 Hello, I'm back again in front of the green screen and I'm still experimenting on how to make this work Which is actually why my hair is in a ponytail right now. It turns out that when your hair is curly It's even more difficult to key your your outline against a green screen, but you know, whatever That's not the important part. I'm here to talk about the witcher season 2 now a couple of years ago I reviewed season 1 and I said that I just um, I Didn't like it that much now I liked it more than I disliked it, but I didn't think it was a particularly good show Like I had issues with the story mainly being the timeline and I had issues with a lot of the characters being unlikable But after watching season 2 all the way through and thinking it over a little and mulling it over. I I just don't think the witcher's a good show. I think it's pretty crappy. This is the introduction song It's not very good, but it's not too long now. I want to make it clear that My thoughts on this are just on the show. I've never read the books at least not yet, and I have never played any of the games So those are not coloring my opinions at all. Like I'm not looking at this as an adaptation I don't care if they change things. I don't care if people think oh well This was done better in the books. I really don't care I'm looking at the show on its own and the show on its own is not good. It's it's pretty crappy To recap Geralt of Rivia the main character is a monster hunter He's what's known as a witcher and they are these guys that have like magical experiments done on them so they're a little bit more powerful than regular humans and then they go through a bunch of training and stuff so that they can go out and slay monsters and he winds up taking care of this princess by the name of Ciri because Well honestly just because the plot demands it You know that the whole reason that he winds up having to take care of hers because Years ago he helped out her parents and when they said hey you help this out Do you want reward? He just kind of said I want your firstborn child like it wasn't his exact wording but that's basically what he was saying and I Don't know why he said that like it it doesn't even come across as like a joke or anything It just feels like the writers were saying okay We need a reason for him to have to take care of a princess later on so we'll just have him say this very strange thing and Yeah, her her kingdom has been overrun and her family's been killed So he has to take care of her and meanwhile an evil empire called Nilfgaard is invading and taking over a bunch of the northern kingdoms where Geralt and the others live and Plus there's a bunch of racism and stuff against elves mostly Now when this season starts we have Geralt's taking Ciri to This fort where all of the remaining witchers live or at least most of the remaining witchers live and His mage girlfriend Yennefer just has no more powers anymore. She doesn't have magic for whatever reason While at the same time Ciri is discovering she has some strange magic powers that people Don't really understand and so they're trying to work with that and at the same time There's people that are trying to stop Nilfgaard from invading and taking over even though Nilfgaard honestly seems a lot nicer than the People who are currently in charge so first things first I thought that without the timeline issues the story would be better But not really like in the first season if you hadn't seen it What they did was they had flashbacks to a bunch of Different things that had happened in Geralt's past or in Yennefer's past Which kind of tied into their characters and tied into some of the story that was going on now But it was switching back and forth between them without any real indication that that was what was going on and Sometimes it would go back like decades or centuries and because these are characters that either don't age or age very slowly It's difficult to even tell that they're supposed to be older or younger until Someone talks something in the dialogue and it just made it kind of confusing to sit through and I know that that was just difficulty in the adaptation process because apparently Like they had to adapt a bunch of short stories, which was what the Witcher was originally Before the author tried to make it into a longer series but that doesn't change the fact that it is confusing if you're not familiar with it and I Will say that season 2 at least doesn't have that problem But it's still just not that great like you still have multiple storylines that don't have much overlap and that there's some overlap between them sure but not that much and they're not all Equally interesting like when Geralt and Ciri were when we were following them particularly when they're at the Witcher fortress. I thought I Thought it was okay. I guess but everything else whether we're talking about Yennefer or The mages trying to stop Nilfgaard or the elves doing their thing I just didn't really care and I'll get more into that later But I just wasn't that interested in it and it didn't really tie into what was going on with Geralt So the whole time I'm just thinking okay. Can we please get back to Geralt's like this is not important to the story I just want to skip these parts now Yennefer storyline at least at the beginning is mostly her Working against Nilfgaard and also helping out some elves along the way while trying to get her magic back and the thing is she comes across as Kind of selfish and not very heroic here like even though she's doing good things like she does Stop and help like elves and stuff that are in the process of getting pogromed But it doesn't really feel like she's on her way to get her magic back like which is you know kind of a selfish goal It doesn't feel like she's on her way to do that And then she's stopping and sacrificing along the way to help these people because oh these people need help it feels more like she is just Making a brief detour along the way and it doesn't really feel like it's She's sacrificing anything or even that it's incandescing her It feels like she wouldn't be stopping to help these people if it wasn't along the way to her other goal So she doesn't really seem like a hero or like a good person which isn't necessarily a bad thing You know you don't need to have the main characters be good people necessarily and in season one it's not like she was the nicest person ever either, but the show treats her like she's a hero and So that just comes across as very contradictory And it honestly just doesn't work that well and then in Geralt's story. We have him Training Siri in like some witcher stuff and also it turns out that she may hold the ability to make more witchers because Like witchers are dying breed. They don't know how to make more of them at this point or rather they know how but they're just unable to and Then there's also some weird monsters coming along that Geralt has never seen before and then they're investigating what's going on there and like I said this storyline is like It's okay, I guess in a lot of ways it just has a bad climax I think the relationship between Geralt and Siri is good You know, I don't I don't have a lot to add there. I just think that you know, it seems as though they Are both kind of frustrated being in this situation But at the same time neither of them wants the other ones to come to any harm So it does genuinely feel like kind of a fatherly bond just not traditional fatherly bond and The biggest issue with like the story and everything is that I just Could not care less about anything going on and the reason I couldn't care less about anything going on is because Every character in this show is just a miserable asshole Like I really mean it all they do is brood Nobody ever laughs or smiles or talks about anything other than how much the world sucks and how they're all suffering and How the existence is awful like that that's all they ever do It's like they took the population of reddit and made it into a show now I kind of mentioned that before with Yennefer where she is treated as being heroic But she's honestly just being selfish and it doesn't come across as heroic I think Geralt is okay Not because of anything in the writing really but mostly because Henry Cavill Just gives a really good performance and I even mentioned in season one that his performance was one of the standout parts of the entire show like I think he was really good in this role and He has fewer humorous moments in season two than he doesn't season one though so there's there's not much to endear me to him other than he's taken care of Ciri and He's really cool when he slays monsters, which I mean that's fine at all, but it doesn't make me like him all that much and This applies to the world as well the world as a whole feels completely irredeemable Like I want Nilfgaard to win like the the northern kingdoms in this season are actively committing a genocide against the elves and It's portrayed as being as horrible as it is or as horrible as that sounds Whereas Nilfgaard is actually helping out the elves and giving them safe refuge and everything. I was like These are supposed to be the bad guys now. I know what they were probably going for here Was to try and make things morally gray, you know They're trying to make it like oh the good guys do some awful things too, but the bad guys are still the evil Empire So we have to fight against them But the thing is usually when they do that they'll have it so that the hero is trying to Protect whatever the current status quo is like you see that in a lot of spy movies you know like the villain's gonna launch the nukes so we got to stop them from doing that and In often times in like fantasy stories like this It'll be oh the Dark Lord is coming in to destroy everything and the heroes just trying to protect the kingdom You know, they aren't really trying to improve the world necessarily They're just trying to prevent it from being destroyed and in a lot of modern fantasy series They will come out and acknowledge like okay. Yeah, that that's not perfect but in order to fix that they will just make the bad guys so over the top evil that it becomes really clear what's going on and That the heroes have to put a stop to this in this It's almost like they did it the other way around and it doesn't come across as morally gray it comes across as nilfgaard are the good guys and we're just supposed watching the bad guys plot and scheme and we're supposed to be on their side and Well, how am I supposed to care about that? These are these are awful people and I don't want them to succeed the only likeable character in this entire show is Yasker the Bard and the reason that he's so likeable is because he does things other than brood You know, he smiles and laughs and sings and makes jokes and he is a decent guy Yes, he does help out the his friends and he helps out the good guys Saving people and all that but in addition to being a heroic guy. He is just likeable He's nice like the scene where he's singing just some rats or excuse me We're singing to some mice in his prison cell is the best scene in this entire season Gordon you're amazing talent recognizes talent. Let's go again three four Now here's the thing the modern trend of dark fantasy was largely inspired by game of thrones and Game of thrones was a very dark show. Yes, there's some awful awful things that went down in there But we still had characters make jokes, you know, Tyrion was still really funny We still had characters do things for fun, you know, they weren't just sitting around thinking about how awful life was and getting drunk And we saw them care about each other, you know, we saw them care about their romantic partners or their family and Even the bad guys when they did bad things often did it because they were attached to people they love like a Probably the best example of that would be in the pilot episode When Jamie Lannister tries to murder Bran Stark like he just straight up pushes a child out a window and He winds up surviving but he tried to murder him and he did that to protect not just himself It wasn't just that self-preservation, but he's trying to protect his sister Cersei and because he loves her It's a weird incestuous love, but he does love her and so he's doing bad things out of love Even though he's the one of the bad guys for most of the show What I'm getting at is that the world and some of the people in it even though they were pretty dreary a lot of the time the world and some of the people in it still felt worth saving the Witcher just straight up doesn't have that and Finally my last real point here is that the fight choreography is bad Which is weird because in the first season I thought the fight choreography was extremely good That was one of the highlights of the show and the only one that I really disliked was in the final episode when Geralt is fighting all those ghouls I believe and That that one was just it didn't work And the reason for that was because they had to make Geralt look like a cool monster-slaying hero who could take On hordes of enemies with no sweat But they also had to get him hurt so that the plot could move along and trying to combine those two things It just made the whole fight look stupid and in this season though the fights range from being like okay like Average what you would expect from a television show to just not good like the climax the fight in the climax is Not good. It's not well choreographed and some minor spoilers here, but Basically the climax is the last remaining witchers versus a couple of giant dragon lizard things and Part of it is the choreography part of it is the editing But this fight just goes all over the place like both sides or combatants on both sides rather Switch their targets a bunch like they never seem like they're just Trying to actually kill each other it feels like they're trying to put on a show almost and so they'll be like I'm fighting you for a minute. Whoa now. I'm over here fighting you for a minute And this guy's just kind of standing over there not doing anything and I mean, I know it's kind of a cliche for Kung Fu movies or whatever where the heroes will just fight one guy at a time because the others will not do anything but it feels even weirder when the good guys are doing that because the the witchers that are fighting these dragon things do that several times and I don't know when you get to the End of the of the whole fight It just makes the the other witchers feel kind of incompetence and it just feels like Geralt and the like major major characters only win because the plot demands it so I don't know that's That's about it. You know this was Definitely a downgrade from season one I don't know if my opinion is very popular and that a lot of people seem to be enjoying this season more, but I Don't don't really care. That's I have always just spoken my opinion here if that's the problem and we'll Get over it. 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All those are great and That's all for my takes for today. Goodbye