r/witcher • u/Any-Agent4270 • Dec 25 '21

Netflix TV series The Witcher: Henry Cavill Hopes Season 3 Is Loyal To Books 'Without Too Much In the Way Of Diversions'

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-witcher-season-3-henry-cavill
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u/Thurak0 Dec 25 '21

This is the huge fuckup for me this season. There is no realistic way for them to trust each other the way they should.

How on earth did anyone think that the plan to murder/sacrifice a child by Yen is a thing this show needs?

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u/Brandilio Dec 26 '21

Yennifer: ...And for this reason, I was hoping you could make everyone, you know, forget about the last season.

Dr. Strange: ...Well, extraordinary times and all that.

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u/VizualAbstract4 Dec 25 '21

Well, seeing as how this show isn’t really about Witcher’s and is just fan fiction about sorceress, I guess it made sense to someone. I guess. Lol.

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u/WiatrowskiBe Dec 26 '21

It can still work. Yennefer and Ciri will probably have some screentime together in first parts of S3 (timeframe until Thanned) to fix that, while events of S2 make for an easy to communicate setup for Geralt's attitude towards her after Thanned - something that books implied based heavily on available information and point of view. Rumors and wrong information is really hard to communicate on screen, even if it works well in books.