I was going to do a rating on this show as I am bout 4 episodes in. Haven't read the books, nor do I game, but so far the only thing really going for it are the fight sequences. It does look good, but a lot of the acting is sub par (I think Cavill is pretty good in the role). The worst thing however is that the dialogue is atrociously written and clumsy. I don't see it lasting, but then it also seems targeted toward millenials, and they have no taste.
I will keep watching it because there are so few episodes and the seasons are so far apart, and the fight scenes are decent.
Yup, I'm about to watch 5th episode and I heard that the plot is going to be thicker since then.
I didn't play the game much, but I read all the books in the original language because I'm Polish.
Funny thing is that in my humble opinion the dialogs are the strongest selling point of novels and saga. Word fights between witcher and villains or his friends are as fast and tight as sword fights. A scathing and incisive (often offensive and hurtful ) replies are flying around and you just wanna clap your hands and scream "Burn!" all the time :)
I don't know about English translation, sometimes it is hard to translate idioms and wordplays from one language to another.
At this point, I'm like dudes who read Tolkien before the movies. I'll be never satisfied.
Anyway.
Episodes of tv series are getting better and better from the first one. Henry Cavill is veryveryvery ok. Joey Batey as Jaskier is cool. The rest... meh++. But fingers crossed, hope for better in the rest.
No idea about the books, but the dialogue is not great, and timing of delivery seems off. Hopefully it gets better - if not, there is hopefully some good fight choreography. :)
The dialog could use a lot of work I got to agree with that, there are a lot of things I am not a fan of. If the game wasn't so damn good I would seriously question if I would keep watching. The show makes the story very difficult to follow, you will notice this in a couple episodes.
The game (and I assume the books) is heavily based on the broody Witcher fighting monsters, playing a timely secret weapon to kings, and lots of sex.
The Witcher tends to be the smartest, strongest, ethical man in the room.
The story in the games gets really fascinating.
When I try to get people to check out The Witcher game, I always send them this video.
This was the intro video for the second Witcher game which is almost 10 years old now. The third one is even better.
The show has a lot of potential but it does make the story pretty hard to follow.
It is hard for them in so few episodes so far to get the space of time feel, I think. I was hoping something that had the initial draw of GoT , but it hasn't so far, but it doesn't mean it won't in time to come as characters and plot develop.
I remember seeing the trailer for the game re-release, but I have never really been into those kinds of games and I was on the way out of gaming at the time. One day, I might take it up again.