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Hoax
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Reply #245 on: December 31, 2022, 08:23:54 AM

It just is. The action is good for Netflix, the story exists to serve a useful purpose but doesn't stand on its own well. The setting is jarring since apparently pre humanity elves were just humans with dumb ears? No idea what/if official lore is on that count.

It has a few moments, is really short. I'd watch it before S3 just to setup the major plot notes of S3 unless you don't need the hand holding it's not that much of a slog.

Felt like Mando S2, but I was less annoyed since you knew it was a lower budget, way less star power short little thing that had a job to do.

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Reply #246 on: January 01, 2023, 08:32:23 PM

I have a hard time figuring out why someone was willing to spend money on a story that has absolutely none of the charm of the series but they weren't willing to focus on making the second and third seasons better--and weren't willing to throw tons of money at Cavill and make him happy. The first season was one of Netflix's biggest successes no matter how they measure success. The showrunner denies that anyone involved hates the source material, but the rumor isn't based on nothing--there's at least one writer who has been saying that's one of the problems.

A prequel is only worth it if there's an untold story that has some specific narrative weight (and some bearing on the main story). What the Witcher series world was like before the Conjunction isn't interesting--the early books in the series practically mock the generic-ness of the elves and dwarves in the series (along with subverting many familiar fairy tales). By the time of the third game in the series and the late books, the elvish backstory had acquired more specificity and gravitas but really only in terms of human dispossession of their lands and in terms of the elves in the Wild Hunt's dimension.
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