would recommend to a friend
I guess maybe I lowered the bar in my head over the years. It wasn’t exceptional or anything but I didn’t think it was much worse than the second season.
It’s relative for sure, I just felt there were a bunch of strange decisions on a shot by shot basis. I caught myself laughing at points where it definitely wasn’t intended… That whole desert episode was pretty weak (not because it was deserted, empty, boring, but because they didn’t commit and tried to make a desert less empty-feeling, deserted, boring through the editing alone, which didn’t work for me. Have the confidence to hold a shot goddamn)
Jaskier was great as always, stealing every scene. The dryads were great and honestly Vilgerfortz’ whole staff combat style was phenomenal. In general, the action sequences were really good, as were the costumes. It just didn’t click for me overall, I guess.
What? You didn’t find it realistic that Ciri always looked like she was in the middle of a photo shoot? And actually, I often found the costumes too good in that regard. Kept waiting for them to look at the camera, “Balenciago.”
Now that you mention it, I guess I kinda warmed up to the costumes. I found them a bit irritating from the first season, mostly having issues with the cloth fibres (which looked too synthetically shiny to my eyes, clearly giving off that modern (cheap) fabric sorta vibe) - but in general, there was just too little dirt, too few signs of use on what people were wearing. All battle armor polished to a mirror finish. And by the third season I kinda got over that, I figure, because that’s all still true lol
Lol yep. Everything always looked freshly made. Geralt looked like he had just stepped off the runway before every major battle.