The Witcher - Netflix **Spoilers**

Just finished the show last night, and I really did enjoy it. As a book reader, I found some of the changes to be odd. Mostly harmless in terms of the plot, but still off.

Another strange one was definitely

With that said, I much preferred the costume design this time around, Yennefer was far far better this season, possibly because there was less screaming or more likely because Anya Chalotra is more comfortable in the role.

I think Joey Batey is doing a great job as Jaskier/Dandelion honestly. Freya Allen is certainly growing in the role of Ciri.

Cavill is doing a great job not only because he's a great actor, but also because he is a massive, massive fan of the books.

I do have a bad feeling that Netflix will cancel the series though, and it's on them for that. The only real negative things I'm seeing about the show is the veering off from the established story.

Of course people are watching it. They even said so themselves. That doesn't stop them from cancelling some fan favourite shows, though. And of course it's a reach, it's an impression I got reading the article as I found it to be quite a lot of money to be paying an actor, per episode, on a streaming platform production, along with every other expense. It's kind of unheard of.

Unheard of? Each episode of friends in later seasons cost 1 million per actor. Each episode of friends took a fraction of the time to film. No complicated makeup, no learning fight scenes, styles or staying in shape.

I would hazard an 8 episode season takes as long as feature movies to make. How much does he make for his box office films? More than 8 million I'd guess.

I'm not saying that it's not a huge amount but i don't think it's as much as it's being made out to be.

Eh, of all the reasons Netflix would have to cancel a show I doubt the amount they're paying Cavill is of real concern. A million an episode for them is very low when you take in the amount that Netflix is worth. 1 million an episode is also not unheard of, there's a great interview with Jason Alexander out of Seinfield talking about getting paid insane amounts of money way back in the 90's, Charlie Sheen was earning just shy of 2 million an episode on Two and a Half Men.

Netflix have a long, long history of seemingly 'randomly' cancelling shows and rarely offer up an actual reason for doing so, quite often even to the cast of the show.

I felt this season had a lot less action, but I did thoroughly enjoy the first fight the dwarves were in, really well executed (pun intended). I'm gonna have to go back and binge the 2 seasons back to back, I feel like I forgot a lot of the first season.

True you didn't but Netflix is not a simple streaming platform (neither is Disney+ in that regard). I think they have more in common with the large film companies in how they create content and would feel that they are in direct competition with them in many aspects. In any cases they are employing movie stars and thus need to pay them accordingly.

It was fun hearing his name mentioned earlier in the episode, then when you saw who the actor was you immediately knew it was going to be Dijkstra. A good choice, indeed.

Producer/writer said it was the only way to get all the characters stories out in the first season but had listened to fans complaints ahead of S2 but it was damn confusing for the likes of me who havent read the books, played the games etc

Even as a pretty big fan of the books and games I was so confused in Series 1 about the timeline

The point about Cavill being paid 1m per episode is kinda redundant, because no chance anyone else in the cast is getting near that so that's going to balance things out anyway.

Much better season than the first. Still flawed in some respects, but much easier to follow and actually having Geralt and Ciri together made a huge difference. The actress playing Ciri put in a great performance too.

They definitely took a lot of the criticisms of Season 1 on board too. Changed all the Nilfgaardian armour especially.

The actress who played Ciri's grandmother though, in the final episode not even was she clearly not in the same room as everyone else, I'm not even sure she was in the same country. They showed the back of her head more than the front.

anyway.. back to the show..

2.7: AWE ****!

Well done the writers.. I didn't see that coming.

Honourable mention for Jaskier

and damn that scene with the

Finished Season 2! Top notch second season! Built on the first! Had action, adventure, magic, exploration, everything!

What an ending! 😲

2.8: NO FREAKIN WAY!

One kinda Marvel/MCU remindery thing was when

Future: Season 3! I'm in! The other show with Michelle Yeoh, I'm in!

Witcher Team is on point for building their universe!

I really don't think Joey Batey/Jaskier is getting the credit he deserves for his portrayal and acting in S2. I absolutely love him and even his facial expressions in episodes describe so much

Yes, it's a prequel. Particularly when the ending has

No, witchers like Geralt live longer.

Also, mages (not witchers) like Yennefer live longer.

Not sure how much longer in each case.

Really liked the season only familiar with the games but was somewhat confused by the overall plot. Only weakness was the Triss, they seem to not know what to do with the character. Someone above was saying season 2 was not liked- I cant see why, was a step up on one for me.