So now that the Witcher has completed season 3, what do people think? (HEAVY SPOILERS YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)
I will ignore the Henry Cavill controversy, and just take the season on its merits.
For the most part I enjoyed it. I liked the family dynamic with Geralt, Ciri, and Yenniver. The fall of Aretuza was interesting. The fight scene with Geralt and Vilgefortz was pretty bad ass. hehe the biggest twist to me.....Dijkstra was actually loyal to his king!!!! (who would have thought). I actually did appreciate that while Dijkstra and Phillapa were both dicks and were hated by the core of our PCs... they were actually right about Vilgafortz!
Of course, I had a share of issues:
I will ignore the Henry Cavill controversy, and just take the season on its merits.
For the most part I enjoyed it. I liked the family dynamic with Geralt, Ciri, and Yenniver. The fall of Aretuza was interesting. The fight scene with Geralt and Vilgefortz was pretty bad ass. hehe the biggest twist to me.....Dijkstra was actually loyal to his king!!!! (who would have thought). I actually did appreciate that while Dijkstra and Phillapa were both dicks and were hated by the core of our PCs... they were actually right about Vilgafortz!
Of course, I had a share of issues:
- I think the secondary characters suffered in this one. Jaskier seems desperate for something better to do. That kid Dara that was with Ciri in season 1, we keep trucking him out for 5 minutes at a time....but I don't care. Even roach doesn't get the screen time he once did!
- We are getting a bit of GoT plot acceleration. In the finale Jaskier tells Geralt its been a week.....wait Jaskier traveled to multiple places and hunted for Ciri and got to Geralt all in a week? Was there some portal magic I missed.
- Speaking of portals....where are the portals? Man they were all over the place in season 1, now they are never used except by the bad guys.
- Dijkstra and Philappas master plan was to grab the mages (cool), tie them up with anti-magic shackles (awesome), bring them in a room under guard (cool)....and then allow Tessaia the strongest witch in the building by their own admission just stroll on in, and break everyone out. And if they didn't have a way to control Tessaia....why the hell execute your plan in the first place when you know it will fail?
- Tessaia.....I get the suicide, I really do with everything that she's been through....but considering all the cool spells mages can cast when they "go nova and use their remaining life force"....man would have been nice to have one last super spell as a going away present.
- Also Tessaia....so she implied that women sterility during the enchantment was a way to get women into the mage school. So....are men not sterilized in the enchantment, can male mages still have kids?
- Why the heck did they send Geralt to the dryads for healing when Yennifer can heal him WAYYYYY faster?